We are a class full of playful characters.  We love learning through sensory experiences and play.  We all dance to the beat of our own drum, each well-loved and celebrated in our class and in our school.  Our pre-formal curriculum has three main areas of focus.  These are:  Communication and Interaction, Cognition and Learning and Physical and Sensory.    We are always working on everything!  We love to engage in our varied activities that include, rebound therapy, hydrotherapy, forest school, massage, MOVE and play in the sensory garden.  We work hard with lots of different specialists and equipment to learn about our bodies and all of the brilliant things we can do with them, developing our physical functional movement in challenging and fun ways.   

08.07.2022

This week we have been doing lots of different things.  We have painted butterflies, played music games, enjoyed our last visit of the year to Twinkle House and played out with our friends from other classes on the sensory playground, making the most of the sunshine!

24/06/2022 

This week has been a lovely week in Helen’s class. We have enjoyed lots of time in the beautiful sunshine, spent some time with other classes outside on the sensory playground, worked very hard in class on our and MOVE programmes, visited other classes to spend time with our other friends and of course our weekly visit to twinkle house for hydrotherapy and the amazing sensory playroom😊

17.06.2022

We’ve had a lovely week this week.  We have done lots of things including enjoying our sensory story about a trip to the seaside, using our interactive switches to choose and play songs and enjoying water play in the hot weather.  

10/06/2022

We have had a lovely chilled start to our final term this year. We have celebrated World Ocean Day this week with lots of water play and making jellyfish. We have also had lots of calming light and dark sessions along with fun in the sensory playground, a community walk and a trip to the sensory room at twinkle house! 

27/05/2022

We have had such a busy week in Helen’s class! We have spent lots of time celebrating the Queens 70th jubilee by making crowns and plates, having a jubilee lunch, a jubilee party and wearing clothes in red white and blue. We have also enjoyed our weekly trip to Twinkle House relaxing in the hydrotherapy pool and exploring the light room. 

20/05/2022

We have had such a lovely week in Helen’s class. We have been busy in our walking and standing frames. We have explored the ingredients and made salt dough and rice crispie cakes. We have had lots of fun on our new adventure playground with children from other classes. We also went on a community walk to the Greenhill sensory park where we enjoyed exploring all of the busy boards and musical instruments and we enjoyed our snack outside in the sunshine! We have also enjoyed our weekly visit to the hydrotherapy pool and play room at Twinkle House. 

13/05/2022

We have had another busy week in Helen’s class this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story ‘Learning to Fly’ and explored feathers and bird seed to make pictures to celebrate migratory bird day. We also had the opportunity to explore our new playground and had lots of fun on the new roundabout! We have also worked very hard on our MOVE programmes with Nic and spent time with our friends relaxing with story massage. 

06/04/2022

This week has been a very busy one in Helen's class this week! We have enjoyed learning all about Eid with a sensory story, we have made fruit balls in sensory baking and we have spent time listening to music associated with Ramadan and Eid. We have also enjoyed our regular visit to Twinkle House for Hydrotherapy and this week some of us tried out the large sensory room and enjoyed the slide, swings, bubble tubes and twinkly lights. We have also enjoyed being outside in our walking frames, going on a community walk, working hard on our MOVE programmes and spending time with our friends.

29/04/2022

We’ve had a fun filled week in Helen’s class this week. We baked cookies for Ramadan, went on a community walk and had fun in soft Play. We have also enjoyed our weekly trip to Twinkle House with a visit to the hydrotherapy pool and the immersive suite and this week we had a visit from Emma who runs Splatterdance and we did some exercises and had a lovely story about a dragon! 

22.04.2022

What a busy first week back after the Easter holidays. We have been for lots of walks in the sunshine and have been to the sensory garden at the local community centre, made made marshmallow Rice Krispie St. George’s flags for St. George’s day in sensory baking and explored soft play. We have also had fun watching the water change colour in water play, have enjoyed our weekly trip to Twinkle House and our Story Massage session.

25.3.2022

18/03/2022

This week in Helen’s class we have had a busy, fun filled week. We have enjoyed sensory stories, we made some shakers whilst exploring different textures of pasta, rice and cereal to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim & created lots of mess with messy play. We also took part in Red Nose Day and enjoyed some time in the sunshine! 

11.3.2022

We’ve had a busy and fun week this week in Helen’s class.  We celebrated world book day on Monday - dressing up and making gruffalo crumble from one of our favourite stories. We enjoyed our sensory story sessions, working more on ‘Whatever Next’.  At hydrotherapy we learned more about kicking our legs in the water and worked with favourite apps in the immersive suite at Twinkle House.  We’ve enjoyed home learning and made some fair trade banana, chocolate and oat bites for fair trade fortnight.  

4.3.2022

This week in Helen’s class we have had a super busy exciting week! We have had rebound therapy, celebrated pancake day making our very own pancakes, been to hydrotherapy at Twinkle House and spent lots of time in the sunshine! 

25.02.2022

A busy week in Helen’s class. We’ve enjoyed our ‘Whatever Next’ sensory story, some of us loving the air escaping the balloon for lift off and playing hide and seek with the night sky blanket, others enjoying the star light brolly and teddy.  We’ve had a great time at twinkle house and created a great switch adapted winter Olympic flame!   

11.02.2022

This week in Helen’s class we have joined in with a new sensory story about making a birthday cake, had walking frame time outside, explored the thumb jam musical iPad app alongside some other musical instruments and boom whackers and played with colour changing bath foam and sand.  We’ve also enjoyed working out even more ways we can make the nest swing move, playing with interactive toys and our Magic Carpet interactive floor projector!   Happy half term everyone!  We hope you all have a lovely break.

04.02.2022
What an exciting week we’ve had in Helen’s class this week! We have enjoyed our weekly visit to Twinkle House and the hydrotherapy pool and the immersive suite, rebound therapy with Kayleigh and exploring our sensory story of The Creation. We have also enjoyed exploring all of the ingredients for a stir-fry for Chinese New Year, relaxing in the light room and finished off our fun week with a lovely story massage session! 

We have had such a busy week in Helen’s class! We have explored new sensory stories, Whatever Next and The Creation, found new ways to make the nest swing move and played with some new toys! We have also enjoyed our trip to twinkle house to the hydrotherapy pool and the immersive suite as well as going out onto the playground to see our friends from other classes. We look forward to seeing what next week brings! 

21/01/22

We have had a lovely week in Helen’s class this week. We were very excited to get a visit from Lola and her dad on Monday! We also got some fresh air on a community walk. We have been busy with rebound therapy with Kayleigh, lots of playtime outside enjoying the sunshine in our walking frames and we had fun at twinkle house in hydrotherapy and the immersive suite. We are ending the week with our story massage session. 

14.01.2022

We have done lots of fun things this week.  We have spent time in class and outside in our walking frames with Dougie the school doggy.  We had a great time at hydrotherapy at Twinkle House- even trying new swim skills - kicking our legs lying on our backs and fronts.  We’ve spent time exploring different toys and had some great time chatting to our friend at home on zoom.  We even had our friends pet dog Charlie say hi to Dougie! 

07.01.2022

Happy new year everyone!  We have all been really happy to see our friends in school and on zoom and have had a busy first few days this week.  We’ve been making edible crowns and doing activities linked to the Epiphany and have been out and about in our walking frames outside.  We’ve enjoyed chill time on the swings, listening to classical music and having down time with our friends.  A great start to our new term. 👍

17.12.2021

Happy Christmas everyone!
This week we have enjoyed our Christmas party, dancing in walking frames and playing pass the parcel.  We have also enjoyed completing our other Christmas activities and our nativity sensory drama sessions.

10.12.2021

It’s been all about Christmas, Christmas outfits, Christmas donkeys, and a Christmas star in Helen’s class.  This week we have been filming for our Christmas production, we had fun together at our Christmas dinner and dance and have completed some of our Christmas crafts.  🎄🎄🎄

03.12.2021

This week in Helen’s class Christmas has started!  We made reindeer food and loved exploring the ingredients with our hands and by tasting.  Chocolate orange shreds went down very well!  We had more happy chats with our friend over zoom and have been singing and signing Christmas songs.  In our sensory story we had fun exploring the Christmas gifts on Santa’s list most liking the light up drum and lots and lots of bubbles.   

26.11.21

We’ve been up to all sorts this week in Helen’s Class.  We explored different spices and took prints to create autumn spice paintings, explored leaves and twigs and returned to our sensory story ‘Please be Quiet’.  We have enjoyed seeing our friend at home over zoom and have had lovely chats with her.  Next week we will be starting our Christmas activities! 

19/11/21
What a fun time we’ve had in Helen’s class this week! We have spent time exploring the sensory stories Please Be Quiet and Room on the Broom and chilled with our friends on the carpet. We had fun in forest school making popcorn over a fire with Janine and painting our very own Pudsey Bears. 

12/11/21

We have had a lovely relaxed time in Helen’s class this week. We painted poppy pictures using bubble wrap and worked hard on our MOVE programmes. We have also played games and spent quality time with Dougie, our therapy dog and had some lovely quiet time with light and dark sessions and story massage. 

05/11/21

We’ve had an exciting week in Helen’s class! We have enjoyed getting involved in sensory stories by becoming witches in Room on the Broom and setting off ‘fireworks’ in our bonfire night sensory story. We have been busy making firework biscuits and bonfire pictures too! We have also enjoyed sitting together and chatting away.

22.10.2021
Happy Halloween!  We’ve had lots of Halloween fun this week.  We went for a walk to go trick-a-treating around school and outside to pick our own pumpkin.  We explored and decorated them and dressed up for the day with the rest of our friends in school. We’ve also been working with our touchscreens to choose and activate songs and to splat scary monsters and ghosts!  

15/10/2021
We have had an exciting time in Helen’s class this week! We have had fun on the jump-o-lene, splashed around in the hydrotherapy pool and sang nursery rhymes and blew raspberries in the immersive suite at Twinkle House. We have also enjoyed jelly play, walks in the playground at playtime and making Sesame Laddus in sensory baking.

8.10.2021

Friday 1st October

We have had another busy and fun week in Helen's class! This week we welcomed our new friend Oscar into class. We have enjoyed rebound therapy and our weekly visit to Twinkle House. We also had fun exploring the succulents and having breakfast at Warbreck Garden Centre as well as chilling out with some lovely light and dark sessions and exploring icing sugar, water and food colouring as part of our topic Our Many Coloured Days by Dr. Seuss.

24/9/2021

It’s been another busy week this week in Helen’s class.  We had our first turn in the immersive suite at Twinkle House, we enjoyed this very much and played with an interactive bath full of rubber ducks and experienced a virtual sunset at the beach!  We made Mr. Twit’s worm spaghetti in sensory baking (as it was Roald Dahl day recently).  Pasta, tomatoes both fresh and tinned were explored with fruity jelly worms and some sour ones too!  We also had a good explore of shiny paper and sand linked to talk like a pirate day whilst listening to some sea shanties - a very varied week indeed!  

We’ve had a fun and busy couple of weeks in Helen’s class. Highlights include trying out our new bikes - the first time on a bike for some of us!  Brilliant!  We’ve been to Twinkle House for our first hydrotherapy session and play in the sensory room and enjoyed settling back into school life with our friends.

Spring term 2021 

This term has been great getting back into a routine and doing some lovely activities.

Covid-19 

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have put together a list of suggestions and links to online resources that might be useful for things to do at home, especially if the weather isn’t welcoming enough to go outside!  It is not at all expected that these resources be accessed or used as we know that you all have great ideas of what to do with your children at home. 

If you’d like to share photographs, messages or videos via our Evidence for Learning app, Facebook page or Blue Frogs class e-mail we’d love to see them.

We are all missing our Blue Frog family very much!

Stay safe, take care and we look forward to this being over so we can see you all again.

If you need any advice please do not hesitate to contact me via the Blue frogs E-mail address.

Helen and the Blue Frogs team