Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

Careers week in 8A.

This week 8A learners have been looking at jobs people do. 

To start our careers discussion off, 8A participated in a game of jobs bingo. 

The bingo cards had lots of jobs that people do. There was a refuse collector, a doctor, a delivery person and many…

Rowan Class have enjoyed a busy start to the new term.

In My Communication we have been enjoying the sensory story Welcome Home Bear and made some brilliant comments about the different parts of the story.

In My Thinking and Problem Solving we have been learning about measurement, exploring…

It has been another great week in 11G this week and we are all thrilled to have Miss Greenwood back in class with us!

On Monday morning we continued our Maths work on shape ready for our Personal Progress portfolios whilst those working towards their entry level exams worked on some…

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…

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…

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…

This week Beech Class have been exploring ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 

In attention autism we listened to the story, counted all the fruits that he ate and used a balloon to make our very own caterpillar!

We practised our chopping skills, cutting up different types of fruit and enjoyed…

Welcome back to spring 2, hope you’ve all had a lovely break. We’ve got a very busy half term again and lots of things to look forward to. 9A welcomed a new pupil into class, they have all been very friendly and we look forward to getting to know him. 
On Monday morning as the learners came into…