Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

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Today the Chestnut pupils and staff immersed themselves in activities to celebrate Holi. Holi also known as the Festival of Colours, Festival of Spring, and Festival of Love, is one of the most popular and significant festivals in Hinduism.

The pupils were provided with a…

Today Willow Class listened to the story “Hidden Figures” to celebrate International Day of Girls and Women in Science. We had a fantastic discussion about equality and some of us decided we would love to be astronauts! We all agreed that the Hidden Figures did a super job at ensuring planes 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…

It’s been another fantastic week in Chestnut class.  This week we have looked at postmen and women. This gave the pupils the opportunities practice mark making and stamping and posting skills when in the continuous provision, along participating in our adapted sensory story of The Jolly Postman. 
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9A enjoyed having our Xmas Dinner on Thursday this week! A couple of the pupils wanted to have packed lunch instead but the rest of the children absolutely loved their Christmas dinner. 

Amelia even tried some of the Xmas Dinner! 
 

Merry Christmas everybody! 
 

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What a wonderful Children in Need day we have had around school. There has been a great variety of activities going on around school including sensory, fine motor, learning about why we celebrate the day and dressing up in our favourite Pudsey attire! 

Thank you to everyone who has donated. We…

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Let’s start with star of the week. This week’s winner has been fabulous all week and shown how much she is progressing. We are really proud to give this week’s award to – Teegan!

Teegan has been amazing all week, being a true model of all our school values. Teegan has…

Good afternoon all 8A fans and families,

I will start this week’s blog by announcing our Star of the Week.  This week Joseph won the award for showing great maturity throughout the week and dealing well with our problem-solving tasks in baking and keeping a calm head. He has been that mature…

Good afternoon 8A fans and families!

Wow what another busy week we have had.  Lets start by celebrating our Star of the Week - Olivia!
Olivia showed great teamwork skills across the week and real leadership skills in our life skills lesson today.  Olivia showed she could delegate tasks…

For our end of year treat Willow class went on Safari on Thursday! 
We enjoyed the Safari drive to spot the animals and use our maps to predict what was coming next, Looking at where the animals would live in the wild.

Next we enjoyed watching the sea lion show. Willow class loved when the sea…

Willow class are very good at ordering food for snack time and paying using our snack money so we have been putting these skills to the test out in the community!

Last week willow class went to Asda cafe to practice asking for what they’d like, listening to the total needed and finding the…

This week 10R have been learning all about diversity and inclusivity.

We have learnt about how Families come in all different sizes and shapes and how this is wonderful. 
10R showed a fantastic knowledge of how to be inclusive and what diversity means. 
We are all proud to be us and how each…