Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

In the first week back after October half term, we learnt about Diwali; a religious festival that is celebrated by Hindu people across the world. We taught the children that Diwali means 'festival of lights' and that houses, shops and public places are decorated with lights. We learnt about why…

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

On Monday morning this week 7A had our Sharing our Learning session.

Parents were invited in to see everything they had been learning about Diwali.

Mrs Chaloner showed the photos from last week and the learners told them what was happening and the different things they had learnt. 7A and…

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…