Blog by Tag: Maple Class

This half term our sensory story has been ‘We’re going on a polar bear hunt’ which has tied in fantastically with a winter and Christmas theme. We’ve explored ice, water, snow and a cave through different sensory means. 

Over the last 2 weeks Maple have been taking part in lot’s of festive…

This week has been a busy week for Maple Class! 

On Monday we all visited our new playground for the first time. We all had our own favourite things to do including the climbing frame, the slide, the swing and the musical instruments! 
 

On Wednesday it was time for a trip on the bus! We…

On Tuesday we celebrated St Andrew’s day in remembrance of Scotland’s patron saint who was known for helping the less fortunate. 

Miss Howarth did an attention autism, from the bucket she pulled out a whoopee cushion which made a noise a bit like a bag pipe when sat on. Next we watched a video…

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

This week we have been learning how to be kind friends in Maple Class for Friendship Week. 

On Monday we all wore odd socks to celebrate that we are all unique.

Tuesday Miss Troughton made a tree out of brown paint, we all then took it in turns to paint our hands and splat them onto the tree…

On this special day, the pupils of Astley Park have been getting very artsy producing some amazing arts and crafts ideas to pay respect on Remembrance Day! The children have all had their creative hats on and have made some fantastic tributes!

Today Maple Class have been doing lots of different activities all about children in need and it’s mascot Pudsey Bear. 
Some of us came dressed in different colours, spotty T-shirt’s and some of our teachers even had Pudsey and blush headbands. 

For our Attention autism this morning in stage…

Today has been all about fireworks and bonfire night! For attention autism Miss Howarth had party poppers and toys that flew into the air like fireworks. In stage 2 Miss Howarth popped balloons filled with paint, it got very messy and Miss Howarth also got it all over her glasses! It was very…

Today in Maple Class we have been celebrating Diwali. 

This morning Miss Howarth did a Diwali themed attention autism. In the bucket were a few light up objects to celebrate the festival of light and an Indian doll. 
For stage 2 Miss Howarth used different coloured rice and made a rangoli…

This week Maple Class have been getting spooky, ready for Halloween. 

All week we have been using a cauldron instead of a bucket in our attention autism. On Tuesday Miss Troughton did a spooky attention autism by cutting out a ghost shape from black card and then sticking cotton wool and 2 eyes…

Congratulations to Class 7P who are the winners of our Halloween Pumpkin competition.  Mr Welsh and Mrs Millard were our judges for today and had a difficult decision due to the fantastic effort classes had made.

Mr Welsh presented 7P class and all the other classes with some lovely halloween…

On Thursday Maple Class celebrated Black History Month. 
In the morning Miss Howarth did an attention autism, Stage one was bucket, Miss Howarth removed different instruments out of the bucket which she shaked, banged and tapped. 
Stage 2 consisted of making an African flag by squirting red,…