Willow Class
Autumn Term
Sian Peel (speel) on: Willow Class
Willow class has had a brilliant first half term after the summer holidays. Pupils have been getting to know their new peers, seeing old ones again and settling into their new routine.
All the children have been enjoying this term’s topic ‘Music from around the World’, this has given the children opportunities to experience different musical styles. They have explored and engaged well with different instruments and were encouraged to play along to the music.
Some of our pupils access sensory circuits each morning to support their readiness to learn, this is new to some pupils and others have been doing a sensory circuits for a while. This helps them to regulate and be ready for learning in their school day.
Celebrating the harvest festival children took part in the lower school assembly and tasted lots of different fruits. Leading on from the assembly we had a Harvest Hoe down, pupils from lower school took part in dancing, apple bobbing and other fun games.
Our journey through the mountains, deserts and seas
Sian Peel (speel) on: Willow Class
During the Summer term, we have been focusing on the theme ‘Mountains, Deserts and Seas’. We have explored the theme across all subject areas and our Music lessons have been a real highlight.
We focused on yodelling while we were in the mountains. We listened to some famous Swiss yodellers and we tried yodelling using boom whacker tubes.
On our travels to the desert, we listened to Middle Eastern music and played along with guitars and maracas.
We then listened to rhythmic sea shanties with strong beats whilst we played drums and tambourines.
Mountains, Deserts and Seas.
Sian Peel (speel) on: Willow Class
This half term has been another busy one for Willow! We've had great fun exploring mountains, deserts and seas and discovering the animals that we might find there. We have had great fun investigating texture, sound and smells relating to different habitats. This half term we also enjoyed "Pupil Voice Day" - a day dedicated to doing lots of fun activities as voted for by our school council. In Willow we had a fabulous time making "Silly Soup" out of lots of wild and whacky ingredients and we joined in with some Bollywood dancing in the hall.
The Colour Monster
Sian Peel (speel) on: Willow Class
In Willow Class this term we have been reading The Colour Monster. The students have explored a variety of emotions and created their own books.
Each page was made to represent a different emotion and created in a different way. This included using bright yellow paint and sparkly tinsel for happiness, pipettes to drip tears of blue paint for sadness, and rolling a spiky ball in hot curry scented red paint for anger.
The books the students made are absolutely beautiful and so they then took the opportunity to share these with students from Maple Class, who came to read with them.
Summer
Sian Peel (speel) on: Willow Class
What a wonderful summer term we have had in Willow class. We have had busy, busy days learning and having fun along the way. We have learned about the Olympics and hosted our very own Olympic games. We’ve made artwork on the theme of Olympic heroes and even showed our work to the official artist for the Olympic games – Ben Mosley! He was really impressed!
We had such fun making up our dance for the singalong and we really hope that those of you who managed to come and see it really enjoyed it too. We loved performing it for you all.
Over the year it has been such a joy to see all the children grow and learn so many new skills. What a lot they have achieved! Here’s to all the exciting new adventures that await next term, but in the meantime, we wish everybody a happy, warm summer!
Class 4 Welcome Back!
Class 4 Welcome Back!
Laura Walton (lwalton) on: Class 4 Welcome Back!
In Class 4, we have had a wonderful time settling into our new class group. Our theme this term is 'Music around the World', so we have been having lots of fun travelling the world through sensory stories and exploring different music. Autumn is such a special season and we have been discovering how nature is changing through nature walks and lots of exciting activities.
