Chestnut Intervention group (primary)

This week during Chestnut intervention group the group have focused on using fine motor skills, turn taking and sharing, hand eye co- ordination, thinking skills, working together, problem solving and recognising the zones of regulation. Fun practical activities have included treasure hunt for gold coins, hand football challenge, jumping into the correct colour hula hoop…

How The Birds Got Their Colours

Today for our English lesson we practiced our performance of the play ‘How the birds got their colours’. The children experienced why tone and the importance of performing is needed for acting in a play. We had a practice with performing the play and we did it without our play scripts! We started to understand…

Felt life

Yesterday we had so much fun practicing out felt making skills. We had to pull apart the materials and we had to Warp and Weft the material to ensure it would turn into felt. We practiced our creativity and made some patterns on the felt.

Chestnut group (Article 28,31 & 36)

During Chestnut intervention group today the group followed a structured visual schedule to participate in a baking activity.  Skills used were turn taking, listening and following instructions and personal safety when baking. They then listened to Miss Ennis read a lovely story all about a recycling a box and the children decided that for an…

The force of Gravity!

Today in our Science lesson Mr Winn came in and told us all about what happened to Sir Isaac Newton when he was sat under the tree. We practiced key vocabulary with physical demonstrations that helped us identify the difference between them! We had developed knowledge on edifying theories such as Sir Isaac Newton’s theory…

Features of a Play Script

Today in our English lesson we developed our knowledge on features of a play script. We got into pairs and worked as a team to identify and discuss the features of a play script. We identified Scene numbers and title, setting description, speakers name, stage directions in brackets, speech without inverted commas and will be…

To know features of a play script!

Today we practiced the features of a play script. We did this by identifying the Narrator and characters and the speaking parts of a play called ‘How the birds got their colours’. We went through and identified how a play-script was different to a story by identifying acting and characters personalities within a play-script.