Blog by Tag: Maths and Problem Solving

This week we have been very busy in 7A.

On Monday we worked very hard on our number skills and also made some lovely Mothers Day cards, we hope you like them as much as we enjoyed making them! 

In Mrs Wells lesson on Wednesday we talked about our picture frames and what they would look like,…

Well after our half term break 8A got straight back into our community visits and swimming lessons. This half term on a Monday and Tuesday we have cancelled our lunches and we are going for lunch to Seven Seas Fish and Chip shop in our community groups. Both groups really enjoyed their lunches and…

Well this week our class as always had fun. Out and about on our usual community visits. We now have a table reservation when we visit the Cappuccino@the hub, and the pupils are gaining confidence with their independence. We have problem solved situations ourselves and asked for straws…

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…

We’ve had a brilliant week in 9A! 

In our My Communication lessons this week, 9A learnt about verbs. Verbs are doing words, for example, running. One group practised identifying verbs used in the text - “Meg and Mog”, and the other group practised writing sentences using verbs, linked to…

We have had such a lovely half term in Sycamore Class this half term.
The children have shown some amazing listening skills during their swimming lessons and amazed the staff with their efforts and positive ‘can do’ attitude.
We have been very lucky for Asda to come into school and promote…

This week 7A visited the café in Chorley town centre to practice our independence.

We walked from school into town showing our road safety skills, looking both ways when crossing roads and using pelican crossings when available.

When we arrived at the café we all sat down and perused the…

7A went to Legoland in Manchester this week. We have been looking forward to it allllllll week and it didn’t disappoint!

When we arrived we had to queue up, while queuing up we saw some of what was to come, Hagrid, Darth Vader and tubes full of Lego. 
7A then got into the lift, which was very…

This week in 7a we have enjoyed orienteering in PE. The children have shown great listening and communication skills in this terms PE with a difference. They have been working in groups independently to explore the grounds of school to find multiple musical instruments hidden around the forest and…

This week 7 a have shown positivity and willing whilst working through some multiplication this week . They have explored building and analysing the array method. 
All the children have impressed all the staff with their determination to understand and complete their work. 
This week we have…

Today in Maths we looked at 2D shapes in Halloween pictures and then went on to look at 3D nets. We made a pumpkin cube.

Great work team!

11G have become entrepreneurs this week.

After a long debate ……we came to a very important decision. How we can help raise money to go towards our prom.

Its a while off yet , but we need to get going.

Halloween seemed like a good place to start . We talked about what we bought needed to…