18 Jan

Chill & Chat Tuesday 26th January

On Tuesday 26th January we will be holding our first virtual ‘Chill & Chat’ session with parents and carers. The first session will be focused on supporting learning and well-being at home during these challenging times. The aim of the session is to provide an informal forum for parents to have a…

15 Jan

Oak Class go to space!

This week Oak class have been very busy learning with their teachers in school and their mums and dads at home. Although we are not all in school, we have been able to see some of our friends on two Teams calls. On Monday's call Miss Curry read a very exciting story about Yoff, Zid and Mab (three…

8 Jan

A big welcome to Miss Armstrong and Mrs Baxendale

As we say goodbye from Oak to Mrs Simpson and Miss Branfield we are also saying a big welcome to Mrs Baxendale and Miss Armstrong. 

Miss Armstrong has previously worked at Astley Park but has been on maternity leave for the past year, she has welcomed a little girl called Jessa and is now…

9 Dec

Oak Class: A Sneak Peek

This week Oak class have been working extremely hard to put our clip together for the schools Christmas Performance ‘Coronativity’. We’re very excited for our parents to see what we have done.

 

27 Nov

Oak look at Hansel and Gretel

This week Oak Class have moved away from Little Mermaid and have moved to looking at Hansel and Gretel. This week:

  • In My Communication we have explored a new sensory story, exploring the props to help our understanding. We have practiced our reading and writing skills through colourful…
14 Nov

Another FINtastic Week for Oak!

What another lovely week we have had in Oak Class looking at The little Mermaid. We have been very lucky that this week we have had two birthdays, Ellie and Noah’s. We’d all like to thank parents for the donations of sweets and cake which we all loved. 

  • In our My Creativity lessons we…
6 Nov

Shell-abrate good times! Oak Class Explore the Little Mermaid!

This week in Oak Class we have started our new story, The Little Mermaid.
 

  • First we explored a sensory story which Miss Curry delivered, looking at the objects under the sea, discussing the emotions in the story and predicting what would happen next. 
  • In My Communication we have been…
23 Oct

Spooktastic Fun in Oak Class!

This week Oak have been having lots of spooky fun for Halloween week. 
Miss Curry read the five little pumpkins as a sensory story this week and we’ve done lot’s of nice activities.
* We made pumpkin plate faces and painted apples to make pumpkins on card.
* Made Witch faces by cutting out…

22 Oct

Run run as fast as you can Oak Class are learning about the Gingerbread man!

Last week Oak Class were doing lots of activities all about the Gingerbread man. 
We did an attention autism and listened to Miss Curry read the story. 
We counted the buttons on our gingerbread men, and then put our own smarties buttons on.
We even got to eat our Gingerbread man! 
 

5 Oct

Our Amazing Macmillan Coffee Morning

Thank-you to everyone who joined in with our virtual Macmillan Coffee Morning, it was a great success and everyone had a fantastic time. All classes took park and completed some brilliant activities within class, including holding a Teams meeting with parents and carers so they could join in from…

25 Sep

A Busy Week in Oak Class!

What a busy week we have had in Oak Class this week!

  • We have explored different nursery rhymes with sensory props. We all enjoyed the currant bun splat because for our stage four activity we got to decorate our own currant buns.
  • We have read a story and some of the children who have been…
14 Sep

Oak - Bubble A and B Get Messy!

This week in Oak class we have enjoyed getting very messy through different sensory activities. The first activity we enjoyed involved making five currant buns out of foam, placing cherries on the top and then taking it in turns to splat them.

Our second activity involved us putting on a…