Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

This week Chestnut learners have been busy making sandwiches; practising our skills of spreading and cutting using cutlery. On Wednesday we made choices of toppings - jam/cheese spread/chocolate spread using our communication boards to support us and I can say that jam was the most popular…

This week, Beech class have continued exploring the seaside.

In our tuff trays, we’ve had lots of fun exploring bubbles, spaghetti, sand, and sea animals.

We’ve also shaped Playdoh into sea animals, used bingo dabber to colour in turtles, and splatted shaving foam ice creams. 

In…

On Tuesday with Mrs Cobham we were discussing qualities so we talked about why we like staff members and we all agreed that we like staff who are caring,  Friendly and shows us respect. We like staff who are calm and cheer people up. Staff who get to know us as individuals are important because…

On Monday morning in My Thinking and Problem solving we looked at column addition, we all worked together to solve a problem on the whiteboard with Miss Bentham. Then we solved our own problems using numicon if we needed it. 
Aftef break we did some reading and sounds-write with Mrs England.It…

What a wet and windy week it has been in school this week. We have made it to the end in one piece.

On Monday morning it was our weekly visit to the gym at All Seasons Leisure Centre. This week we were continuing our work in pairs but adding a challenge element. Everyone was asked to spend 8…

Ration baking in 8A

In our food technology lesson this week we had to use food that was rationed. We explained to 8A that in the 1st and 2nd World War, certain foods were unable to be purchased, so when making meals, some ingredients couldn’t be used because of being in short…

This week Chestnut have enjoyed exploring utensils from the kitchen as part of our House and Homes topic.

We enjoyed Stage 2 AA watching Miss Spear create a fabulous recipe using flour and cream and took turns to sprinkle using a colander.

During Maths themed AA we watched as Miss created a…

This week has been mega busy in 10A. Jake was able to work with Chorley in Bloom and continue his Community Action Project. The whole class have been crazy busy working towards ASDAN qualifications in class and in the community, including sentence structure in English and measurement and  time in…

Over the last couple of weeks, 11R have explored Hinduism for our World Religion learning. We have spent time looking at Hindu celebrations and learnt all about how Hindu’s celebrate Diwali. We learn about how Hindu's celebrate Diwali by creating intricate and colourful patterns called 'rangoli',…

This week in Beech class we have been exploring the seaside!

We’ve had lots of fun exploring sand trays, playing with sea animals and boats, and decorating sandy shells.

On Tuesday we got on the minibus and drove to Formby Beach. Unfortunately, the Beach was closed due to high winds, but we…

In class we talked about New Years Resolutions. Mr Crofts said that he sets goals and finds it hard to stick to them. Mrs Cobham said she starts the new year with good intentions but then forgets about it.

As a class we discussed what sort of activities we could do that could be achievable and…

This week in learners own words. 
 

On Monday morning, Olivia joined us for a couple of hours, it was really nice to see her in school. We did maths and looked at time. We were putting the right time on the clock faces. After break we did some reading and Spelling. In the afternoon we started…