Blog by Tag: Independent travel

Last Monday, Willlow class went on a trip to the Mosque. We enjoyed looking in the Mosque, listening to a call to prayer and learning about why Muslims go to Mosque. We learned some new words and looked at Arabic letters. We also learned lots of things about Muslim families as we have been…

Rowan Class have started this half term enjoying trips to Asda.

We have worked hard on our travel training, independence, and problem solving throughout the trips. Walking safely and sensibly, looking for shopping items and paying for them.

We have had lots of fun and represented ourselves,…

In the final week before half term, Oak Class focused on mental health and wellbeing. We explored feelings through song, drama and attention autism. Some pupils were able to correctly label their own emotions and the emotions of others! Our sensory story was ‘The Colour Monster’ we created a…

This was our first trip out on pupil transport in year eleven. 
We walked to the local bus stopped.  Once the bus had stopped . Each one of us used our NOW card  and ask the bus driver for a bus ticket to  Leyland Tesco, quite challenging for some of us, but we all did…

11G celebrated Chinese New Year, the year of the rabbit, on Monday. We  looked at the year we were born to find out which animal was the zodiac symbol for that year. We learnt how to write our names in Chinese. Each pupil drew a picture of their zodiac symbol. Four of the learners went to the food…

Wow! 
Another busy week in Oak Class, our Emergency Emergency! topic focused on the Police. We have enjoyed ‘Officer George’ the sensory story and have acted out simple rescue scenarios as part of attention autism. We have created fingerprints using paint and made tracks with various sized police…

Last week, during our first week back, we started accessing the community again. This included a trip to the library to source books about healthy lifestyles. The pupils found a lot of books about healthy eating and enjoyed looking at them/reading them whilst at the library.

The pupils…

What another fantastic week in Oak Class! This week, we have been studying France.

On Monday, Miss Beck delivered an explosive attention autism session! The boys all engaged well as glitter (red blue and white) and flour balloons were popped. We then explored bigs and small bubbles in class and…

This week has been a challenge for all pupils in class.

We have really raised the stakes for our independence. Pupils took part in a functional ICT lesson on Monday, editing a letter which had several errors, following instructions. We then learned about what an envelope should be…

They may not have made it to the World Cup this year but Italy have certainly made it in Oak Class!

The Italian adventure began last week, pupils enjoyed decorating their own pizzas using core boards to make choices, before eating them of course! Pupils have decorated the Italian flag selecting…

Wow! What another busy week in 11G. We have been continuing with our Duke of Edinburgh work this week. For the physical element we have been visiting the gym weekly. The learners never fail to amaze us with their perseverance and have shown huge improvements each week. The volunteering element has…

What a task some of the pupils in 11G had this week- as part of our ASDAN accreditation- we had to undertake a journey independently (being shadowed by a member of staff.)

The journey that we decided was from school to our local Police Station, crossing several roads, keeping ourselves safe…