28 Mar

Beech class celebrate Easter

This week in Beech class we have been exploring lots of Easter activities!

We’ve matched coloured eggs together, painted Easter chicks, and decorated Easter eggs! 

Mrs Barrand demonstrated in Attention Autism how to make cornflake nest cakes. We then had a go ourselves and added mini eggs to…

22 Mar

Changes and growth in Beech class

This week in Beech class, we have enjoyed exploring our “changes and growth” topic. 

First, we focused on baby animals and matching them to their mummies.

On Tuesday, we played with the baby dolls. We gave them a bath, dressed them, and rocked them to sleep.

Next, we explored faces. We…

8 Mar

Jack and the Beanstalk in Beech

This week, Beech class have been exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!

Throughout the week, Mrs Barrand has led us through a sensory story in our Attention Autism sessions. We’ve used wellies to make footprints up the beanstalk and dropped beans onto drums.

We’ve also enjoyed…

1 Mar

Beech class visit Ashurst Beacon

Beech class enjoyed a lovely trip to Ashurst Beacon country park on Thursday.

We walked along the woodland trail, splashed through a small stream, and even found a Gruffalo statue! We then stopped to enjoy our picnic lunch before playing on the play park. We had so much fun!

Throughout the…

23 Feb

Very Hungry Caterpillars in Beech Class

This week Beech Class have been exploring ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 

In attention autism we listened to the story, counted all the fruits that he ate and used a balloon to make our very own caterpillar!

We practised our chopping skills, cutting up different types of fruit and enjoyed…

7 Feb

Towns in Beech class

For the final week of our “colour my world” topic, Beech class have been exploring towns.

We’ve created our own houses using recycled materials (cardboard boxes and paper bags), played with toys cars and trains, made “traffic light toast”, and explored lots of town scenes in our trays. In our…

2 Feb

The seaside in Beech class

This week, Beech class have continued exploring the seaside.

In our tuff trays, we’ve had lots of fun exploring bubbles, spaghetti, sand, and sea animals.

We’ve also shaped Playdoh into sea animals, used bingo dabber to colour in turtles, and splatted shaving foam ice creams. 

In…

26 Jan

Beech class explore all things Beach!

This week in Beech class we have been exploring the seaside!

We’ve had lots of fun exploring sand trays, playing with sea animals and boats, and decorating sandy shells.

On Tuesday we got on the minibus and drove to Formby Beach. Unfortunately, the Beach was closed due to high winds, but we…

19 Jan

Beech class explore nature

This week in Beech class we have explored nature in a variety of environments in the world around us. 

On Monday, we explored “farmyards”- we played with lots of farmyard animals and made an angel delight mud bath for the pigs!

On Tuesday, we explored the snow and icy weather with a lovely…

12 Jan

Exploring winter in Beech

Beech class has had a lovely first week back!

As part of our “colour my world” topic, this week we have been exploring winter.

In our adult led activity sessions, we’ve made paper penguins, water bottle snowmen, and potato masher snowmen. On Wednesday we made our own snowstorm using a…

21 Dec

Beech class meet Santa!

Beech class have had a very exciting final week of term.

At the start of the week, we dressed up in Christmas costumes and finished our Christmas crafts. We made beautiful salt dough Christmas tree decorations and mixed together our own reindeer food.

On Thursday, we had our breakfast with…

15 Dec

Christmas dinner and festive fun in Beech

We’ve had another wonderful Christmassy week in Beech class!

We’ve decorated baubles, explored shaving foam trays, printed christmas trees, and made hand prints for our reindeer Christmas cards. We also made reindeer headbands and posed for selfies in them!

On Wednesday we had our Christmas…