30 Sep

8A become comic book creators!

Good afternoon all 8A fans and families,

I will start this week’s blog by announcing our Star of the Week.  This week Joseph won the award for showing great maturity throughout the week and dealing well with our problem-solving tasks in baking and keeping a calm head. He has been that mature…

23 Sep

8A Perfect the Recipe!

Good afternoon 8A fans and families!

Wow what another busy week we have had.  Lets start by celebrating our Star of the Week - Olivia!
Olivia showed great teamwork skills across the week and real leadership skills in our life skills lesson today.  Olivia showed she could delegate tasks…

15 Sep

8A are back in action!

Good Afternoon, 

I’d like to start by announcing this years Student Counsellors. We had a close run election but the majority voted Teegan our Student Counsellor and Olivia our Deputy. All our pupils treated the voting process with high level of respect! 

I have to say 8A have hit the…

22 Jul

8A's Final Hurrah at The Astley

8A had a fabulous time at The Astley on Wednesday. 

We all ate and drank to our heart's content and is was really nice to venture out of school for our end of term treat.

We have all had such a fantastic year together. We hope you all have a brilliant summer!

Mrs Fisher, Mrs Crouch, Mrs…

19 Jul

8A Sharing Our Learning- Cooking Session

On Monday morning, we were very kindly joined by Teddy, Annie, Amelia and Daniel's Mum with our Adventurers group for a cooking session as part of our Sharing Our Learning.

Parents got to experience how we all take part in a cooking session and followed along with the pupils as we made our way…

15 Jul

8A Sharing Our Learning- Art session

On Tuesday, Meg's Mum and Josh's Mum very kindly joined our Voyagers group for an art session as part of our Sharing Our Learning.

We recapped the famous artists that we have been learning about in our Art lessons and looked at some of the art work that we had produced in previous weeks. JJ had…

1 Jul

A Sporty Summer Term for 8A

8A have had a fabulous summer developing their physical skills during our Me and My Body lessons on Thursday afternoons. 

During Summer 1, our adventures practiced their circus skills, linked to their The Circus is in Town theme, which involved a lot of hand-eye coordination, balance and target…

1 Jul

Park Fridays in 8A

On Fridays this half term, we have been practicing our road safety skills by walking to the park during Golden Time. This is part of our Travel Training work, which links to our My Community work and also allows us to work on our social skills and independence skills which link to our PLGs. Well…

1 Jul

8A Story Time!

During My Communication lessons this half term, the Adventurers in 8A have been writing a sensory story linked to our Circus theme through group writing. We sat together to talk about what happens at the circus and what we can include in our own story to perform to 9G. We first sat and spoke about…

17 Jun

A fabulous Rainbow Week in 8A

8A have been joining in with the celebrations around school for Rainbow Week this week.

At the beginning of the week some of our Adventurer learners took part in an Attention Autism session with Mrs Fisher and Miss Berry. We practiced naming the colours and watched Mrs Fisher perform some magic…

27 May

8A have fun at the funfair!

8A have had a wonderful day at the Astley Park Funfair to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and the end of a wonderful half term. 


11 May

8A Mental Health

8A worked hard on Wednesday our focus was Mental Health Week and Loneliness. During circle time we looked at a PowerPoint and talked about  how it would feel to be lonely. Everyone in class had some really good ideas and were able to talk about how to be a good friend if they thought a friend was…