Blog by Tag: Independent travel

Last week, during our first week back, we started accessing the community again. This included a trip to the library to source books about healthy lifestyles. The pupils found a lot of books about healthy eating and enjoyed looking at them/reading them whilst at the library.

The pupils…

What another fantastic week in Oak Class! This week, we have been studying France.

On Monday, Miss Beck delivered an explosive attention autism session! The boys all engaged well as glitter (red blue and white) and flour balloons were popped. We then explored bigs and small bubbles in class and…

This week has been a challenge for all pupils in class.

We have really raised the stakes for our independence. Pupils took part in a functional ICT lesson on Monday, editing a letter which had several errors, following instructions. We then learned about what an envelope should be…

They may not have made it to the World Cup this year but Italy have certainly made it in Oak Class!

The Italian adventure began last week, pupils enjoyed decorating their own pizzas using core boards to make choices, before eating them of course! Pupils have decorated the Italian flag selecting…

Wow! What another busy week in 11G. We have been continuing with our Duke of Edinburgh work this week. For the physical element we have been visiting the gym weekly. The learners never fail to amaze us with their perseverance and have shown huge improvements each week. The volunteering element has…

What a task some of the pupils in 11G had this week- as part of our ASDAN accreditation- we had to undertake a journey independently (being shadowed by a member of staff.)

The journey that we decided was from school to our local Police Station, crossing several roads, keeping ourselves safe…

As part of our ASDAN work we have been visiting Chorley library. As we do every Monday afternoon, we walked from school to the library using our road safety skills to ensure that we kept safe. 

Once at the library we throughly enjoyed having a look around at all of the books and choosing…

Today 10R went out and about. We walked to the bus stop on Southport Road together and waited for the 109 bus  The class were really polite to the driver when asking for the tickets to Tesco. 
Once at Tesco two pupils went with Mrs Tolan to buy stamps. The remainder of the class walked over to…

Our Topic this term is My Healthy Lifestyle. We are continuing our cafe but extending the range of foods we offer. We will continue our work in the community by undertaking weekly visits to the library and supermarket. In the supermarket we are increasing our independence skills with individual…

In 10G we have been learning all about how to keep ourselves safe when we are crossing the road. We started off by practicing on the road area in our new playground space. We talked about finding a safe space to cross and learnt about zebra crossings and pelican crossings. We took it in turns to…

Oh my , how busy have we been today?
We had breakfast in school before heading out to catch a bus from the bus stop. We talked about looking at the number on the bus we wanted and how to stop the bus. Then we used our ‘Now cards’ to get on the bus. When your Now Card has been scanned…

Another touch and go start… lots of obstacles in the way… BUT we made it! After a term of trying to get out and about on the bus, we were determined today to make sure it happened, and we got there!

Starting the day we looked at the bus timetable, we then discussed risks and how to keep…