My favourite film is Sully because it can teach you that if you do become a pilot or any job you do, you can be right. If somebody says you have done wrong and you have done right and it puts you down, don’t let it, you have done your best and that is all that matters. YOU TRIED…
Today year 8 have been learning about Blogging.
They were asked to produce a review for the school blog.
Here is Finley’s review of his favourite game:
BMG drive is a crash test game where you could do driving tests, crash and free play.
You can modify cars so it has Supercharger, turbo and all sorts of engines and cars.
Bad things about BMG drive
It cost £15.00You need a gaming pc
And you need steam
Good things about BMG drive
It only takes 8GB of storage
You have a lot of fun playing around
You can get cars off World of mods
During P3’s art lesson today we looked at famous paintings by a variety of artists.
We discussed how we thought the people felt in each painting, for some of the pictures we got a mixed response.
Miss Robson explained that art work can be portrayed differently depending on who was looking at it. Sometimes someone might like a painting and someone else may not.
P3 then created their own emotions art work. They were given an emotion to paint and their peers then had to guess which emotion they had painted.
Good Evening Everyone
Letters will be coming home next week about all the events that are taking place over Christmas. They are also on the school Facebook page.
6th December- Primary Wow Day 1.30-2.30 Primary parents and carers invited.
10th December- Coffee morning at 10.00
11th December Polar Express night
11th December at 1.15 Primary Nativity Play
13th December Christmas Fayre with a 1.30 start
16th December Secondary Christmas party
17th December Primary Christmas lunch
18th December Secondary Christmas Party
19th December Primary Christmas party
16-20th December Primary and Secondary rewards week with individual trips arranged. Letters coming home for individual students.
Don’t forget the Christmas Fayre.
Today P3 enjoyed their communication lesson.
They have been working on listening, communication, turn taking and our fine motor skills.
Mr Potato head
During the Mr Potato head game pupils were encouraged to request different body parts. The pupils used PECS to encourage communication, understanding and sentence structure.
Some of the body parts were small which encouraged fine motor skills.
Duplo bingo
Pupils were given a bingo card each with a duplo animal on. They had to listen to Mrs Laverick who described the shape and colour of the duplo piece. If the description matched a piece on their board they put their hand up and said “me”. Once they had a full board and built their animal they shouted “bingo”.
Article 28 – We have the right to a good quality education.
Article 13 – We have the right to find out things and share what you think with others,
P3 love trampolining.
Trampolining is a great way to interact and initiate communication.
As a class we use the trampoline in many different way, such as; to support self-regulation, PECS exchange, rebounding, turn taking and maths.
P3 enjoy using our PECS book to request the number of bounces we do and then develop our number skills by bouncing the requested number before stopping.
Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education.
During trampolining we work on our balance and how to move safely around. Mrs Convery sometimes asks us to sit in the middle and practice keeping our balance. She will bounce us trying to knock us off balance, this helps us work on our core strength and balance.
“It is lots of fun!”
We all take it in turns and support each other by standing around the trampoline and cheering for each other.
Article 15 – Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join
groups.
At the end of every session we then have time to relax, lying on the mat or under the blanket and listening to some relaxing music. Mrs Convery will bounce us slowly.
Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax and play.
We have been learning about maps this term, so some of P7 went out and about in Annfield Plain to practise our skills. We followed a route of 2.2 km, working hard to keep the maps correctly orientated and discussing symbols as we went.
Do you know why mushrooms are not marked on a map?!
Year 11 Design Technology pupils had a ‘preparing for adulthood’ challenge today. They had 2 sofas to construct from flat pack, the first one was full of learning curves, but they worked as a team and completed it within one and a half lessons. They were then feeling confident and completed the second sofa in only 15 minutes, learning from their mistakes, remembering how to overcome issues and working without any staff intervention. Then of course we couldn’t throw the boxes away, they got used for outdoor play. 
P4 were asked if they could be part of some doctoral research on sensory processing, working with Liz Jones from Durham University.
Some parents and carers were more than happy to help and teachers were fascinated by the research.
We can’t wait to read the final research documents when they are published.
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