Blog Author: Miss Seddon

Beech class have had a super first week back! 

We have enjoyed welcoming and getting to know our new classmates. They are all settling in wonderfully and have had a lovely time exploring the classroom, sensory room, and playground. We’ve had lots of fun exploring our bear topic for this half…

We’ve reached our final week in Beech class! What a lovely year we’ve all had! To celebrate, we’ve enjoyed spending time together exploring all our favourite activities and playing on the playground.

We’ve have also celebrated three birthdays this month with lots of cake and sweeties. 

Hope…

In Beech class this week we have been learning about zoo animals!

Mrs Barrand began by reading the “Dear Zoo” story and acting out all the animals. In our tuff trays we have made black and white striped zebra slime, pretended to be monkeys using masks, explored a cereal giraffe, and matched…

In honour of sports week, Beech class have had a super active week!

We have enjoyed getting busy with all the activities around school. In the hall, we explored the balance bikes, didicars, space hoppers and parachute. On Thursday, we had so much fun bouncing around on the inflatables outside.…

In preparation for farm fest, Beech class have been exploring farmyard animals this week!

We have made red hens and fuzzy sheep, sang “Old MacDonald”, and matched animals to the sounds they make. 

On Friday we had so much fun at farm fest! We all went on a walk to meet the farm animals on…

This term Beech class have been exploring our theme “journeys”.

We started with Mrs Barrand telling us the story “We’re going on a bear hunt” in attention autism before exploring the obstacles ourselves in trays! We stomped through the wavy grass, stepped carefully through the twigs, squelched…

This week Beech class have been celebrating the King’s Coronation!

In Attention Autism, Mrs Barrand made shaving foam cakes for the King’s guards and we all sang “5 currant buns”. We also used paints to create a Union Jack flag.

We have explored red, white, and blue sensory trays, had tea…

As part of our food topic, Beech Class have enjoyed making bread this week! 

In Attention Autism, Mrs Barrand mixed together ingredients to make the dough. A few of us helped by pouring in the water and stirring it with a wooden spoon. Once the dough had risen, we kneaded the squidgy dough on a…

Beech class have been super busy this week!

Continuing our “Very Hungry Caterpillar topic”, we have practiced our chopping skills to make cucumber and tomato caterpillars and made some caterpillar hats!

For world religion week we have been exploring Christianity. We enjoyed preparing and…

This week Beech class have enjoyed exploring “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”.

In Attention Autism, we have used a balloon to make a picture of the very hungry caterpillar, counted all the fruits he ate, and made a colourful butterfly!

We have practiced our chopping skills cutting lots of…

It’s our final week in Beech class! To celebrate what a super year we’ve had, we have spent the week enjoying all our favourite activities. We have had lots of fun visiting the sensory room & hall, exploring lots of water play & sensory activities in class , and spending time together on the…

Beech class have had another week full of summer fun!

We have enjoyed lots of colourful Attention Autism sessions using paints, glitters, confetti balloons and party poppers. In our sensory food exploration, we have tried some sweet treats and made angel delight. We also had a super time…