Welcome to A4's class blog. Here you will see regular updates from our class giving you an insight into the work we get up to.
11/04/25
We have had a lovely half term in A4.
In English we worked on The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, identifying the main characters and setting as well as discussing rhyming words.
In Maths, we worked on money, matching coins and notes as well as adding up coins in a purse.
In Understanding The World we focussed on Hinduism, thinking about where the religion originated, making our own mandalas, rangoli and diya lamps.
It was our half term to go swimming and all of A4 enjoyed their time in the pool.
We also enjoyed accessing the new soft play, sensory room, movement room and iMuse.
In food tech we have been making foods in relation to Hinduism, we have made various curries, mango lassi, and Indian inspired sweets.
In Community Skills we have been visiting both Oakwood and Glynnfellis Premier Shop to purchase our treats, working hard on Money and Social skills.
We have enjoyed our Art and Sensory lessons with Miss Angus, colouring our own Madala pictures and temples.
Students are making excellent progress in their Phonics lessons.
We have enjoyed our music lessons with Chad.
Students have enjoyed sensory play.
Have a lovely Easter Break everyone!
04/04/25
In English we read some more of The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me. We found out that the animals had set up a window cleaning company. We practised window cleaning in our independent living skills lesson and looked at rhyming words because the monkey likes to sing in rhymes.
In Maths we continued working on identifying the values of coins and adding up a set amount of coins in our purses.
In Understanding the World we read the story of the creation of the god Ganesh and then used coloured rice to create rangoli patterns.
In Food Technology we made our own Indian peda sweets, made with double cream, powdered milk and sugar. Everyone enjoyed rolling them into a ball and then using the end of a spoon to imprint a star onto the top. They were a big hit with everyone in the class.
In creativity we painted indian patterns.
We enjoyed Fitness Friday, stretching, jumping and dancing to a range of routines.
We have also enjoyed swimming, music therapy with Chad, rebound, regulating in the sensory room and soft play as well as being out in the sunshine and on Community Skills.
Well done A4.
This week's certificate goes to TO for his excellent participation in Fitness Friday.
28/03/25
A4 have had a lovely week.
In English we continued reading The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We found out that they are window cleaners and they sing in rhymes. We looked at rhyming words and created our own rhymes about different animals.
In Maths we continued to match coins and values and calculating amounts in coins.
In Understanding The World, we learnt about the story of Rama and Sita, Hindu gods, and made our own salt-dough diya lamps. We also looked at the life cycle of a flowering plant before planting our own sunflower seeds.
All students took part in lego club. One of our students experienced a sound bath which aims to aid regulation and sleep. We also accessed the sensory rooms, Rebound therapy, music therapy and the movement room. We also ventured out into the community as well as went swimming.
Certificate of the week goes to AC for his participation in the sound bath and accessing regulation activities.
Well done A4.
21/03/25
A4 have had a lovely week.
In English we started reading The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We looked at the front cover and then predicted where the story may take place after reading the blurb. Students then thought about the characters and setting and used verbs and adjectives to describe them.
In Maths we started working on money, matching coins and values and then thinking about finding the equivalents using different coins.
In PSHE we talked about what makes a good friend and how we should treat other people like we wish to be treated.
In Creativity we created our own mandalas by painting by numbers.
We also accessed the sensory rooms, Rebound therapy, music therapy and the movement room. Some students took part in lego club. One of our students experienced a sound bath which aims to aid regulation and sleep.
Certificate of the week goes to JW for his excellent prediction work about The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.
Well done A4.
14/03/25
A4 have had a busy week.
In English we learnt about Roald Dahl, the author of our new class books The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me. Students read about Dahl’s life and completed questions and colorful semantics.
In Math's we made number using numicon, finding the numicon in various trays of sensory items including, flour, rice, pasta, shaving foam and chia seed slime. We then read out the numbers then added 10. Well Done to Dexter A who made large amounts and was able to add 10 and identify the number he had made.
In Community skills this week we went for a walk to Oakwood shop to purchase our treats.
Well Done to all students who participated in their swimming lessons this week managing 4 lengths each of each exercise instruction given by their instructor.
We participated in minion cosmic yoga, practicing our bridge pose, triangle pose and other various stretches.
We have made our own Madala design following on from our PowerPoint about Hinduism. These will proudly be displayed outside of A4 classroom.
We enjoyed our rebound session with Mr Pallas.
One of our students participated in a sound bath, this involves relaxing music therapy to aid sleeping, relaxation and regulation.
Students have worked very hard in their phonics lessons. Well done to ER for excellent work.
In food technology this week we have made a vegetable curry and rice, working on our chopping and measuring skills.
The new sensory room is now up and running, students enjoyed their sessions in this week.
With Miss Angus this week we have enjoyed our art and sensory lesson.
Class Certificate this week goes to ER for an amazing week in school, completing lots of work, remaining regulated and joining in lessons with the full group in class.
07/03/25
A4 class have had a busy and fun return to school after the holidays.
It was World Book Day on Thursday. We celebrated by looking at different characters in books, identifying them by their physical characteristics. We then chose a character to create on our potatoes. We had Thomas the Tank Engine, Mr Messy, Spiderman, Mike Lebowski from Monsters Inc. Everyone showed their creative side!
In Maths, through sensory play, we started creating and reading numbers past thousand. Everyone tried so hard and students should be so proud of themselves.
We also accessed the brand new sensory room, iMuse and soft play. Students thoroughly enjoyed exploring the new equipment and have asked to go back many times through the week!
We went to Glynfellis for Community Skills and the students did really well on the long walk back up the hill to school. It was fun being able to explore a different shop and buying from a new shop assistant.
We also went to Washington Leisure Centre for swimming, had fun during Fitness Friday, worked hard on our phonics and engaged in sensory play.
Well done A4 – another brilliant week!
31/01/25
There’s been lots going on in A4 class this week.
In English we continued reading our story The Barnabus Project and we thought about how the main characters were feeling during different scenes in the story. In Maths we did a 3D shape hunt before building different shapes with ice lolly sticks and playdoh and identifying how many faces, edges and vertices each shape has.
In Understanding the World, students celebrated Lunar New Year by trying a range of Chinese food and drinks, such as spring rolls, hoisin sauce, pocky sticks and aloe vera juice and discussing our preferences. Students also made noodles in our cooking lesson and snakes from paper plates to celebrate the year of the snake.
We discussed road safety and then put it into practice when going on our Community Skills visit.
Students have also accessed the sensory rooms, movement room and rebound therapy as well as music therapy.
Well done A4, another great week
Class certificate goes to J W for his contribution to our phonics session.
