The staff and children have all worked so hard this half term, so no doubt everyone will be ready for a week’s holiday to rest, recuperate and spend quality time with family.

We hope you enjoy the photographs of some of the things the children have been experiencing this week.

Happy holidays – Coralie and team.

Rebound therapy -look at me!!

Enjoying music therapy!

Bubble wrap wrestling!

Getting messy for Valentine’s day!

Me too!

Each day in class we are building upon our children’s sensory experiences in order to help them progress, develop and make sense of things around them.

Sensory awareness of touch, taste, smell, looking, listening and movement is incorporated into many fun activities in class.  Throughout the week the children learn as a whole group, split into smaller groups or work 1:1 with an adult in order to focus on what is important to them.

We hope you enjoy our sensory fun photographs – Coralie and team.

Exploring the light in Jabadao

Feeling my body on the floor and working out how to roll over

I liked the ‘lemon’ smell in circle time

Feeling the movement while stretching over the physio ball

Looking and touching

Feeling the sand both dry and wet

Experiencing the warm bubbles and liking it!

Showing interest in the noisy pom poms

Feeling the cold, wet paint was fun!

Looking and engaging with the bird as he made funny sounds

The dancing fibre optics were exciting!

Music therapy was a calming experience for me

The children have enjoyed another busy week as they continue to explore, experience, play and learn.

There have been feathers, fur, sand and play dough to explore and group work in the sensory suite and library, alongside our favourites hydrotherapy, tacpac, jabadao, soft play and rebound!  Phew – I think everyone will be ready for the weekend!

We hope you enjoy the photographs –  Coralie and team.

Exploring jungle animals in the sand

Learning about the weather in drama

Reaching to feel the vibrations on the cymbal

Holding onto the magic hoop in sensory suite

Fun with feathers!

Learning to stand to play

Admiring myself in my walker!

Playing my own tune while wrestling with a snake!!

Looking in the mirror while we dance to jungle tunes!

Squeeze that play dough!

Wow – that’s me!

Wow – light and ultraviolet fun!

‘My favourite things’ topic is proving to be an enjoyable one for our children.

As you know we are playing alongside jungle animals in our sensory corner, and exploring different toys in our sensory story.  The children are showing lots of interest and are beginning to show their preferences and things which interest and intrigue them.

We will continue this topic over the term by looking at other types of animals, stories etc. to find out more about the children as they experience, explore and encounter!  We hope you enjoy the photographs.

Happy weekend – Coralie and team!

Just monkeying around!

Sid the snake was hilarious!

Entering the jungle cave – what’s inside!!

Jungle friends together

Hello Mr Hippo – aren’t I being brave!

Intensive interaction!

In our sensory story I liked the noisy jingly ball

The robot was my favourite

The robot dog moved and made sounds – I was very interested

Anticipating the jack in the box!

Look at the concentration as I play the drum

Hi everyone – Nursery/Reception 2 have had another fun and busy week.

The children experienced our new music and movement session where we played circle games, moved to action songs and practiced rolling and receiving a ball, as well as having a bounce on a huge ball! It was also a great opportunity for some of the children to use their walkers and standing frames for part of the session.

Our new Sensory story is also being well received by the children – it’s a tale all about ‘Jasper’ the cat looking for the perfect toy – the children will hopefully start to show us their favourites!

On a creative note, the children explored paint with their hands and feet and also made marks by pushing trucks and cars across paper on the floor – they made quite a work of art which we will display in our classroom.

Our jungle area is also proving popular too with the children finding their favourite parts as they play and explore.

We hope you enjoy some photographs of our week – Coralie and team.

Experiencing rolling and bouncing on the physio ball

I was very interested in the noisy robot in sensory story

Asking for more of the jumping frog in story

Getting messy – ready, steady, go…..!

1,2,3……. push!

In the jungle the talking parrot caught my interest

I loved the jungle plants!

We hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas break and had a relaxing time over the holidays!

We saw some excited and happy faces when the children came back into school and it has been a lovely week seeing everyone back fit and well.

The children have enjoyed many activities from music therapy to getting messy with gloop and paint this week.  They have also experienced communication and sensory group work, as well as their regular rebound and hydrotherapy sessions.

Our ‘stretch’ and ‘play’ area has now been transformed from a winter scene to the jungle as we explore our new topic – ‘my favourite things’ – focussing on different animals and toys etc.

We will also be starting our new sensory drama and sensory story so we will keep you posted on how the children are enjoying and learning through these activities.

We hope you enjoy the photographs – Coralie and team.

Being a one man band in music therapy!

I enjoyed the singing and the ocean drum

Time on my tummy to make marks in paint

Me too!

Time in my standing frame to explore paint

Meeting the crocodile in our ‘jungle’

I liked exploring our new area too

Well, we can’t believe it’s the holidays already – the weeks have just flown by!

Our final week in school has been so lovely with lots of Christmas activities happening.  Everyone enjoyed wearing their festive jumpers for Christmas lunch in the hall with decorated tables, music and crackers.

Our Early Years party was great fun – dancing, party games and songs around the tree all set the scene for our long-awaited visitor – Mr Claus.  It was very special to see the children’s faces when they saw him and received a gift.

Today we are having a fun, festive whole school Assembly – where our Teachers tend to be a bit silly!  This afternoon we will enjoy our much loved traditional Nativity – this never fails to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas.

Finally we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that the holidays are filled with fun and happy times with your families.  Enjoy the rest also!  Coralie and team.

Our Christmas Elf pulling her cracker at lunchtime

I loved the hokey cokey during our party

Admiring my Christmas jumper in our igloo mirror

Showing of my cool jumper too!

Santa time – ho, ho, ho

Hello there Santa!

I just loved him!

Our Christmas concert went brilliantly today.  The children were all amazing and we hope you enjoyed seeing your child ‘shine’ if you were able to attend.  A photograph will follow next week if you were unable to make it.

There have been lots of Christmas activities happening in class this week from our sensory story to play/exploration and art and craft.

Next week will also be fun and festive with our Christmas lunch on Tuesday, Christmas party on Wednesday (with a visit from Santa), and we will finish for the holidays with our traditional Nativity Assembly with carols by candlelight.

We hope you enjoy the photographs of some of the festive experiences this week

Coralie and team.

Following the star in storytime

Playing with Christmas toys

Getting messy with glittery paint

Hello Mr Snowman

Exploring glitter and making marks

Playtime in the igloo

Smelling the sweet mincemeat in sensory story

As you know, on Wednesday we ventured out to visit Heighley Gate Garden Centre with the children for our Christmas trip.

It wasn’t the best of days for the weather but luckily we were indoors – phew!  We were able to hire out the huge soft play area for three hours which was great as it was nice and quiet for the children to explore safely.  As soon as we arrived we dived straight into the soft play area and then we were able to use the same space for our lunch.  Time just flew by but we still had a little time to look at all the lovely displays and decorations with the children.

We hope you enjoy your weekend and the photographs from our trip – Coralie and team.

Being brave on the fast slide!

Fun and frivolity!

Freedom to go wild!

Great balancing!

This is fun!

Boing!

The talking tree display made me laugh!

Hello Mr Penguin!

Lots to look at and touch

…..For me too!

The singing display was funny!

I liked the smell of the pine cones

Being extra brave on the slide – by myself on my tummy!

Hi there!