What a fabulous time we had on Wednesday afternoon helping Harry celebrate his 6th birthday. He had a great party with lots of lovely food sent in from home and party bags for all of Harry’s friends. We played ‘Pass the Parcel’ and danced the afternoon away.

In class this week we have been celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by making lots of decorations. Using paper and paint we made paper chains, bunting and wreaths to decorate the classroom, obviously using the colours red, white and blue! On Friday afternoon we had a Tea party with lots of yummy treats.

What a fabulous and very busy week we have had. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and remember our first day back the whole school is having a Jubilee Party. The children are welcome to get dressed up as Kings and Queens, wear red, white and blue or just come in non uniform.

Happy Holidays.

We thought you would like to see how well we have been doing in our Rebound Therapy sessions and just how much we have moved along in our skills. We are all working within the Rebound Therapy Assessment and some of us have already received certificates. We are also using these sessions to help with our communication skills, requesting ‘more’ and being able to stop when asked.

Wow just look at how amazing we now are with our football skills. Graham, our football coach, has been with us for 3 weeks and will be helping us right up until the summer holidays. He has been helping to teach us how to throw, bounce, catch and kick balls. He has also been showing us some special tricks to practice. At the beginning we found it hard to listen as we really just wanted to run around with the ball but now we can listen to instructions and try putting them into practice. What a wonderful time we are having and would like to say a huge thank you to Graham for his support.

What a fabulous time we had last Thursday on our trip out to Horsley Woods and Park. We started the day off with a lovely long walk through the woods, exploring the nature and natural items along the way. We found some bird feathers, stopped to look at flowers, checked out the insects in the bark chippings, played with sticks and splashed through some big muddy puddles. It was a good job we all had waterproofs and wellies on! After our lunch we went to the park and were lucky enough to have the whole place to ourselves. We played on swings, slides, roundabouts and just look at how adventurous some of us became. After all that fun we were rather tired and headed back to school for a drink and snack before home time.

This half term our new topic will be ‘Natural Things’. To start off our topic we have been exploring the outdoor areas around school and looking for lots of different natural objects. We have been looking for things with different textures, shapes, sizes, colours that we can feel, smell and also things that we can use to create some art pieces. It’s great fun being outdoors and our collecting is coming along nicely.

Also this week the children have had great fun exploring the new hospital which we had set up in the classroom. It has lots of pretend equipment, dressing up clothes and even a reception waiting area with magazines and book to read. We are hoping that this experience will help some of our children who find hospital visits a bit tricky to deal with.

Well what a fun afternoon we had on Thursday when our parents came into class to help us with some Easter celebrations. We had some Easter songs and dancing around the Smartboard before we ventured outside for our Easter egg hunt. We all had a pair of bunny ears and a basket to help with our hunt.  When we were finished outside we came back to the classroom for a special Easter snack with cakes and scones which we had made in the morning. It really was a lovely afternoon and was great to see so many parents who were able to attend. Thank you for your kind support and we hope you all have a wonderful Easter.