14 Feb

Chestnut Celebrate Rainbow Day

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.

 

14 Feb

10G Rainbow Day - Celebrating "The same but different." Feb 2020

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…

13 Feb

Oak - Children’s World Mental Health Week

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…

12 Feb

Our best week at Calvert Trust!!!

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…

12 Feb

A relaxing final day for Dodd group!

Our last day at Calvert involved cycling and a walk. First we travelled to a cycle track. We got our bikes and helmets and cycled around a fantastic old airfield. We had a couple of races round the track with Jacob winning the first race and Jake winning the second! It was so much fun and we…

12 Feb

Dodd Group got very wet on our second day at Calvert!

We needed our waterproofs and wellies on day 2 at Calvert! In the morning we went to Goldscope Mine. This involved a walk and a trip inside a dark mine. We used torches to guide us through the mine and we looked for metal in the roof. We talked about what it might be like to work in a mine and…

12 Feb

Dodd Group brave day 1 at Calvert with Mrs Crouch, Miss Mahood and Mr Murphy!

We spent our first full day at Calvert doing some very challenging activities!

After breakfast, we went horse riding at the stables. Some of us were nervous but everybody had a go (even Mrs Crouch!). The horses were lovely and the staff looked after us really well. We played games and learnt…

12 Feb

7Rs first evening at Calvert!

It was Kristen’s birthday on the day we travelled down to Calvert. We celebrated with birthday cake and time in the pool after tea! 
 

12 Feb

A big thank you to our super swimmers!

On Saturday, a group of our super swimmers took part in the charity Swimarathon at All Seasons Leisure Centre to raise money for our school charity, FAPS. Our school charity will receive a portion of money raised via sponsorships, with the rest being divided between other local charities. The…

12 Feb

10G - Being Roman Citizens - Feb 2020

We missed History Day while we were at Calvert Trust, so we decided to hold our own History Day in class today. The topic was the Ancient Romans. Students started off looking at where Rome is on the world map. We then looked at different styles of dress for different Ancient Roman people e.g…

12 Feb

7R learn about the rotten Romans!

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

12 Feb

8R Safer Internet Day 2020

Today 8R looked at internet safety. Our class digital leader lead a session about creating our own avatar. This was to show how easy it was to pretend to be someone else on the internet. I wonder who can guess who's avatar belongs to who in our class? We looked at how we can keep ourselves safe on…