Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

This half term we’ve been getting involved in lots of festive activities in Chestnut Class. 

In food technology we have made salt dough Christmas ornaments. We’ve also been making Christmas cards, decorating our sleigh and doing lots of other Christmas crafts in my creativity ready for our…

This morning, Chestnut Class had a visit from some very special guests… Santa and his elves!  

We were so excited to see them! Santa gave everyone a present, and we spent the morning playing with them and eating our chocolates.  

Thank you, Santa! 
Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! 
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This term we started our visits to Astley Park. 

In groups we walked to Astley Park and through the woods. 

We explored our senses, listening to what we could hear and looking around to see what we could see. 

We could hear dogs barking, leaves crunching, water flowing and birds…

Chestnut class have had another busy week!

We started the week with Remembrance Day. We explored poppies and painted our own poppy pictures using potatoes. 

On Wednesday we made friendship bracelets! We threaded coloured pasta onto string to match a pattern. We've practiced our turn taking…

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 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…

Chestnut class have enjoyed exploring our “this is me” topic. We’ve played with our favourite toys, looked at our reflections, and explored facial expressions.

We’re well established with our morning group routine now. First, we sing the hello song. Then, we check “what day is it today”.…

Chestnut class has had a lovely start to the school year! 

We’ve had lots of fun getting to know one another as well as exploring lots of toys and activities in the classroom and around school.

In Attention Autism, we’ve counted how many fingers in our handprint paintings, and made…

This week Chestnut Class have accessed a range of activities to develop our gross and fine motor skills. On Tuesday Chorley Sports Partnership engaged us in activities to support our coordination and balance. We have been focussing our attention to travel in different ways by sliding, crawling and…

This week Chestnut Class have continued to explore Under The Sea topic through Attention Autism, creativity, and the continuous provision. We’ve been counting sandcastles, ice creams and sea creatures and finding out how many left when one is taken away. We’ve been practising our pouring skills…

This week Chestnut Class have enjoyed exploring Rainbows through Attention Autism, learning the Makaton sign for Rainbow and enjoying singing the colours of the rainbow. We painted our own parade flag and enjoyed adding glitter to make it sparkle,

We’ve made colourful fruit skewers, peeling,…

What a fantastic week in Chestnut Class!

This week learners have been accessing the community in small groups. Learners have visited Nuffield Health Centre for swim sessions learning to follow instructions in water and practising their dressing skills. Pupils have been to Astley Park with Mrs…