Blog by Tag: The World About Me

In the first week back after October half term, we learnt about Diwali; a religious festival that is celebrated by Hindu people across the world. We taught the children that Diwali means 'festival of lights' and that houses, shops and public places are decorated with lights. We learnt about why…

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

On Monday morning this week 7A had our Sharing our Learning session.

Parents were invited in to see everything they had been learning about Diwali.

Mrs Chaloner showed the photos from last week and the learners told them what was happening and the different things they had learnt. 7A and…

What a busy week beech class have had this week!

To begin the week, we celebrated bonfire night. Throughout our continuous provision, we explored a variety of sensory materials, made marks in flour and enjoyed making our own firework rockets! During attention autism, we watched Mrs Barrand…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

Whilst writing his invitations for the MacMillan Coffee Morning Teddy asked if he could send one to The King, Mrs Banks thought this was a great idea and so Teddy began to design an invitation specifically for The King. Teddy even wrote his own envelope addressed to The King, Buckingham…

Oak class have had a fantastic two weeks since returning to school after the holidays! They’ve worked so well learning our daily class routines and new faces!

Some highlights over the past two weeks include:

• Swimming lessons
• Walking to Asda, shopping for food technology ingredients…

This week we started our new maths topic, position and direction. We have been looking at the directions of turns, starting with left and right, moving onto clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some of us have also been looking at the position of coordinates and labelling what they have seen. In English,…

Yesterday afternoon 7A hosted their summer term Sharing our Learning. Parents were invited into class to join us for a ‘Potions Class’ lesson. In ‘Potions Class’ we have been exploring the properties of materials and grouping them by category and features.

This afternoon, our lesson was…

These weeks are just flying by - and the warm weather is definitely helping!

This week we have introduced a new regulation slot into out timetable. This involves getting outside and using battle ropes to get us energised in a morning. The learners have enjoyed spending this time outside. In…

This week started with us introducing 'Snack Shop', where our learners were given spending money for the week that they will use to 'buy' their snacks this week. We have been VERY generous with the pricing, with a whole piece of toast only costing 5p and a packet of crisp costing 10p. This will…