Blog by Tag: KS3

Students in KS3S have enjoyed exploring Peru through lots of different sensory experiences and crafts. We also met a real life llama at the farm! Students have also explored capacity, made Christmas salt dough decoration and enjoyed our sensory story in the immersive room. Another lovely…

Students from KS3 have been learning about direction. Students have used B-Bots to program directions in and predict their landing positions on the map. Students had so much fun learning their left and right and learnt a way to tell their left from their right using their hands. 

Students in Mrs Seery’s CLL class enjoyed a trip to Apple Cast Farm. They looked at a range of animals, fed the animals, played in the park and visited the cafe. All students demonstrated fantastic speaking and listening skills and were a credit to the school.

In 3S this week we’ve been learning all about things that are “big” by identifying “big” and “small” items, making “big” towers, blowing “big” bubbles, and much more! We’ve also enjoyed continuing to work on our mark making skills, playing outside in the snow, engaging in our termly sensory story…

The KS3S Maths group enjoyed spending their break time enjoying the left over snow! Students made “big” and “small” snowballs and enjoyed walking on the snow and listening to the crunch! All students were able to identify that they needed to wear their coats and hats to go outside, and some…

Students from KS3C and KS3W enjoyed a visit from Jam the dinosaur. Our students learnt facts about dinosaurs like what they eat, how they move and what noises they made. Some students got up and fed Jam and even played tricks on him. It was a brilliant day for all students and staff.

KS3S enjoyed taking part in STEM day where they met Jam the T-Rex! Students enjoyed feeding the dinosaur, stroking him, kissing him, chasing him and getting tickles off him! 
 

Students from KS3C have been busy getting ready for our Christmas market. They have been designing and painting items ready to sell. 
 

Students from KS3C have been learning about samba music and have made their own musical instruments from recycled materials. They each designed their own labels for their shakers before adding rice.

Two students in KS3S demonstrated one of our four school values of “Friendship” this week by playing chase together in the outdoor gym area. Both students have been working on their communication and interaction skills over the last 9 weeks and are now able to demonstrate the transfer of these…

Students from KS3 had a lovely maths lessons using shape in different ways. Each student had the opportunity to make robots, construct shapes using lolly sticks and play dough and making sandwiches before using shape cutters to cut out their shapes before writing and evaluation. 
 

Students have been learning about different shapes. They have been learning their names, how many sides they have and vertices. They were able to complete worksheets to demonstrate their knowledge of the shapes.