Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

Scavenger Hunt in 7P

We are continuing to work on the theme ‘witches and wizards’ this half term.This week we continued with 7Ps poem called “The Jumbies”.

Firstly, the class listened to the poem and joined in with the different noises and actions. Then they had a look at what ‘Jumbies’…

What a busy week beech class have had this week!

To begin the week, we celebrated bonfire night. Throughout our continuous provision, we explored a variety of sensory materials, made marks in flour and enjoyed making our own firework rockets! During attention autism, we watched Mrs Barrand…

This week was a very exciting start to the week. Our new teaching assistant Miss Donley started this week, and what a great member of staff to add to our already amazing 8P class. We have all enjoyed getting to know Miss Donley and Miss Donley has really enjoyed getting to know all of us…

Chestnut class have had lots of fun celebrating Bonfire night.

We explored the fire senses in a bonfire night themed sensology.

See - watched a firework video and pointed to the colours on a core board

Hear - listened to firework noises 

Smell - popped party poppers and smelt the…

This week the children have been very excited about bonfire night. We have explored lots of different areas of learning using elements of fireworks and bonfire inspired words and patterns. The children created some very colourful pictures and used amazing communication with peers talking about…

This week in 7A has been a busy one!

Our ‘new’ food this week was plums. Some of us had never tried plums but we all really enjoyed them. A few people said they were like a cross between an apple and orange.

Autumn poems found the rhyming words and then coloured rhyming words in different…

This week willow class have had a very busy week. Some of the children went swimming working on their water confidence and techniques. On Wednesday some children had a lovely walk to the park working on their road safety and stranger danger. Towards the end of the week we explored the celebration…

Diwali in 7P

This week 7P celebrated Diwali. The learners looked at a PowerPoint on what activities Hindus do when they celebrate Diwali. 

The children learnt that Diwali means “Festival of Light” and it marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. 

We looked at all the…

Beech class have had a great first week back after half term. This week we have enjoyed celebrating Halloween and Diwali.

During our continuous provision, we have loved making witches potions, exploring flour ghosts, making spooky monsters and used our fine motor skills to explore the…

This week has been a busy first week back. As usual we first looked at what our friends had been up to over the half term. Some of us went on a holiday, some had some sleepovers, and some of us stayed and did lots of different things with our family and friends. We have celebrated Diwali in lots…

This week we have celebrated all things Halloween in Chestnut Class, we have had lots of spooky continuous provision and Halloween themed group sessions. 

Our group sessions this week have included; 

• Halloween Sensology- We explored our different senses with Halloween themed…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…