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Students this term have been working on their social, communication and fine motor skills through Lego therapy. Students worked in teams at the beginning of term to create Lego models. Each student had a different job role.

* The supplier - Supplies the parts to the builder

* The builder -…

This week for Friday reflection, 3L have chosen to talk about our Christmas Markets experience in school.

Josh - I liked when all the people came to buy things and we saw profit from our hard work.

Jamie - I liked people being nice with manners and working with the customers.

Thomas - As…

In Key Stage 4, students have been following a visual recipe to make their own Snowman Cupcakes ready for our Christmas Markets. 
 

What a fantastic morning! Thank you to all who supported; it was so lovely to see so many families enjoying themselves. 

Our elves are busy counting the money, we will be sharing our grand total soon.

KS4 have been busy baking and making.

We have some wonderful creations,

Cakes and decorations,

We’ve used twigs and glue,

To make something new.

Come along and join in the festive fun

WLCHS Christmas Markets 7/12/23

One of our KS4W students has been a busy little elf with his family, making lots of beautiful handmade decorations to sell at our Christmas markets this year. Thankyou for such a lovely donation. 

Last week, the sound of the week for 3S was 'k' and the Core Word was 'Like'. 

The students practiced using the word 'Like' while they played.

In class the 'k' sound was key,

Students practiced to sound it with glee.

With "like" they did play,

Saying it every which way,

Till 'k'…

KS4’s Maths topic is ‘time’. The students had to use a depart and return time to plan their trip. Students also covered a range of PLG’s such as reading time, calculating money, road awareness, talking to store staff and talking to peers. 

Students in 3H have been learning about how batteries work and have been experimenting with electronics.  Using a few wires, a battery and a switch, they loved making fans and light bulbs work.

3H students’ experiments….so keen,

Using batteries in a brilliant routine,

Bulbs glowed so…

In CLL, KS4 pupils started a new story. Pupil’s had to pull out objects related to the story from the bucket and use their prediction skills to predict what might happen in their new story. KS4 then watched the advert: Mog’s Christmas Calamity to see if their predictions were…

KS3L have chosen to talk about what their favourite lesson activities have been this week.

Jamie - I enjoyed Computing learning about good information and bad information.

Josh - I enjoyed English today because we did creative writing. I did a long paragraph using images. One was of police,…

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…