Exploring Turkey through our senses
Students in KS3S have been enjoying their termly sensory story “My Granny went to market”. In the story, Granny flies on a magic carpet to different countries around the world. This week, Granny visited Turkey. Students enjoyed an Attention Autism session, made an “evil eye” mosaic and…
Ready, steady… GO!
Students in KS3S have enjoyed participating in activities linked to their core word of the week “go”! Students responded to and used the word “go” in a range of contexts including bubbles, glow and go robot, spinning towers and cars. Students will carry on being exposed to the word “go” over the…
Week 1 in KS3S
Students and staff in KS3S have had a fabulous first week in school. We have enjoyed playing outside, exploring our new environment, visiting the park, making aeroplane crafts and engaging in a sensory story - My Granny went to market. We have made lots of new friends and can't wait for our first…
Woah the Hokey Cokey!
The students in KS3S focus on key core words each week. Last week students learnt to respond to, and use, the word “in”, and this week they have done the same for the core word “out”… we therefore couldn’t resist getting out in the sunshine and doing the Hokey Cokey together! Students had so much…
Bubbling Planets
Students in KS3S have enjoyed their sensory science topic activity. They created planets using baking soda and water, chose a planet and added food colouring to make it the right colour, then observed the planets fizz as they dripped vinegar onto them. Students demonstrated fantastic Skills…
Squiggle while you wiggle!
Students in KS3 have enjoyed taking part in an early writing and mark making intervention “Squiggle while you wiggle”. Students practiced the dance moves “up, down, side to side and cross over” and then applied this to mark making on paper - copying the directional movements along to George Ezra’s…
KS3S Countdown to Blast Off!
KS3S have started learning about this term’s new topic - Space. In Maths, they enjoyed counting backwards from 10 to make the rocket blast off into the air. Students then engaged with a range of different space themed maths activities.
Squiggle while you wiggle!
Students in KS3S have built up their skills ready to start ‘Squiggle while you wiggle’, which is a program designed to link movement and music to making marks. Today we focused on moving our hands “up” to the sky. Each week students will build up different movements until they are ready to move to…
A visit to Skelmersdale Library with KS3S
KS3S enjoyed a visit to Skelmersdale library where they read stories with staff as well as independently. Students demonstrated a love of reading by choosing their favourite books, looking at pictures, smiling and communicating about what they were reading. All students demonstrated their…
KS3S Visit to Skelmersdale Fire Station
Some students in KS3S enjoyed a visit to Skelmersdale Fire Station this afternoon as part of their Careers program - ASDAN Raising Aspirations. Students are learning about places and people who help them in the community. Students tried on parts of the uniform and sat in the fire engine, enjoying…
Communication in KS3
Each week our KS3S class focus on a different “core word of the week” and staff model using this word across the curriculum. This week’s word is “help”. Students and staff have used core boards, AAC, Makaton sign and spoken word to offer and request “help” in different contexts. As well as using…
Virtual Author Visit with Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart
KS3 and KS4 students who take part in our weekly reading intervention group had the pleasure of attending a virtual author visit run by Puffin Schools. Students were introduced to author Pippa Goodhart and Illustrator Nick Sharratt, who read their new book, ‘You Choose Christmas’, and offered an…