Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

Over the previous couple of weeks Chestnut have continued to learn all about Houses and Homes. We have been learning about farm animals and their habitats and exploring/identifying their homes in the tuff tray. We have especially liked the mud, water and straw! We have been exploring measure- big…

On Monday, all pupils celebrated Wesak (Buddha Day). The Buddhist festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Pupils explored the story of Buddha in ways appropriate to their pathway and worked hard creating mandalas which were entered into the APS Mandala Contest, the…

This week Chestnut Class have had a fabulous day out to Smithills Farm in Bolton. It forms part of our class topic of Houses and Homes this term.

Chestnut Class have enjoyed exploring the farm and meeting and stroking so many different animals ! We found the cows, pigs, sheep, llamas, owls,…

Last week Chestnut Class helped to promote awareness of World Epilepsy Day by attending school wearing purple. In 2008, eight-year-old Cassidy Megan from Canada decided she wanted to help raise awareness for people with epilepsy and to make sure no one affected feels alone. She named her idea…

Chestnut class have had a wonderful time celebrating Easter. We have enjoyed a sensory story, “We’re going on an Easter Egg Hunt!” We had to make our way through the swishy, swishy grass, through a field of colourful flowers (confetti drop) through the mud (hot chocolate and water mix) and river…

Chestnut class have been listening and attending to lots of different musical instruments this half term. We have enjoyed the rainmaker and big drum and couldn’t wait to have a turn to repeat back the sounds we heard.  We have been recognising and identifying sounds of hidden instruments,…

This half term Chestnut Class have been enjoying our new topic about Pirates. In our PE sessions we are focussing on developing our gross motor skills via Pirate themed activities. We haven’t just been ‘walking the plank’ we have been travelling along the plank in different ways including pulling…

“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!”

Chestnut Class have had wonderful World Book Day fun exploring the story of the Three Little Pigs and celebrating all of our favourite characters and stories. What a great turn out in class- we had a visit from Superman, Rex from Toy…

What a wonderful and very messy time we had in Chestnut Class on Shrove Tuesday. During Stage 2 Attention Autism we watched Miss Spear create a pancake mixture and in Stage 3 we took turns to flip a pancake! Chestnut Class have been working very hard on their turn taking skills which require them…

Chestnut Class had a lovely virtual visit from Mrs Parekh and we learned all about her Hindu Faith. She chatted to us about her favourite Hindu festival - Holi and the Celebration of Colour and we talked about our class learning of Diwali and the Festival of Light and what we had explored in…

This week classes have been focusing one staying safe online. 

We have had a range of activities going on throughout the whole of school. Making friendship potions and learning and comparing physical and virtual friendships. Videos commentary on what to do in online situations. (YouTube…

All Fun and Games? Exploring Respect and Relationships Online 

The best way to support our children online is to take an interest in what they are doing.

Here are some posters which may help start some conversations with your child. What should we be looking out for in the gaming world,…