Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

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…

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…

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had lots of fun activities and events in Chestnut Class. These have included Holi, Mother’s Day & Easter celebrations. 

Holi- 

To celebrate Holi we all walked around the track while colourful powder paint was thrown on us. Some of our families even came…

This week, Chestnut class has had such a fun and busy week! To begin the week, we continued to read ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and did some excellent sitting and listening. We helped Miss Seddon read the story and took it in turns to identify the correct characters on the core board.  We…

On Wednesday, some of us attended a martial arts event hosted by Chorley Sports Partnership!

We had a go at kick boxing and jiu-jitsu. We jumped as high as we could, kicked and punched mats, and shouted as we punched the air! We even had a go at practicing some self defence moves with each…

Today Chestnut Class enjoyed looking at photographs of the special women in their lives. Some of the children used communication boards to describe their inspirational women with kind words like amazing, beautiful and caring! We hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating the inspirational…

Before the half term holidays, Chestnut Class started visiting Iceland and the Postbox. This week, we resumed our weekly trips!

Some of us walked to Iceland. We used visuals to help us find the way and stayed safe by holding an adult’s hand. In the shop, we found the items on our shopping…

This week in Chestnut Class, our theme has been Valentines. 

We’ve enjoyed a special valentines themed Sensology which included; 

Seeing- Valentines colours with different materials.

Hearing - Listening to the heartbeats with our ears that we made on the drums, choosing to tap…

This week in Chestnut Class, our theme has been Valentines. 

We’ve enjoyed a special valentines themed Sensology which included; 

Seeing- Valentines colours with different materials.

Hearing - Listening to the heartbeats with our ears that we made on the drums, choosing to tap…

We’ve loved our first week back with Miss Seddon; we’ve done lots of fun activities throughout the week. 

Monday- In food technology we made orange juice and in class we listened to our hungry caterpillar sensory story. 

Tuesday- We enjoyed lots of gross motor activities in P.E. 

In class…

We’ve had a super few weeks in Chestnut class, here is some of the things we’ve been up to; 

Our Sensory story has been The Hungry Caterpillar- We learnt all about the tiny little caterpillar who ate too much food and turned into a big caterpillar, our teachers then put us into a cocoon…

This year for World Religion Week, Chestnut Class enjoyed exploring light linked to the Sikh celebration of Diwali. We made salt dough Diya lamps during our attention autism sessions and enjoyed turning the lights off and signing about our lamps on Friday afternoon to mark the end of the week.…