25 Sep

Sycamore week 4!

This week in Sycamore we have enjoyed reading our story ‘Toys in Space’. Mrs Lane shared Toys In Space through a sensory story. The children enjoyed exploring the book before using their amazing phonics skills to build some words from the story. 
A real busy week trying super hard with our…

22 Sep

8A are out of this world

This week 8A was introduced to our new topic, “To Infinity and Beyond”.

 

We have looked very closely at the moon, and the learners used describing words to write a small poem about how the moon looks. There was some brilliant words used by the learners and some good sentence…

18 Sep

7P Week 2 Autumn 1

7P had another great week.

We really got into our routine this week and started to show the teachers in 7P how good we are. This week we have demonstrated our independence skills by making fruit kebabs in cooking. We all had a go at this and even if we didn’t want to eat it we persevered and…

16 Sep

8P Week 2 - what a great week!

8P had a fantastic second week back!

This week, we…

- Learnt about Smashing stereotypes

- Learnt about Florence Nightingale
- Were assessed by Miss Buck on reading and writing letters 

- Were assessed by Miss Buck on reading and writing numbers to 10/20 

- Continued to participate…

15 Sep

Week 2 in Sycamore!

What a busy week! This week we have been focusing on friendships and feelings. The children have made some friendship soup. The children choose what quality they like to have in a friend and we added that with some food colouring to our super friendship soup. 


We have all worked really hard…

15 Sep

Week 2 in Chestnut Class

What a wonderful and busy week we’ve had in Chestnut Class!

As part of our topic, ‘In the Toy Box’ we have been exploring teddy bears through Attention Autism Stage 2 reveals, creative tasks - we created our own bear faces and during Food Tech we have been followed instructions and expressed…

8 Sep

Welcome to Chestnut Class

Welcome to Chestnut Class!

We have had a wonderful first week back in Chestnut Class, welcoming 3 new learners to Astley Park and getting to know lots of new friends and teachers.

We have been busy enjoying Attention Autism sessions, exploring the activities in the continuous provision and…

6 Sep

Welcome back Sycamore Class !

A huge welcome back!  What a fantastic week we have had in Sycamore Class. 


The children have had a very busy week with lots of fun and laughs.

We have made some super friendships this week welcoming two new children to Sycamore. 

The children have settled in very well back into school…

20 Jul

Chestnut Class - End of term catch up

Well, what a year it has been in Chestnut Class.  On behalf of the class team, I want to say thank you the to the pupils and their families for another great year.  The pupils have had great time exploring and developing their attention, social and emotional regulation skills.  It has been a…

14 Jul

9A Farm trip

On Wednesday this week, we went on our end of term trip to the farm! 
We had an absolutely fantastic time.

We did lots of activities including: 

- pets corner (holding small animals and petting larger animals) 

- calves feeding 

- visiting the other animals and feeding them 

-…

13 Jul

7A’s powerful poems


 

7A have been working really hard this half term learning all about acrostic poems. This week we all used our super English skills to think of lots of different words and sentences to use when writing an acrostic poem all about Mr Welsh. We took our time and worked hard to think of lots of…

10 Jul

Willow class trip to the Mosque

Last Monday, Willlow class went on a trip to the Mosque. We enjoyed looking in the Mosque, listening to a call to prayer and learning about why Muslims go to Mosque. We learned some new words and looked at Arabic letters. We also learned lots of things about Muslim families as we have been…