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What a fantastic week we had a Calvert Trust.

On the first night we unpacked our suitcases, eat a delicious tea and chilled out in the swimming pool. We all settled really well at night after a story.

Day 1: Our Calvert adventure started with the challenging rope course. We made sure we were…

Tomorrow is Amir’s birthday so today he brought a very yummy chocolate cake to share with his friends. 

Amir loved his friends all singing happy birthday to him and his friends and staff really enjoyed the cake!

Happy Birthday Amir! 

Today Oak enjoyed their last swimming lesson of the spring term. 

They had lots of fun playing in the pool celebrating all their hard work practicing and developing their swimming skills and confidence in the pool over that last 6 weeks.

When we got back to class we had a very special treat!…

What a busy last few weeks it’s been! To continue building our functional skills 11G organised this year’s Valentines Disco.  This meant our learners had to uses a variety of skills to ensure the event ran smoothly.  The task they undertook included creating posters (by hand and digitally), making…

Willow class celebrated Rainbow Day by wearing bright clothes to create a class rainbow and learning all about how people are different.

We discussed how rainbows have lots of different colours that all come together to make something brilliant- just like all our friends making one…

As part of the LGBT+ celebrations we decorated our own rainbows that we are going to display in our classroom. 

We had a a very grown up discussion about how we are all different and the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same. Some of us could even tell me what LGBT stands…

Chestnut Class have had a week of Valentine’s Day celebrations, we have explored lots of different sensory activities related to love and Valentines Day. We have made biscuits and cards and yesterday we engaged with a Valentines themed Attention Autism.

Today we all came in different coloured clothes for Rainbow Day but we didn’t really understand why. We had a discussion about LGBT History Month and why it is important that we celebrate Rainbow Day. We learnt what LGBT stands for and what the words mean. We then played a circle time game,…

To celebrate rainbow day chestnut class dressed in brightly coloured clothes and collages pictures of rainbows. We also had lots of brightly coloured sensory activities to explore.

As the students had come dressed in colourful clothes to celebrate Rainbow Day, we looked at what it is to be the same  but different. Students thought about how we are all different; including things like being interested in different hobbies, having different family members, speaking in…

Last week Oak Class celebrated Children’s World Mental Health Week through various activities learning about our emotions, our friendships and how it is good to be us!

Miss Cross did different Attention Autism activities, were we named different emotions we might feel, some of us had turns…

Last week 10R went to Calvert Trust we had loads of fun together. It  was so challenging but we all tried our best. Some of the activities we did were:

Ghyll Scrambling, Orienteering, High Ropes course and zip wire.

We  really enjoyed the food there and I also learned to make cups of tea…