Blog by Tag: My Communication

Our topic Emergency Emergency Emergency continues this half term, and we have had fun learning and exploring the work of dentists.

The learners have enjoyed lots of fun and multisensory learning activities including: a sensory stories, cleaning teeth, exploring the dentist role play area and…

Maple class love stories and books so we were excited for World Book Day! Harrison brought one of his favourite books to class ‘Superworm!’ (I love this one too!) and shared it with myself and his friends. Maple class enjoyed lots of activities linked to The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss in the…

This week we were pleased to welcome our new Teaching Assistant, Mr Staziker, to our class team.

 We have had a very busy week! A big thank you goes out to our wonderful families for providing early childhood photos for our Brilliant Bodies lesson about growing up - this really helped us to…

Well it’s been another busy week in Chestnut Class this week. We started off by looking at the police and the sensory story Officer George in the first half of the week. We then celebrated World Book Day by looking at a class favourite ‘5 Little Ducks’. The pupils came in in some greats outfits on…

Before half term our special visitor was Dawn from the fire station.

All the children were very excited to ask their questions that they had thought of. As well as asking our questions we looked at lots of different photos that Dawn had brought of different incidents that the fire service help…

Willow had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating World Book Day in class. We saw a mixture of characters and own clothes - some of us even enjoyed dressing up with props and teacher costumes!

Across the day we explored different activities celebrating stories. We learned a new dance linked…

We have today celebrated girls and women of Science by carrying out our own experiment! During attention autism, Miss Howarth modelled the reaction of mentos in Cola. Pupils looked on in awe. Pupils then took turns adding mentos, the fountains produced were amazing! Pupils engaged in the activity…

As part of our ‘Emergency, Emergency!’ topic, Maple class have been exploring the important roles of Nurses and how they help us. We have enjoyed our Sensory story, “Ouch! I need a plaster!” and located body parts by placing plasters on dollies. We have been counting and finding one less and…

Well, it’s been a busy last two weeks in Chestnut Class. We have been looking at Doctors in our Emergency! Emergency! Topic and the story of Ness the Nurse.  The pupils have enjoyed practicing putting plasters on our dollies and teddies. 

To mark Children’s Mental Health Week, we have used…

On Friday 3rd February Maple Class headed to the Space Centre in Preston. we had a fantastic time with our friends, accessing the swing for vestibular input, the fibre optics for visual and tactile stimulation and the responsive flooring which gave audio and visual feedback when pressed. We had a…

Today we were visited by our very own Astley Park Lifeguard - Miss Potter! We had the opportunity to ask her questions to find out about the work of lifeguards before we tried on the lifeguard uniform and pretended to jump in the pool and save someone. We watched videos of lifeguards working and…

It’s been another fantastic week in Chestnut class.  This week we have looked at postmen and women. This gave the pupils the opportunities practice mark making and stamping and posting skills when in the continuous provision, along participating in our adapted sensory story of The Jolly Postman. 
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