We are a very busy class with lots of different personalities!  We love to learn through play.  We enjoy turn taking games and messy play!  We learn in different ways and use total communication, sensory stories, yoga, rebound therapy and sensory diets to engage us in a wide range of activities and provide meaningful opportunities for us to develop our skills.  We are very sociable and like to share what we have been doing at home with our friends.  We then record this in our workbooks.  We like to be independent and learn life skills like making breakfast, washing dishes, baking, washing clothes, hoovering and cleaning.   

Welcome to Emma's Class 2021 - 2022

Summer 2022

Magical Make Believe!

Friday 22nd July 2022

Have a lovely summer Emma’s class!  You have all had an amazing year!

Monday 18th July 2022

We had a lovely time at the Beacon.  We played in the park, flew our kites, had a picnic, and enjoyed a McDonald’s McFlurry on our way back to school.

Wednesday 13th July 2022

It was our last swimming lesson today.  On the way back to the coach we bought some chips and shared them with our friends.  We had a frozen yogurt lolly afterwards.

1st July 2022

Today we celebrated Canada Day and made a flag.  We painting lolly sticks red and white, glued them together to make a flag, and then used a leaf to print the maple leaf. 

Week beginning 27th June 2022

This week we have been learning about ‘Brother Bear’.  We have completed lots of activities linked to the film.  We made a totem pole, stained glass bear window, and a dream catcher.

Tuesday 21st June 2022

As part of our frozen topic we painted pictures with frozen paint.  We really enjoyed this and loved creating pictures.

Week beginning 13th June 2022 

This week we have been enjoying our topic “Frozen” the children have been taking part in lots of different crafts including making snow globes, snowmen, and bangles. We have had a lovely week preparing for Father’s Day and creating our lovely gifts! It has been lovely to have some sun, which we have taking full advantage of with lots of outdoor learning and a water fight on Friday to help cool the children off!

Week beginning 8th June 2022

We came back to school on Wednesday after our half term break. Some of our class competed in a swimming gala on Wednesday.  They were amazing, worked well together and finished 6th place.  They all enjoyed getting a medal.  The other children enjoyed swimming at Nye Bevan.  We finished our ‘Luca’ by making a fish and thinking about World Ocean Day.  We have started our new topic ‘Frozen’ and made ‘Olaf’.  On Friday some of the children took part in a football tournament at Pendle Hill Primary school.  The weather was great and they all worked well together.  The children were very pleased when it was announced that they had come 3rd place.  The rest of the children enjoyed a day mixing with Michelle’s class in the light room, soft play, making pizza’s and playing on the sensory playground.  All of the children have been very proud of their achievements this week.  

Week beginning 23rd May 2022

We had a lovely week to end this half term.  We learnt all about the Queen and celebrated her Platinum Jubilee.  We iced biscuits, made fruit kebabs, made a Queen, painted a jubilee plate, made a placemat, coloured and cut our flags, made bookmarks and used blue and red pictures to create a flag.  We came in red, white and blue on Thursday for our Jubilee lunch.

Week beginning 16th May 2022

This week we have continued learning about animals that live in the sea through the film ‘Luca’.  We have created an octopus with a paper plate, wool and pasta.  We designed our own sea monster using pic collage.  In Luca there PE is a bike called a ‘Vista’.  The children used vinegar and food colouring to dye some different shaped pasta.  They enjoyed putting glue on a paper plate and putting the ‘Vista’ together.  Luca is based in Italy so this week we enjoyed making pasta.  We have enjoyed our sensory playground, soft play and swimming.  

Week beginning 9th May 2022

We have had a very exciting week!  We went into our new Sensory Playground on Tuesday and had an amazing time!  We have moved on from ‘Encanto’ and are now learning about ‘Luca’.  We have been thinking about all of the different animals that live in the ocean.  We have enjoyed creating a seahorse and a pufferfish.  We designed our own ocean scene on ‘pic collage’.  On Thursday we walked to Sandy Lane park.  On our way we did a litter pick.  Everyone collected two bin bags of rubbish!  We have tried hard to clean up our local area and took the rubbish back to school to put into the bins.  We ended the week with rebound therapy and a play in the school sensory playground.  Two of our class went to Borwick and enjoyed a lovely two night residential.

Week beginning 2nd May 2022

We enjoyed our Bank Holiday Monday at home.  We started the week learning all about Eid and designed Mehndi on paper hands.  We have continued out topic and learnt that Encanto is set in Colombia.  We put a map back together and made a Colombian flag.  We enjoyed our second week Swimming at Nye Bevan.  We created visions like Bruno and a colourful flower for Isabela using coffee filter paper, felt tips, water, a pipe cleaner and water.  We ended the week with rebound therapy and messy play.  We have been to the light room, soft play and had an Attention Autism lesson.

Week beginning 25th April 2022

We have had another busy week!  We have continued to complete activities linked to ‘Encanto’.   We enjoyed our final visit to Rock and River where we chose what we would like to do on the water.  There were double canoes, sit on canoes and paddle boards.  It was a lovely sunny day and we had so much fun!  We are now going swimming on a Wednesday at Nye Bevan.  It was a great lesson!  On Thursday we had an amazing dance session with Emma, from Splatter dance.  We enjoyed showing everyone our own dance, dancing like different Disney characters and balancing gold plates to the song ‘Be our Guest’ from ‘Beauty and the Beast’.  We ended the week with rebound therapy and drawing a picture of ourselves dancing and writing about it to give to Emma.  We finished our week with messy play!  We have also enjoyed going to the light room, soft play and playing on the bikes.

Week beginning 19th April 2022
Welcome back!  We began the week thinking about Easter and learnt about the Easter story.  We made a cross with the story in it.  We had a lovely trip to Rock and River where we went on the canoes, in the water and on the paddle board.
This term we are going to be learning all about Disney films, the magic within them and the messages we can learn from them.  We have started with Encanto where we have thought about what we would like our gift to be.  We have started to create a family tree.

We ended the week learning all about St George and the dragon.  We listened to a story, made our own dragon, created a shield and made an England flag.  We have certainly had a very busy start to the term.  

Spring 2022

Our Topic this term is:- What is it made of and what does it do?

Week beginning 28th March 2022

We have had a lovely week to end the term.  We have enjoyed lots of Easter activities throughout the week.

At Rock and River we enjoyed den building and archery.  We had a trip to Applecast where we enjoyed feeding and petting the animals before playing in the park.  

Happy Easter!

Week beginning 21st March 2022

This week we enjoyed going on a walk, climbing a mound of soil and archery at Rock and River.  We really enjoyed ourselves and tried very hard to hit the target during archery.  Some of us did hit the target!  

We have enjoyed light room, soft play, attention autism, reading activities and listening to 'The Colour Monster' pop up story.

We completed lots of activities related to our story and all enjoyed the colour hunt around school.

We baked cakes, made a Mother's day card and some gifts for our Mum's.

We finished the week with science experiments and messy play.

Week beginning 14th March 2022

This week we have been learning all about ‘Holi’ and how it is celebrated.  We have watched CBeebies clips, been on a colour hunt, danced with ribbons, played with coloured spaghetti and rice, explored what happens when we draw on kitchen roll and place it into water, experimented with red cabbage, and designed our own ‘Holi’ T-shirts.  We made two things that are eaten at ‘Holi’ celebrations.

We went to Rock and River on Tuesday where we completed a small section of the low ropes before tackling the high ropes course!  We were all very brave and showed confidence on the high ropes course.  Dougie came with us for a walk.

On Friday we went out for a walk to the park.  It was a lovely sunny morning.  We took Dougie with us to give him some exercise.  Dougie has spent a lot of time with us in our class and outside.

We have enjoyed light room, soft play, attention autism, life skills and messy play.  A great week Emma’s Class!
 

Week beginning 7th March 2022

We started the week celebrating World Book Day!  We all came dressed as characters from a book.  Our teachers in our class were all characters from ‘The Wizard of Oz’.  We enjoyed listening to the story and writing about the character that we had come into school as.  We went to Rock and River and really enjoyed completing the low ropes course.  We were all very brave and faced some fears along the course.  Our teachers even joined in!  We continued the week with light room, soft play, Attention Autism and PE.  We have learnt all about how plastic is harmful for the animals in the sea and read a book called ‘Harry Saves the Ocean’.  We created our own posters to tell others to save the planet.  We ended the week with a walk to Sandy Lane to play in the park and then a messy play afternoon.  

Week beginning 28th February 2022

We have had a busy week celebrating pancake day and St David’s day.  We learnt about glass and went in a glass hunt.  We have enjoyed light room, soft play, rebound therapy, PE and spending time with Dougie.  

Week Beginning 21st February 2022

We have had a lots of fun learning about metal and things that are magnetic.  We have explored different materials and been on a hunt for things that are magnetic.  we created a pic collage to show what we found out.  We had to hunt for things in a tray full of shredded paper but we decided to throw the paper everywhere and at each other, it was great fun!  We have enjoyed light room, spending time with Dougie and PE.

Week Beginning 7th February 2022

This week we continued with our tiger theme.  We continued learning to sign the story 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'.  We enjoyed making tigers, using duplo to build a model of a tiger, playing 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' game, writing about the story, and making masks.  We enjoyed our educational visit to Sandy Lane Park.  We had a session in the light room and soft play.  We Attention Autism where we enjoyed watching flour being splatted and going everywhere!  Some children splatted shaving foam!  Messy play is always enjoyable.  We played with sand and Gelli Baff.  We finished the half term with a treat and watched Encanto!

Week Beginning Monday 31st January

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year.  We learnt that it is the year of the 'Tiger'.  We looked at the year we were born and matched our pictures to the animal that was celebrated that year.  As it is the year of the 'Tiger' we read a story called 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'.  We have completed lots of activities around 'Tigers'.  We have made tiger biscuits, masks, lanterns, paper chains, played the board game 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea, had a visit to our kitchen from a tiger, created tiger food on pic collage, and learnt the story in Makaton.  We really enjoyed learning about symmetry when we painted half a tiger on one half of a piece of paper and folding the other half onto it.  we then opened it to reveal a full tiger!

As well as this we have enjoyed light room, soft play, going on the bikes, messy play and reading activities.  

Week Beginning Monday 24th January 2022

This week we have continued to learn all about paper.  We enjoyed reading the book 'The Great Paper Caper'.  We have learnt how to make paper, made paper aeroplanes and had a competition to see who could fly their aeroplane the furthest.  We have felt lots of different types of paper.  We used newspaper to build a structure to hold a toy car.  We took Dougie for a walk to the park and enjoyed playing in the park.  He has spent lots of time in our class.  We have enjoyed light room, soft play, ICT, Attention Autism and rebound therapy.

Week Beginning Monday 17th January 2022

We have had a busy week.  We started the week learning about World Religion Day and about all the different religions.  We learnt how World Religion Day encourages different religions to work together to create a better world.  We should treat others as we wish to be treated and respect them.  We made a creation wheel which shows us how the world began.  We continued to learn about wood but also learnt that paper comes from wood and read a book called 'The Great Paper Caper'.  We went on a paper hunt around school and created a pic collage.  We investigated what happens to different types of paper when we soak them in water.  At the end of the week we painted our bird houses and played with a spaceship that had landed in the cat litter!  We have enjoyed light room, soft play, rebound therapy, ICT and PE.  

Week Beginning Monday 10th January 2022

We have had a busy week learning all about wood.  We read a non fiction book all about wood.  We have looked at what things are made from wood, taken photos and created our own pic collage on an iPad.  We went on a community walk through lots of trees and took Dougie with us for the walk.  We have made our own rocket or planet bird house from wood.  We listened to the story 'The Gruffalo'.  We have enjoyed the light room, gymnastics, soft play, ICT and rebound therapy!  On Friday we played a guitar!

Week beginning Wednesday 3rd January 2022

Happy New Year!  We have enjoyed coming back to school and sharing what presents we got of Santa for Christmas.  We have learnt all about 'Epiphany'.  We started with a sensory drama about the nativity and then talked about the 'Three Kings'.  We learnt that some countries celebrate the Epiphany on 6th January.  The night before children will leave a shoe with hay from the Three Kings camels.  When they wake up they receive a gift and a candle from the Three Kings.  We filled little shoes and the next morning we had some sweets in the shoe!  We have enjoyed lots of arts and crafts and our work is being displayed in our classroom.  We have thought about what we want to get better at this year and wrote it on a star.  We looked at how people celebrate New Years Eve.  We were in our classroom when we spotted snow!  We went out and played in it but it didn't last for long!  Another great week!

Autumn 2021

Our Topic this term is:- All About Me and You - Celebrations

Week beginning 13th December 2021

What a great week we have all had!  A lovely end to the term!  We have completed lots of Christmas activities which have included making a Christmas Cake which we have taken home!  We enjoyed our Christmas party where we went into the hall with Jess' class and danced to the Christmas music!  The Christmas cars came to visit us and Santa got out, spoke to us, and gave us some sweets to share!  We all got a present from Santa and enjoyed opening them.  We have enjoyed the light room, soft play, ICT and going on the bikes.  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Week beginning 6th December 2021

We have had a week full of Christmas fun and cheer!  This week we have made Christmas cards, reindeer food, decorated jars, coloured a table cloth, had a snowball fight in the hall, listened to Christmas stories, recorded our Nativity, made Christmas tree decorations, created Christmas patterns, played with snow, created a tree or a snowman on the computer, and enjoyed a camp fire in Forest school.  We have continued to enjoy light room, ICT, Attention Autism, soft play and creative play.  During playtimes we have enjoyed playing with Dougie outside, he was very fast!  On Wednesday we enjoyed a lovely Christmas Dinner!  We ended our week with messy play activities.  One child noticed the snowballs and decided to start throwing them around the classroom at adults!  Everyone joined in and then a different child put a snowball in the flour and threw it!  By the end of the afternoon we were all covered in flour!  It's Christmas!

Week beginning 29th November 2021

We have had another busy week.  We read a new story called 'The Christmasaurus'  which we really enjoyed.  We have written our letters to Santa.  We have enjoyed singing, signing and recording our Christmas songs.  We have made tree decorations, bunting, Christmas paper chains, wrapping paper, hanging Santa's and Snowmen.  We have enjoyed time in soft play, the light room, ICT and Attention Autism sessions.  

Week beginning 22nd November 2021

This week Christmas has begun!  We started the week by reading the story 'The Night Before the Night Before Christmas.'  The children enjoyed listening to the story.  We have decorated tree decorations and made a countdown to Christmas Santa with a beard that we can stick cotton wool on the numbers every day in December!  When it is full Santa will be on his way!  We have enjoyed activities in the light room with Christmas projectors.  We have been to soft play, rode the bikes, been to ICT, been swimming and enjoyed messy play!  We wrote about what we have been doing at home and completed Christmas maths activities.  It was lovely to see some of our friends return to school.

Week beginning 15th November 2021

We have had an exciting week in school.  It was Mickey Mouse's 93rd Birthday on Thursday.  We have enjoyed decorating biscuits, blowing up balloons, writing birthday cards, and making sandwiches.  We had a party for Mickey Mouse on Thursday afternoon.  We enjoyed playing with his new toys that he got for his birthday, dancing, eating food, playing pass the parcel and playing a game with a balloon.  

We have enjoyed going to the light room, soft play, ICT and playing on the bikes.  We had two Attention Autism sessions where we saw some new toys and a glitter glue activity.

We ended our week by learning all about 'Road Safety' because it was 'Road Safety' week.  We went for a walk in the community and learnt how to cross the road safely.  We passed the war memorial which reminded us about Remembrance Day that we had learnt about.  We ended our walk in the park, before walking back to school.  We borrowed the Lollypop stick and fluorescent coat to role play what the Lollypop Lady does every morning and every afternoon to help children cross the road.  We played a bingo game and ordered how to cross the road so that other children know.

We did miss some of our friends this week and look forward to seeing them when they come back to school.

Week beginning 8th November 2021

We have had a fun packed week.  We have continued to read our sensory story 'The Night Before my Birthday'.  The children have counted balloons, sorted them into colours, made cakes with candles on them out of play dough, bought birthday cards and written them for Mickey Mouse, and interacted with our story by using their senses of touch, smell and taste.  

We have written all about what we have been doing at home which, for most of us, was watching fireworks!  We are really enjoying our Attention Autism sessions where we have watched Emma play with new toys, splat flour and draw candles, and put a poppy together with pre-cut pieces.  She then sprinkled small pieces of red tissue paper over it and stayed quiet.  As it was Remembrance Day we made biscuits and decorated them like a poppy, made a class wreath, and looked at some World War 2 medals.  We were all very interested and asked lots of questions.  Every week we have a games session where we play games that involve turn taking.  As well as all of the great work we have done, we have been to the light room, soft play, ICT, Forest school and swimming.

Week Beginning 1st November 2021

This week we read a new book 'The Night Before my Birthday'.  We learnt about Mickey Mouse and when his Birthday is.  He celebrates his Birthday on 18th November and he will be 93 this year.  We made play dough cakes with candles on them and matched them to the number.  We started Attention Autism where we watched Emma show us three different toys.  She then sprinkled flour all over a tray and drew balloons, cakes and candles in it.  We learnt about how to be safe with fireworks, made cakes, and created our own bonfire.  We have enjoyed light room, soft play, ICT, forest school, and swimming.  

Week Beginning 18th October 2021

We continued reading our story 'The Night Before Halloween'.  We continued learning about Halloween.  We learnt some new songs, enjoyed the Halloween activities in the light room, made our own Halloween cupcakes, made Halloween marshmallow crispy cakes, a cauldron, created a spiders web, made a pumpkin mask, and ended the week with our Halloween party!    We enjoyed soft play, going on the bikes, going on the computer and foot massages during the week.

Week Beginning:- 11th October 2021

Our new story is:- The Night Before Halloween.  This week all of activities in class, the Light Room, Yoga and PE have been linked to Halloween.  We enjoyed making prints with the paints, songs and games in PE, interacting with the sensory story, making a witches potion, counting spiders, making shadow puppets, making footprints using paint, playing ghost bowling, and exploring a real pumpkin.  In the light room we really enjoyed using the torches that created different things related to Halloween.  We enjoyed a foot spa and some of us read a book while we were having a foot spa.

Week Beginning - 4th October 2021

We have had another busy week!  We continued looking at our story, making play dough animals, listening to our sensory story and completing our 'Incredible Me' rainbows.  We asked our friends to describe us.  We loved our music session where we copied what our teachers and our friends did.  We took on the role of the teacher!  We have been on the bikes, in the light room, in soft play and on the computers.  We really enjoyed swimming at the end of the week.  We finished our week with foot spas and putting our feet into slime!

Week Beginning:- 27th September 2021

This week we celebrated European Day of Languages.  On Monday we spent our day completing lots of different activities.  We learnt about Italy and made a flag, craft pizza plate, played a flag pairs game, built the 'Leaning Tower of Pisa' with duplo bricks and made a Venetian mask.  We played a game with Italy and the United Kingdom in the hall.  On Friday we wore our masks and danced with them.  We ate pizza and garlic bread.  During the week we also continued reading our sensory story 'Incredible You!'.  We enjoyed time in the light room, soft play, ICT, reading activities, maths activities, going on the bikes, Forest School, time with Dougie, Arts and Crafts, Messy play, Creative play and Swimming.  We have certainly had a busy week!

Weeks Beginning:- 13th September and 20th September 2021

We have had a very different two weeks.  On 13th and 14th we were altogether and enjoyed talking about who we live and writing about them.  We enjoyed Sensory Soft Play, Creative Play, writing about our news and Sensory Light Room.  From 15th September until 22nd September we spent some time at home completing work with our family and some time in school.  We were all back together, in school, on Thursday 23rd September.  We had a lovely day and celebrated World Fitness Day!  We completed lots of different fitness challenges and activities that help to keep us healthy.  We thought about other ways we can keep healthy - eating a balanced diet, drinking water and sleeping well.  We talked about how we can keep Dougie healthy and how we can exercise him.  We took him for a walk and threw a ball for him to fetch.  On Friday we went Swimming for the first time in a while!  We all had great fun and listened to the swimming teachers.  We finished the week with messy play activities and skeleton making!

Week beginning:- 6th September 2021

Welcome back to the new school year!  We have had a lovely start to our term and welcomed new staff into our class.  During our first week we enjoyed listening to our Sensory Story - Incredible You!  We have had lots of fun in the light room, soft play, on the bikes and playing with our new toys.  We have painted a portrait of ourselves and started to write things about ourselves to go around it when it is displayed on our wall.  We enjoyed looking at which animal we would like to be like and why.  We created a graph to show which animals we all like.  Dougie is spending a Thursday afternoon with our class.  we enjoyed taking him for a walk.  A great start to the new year!

Welcome To Green Frogs 2020-2021!

Summer Term 2021 - 2nd half.

On Tuesday 10th June we had a fragile package arrive!  We were all very curious about what it might be.  When we opened it we found 5 tiny Caterpillars in a container!  By Wednesday 16th June our Caterpillars had grown and were starting to go to sleep in their chrysalis.  We moved our Caterpillars into a Butterfly net on Monday 21st June.  On Wednesday 22nd June two beautiful butterflies appeared.  It was amazing to see!  On Thursday 24th June the other three woke up!  We captured one of them on video!  Emma took them home over the weekend.  

Summer Term 2021 - First half.

It has been lovely to have everyone back together again and having so much fun in school!  

Green Frogs have really enjoyed Rock and River this half term.  They have enjoyed the low ropes and the canoes!  They got very wet in the lake!  We are reading a story called 'Meet the Planets'.  The children have learnt about the different planets and completed lots of activities around the book.  

Lockdown Spring 2021

These are difficult and challenging times but better times will follow!!

We will be setting Home Learning Activities and Videos for the children via EFL, for when the children are learning at home during this time.   We will also send out any resources or equipment that the children require to help them. Whilst the children are in school we would like to reassure you that we are doing our best to keep our routine and structure and the children's learning and fun is continuing.

Please keep uploading photos and videos onto EFL to show us what you have been up to!!

Emma, Jane, Leona and Lily

COVID-19 response - March 2020

During this period of home-learning, please remember that we are always on hand if you need any help or advice. You can email me on the class email address with any questions and you should have all received an email from me detailing useful websites and activity suggestions to keep your little Green Frogs busy! You are under no pressure to access any of this; all we want is for you and your child to remain healthy and happy!

Keep an eye out for a weekly newsletter from me every Friday, containing some new ideas to keep your little ones engaged. The school Facebook group also has some lovely examples. I would love for you to share photographs and videos of what you and your Green Frog have been getting up to through the Evidence For Learning app. 

Take care everyone and stay safe.