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Another week has flown by in Willow class, please read on to learn about some of the fantastic work we’ve been doing…….

In My Communication, we have started to focus on our handwriting and letter formation, everyone enjoyed getting their fingers warmed up for writing with Play-dough Gym. We…

Happy Friday! We are all very excited about our residential visit to Bendrigg Trust next week. Bendrigg have very kindly shared a link with us that includes a 360 tour of the grounds and facilities. Here is the link if you would like to have a look at home: …

Remembrance Day . 8A will never forget

This Thursday the class watched a very short film that showed a silent cartoon that represented how poppies appeared after the battle was over in France and Belgium in World War One. It was very moving and the learners understood what they had watched…

The pupils and staff in 8P have enjoyed a very busy, but enjoyable week.

We all helped to create a banner to go up in the hall for the Halloween disco.

During our food technology lesson, we followed both written, and verbal instructions, on how to make toast and jam, and the end result was…

This week Beech class have explored Diwali and Remembrance Day.

We started the week celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. We made salt dough tea lights, decorated them with paint and glitter, and decorated Mendhi handprints.

For remembrance day, we made poppies with paper plates,…

We have had a lovely week exploring all things Autumn in Rowan Class.

Making chocolate apples in cooking, counting pumpkins, creating brilliant sentences about our Autumn sensory story and enjoying lots of time outside looking for signs of Autumn.

We continue to make lots of progress with…

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…

Last night we had our Halloween disco! 11R and 11G have been busy getting ready for the past couple of weeks, choosing jobs and selling tickets. In the afternoon, 11R were busy finishing off some decorations for the hall, where we then joined 11G in decorating to make it nice and spooky for after…

Maple class had a great start to school! We have celebrated Halloween and Bonfire night, some of us also had our first trip to Space Centre. 

We engaged in Halloween sensory play and engaged with a bonfire night sensology session. We explored bonfire night colours, taste, smells, sounds and…

9A’s Blog in the learners own words. 
 

On Monday morning we looked at numbers in maths and some problem solving. In My Communication we started writing our own stories about a planet we have invented. We are learning about death and funerals in Understanding the World. It Has Been Raining All…

This morning in Sycamore Class we have discussed and put into practice ‘Sparkler Safety’

Our rules to follow to stay safe:

• Wear gloves
• Keep lit sparklers at arms length
• Don’t put the sparkler on the floor
• Keep 2 metres away from other people
• An adult needs to light the…

Today 11R had their first gym session, led by Mr Murphy, as part of learning about about healthy lifestyles. We got the minibus to the gym this morning as it was raining quite hard and we didn't want to start the day off soaking wet. We went into the gym and everyone was a little bit nervous…