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This week Chestnut learners have enjoyed learning all about recycling and exploring and sorting different materials which we throw away as part of our recycling topic. We have made Angel Delight, focussing on using equipment to pour and mix, expressing our choices and working out what we need…

Beech class enjoyed a lovely trip to Ashurst Beacon country park on Thursday.

We walked along the woodland trail, splashed through a small stream, and even found a Gruffalo statue! We then stopped to enjoy our picnic lunch before playing on the play park. We had so much fun!

Throughout the…

This week at the Nuffield Gym Ashley the Personal Trainer had designed a training circuit for the pupils to attempt. The circuit was a combination of a seating weight lift, rowing machine, ski pull, sledge push and lunges. Ashley timed the pupils on each activity and when directed they rotated…

As part of our Duke of Edinburgh Experience we shall be volunteering at Chorley in Bloom.

Today was our first visit and we were greeted by the volunteers, Iris and Jill. 
Our project today was to create our Grass heads, as a group we listened to the instructions and followed them.

We…

Our topic is habitats and over the past few weeks oak class have been exploring different habitats. This afternoon, some of oak class went outside to collect leaves to stick on our tree in class.
 

We enjoyed exploring all the different coloured leaves and sticks. 
 

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Oak class have been very busy in food tech! One half of Oak class made rice crispy cakes and the other half of oak class made tortilla pizza! 

When our food was ready to eat, we all sat together at the table at snack time and enjoyed the delicious snack we made…

Willow class have had a great first week back. A group of us went to the library and chose some books, we enjoyed singing with a children’s group that was already in the library. We also made good progress with our house design our ideas! We enjoyed taking part in a sensory story of ‘We’re going…

We hope that everyone had a nice half term. It has been lovely to see everyone this week!

On Monday morning we worked in pairs to create some thank you cards to give to the supermarkets Asda, Booths, Morrisons and Tesco for very generously donating prizes for our Valentine’s Disco before half…

Maple class have had an exciting week back!

We have explored jungles in our theme of habitats. We have engaged with lots of fun activities within the classroom such as fine motor activities making elephant trunks, matching animals and words, animal jigsaws, jungle role play and lots more!

We…

As part of our careers enrichment programme a few pupils visited Nuffield Gym to undertake a 5 week programme of work experience.

This week the pupils worked with Ashley a PT instructor and familiarised themselves with the environment. This involved using equipment safely, a warm up and cool…

This week in our food technology activity, 8A participated in making some war time biscuits.

These biscuits had the regular ingredients such as butter, sugar, flour and vanilla essence but there was an additional ingredient added……. Grated carrots.

We were all very unsure how these…

Chestnut Class learners have had a very busy start to the half term!  We have been learning about primary colours in a range of activities including mixing paints and coloured water into jars to create secondary colours.  This week we started our Recycling sessions and we thoroughly enjoyed…