Blog by Tag: Explorers and Adventurers

This week in Chestnut Class we have been focusing on our Social and Communication skills as a part of Friendship week. We have been exploring activities with others and working on developing our tolerance skills accepting others joining us. We have had lots of laughs and smiles during Intensive…

Maple class been enjoying The Rainbow Fish sensory story as part of our learning for Friendship Week! We explored how when the Rainbow Fish shared his beautiful shiny scales with his friends he was happy. We have been using our fabulous communication skills to create wonderful Rainbow Fish…

This week classes have been invited to join in Remembrance Day traditions throughout school.

Each teacher has planned meaningful and engaging activities surrounding the theme of ‘War’ and ‘Remembrance’.

Learners have been exposed to different learning focuses and learning new facts through a…

Today Maple Class took part in Remembrance Day activities through Attention Autism and through creativity. We watched Miss flour sieve to reveal small crosses in the tuff tray and then sprinkle green glitter to represent Flander’s Field and we took turns in Stage 3 to sprinkle red tissue paper to…

In Willow class we enjoyed our DT topic making musical instruments last term. Miss Riley and the teachers were so impressed and could tell the children were ready for an enterprise project this term to put their planning and design skills to the test!

Our first enterprise project is looking at…

Happy Halloween and Bonfire Night from Maple Class!

What a fabulous week we’ve had in Maple Class. On Monday Maple Class enjoyed a day filled with dress up, using our fine motor skills to make spooky spider webs, pumpkin sun catchers and a Halloween hunt in the Woods using our wonderful…

On Thursday 20th October Maple Class showed Racism the Red Card! We enjoyed sharing joint attention and exploring all things Red during Attention Autism and in our red themed sensory trays. We have been finding and putting together puzzles of photos of our face in the tuff tray and recognising our…

What a brilliant day in Willow class! 
Lots of friends wore costumes or their own clothes to celebrate Halloween and everyone had lots of fun with the masks and props.

In the morning we listened to a spooky story about skeletons scaring people and feeling scared. We had a good chat about what…

Oak class have had a fantastic day celebrating Halloween. The class team dressed as The Wiggles (a class favourite group) and pupils dressed as skeletons and Zombies.

Miss Howarth delivered a Halloween themed attention autism:

Stage 1 Cauldron - wind up eye ball and spider

Stage 2 Dancing…

Willow class have had a busy few weeks!

We have been on community visits, worked on our functional maths skills looking at time, worked on our social skills and phonic skills, baked some amazing recipes, enjoyed team games in PE, learnt about our emotions and regulation states, learnt about…

What a wonderful week we have had in a Chestnut Class! 

At the start of the week we explored the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, learners have explored playing in porridge, filling up bowls with porridge and making their own porridge. We have also created some wonderful bear…

This week Oak Class’ core word was ‘Go!’ Pupils responded to ready, steady, go across contexts including on the bikes.

We have also been studying Handa’s Surprise through song and sensory trays. Some beautiful artwork has been produced by expressing colour and media choices. Some of the boys…