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KS5W Have had a week full of great learning and communication and interaction with their peers. We have learned all about plants and what plants need to grow.We have transferred these skills to our new key stage sensory garden and greenhouse. We have practiced beautiful handwriting skills and…

We have been exploring different instruments in our music lessons. We have been learning to sing, sign and play instruments to our song ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’. We have taken turns, shared instruments and made lots of different sounds.

Miss Wilson’s CLL class enjoyed reading ‘The Highway Rat’ sensory story.

This week we have been learning to sort items by colour, shape and size. We’ve also enjoyed exploring Mexico through our sense, dressing up in sombreros, making maracas and creating artwork. Our word of the week this week is “more” and we have all been using this in different ways across the…

We’ve had a fabulous week in KS3S, visiting the immersive room for our sensory story, exploring Thailand, counting, matching colours, communicating using our core word of the week, and working on our gross and fine motor skill development.

On Thursday KS3A LOVED their PE lesson with Mrs McMaster. 

This term the students are learning basic football skills and how to play a football game. 

They started their PE lesson by playing a Pirate Ship game to warm up. The students listened carefully to the instructions and had good fun…

Some students in KS3L have enjoyed their Forest School Intervention with Miss Galbraith.  They have been using their skills to build dens and make drinking chocolate.  Levi, Alfie and Joe really enjoyed the session.

Pupil’s in Miss Wilson’s maths class enjoyed using number lines to add.

Pupil’s practiced a range of mathematical skills to play numicon bingo, recognise and match numbers and addition with number lines. 

KS4 Humanities group have been learning about WW2, this week we looked at sources, students were able to identify primary and secondary sources.

We were lucky to find out about Eric ‘Ossie’ Osborne, who was a paratrooper in Normandy on D Day for the 6th Airborne.

We learnt about Erics…

Students in KS3S have followed Granny to Thailand this week in their Topic lessons. Today they explored Thailand on Google Maps, learnt about Thai animals and made an elephant craft using ripped newspaper. Students learnt to identify different animals from Thailand, and matched the animal to its…

Students in KS3S have been hoovering as part of their ASDAN Raising Aspirations program in Careers, which aims to support their life skills. Students enjoyed locating the plug socket and using it safely, exploring how the hoover worked and then hoovering up the mess the staff left on the…

Key Stage 4W had a fun Thrive session developing our skills in working together. We did great turn taking playing board games, showed problem solving making rope shapes and showed awesome communication and positivity juggling as a team. Lots of laughter was shared!