Blog by Tag: Maple Class

This half term Maple Class have been very busy at school. 

For ‘My Cooking’ half of Maple Class went to the food technology room, we were practicing buttering and slicing toast before we got to eat it! In Maple Class the rest of us were making juice, we were practicing our pouring skills and…

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 for mental health awareness week Maple Class have been seeing what makes our engines just right and what makes us feel happy. Some of Maple Class did an attention autism, Miss Woods pulled out different objects from the bucket and we said if they made us happy or sad. One of the objects…

It has been a very busy day in Maple! Pupils have worn purple and explored purple themed activities to celebrate International Epilepsy Day. Attention autism was the delivery method of choice, pupils then created purple pasta bracelets and explored the purple tuff tray. We had a big 7th birthday…

Maple Class have had a ‘super’ day celebrating Red Nose Day! Pupils wore their favourite superhero t shirts and costumes. Exploratory play included a red tray and red mashed potato. Attention autism consisted of a bucket filled with red balloons, coloured sand and googly eye red noses in the tuff…

This morning while half of maple class went to strawberry fields to swim the rest of us in Maple Class had fun celebrating St Patrick’s Day. 
First we did an attention autism, in our bucket was a spinning top, a rocket and a flashing spiky ball. Next for stage 2 we did a shamrock fall. Miss Woods…

This year our school theme for world book day was the three little pigs. 

In class to celebrate this theme we had a three little pigs sensory tuff tray, in here we had sticks, foam bricks and straw. We also had pink pig play dough 

As a class team we had our own theme which was Charlie and…

On Friday, Maple Class had a very special visitor! Mrs Parekh joined us via Microsoft Teams and told us about her Hindu faith. Mrs Parekh shared interesting facts and described her favourite festival (Holi). Pupils were then invited to ask questions, they asked about bindis before trying some on,…

Pupils have had a fantastic day celebrating Shrove Tuesday. They have explored a pancake themed tuff tray, practiced number skills with TEACHH activities and with the ‘Five Crispy Pancakes’ song and have even participated in tossing and tasting!

St David’s Day has also been celebrated through…

This week Maple class have created personal invitations to our teddy bear’s picnic planned for March. Pupils have been travel training around school with increased independence. Some pupils put their road safety skills into practice, walking to the local postbox to post invitations. On arrival, we…

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,…