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Hi everyone – we thought we’d post an update on what we’ve been getting up to this half term. It’s been another fun and busy time as we have threaded our new topic ‘Africa’ throughout lessons and activities. This first half term we have put our focus into all things ‘Safari’.
First things first was to change our classroom environment for the children to play and explore. From a safari jeep to an animal watering station, animal light box, sensory trays and dressing up – the children have really enjoyed playing in these areas. We have also been using communication boards alongside their play, and we have seen the children really build upon their communication skills by pointing to symbols, joining some together and learning key vocabulary.
Our lessons have been fun and varied with Africa themed art work, songs, music and stories. The children have also especially enjoyed PE; moving and travelling like different animals they could see and hear on the big screen, as well as their Numeracy lessons; going on a Safari around school and in the wildlife garden; searching for hidden animals, ‘big’ and ‘small’ and ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘under’ things. They really looked the part with their hats and binoculars!
Our day trip to Northumberland Zoo was a great success – a lovely place with lots to explore which we would highly recommend for a great family day out. The children had a great time as we visited all the different zones; seeing snow leopards, meerkats, birds of prey, wallabies and lemurs to name but a few!
Next half term we will be carrying on our topic, but now with a jungle themed twist, so alongside all the hard work there’ll be plenty of monkeying around!
What a wonderful few days we had at our winter HAF club. Our days were filled with so much fun and enjoyment.
We had so many activities each day such as a healthy eating programme with Healthworks where we made homemade soup and apple pies.
Art venturers joined us, we had a fantastic arts and craft session through out the whole day
We were also happy to host Joe Jangles and the Bare Toad circus skills team.
This winter HAF club we were lucky to experience trips to new places such as the Centre for Life to ice skate, after we had yummy hot chocolate and jacket potato’s.
We purchased tickets to a relaxed session of Peter Pan at the Tyne theatre.
We also enjoyed all of our rebound centre facilities we had a great time bouncing and lots of different sports activities on in the main sports hall.
We ended the holidays with a party, disco lights, party games, prizes, foam snow machine and great entertainment and magic show from the wonderful Party Gems. .
We are now planning our Easter holidays and look forward to seeing you all there.
I feel like we have blinked and the last 7 weeks have just disappeared in a flash.
After half term we got straight back into our topic of the dinosaurs.
We explored the features of a dinosaur, dinosaur skeletons and explored whether dinosaurs are still on Earth today?We carried out exploration of activities relating to our topic. The children engaged well in all activities.
This half term, we have been using the Rebound Centre to participate in sensory circuits. This support our sensory diets and really benefits all children to support their regulation.
I hope you all enjoyed our Christmas show. We had so much fun filming our version of Elf.
We recently welcomed Lauren K to our class who has successfully completed her mainstream teaching placement in October. I know that she will be an amazing addition to the class and is very excited at teaching our little superstars.
Our new topic next term will be on the Farm. We are looking forward to getting immersed into this topic.
We would like to take this opportunity to Thank you all for your continued support. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2024.
Love Fran, Lauren K, Lauren C & Michelle xxx
A big thankyou to all who donated gifts to our Christmas fayre, also the staff who worked really hard to make it magical.
It was a wonderful night, we all love to see our families and staff new and old relaxing and socialising together.
We had a busy but wonderful day in the hairshop this term!
Lots of new children visiting for a haircut or pamper and some of our older helping out to clean up, sweep up and they also done a fantastic job keeping the younger children entertained.
Look out for the booking form for the next on 1st December.
Please note that there is no public parking on site and there are limited blue badge spaces which are available on the day on a first come first served basis.
If you have a blue badge and the spaces are full then we will endeavour to find an alternative parking spot on site.
A big welcome back from Dave’s class. We are pleased to welcome Dan, Rebecca and Kath to our team. We also have the very lovely Genevieve who has joined us for her years work placement from University.
This half term we have all been building positive relationships using lots of intensive interaction with the grown ups and each other. We have worked hard in all sessions, building on these relationships, our communication and our physical skills. We have especially loved having our old favourites back; Jabadao, Rebound and Hydrotherapy.
We have been taking part in a new sessions (which is always a little scary) as part of our Preparation for Life. The main focus of PFL this half-term has been about self-care, having our hair cut, nails trimmed, learning to wash ourselves and brush our teeth. We have all been amazing, building up our tolerance to these experiences in this session.
We have been using all of our senses when listening to different sounds in our very own barber shop, touching nail files and brushes. This was very hard at first but we’ve made brilliant progress. Our favourite part of this session is using the foot spa. We have been using our communication aids to request ‘more’ for the bubbles and vibrations. Relaxation is definitely the most important part of self-care especially after all of the hard work we do!
We hope everyone has a wonderful week off and we look forward to the next part of our journey.