Blog Author: Louise Rees

Students from KS5 enjoyed a taster session of canoeing. It was great fun. Skills developed included personal safety, paddling handling and teamwork.

Students loved exploring different objects from around the world. These included a Ghanaian wedding top, a Bulgarian frog croaker and a Russian doll. 

Students looked at Google Earth to find out where each country was and learned about the purpose and uses for the…

Students from KS5W opened up a cafe to welcome our new parents into our school.

Students loved going shopping this week for breakfast items for their cafe.

Students from KS5 loved canoeing this week despite the poor weather. They learned canoeing skills and teamwork.

KS5W learned how to use a CD player to play one of their favourite artists Keane.

They were shown how to open and close the player and insert the disc carefully and then took turns to do it.

They also learned how to skip tracks and had a chat with the group about why they liked the…

KS5W just love their Friday music therapy sessions. Such a lovely way to finish the week.

KS5C enjoyed using coins today to buy different breakfast items. They practiced calculating change from £1.00 and thought of different coins they could use to make the price of their shopping. 

KS5 had a very productive day and experienced several different activities including creating their own hand puppet monster, social communication through games and some time relaxing in the immersive room. A lovely day all round.

Students have been loving engaging with their CLL topic - their secret treehouse.

Today they talked about how they feel inside their treehouse.

KS5W revised ordering numbers to 20 and added 2 numbers together using counters. They then used an online game to consolidate knowledge.

KS5W went shopping for provisions to make breakfast baps tomorrow to sell to staff. Students used a list to help them remember what to buy. They worked as part of a team to find the items and put them in the trolley.