Chestnut

Chestnut Class have loved the snow this week and spent lots of time outdoors exploring, scooping and throwing snow balls!

In PSHE we have been focussing on identifying and recognising facial features through songs, mirrors and matching activities and creating collages.

During Food tech we…

It’s been great to see everyone back in Chestnut class and get back into routines this week. As part of our house and homes topic, children have enjoyed 3 Little Pigs Attention Autism and even helped to ‘blow’ the houses down! We’ve been building structures and enjoying different homes in the…

What an amazing couple of weeks in Chestnut Class!
 

Chestnut Class have been busy preparing and packing reindeer food for Santa’s reindeers, enjoying sensory exploration of oaty play dough and creating melting snowmen. Last week we enjoyed having some parents join us to share in our learning…

Hanukkah or Chanukah means “dedication” in Hebrew, and the Jewish holiday, also known as The Festival of Lights, represents joy and celebrates one of the greatest miracles in Jewish history.

Today Chestnut Class have been exploring Hanukkah in our creative tasks and made some fabulous Star of…

Chestnut class have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit!
We’ve have enjoyed Christmas themed Attention Autism, learning key words, sprinkling frost on trees and creating twinkling stars during Stage 3. We loved tracking the exciting Christmas toys during Stage 1 and communicating for…

Chestnut class learners have had a lovely week exploring bonfire night through Attention Autism sessions, creative tasks and food tech. We have been creating our own fire work pictures, focussing our attention,choosing colours and make making tools. We enjoyed dipping breadsticks into melted…

This week Chestnut Class have been enjoying lots of spooky goings on! During Attention Autism sessions we enjoyed a ghostly number rhyme and finding out how many left when one is taken away by splatting cream and we took turns to splat! We have been identifying Halloween themed key word language…

This week Chestnut learners have explored all things ‘Autumn’. During daily Attention Autism sessions we have been anticipating and tracking exciting items from the bucket and during Stage 2 have been focussing our attention further to watch confetti fall like the leaves from the trees, a flour…

Another busy week in Chestnut Class! As part of our topic, ‘In the Toy Box’ we have been exploring different modes of transport through Attention Autism Stage 1 and Stage 2 reveals and copying simple modelled actions using ramps in Stage 3. We enjoyed expressing our choices of transport toys…

This week Chestnut Class learners have been continuing to explore different toys and play skills as part of our topic, ‘In the Toy box’. The focus has been ‘dollies’ and we have been modelling different verbs relating to our interactions with these. We have enjoyed Attention Autism sessions to…

What a wonderful and busy week we’ve had in Chestnut Class!

As part of our topic, ‘In the Toy Box’ we have been exploring teddy bears through Attention Autism Stage 2 reveals, creative tasks - we created our own bear faces and during Food Tech we have been followed instructions and expressed…

Welcome to Chestnut Class!

We have had a wonderful first week back in Chestnut Class, welcoming 3 new learners to Astley Park and getting to know lots of new friends and teachers.

We have been busy enjoying Attention Autism sessions, exploring the activities in the continuous provision and…