Blog Author: Louise Rees

We have been enjoying exploring different ways of making prints. We began with leaf prints, then used our fingers and have moved on to using blocks of styrofoam. It has been great for our learners to experience how the colours change when adding different paints. 

We are learning about printing and have used our fingers and thumbs to create leaves

We were very lucky today when the mounted police came to visit us whilst on their duties. The students were delighted and behaved very calmly around the horses. We were very grateful for their visit and have been invited to visit their stables at some point.

We have really enjoyed designing and creating our Christmas cards. We hope you enjoy looking at them too.

We have loved designing and creating our clay Christmas tree decorations. 

We enjoyed designing and rolling and making our Christmas decorations out of clay. 

We did a practical to extract the salt from water. 

We really enjoyed designing and carving our pumpkins. We have been learning about leaves and plants and how they affect our senses. It was lovely to smell and touch the pumpkins. The seeds felt gooey in our hands. It was hard work at times scooping out the middle. 

We enjoyed visiting the local shops to check out if our online research of prices for breakfast items was similar in the shops. We found that most were, but the milkshake powder was more expensive than online.

We really enjoyed taking spooky photographs and making shadow puppets with torches. After that we turned the lights off and put on torches and told spooky stories. 

We had great fun creating a story about a space ship crash and building a ship and alien with Lego. We then dropped the ships from a great height and smashed them while filming in slow motion. 

We loved learning to play some music using the glockenspiels today. We have even learned how to play some of our favourite melodies.