16 Mar

8G have a lovely lunch at The Astley

As a special treat 8G and 8R went for lunch to The Astley.

We all did lovely talking to our friends and showed The Astley staff what super manners we have!!

We have come away with full tummies and big smiles :-)

13 Mar

8G End of Week 9 (Spring Term)

Here we are again at the end of another week, this time week 9! It will soon be Summer term, how scary is that!

On Wednesday we kicked off Mrs Fisher's week with a My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. We began the lesson with a quick brain break, a favourite of 8G, Body Bop. Lots of us love…

28 Feb

8G Food Technology Week 7- Pancakes (Group 1)

It was our first Cooking and Nutrition session of Spring 2 and we couldn't miss the chance to make pancakes after it was Shrove Tuesday this week!

It was Group 1's turn to cook this week- we are all getting much better at remembering how to set up when we get into the Food Tech room. We wash…

28 Feb

8G End of Week 7 (Spring Term)

Welcome back from what I hope was a lovely half term break!

We’ve hit the ground running this week in 8G, lots of fantastic work has been happening.

On Wednesday morning we took part in our second My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson of the week. This started with a quick game of Numicon…

12 Feb

A big thank you to our super swimmers!

On Saturday, a group of our super swimmers took part in the charity Swimarathon at All Seasons Leisure Centre to raise money for our school charity, FAPS. Our school charity will receive a portion of money raised via sponsorships, with the rest being divided between other local charities. The…

12 Feb

8G learn how to stay safe online

Yesterday was 'Safer Internet Day'. Mrs England read us a story about Smartie the penguin and how he made the right choices to stay safe whilst on his tablet.

We all talked about who can help us stay safe when we are online, at home and at school.

After the story we all made our own Smartie…

9 Feb

8G- History Day Spring 1

8G took part in their first History themed day on Thursday, and what a fun day it was!

We put our fine motor skills to practice by covering our initials with mosaic stickers.

We used Lego to recreate the city of Pompeii that Mrs England had read us a story about on Tuesday.

We made our…

31 Jan

8G End of Week 4 (Spring Term)

Here we are again, the end of another week!

On Wednesday afternoon it was time for My Community lesson. We split into our 2 groups as usual, this week Group 1 stayed in class with Mrs Fisher to work on their self-help and independence skills, while Group 2 went with Mrs England and Miss Aindow…

31 Jan

8G Food Technology Week 4- Fruity Flapjacks (Group 2)

Week 4 means it was Group 2's turn to cook again.

On the menu were Fruity Flapjacks, just like Group 1 cooked last week.

Miss Aindow shared the recipe with everyone, then we took it in turns to collect the right equipment that we needed. We are all getting much better at looking carefully…

28 Jan

8G get creative with pasta.

8G are still on the topic of 'Doctor, Doctor' so yesterday in 'My Creativity' we made pasta bodies.

Miss Heaton showed us first how we were going to make our pictures and we all did super looking and listening.

We drew a head and a stick body with pencil and then used PVA glue and a glue…

28 Jan

8G make happy or sad biscuit faces

Last week in 'My Creativity' we looked at how we could make happy and sad faces on biscuits. 

We had digestives, strawberry laces, chocolate drops, marshmallows teeth and lips sweets and buttercream. We could make our faces using whatever we wanted so we had lots of fun.

We all used the…

24 Jan

8G End of Week 3 (Spring term)

What a busy end of the week we have had in 8G, I feel like I blinked and it was Friday afternoon!

On Wednesday morning, we all took part in My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. Our starter was Maths themed. We had to look carefully at the pictures on the board and tap on the one that was…