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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…

Well another busy week in 8A. We started the week off celebrating Chinese New Year. Mrs Bentham brought some Chinese food in for us all to try and we made some Chinese dragons which are on the display board. 

We have been learning about how our heart works and we used stethoscopes to listen to…

This week on our community walks, whilst practicing our road safety skills, we have been looking for inspiration for the emergency vehicles that we are creating in our workshop sessions. We walked to the police station in two groups, one group on Monday and one group on Tuesday to take some…

Maple Class have had a fantastic week exploring the Islamic Faith through Attention Autism, dress up, creative work, cooking and music. We have tasted traditional foods and made sweets eaten at Eid using our fabulous communication skills to make requests, follow instructions and take turns. We…

As part of our theme, “Emergency! Emergency!”, Nurse Amy, who is our class governor in Willow Class, came to see us today to tell us all about the job of a nurse. Some of Sycamore Class joined us to find out about the job of a nurse too. 

Before Nurse Amy arrived, we thought about questions…

Holiday Heroes have had a fantastic three days as we head towards Christmas. On Tuesday Group 1 accessed The Space Centre where we enjoyed the ball pool, the swing, slide, tunnel and cause and effect toys! On Wednesday group 1 had a visit from The Animal Therapist - Steven Allday who enjoyed…

11G have had a very busy term. We are certainly ready for our Christmas break.

On Monday we made some Christmas cards for our family, some of us made a reindeer card and others made a robin card.

On Tuesday morning we went swimming, we swam for a while and then because it was our last…

On Friday 2nd December and Friday 9th December, we welcomed parents to join us for the morning to share in our Christmas crafts and see how we learn Maple Class.  Firstly we enjoyed Attention Autism Stages 1,2 and 3 where we created a Christmas Tree decorated with coloured confetti then during…

This afternoon Sycamore class enjoyed a Christmas party afternoon with Mrs Crouch. We started the afternoon with an attention autism session where we pulled Christmas crackers and put on our party hats. We then played pass the parcel, musical statues and pin the nose on Rudolph. We enjoyed party…

As part of our “The World About Me” topic of festivals, we are beginning to think about Christmas in Sycamore class. We are learning that Christmas is about giving as well as receiving gifts. Today we experienced receiving a present during our Christmas present attention autism session. We wished…

On Monday we all made a friend a friendship band, some of us chose friends in class whilst others chose friends in different class and even a member of staff was given a band.

We decided it was nice when someone does something kind for someone else.

On Tuesday we added to our self portraits…

This week classes have been invited to join in Remembrance Day traditions throughout school.

Each teacher has planned meaningful and engaging activities surrounding the theme of ‘War’ and ‘Remembrance’.

Learners have been exposed to different learning focuses and learning new facts through a…