25 May

Miss Brown ‘21 today’

Today in Rowan class we got to celebrate a very special birthday,

our very own Miss Brown has turned 21.

We had a little celebration in class with McDonald’s and a cake that we made yesterday! 
 

Happy Birthday Miss Brown! 
 

17 May

Happy Wesak!

On Monday, all pupils celebrated Wesak (Buddha Day). The Buddhist festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Pupils explored the story of Buddha in ways appropriate to their pathway and worked hard creating mandalas which were entered into the APS Mandala Contest, the…

16 May

Willow, sycamore and Rowan class share golden time with new friends!

This Friday was very exciting for the older primary children- we had a joint golden time in the hall!
Children from Willow, Sycamore and Rowan have been thinking about the transition to high school (or our friends transitions while we get some new friends in class) so we were all very excited to…

13 May

Rowan class ‘ Go Green ‘ For Mental health awareness week


Today we explored Mental health awareness & looked at loneliness and how we could help our friends when they felt sad. We had a lovely day creating green biscuits, cards &  friendship bracelets that we gave to our friends.
We looked at the story “Larry’s left out” & talked about how we could…

11 May

Astley Park Life

For our travel training this week a small group of children got to go to Astley Park & put their skills they had learnt into practice. The learners remembered to Stop, Look, Listen & think to cross the road. We got to play on the slide, ride on the zip wire & play in the sand, We safely walked…

6 May

Rowan Class celebrate Eid

Rowan Class have enjoyed celebrating Eid this week, and exploring the Muslim religion.

We read stories about Eid, and discussed other religions and their special days/celebrations.

We decorated some traditional lanterns, and designed some lovely Mehndi patterns. In cooking we made some…

28 Apr

Thursday is the new Friday

Rowan class had fun on Thursday, we had our Golden time  as we were off school on Friday.

We built some  sentences in the morning using colourful semantics of our Mermaid story.

In the afternoon we played games with our friends, enjoyed reading books with Mrs Matthew & built a big jigsaw of…

27 Apr

Rowan Class - Summer 1 Week 2

This week Rowan Class have enjoyed lots of different activities for Me and My Body. Sorting and making healthy foods, Bike-ability, swimming, climbing and walking. Our independence skills have amazed our teachers, especially dressing and undressing without help. 

We continue to enjoy our very…

1 Apr

Happy Easter Rowan Class!

Rowan Class have enjoyed a lovely last week of the Spring term, exploring Easter.

We have made Easter nest cakes, Easter cards and Easter baskets (which had a chocolate egg in this morning!). We have planted cress heads and enjoyed an Easter sensory story. We then created some amazing sentences…

25 Mar

Rowan Class enjoying the sunshine!

Rowan Class enjoyed the sunshine this week, with lots of team games outside. We did very well at taking turns and cheering on our friends. We continued with our topic of Into the Woods by looking at the story, Superworm. We had a Superworm challenge, making different size worms with play dough. We…

18 Mar

Rowan Class - Spring 2 Week 4

Rowan Class have had a super busy week! Spring colour hunt, swimming, making fruit salads, bikes and scooters, reading, number work, writing, raising money for Red Nose Day and being all round superheroes!!

Have a great weekend everyone and enjoy the Spring sunshine.

Mrs Down and the Rowan…

8 Mar

Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?

To celebrate International Women's Day, Rowan Class had fun exploring the story, "Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?" by Carmela LaVigna Coyle.