Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

Chestnut class have been so busy this week in school getting creative and learning all about different animals that live at the zoo.
We all loved exploring different patterns, matching animal prints and creating snakes from colourful patterns.

Mrs Worthington read the story 'Dear…

We are excited to announce the details of this year’s Sports Week that all of our learners can take part in whether they are learning at home or in school.

What we will be doing

1. There will be six sports challenges to complete across the week. The challenges are: Warm up, Throw, Catch or…

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Here is this week's 6 star challenge.  We'd love to see as many pupils as possible get involved.

Remember if you try all 6 challenges you get a gold award certificate, trying 5 challenges wins you a silver award and you will receive a bronze award for trying 4…

We have loved looking at the many photographs of our pupils having such fun completing last weeks challenges.

Week 2's Six Star Challenge Champions were:

Gold award - completing an AMAZING 6 stars:

Scarlett - Chesnut

Harvey- Maple

Thomas - 7R

Daisy - 8G

Thomas - 8R

Jessie -…

Chestnut Class are still on the theme of ‘Animals’ and we have all been having lots of fun at home this past couple of weeks, focusing on ‘Mini beasts’.

We have looked at the stories ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Superworm’ and then been getting busy with lots of themed activities.

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This week in chestnut class we have been exploring and learning all about farm animals. 
The children have enjoyed joining in with lots of Attention Autism activities. We have had fun singing songs and exploring foods that are grown on the farm. We did some vegetable counting and sorting, each…

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We just thought we would share a video to show you how to do a correct plank exercise from Mr Murphy. It's fantastic to see so many of you trying these new challenges, keep it up.

A new challenge will be published each Monday for you to achieve your stars that week, this week is week 2.…

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We had an amazing response to last weeks challenge and would love for even more pupils to join us this week.

Remember If you achieve 6 stars you get a gold award, 5 stars for a silver award and 4 stars for a bronze award and you’ll get a shout out in our star of the week assembly!

We…

Well done everyone! You are all absolutely amazing.

Week 1's Gold award winners are:

Scarlett in Chestnut

Adam in Maple

Annie in Rowan 

Olivia in willow

Michael in 8R

Thomas in 8R 

Cordell in 8R

Well done - you achieved all 6 stars. WOW.

Week 1's Silver…

Yesterday the children in Chestnut Class had a fun afternoon creating animal prints.

After watching Mrs Smith do an animal themed ‘What’s in the Box’ the children then used different animals and paint to make footprints on their paper. They then experimented using different shapes to create a…

We’re going on a lion hunt, 

We’re going to catch a big one, 

We’re not scared, we’ve been there before!

This week in chestnut class our story has been “We’re Going on a Lion Hunt”. We have had lots of fun swishing in the long grass, splashing in the lake and squelching in the swamp…

This week we have enjoyed lots of number songs in Chestnut class. We particularly enjoy the song “five currant buns” so today Mrs Crouch ran a very messy attention autism session based on the song. We made currant buns out of shaving foam and enjoyed splatting them when it was our turn to buy a…