Willow

Last week was World Religion Week in school and Willow class got to learn about Sikhism alongside their daily learning and curriculum activities. 

On Monday, we explored different foods popular in the Sikhism culture, using our senses. 

On Wednesday we cooked special recipes that are popular…

This week on our community walks, whilst practicing our road safety skills, we have been looking for inspiration for the emergency vehicles that we are creating in our workshop sessions. We walked to the police station in two groups, one group on Monday and one group on Tuesday to take some…

This term in Willow Class we will be creating our own emergency vehicles that move in our "Emergency! Emergency!" workshop sessions. This week, on Monday we designed our vehicles. On Tuesday, we began to use wheels and axels to begin the making process! I can't wait to show you the finished…

As part of our theme, “Emergency! Emergency!”, Nurse Amy, who is our class governor in Willow Class, came to see us today to tell us all about the job of a nurse. Some of Sycamore Class joined us to find out about the job of a nurse too. 

Before Nurse Amy arrived, we thought about questions…

This term, our class theme is "Emergency! Emergency!" Willow class are really excited about this theme and there will lots of interesting learning opportunities provided this half term. We will have the opportunity to meet people who help in emergencies, such as nurses, police officers and…

As a special rewards treat for hard work all year, Willow. Lass went to Smithills farm to see the animals and a special visitor… Father Christmas!

We went to see the lovely donkeys just like in the Christmas story on our way in. Then we went to see the meerkats, wombats, owls and lots of…

What a lovely week of festivities for Willow class! 
We started the week with an amazing trip to Barton Grange garden centre to look at the Christmas decorations. As part of our RE topic of Festivals and celebrations we have started work to learn about the Christian celebrations of Christmas.…

This week, as part of our topic looking at different culture, celebrations and festivals, Willow class have been learning all about Remembrance Day. We looked at why we wear poppies and how they were chosen to symbolise the end of the war. In our people of the world lesson we had a look at some…

In Willow class we enjoyed our DT topic making musical instruments last term. Miss Riley and the teachers were so impressed and could tell the children were ready for an enterprise project this term to put their planning and design skills to the test!

Our first enterprise project is looking at…

What a brilliant day in Willow class! 
Lots of friends wore costumes or their own clothes to celebrate Halloween and everyone had lots of fun with the masks and props.

In the morning we listened to a spooky story about skeletons scaring people and feeling scared. We had a good chat about what…

Willow class have had a busy few weeks!

We have been on community visits, worked on our functional maths skills looking at time, worked on our social skills and phonic skills, baked some amazing recipes, enjoyed team games in PE, learnt about our emotions and regulation states, learnt about…

On Friday we celebrated William’s birthday as his birthday was over the weekend when he wouldn’t be in school. William kindly brought in some lovely Pokémon cakes so the class sung happy birthday and gave three cheers before William blew out his candle and made a wish!

We hope you had a lovely…