Blog by Tag: 2022-23

Our third week in class has been very busy! 

We continue to use lots of fantastic communication, both in learning activities and during social times.

We have had lots of fun on the scooters and body boards, and in cooking we made some lovely crispie cakes.

Our attention continued to grow…

What a lovely start back to the week after our bank holiday Monday!

Willow class had their first walking trip to Devonshire Road Park to practice their road safety skills and recognising hazards in the community. Once there, we all had a lovely time playing on the equipment together.

Tuesday…

Good afternoon 8A fans and families!

Wow what another busy week we have had.  Lets start by celebrating our Star of the Week - Olivia!
Olivia showed great teamwork skills across the week and real leadership skills in our life skills lesson today.  Olivia showed she could delegate tasks…

As part of our Duke of Edinburgh award we are learning dance- this week we had a visit from Danni from Chorley Schools Sports Partnership.

We talked about the musical theatre production- Hairspray- and started to learn a dance routine to the song - ‘You Can’t Stop The Beat!’ 
Despite some…

Beech Class have had a super week with lots of fun gingerbread man activities. 

We have had a go at making our own gingerbread people and decorating them. We all sprinkled the flour, stirred the mixture and made them look beautiful with sticky icing and colourful sprinkles. 

We have explored…

As part of our topic this term, ‘All around the World’, Maple class have been enjoying the sensory story, ‘Walking through the Jungle’. We’ve been identifying animals from the sounds they make, finding them hiding in the tuff trays and in the outdoor area.

Chorley Sports Partnership have been…

Wow what a start to the year! We have all had a lovely first two weeks in Willow class making new friends and getting to know each other.

We have enjoyed lots of play and learning activities to help get to know our new friends and help our teachers see how to support us best in this new…

Willow and Sycamore had a lovely morning working on our healthy eating choices and love of fruit!

We were very lucky and had a special visitor- Lucia from ASDA. Lucia brought in lots of different fruits for us all to try. We shared what our favourite fruits are and which fruits we have tried…

This week in 8P we continued working on our topic of Weather, we continued our weather walks and took some fantastic pictures of the weather. 
We all painted a rainbow and then we created a class display with them. 
On Wednesday we went swimming and made a real splash in the pool. The class…

Beech class have had such a busy couple of weeks settling in to school after the summer holidays. We have had such a great time exploring and making new friends. 

Our topic focus has been ‘ourselves’. We have used our fine motor skills to make playdoh people, got our bodies moving in the…

We combined three special occasions within this weeks learning, enabling our learners the opportunity to experience and explore recent key events - Macmillan Coffee Morning, celebrating the life of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and honouring our new King, King Charles III.

On Thursday, we…

Whilst we are still getting to know the learners, the class has played some board games. On the board games, there were ‘tricky words’ that had to be read out to their partner when they landed on that square. The staff were very impressed with how good their reading and word memory from last year…