Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

Dear 9G, 

The last two weeks have been a little bit strange with all of you working hard from home. I hope you are all doing well and making super choices! I have enjoyed speaking to your families about what you have been getting up to and particularly enjoyed receiving pictures of you all…

Here we are again at the end of another week, this time week 9! It will soon be Summer term, how scary is that!

On Wednesday we kicked off Mrs Fisher's week with a My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. We began the lesson with a quick brain break, a favourite of 8G, Body Bop. Lots of us love…

Welcome back from what I hope was a lovely half term break!

We’ve hit the ground running this week in 8G, lots of fantastic work has been happening.

On Wednesday morning we took part in our second My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson of the week. This started with a quick game of Numicon…

9G have been very busy today for Safer Internet Day. Our super digital leader gave us some fun tasks to complete today. First we read an adaption of Goldilocks and how she used social media, highlighting how to stay safe online. We then watched a clip that told us how using a digital avatar can…

9G have been very busy today and made our own pizzas which we enjoyed eating at snack time. We had to work in our pairs and follow the instructions to make them. First we had to spread passata over our pizza base. Then we worked together sprinkling cheese on our pizzas and chopping peppers to put…

9G had a lovely end of half term treat at ‘The Astley’ today. They did some fantastic colouring and word search's whilst we all waited for our food. We then had our delicious meals. We got to choose from mash or chips and had either pizza, sausages or chicken nuggets with vegetables and had juice.…

Yesterday was our first history day of the year and we got to learn all about the Victorians.

Oak class got busy finding out that; 

• A lot of victorian people were poor.
• Children would work in the factories.
• Some Victorian people were very clever and invented things that we still…

This week we have been learning about mental health. We have been very busy. We did some yoga to help us remember that exercise helps keep us healthy. We baked biscuits and made faces with different emotions on using sweet treats! We went in the sensory room to help us to relax and learn ways that…

This week our sensory diet group have been using some exciting new equipment. We have some trampets to bounce on, climbing equipment to use to match pictures. The ropes to pull and hold yourself up with, basket ball to try to shoot a hoop and some new sensory walkways to climb and jump from. After…

9G enjoyed a trip to McDonalds yesterday. We walked safely and talked about crossing safely and not talking to strangers. When we arrived We had a choice of chips or McFlurry and a drink. Everyone ordered their own choice, paid for it and collected their order showing some amazing independence and…

9G were all very busy last week learning all about the religion ‘Islam’. We learnt all about the Islam Creation Story, got to look at pictures of different areas of a mosque, made prayer mats, made mosaics, practised yoga and made chicken curry. We also got to take turns using a prayer mat to pray…