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Good afternoon,

What a great week we have had in 8A.  It has been action packed and full of fun, laughter, and learning. 

Our Star of the Week this week is Olivia - for showing 'determination' to walk all the way to the supermarket and back. Olivia didn’t use her wheelchair once and showed…

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…

Oak Class have been working hard on travel training this week! We are working towards a trip to Asda to make our own purchases. 

Pupils have explored the principles of road safety through attention autism, focusing on stop and go, looking left, right then left again and listening for…

7P went on our first community visit to Astley Park. 
 

On the way we practiced our road safety skills, checking if it was safe to cross the road and saying which place would be the safest to cross. We also spoke about how the weather felt, and what we could see around us on the walk. 
 

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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…

This week some learners from Year 7 and 8 got the opportunity to go on an evening visit to go and see the Blackpool Illuminations as well as a chippy tea. This was an extra special trip as it was the first one in a couple of years. 

Everyone had a really good time, showed our school values and…

It has been a very busy few weeks for 7P!
 

Before going out into the community we have been practicing crossing the road using a zebra crossing on our bike track. We worked on making sure we were looking left and right, waiting for the cars to stop and ensuring we crossed safely. 
 

We…

Good afternoon, all,

This week has been another blockbuster in 8A!

Let’s start with our Star of the Week Award.  This week’s winner goes to Gemma.  Gemma has been fantastic all week, showing great friendship skills throughout and showing improved participation in her PE lessons.

Way to…

7A went to Legoland in Manchester this week. We have been looking forward to it allllllll week and it didn’t disappoint!

When we arrived we had to queue up, while queuing up we saw some of what was to come, Hagrid, Darth Vader and tubes full of Lego. 
7A then got into the lift, which was very…

We’ve had a great week in 9A!  

We’ve been starting to access the community again. Many pupils have enjoyed going shopping this week. They sourced ingredients for our cooking sessions. One group made cheese toasted sandwiches and one group made chocolate brownies. Yum yum! They were delicious.…

Good afternoon all 8A fans and families,

I will start this week’s blog by announcing our Star of the Week.  This week Joseph won the award for showing great maturity throughout the week and dealing well with our problem-solving tasks in baking and keeping a calm head. He has been that mature…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise money for the genetic condition community. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories in Maple class, to circle time discussions and iPad collages in…