Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

It’s been great to see everyone back in Chestnut class and get back into routines this week. As part of our house and homes topic, children have enjoyed 3 Little Pigs Attention Autism and even helped to ‘blow’ the houses down! We’ve been building structures and enjoying different homes in the…

Happy New Year from Willow class!  Our fabulous learners have all returned from their Christmas break energised and ready to engage in their new topic. This term we are looking at Homes and Habitats. We made a start by looking at different types of homes and we talked about the houses built by the…

7P have had a brilliant first week back. They have coped so well as we have had lots of different adults due to illness.

7P have worked on their reading, learnt about how our bodies change as we get older like shoe size, height and losing our teeth. We have also named all of our body parts and…

This week the staff and pupils in 8P have been extremely busy, practising for our part in the Christmas production, finishing work off and doing lots of Christmas activities. 

We have worked hard in our usual lessons, as well as learning how to make a nutritious meal, baked beans on toast,…

Chestnut class have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit!
We’ve have enjoyed Christmas themed Attention Autism, learning key words, sprinkling frost on trees and creating twinkling stars during Stage 3. We loved tracking the exciting Christmas toys during Stage 1 and communicating for…

This week the children have looked at the qualities in a good friend and together built a friendship wall . We then created a beautiful friendship wreath for our classroom door to show we are all different and each have our own qualities. 
In our lesson with Mrs Lane this week we started a new…

What a busy week in sycamore ! 

The children have discussed the events of bonfire and re created their very own firework display using paints and different techniques for their art. They explored splatting , blowing , dripping and finger painting for their display piece. 
Miss Molloy lead a…

We have been learning about many different Celebrations in both Autumn 1 and autumn 2 in 7P. 

We have got into the autumnal and spooky spirit of Halloween especially getting messy with the pumpkins and enjoying our witches kitchen making our own recipes.

Then we went on to learn about…

Another week has flown by in Willow class, please read on to learn about some of the fantastic work we’ve been doing…….

In My Communication, we have started to focus on our handwriting and letter formation, everyone enjoyed getting their fingers warmed up for writing with Play-dough Gym. We…

The pupils and staff in 8P have enjoyed a very busy, but enjoyable week.

We all helped to create a banner to go up in the hall for the Halloween disco.

During our food technology lesson, we followed both written, and verbal instructions, on how to make toast and jam, and the end result was…

Chestnut class learners have had a lovely week exploring bonfire night through Attention Autism sessions, creative tasks and food tech. We have been creating our own fire work pictures, focussing our attention,choosing colours and make making tools. We enjoyed dipping breadsticks into melted…

Maple class had a great start to school! We have celebrated Halloween and Bonfire night, some of us also had our first trip to Space Centre. 

We engaged in Halloween sensory play and engaged with a bonfire night sensology session. We explored bonfire night colours, taste, smells, sounds and…