Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

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…

This week Chestnut Class have continued learning about UnderThe Sea through Attention Autism, Sensology, Creative tasks and in the continuous provision. Learners have been practising their independent travel with Mrs Lane transitioning around school and on visits to Astley Park and small groups…

This term Chestnut class are learning all about the seaside. This week we have enjoyed lots of creative tasks linked to our topic area- printing including bubble wrap print, lids and other household items to make repeated patterns and we will be continuing to explore printing over the coming…

This week Chestnut class have been busy getting ready for Easter!
In Food tech we have enjoyed practising our spreading skills by preparing hot cross buns for snack time. During creative tasks we made egg shell cards using primary colours and repeating patterns and decorating foam eggs. In…

On Thursday 21st March Chestnut Class celebrated World Down Syndrome Day. The theme this year is # End the Stereotypes. The day is represented by lots of socks because chromosomes look like socks!  We wore brightly coloured socks or odd socks, designed socks using the primary colours and balloons…

Chestnut Class enjoyed some super Attention Autism sessions and activities linked to Superheroes and Villains for our World Book Day celebrations. At Stage 1 we tracked an amazing Spider-Man car zooming across the classroom, lots of bubbles and a dancing superhero! Lots of spontaneous…

This week Chestnut learners have enjoyed learning all about recycling and exploring and sorting different materials which we throw away as part of our recycling topic. We have made Angel Delight, focussing on using equipment to pour and mix, expressing our choices and working out what we need…

Chestnut Class learners have had a very busy start to the half term!  We have been learning about primary colours in a range of activities including mixing paints and coloured water into jars to create secondary colours.  This week we started our Recycling sessions and we thoroughly enjoyed…