Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

This week in Chestnut Class we have been learning about Diwalli and the Festival of Light through Attention Autism, music, food, creating Diyas and expressive art. During Attention Autism Stage 1 we enjoyed looking at all the lights and coloured ribbons and during Stage 2 Miss Spear created a…

Congratulations to Class 7P who are the winners of our Halloween Pumpkin competition.  Mr Welsh and Mrs Millard were our judges for today and had a difficult decision due to the fantastic effort classes had made.

Mr Welsh presented 7P class and all the other classes with some lovely halloween…

Chestnut Class have been learning all about colours and enjoying a story about about Pete the Cat and his white shoes. We have been exploring, sorting, matching and identifying colours, making fruit skewers, and printing patterns using colours from the story. We were so pleased to have Mr…

Chestnut class have been busy exploring colours this week. We’ve enjoyed listening and retelling parts of our class story -The Little Red Hen. On Wednesday Chestnut Class even helped The Little Red Hen to make some bread using key word instructions. We’ve been mixing, pouring and measuring using…

Chestnut class have had a fantastic morning making rice crispie cakes to raise money for Macmillan. We have been counting, pouring, mixing and using all our fabulous communication skills to engage,share joint attention and make choices of the wonderful cakes. Thank you for all your ;donations and…

Welcome back Chestnut Class! 
 

This week we have enjoyed getting to know lots of new names and faces that make up our fabulous new Class via Attention Autism. We are also very lucky to have another little girl joining us soon and we can’t wait to meet her! We have had so much fun making…

Well what an exciting first week! We have had a visit from Music Carousel where we enjoyed singing, instruments and moving to the music. We also really enjoyed the bouncy castle, the slide was great fun!

Chestnut Class have been getting in the Summer spirit this week.

We have made some super summer crafts that we are going to take home!

We have all made a colourful sun catcher with tissue paper, paint and stickers. 

We then made a big yellow sun and chose different coloured rays to stick…

This week has been 'Sports Week' at Astley Park.

We have started our mornings off with some dancing to warm up our bodies, ready for our activities.

On Monday we had lots of fun in an egg and spoon race, we even had to move carefully around obstacles. 

We enjoyed practising our throwing,…

May is 'National Share a Story' month, and this year the theme is 'Myths, Magic & Mayhem'.

To celebrate this in Chestnut class, this week we have been looking at the book 'Room on the Broom', by Julia Donaldson.

We have listened to the story and the song, made our own potions, pretended to…

This week, Chestnut Class have been looking at animal homes.

We have been reading the story 'Oh Dear', all about looking for hen's eggs around the farm in different animal homes.

We also got busy mark making using different animals in paint to make footprints.

On Wednesday we had a…

This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week.

In Chestnut Class we have enjoyed some lovely, calming time in the great outdoors, and doing relax sessions in class.

We have been enjoying our outdoor area, listening to the birds and playing in the fresh air.

We have also been for lots of…