Blog by Tag: Explorers and Adventurers

Willow class have done some fantastic learning at home this week, with Miss Riley receiving lots of lovely emails from families. The children have been working hard on education city and helping with practical tasks like cooking and cleaning in the house, spending quality time with their…

Hi Everybody, 

It has been very quiet in Oak this week, with most of you learning from home. Me, Miss Woods, Miss Banks and Mrs Simpson are missing you lots, but we have loved seeing and hearing about your learning at home. It is clear to see that you have all been working hard at home, making…

This week Oak Class have been spoilt for choice with a selection of fruit, toast and biscuits for snack time. 

We created our own little healthy cafe and Oak class used their own words to request what they wanted to try. 

• Josh’s favourite was the apple. 
• Amelia was very happy we…

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

Last week 7G celebrated Holi festival. This is a Hindu festival where the coming of spring is celebrated through lots of colourful activities. 

7G chose red as their colour to come into school in. All the children had an item of clothing on that was red. 
With Mr Murphy in the morning they all…

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

Today Oak enjoyed their last swimming lesson of the spring term. 

They had lots of fun playing in the pool celebrating all their hard work practicing and developing their swimming skills and confidence in the pool over that last 6 weeks.

When we got back to class we had a very special treat!…

Willow class celebrated Rainbow Day by wearing bright clothes to create a class rainbow and learning all about how people are different.

We discussed how rainbows have lots of different colours that all come together to make something brilliant- just like all our friends making one…

Last week Oak Class celebrated Children’s World Mental Health Week through various activities learning about our emotions, our friendships and how it is good to be us!

Miss Cross did different Attention Autism activities, were we named different emotions we might feel, some of us had turns…

This week Willow learnt all about how we can stay safe on different games and websites when we are on our computers and iPads! 
We discussed what information we could share on the internet (e.g. a cartoon avatar and code name on a game) and what information we only tell friends and family. We…