Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

Picture News is our weekly lesson where we look at current news items. This week we have been learning about the new Pope.
We looked at how the Pope was I tasted and how the Cardinals went into conclave to vote, we learnt about the different coloured smoke and that the smoke was created when the…

What a busy few weeks in Chestnut class. We have been able to visit the new Outdoor School (aka the mud kitchen) and we love it! There are lots of things to choose from to keep us busy. We can plant our very own flowers using soil, seeds and the watering cans, build sandcastles with the…

On Wednesday last week, a few of our pupils participated in a swimming gala. The gala was for Secondary aged Special school children and was arranged by Chorley School Sports Partnership (CSSP) and Miss Buck & Mr Flavell took the children to the event. The pupils presented exemplary behaviours…

This week some of the class have taken part in Bikeability. Everyone had to listen carefully and follow instructions so that they could learn how to keep safe. Every person that took part worked hard and did super listening. The rest of the class went on a community visit to get the weekly…

VE Day in 7P

On Thursday morning the learners listened to a story about VE Day and watched a video about it. The class watched a news report that was 80 years old celebrating the end of the Second World War. The video also showed a picture of a lady who was 15 years old at the time and…

Another fun week in Beech class! Towards the start of the week we enjoyed exploring all things elephants. We painted our own pictures, counted out the elephants, completed animal jigsaws and enjoyed dressing up. 

During attention autism we listened to a sensory story of Dear zoo,…

Welcome back Chestnut Class! Wow what an amazing start back at school. We have thoroughly enjoyed exploring our new theme ‘Summer holiday’ through using sand to build the biggest sand castles and practicing our fine motor skills by carefully filling up different size bottles with water. There…

What a fantastic few weeks back in Oak Class!
We have all settled back into our daily routine well.

This term Oak Class are learning all about ‘Summer’ and we have loved listening to our new Sensory Story called ‘ Maisy goes on holiday!’ we are learning to engage with a range of…

What a lovely start to the summer term we have had in Beech. This week we started our topic of the ‘zoo’. 

During continuous provision we painted and decorated giraffe pictures, listened to a sensory story of ‘dear zoo’, rescued the animals from ice, explored sensory trays and built towers…

Another 4 day week for us this week. And another week of enjoying (and melting in) the beautiful sunshine. 

This week we have to been to Morrisons to pick some fruit for our breakfast in class. Whilst we were there we even got to enjoy some free fruit as it was available for children to help…

Following on from last week’s session bullying, today we have been looking at “banter” what is it?, Is it socially acceptable? When is “banter” not acceptable?

We discussed as a group what experiences we have of “banter” who do we have “banter” with. We then looked at different scenarios and we…

PE in 7P

Wednesday mornings are 7P’s PE slots and as our topic is the circus, we had some circus activities to try out.

Our first circus activity was walking the tight-rope. The learners had to use their balancing skills and walk along the bench. 

Next was marching. They had to…