Communication is fun!

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…

P3 Trampolining time

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…

Remembrance Day 2019

Today P3 learnt about Remembrance Day.  Miss Robson put a picture on the whiteboard and asked “Who is this?” P3 thought that the photograph was old and he looked like a soldier. We then looked at artifacts belonging to the soldier to discover that his name was Ernest Johnson Glaholm or “Uncle Ernie” to Miss…

Communication Fun!

In P3 we communicate in many different ways. Today we enjoyed playing games using our PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) communication books.   Mr Potato Head Pupils had to request the different body parts for Mr Potato Head using PECS. This meant being able to recognise and match a symbol to the object before attaching…

Skyline on Bonfire Night

P3 are excited for Bonfire night.   We spoke about the different fireworks displays we have seen over the weekend and discussed how to stay safe. Some of the pupils said they went to a bonfire and other said they watched the fireworks from their window.   P3 then looked at different types of skyline…

Music with Rick

P3 love music with Rick on a Tuesday. We have been learning how to recognise a pattern in a rhythm and follow a beat. We are working on listening to each other to be able to recognise the rhythm being played and then guessing which vegetable we heard being played.   We then created our…

P3 Carnival

P3 have spent this week learning about their host country Brazil. We looked at the world map and found where Brazil was before going on Google Earth and looking at different places in Brazil. CB “Brazil is in South America” We learnt about Brazilian carnivals, we practiced dancing and made carnival masks.   In English…

P3 Media Magic

Today P3 were introduced to the final part of our topic ‘Media Magic’. We transformed the classroom into a cinema and set up a shop selling popcorn, crisps and juice.   P3 took it in turns to ask for snacks from the shop, they had to work out the total and some pupils worked out…

The day P3 became scientists

In science today P3 were learning about electricity. They enjoyed carrying out experiments. First experiment P3 had to predict whether or not the bulb would light up using tin foil, plastic or wood and recorded the results. Second experiment was to make a circuit using a bulb, battery and two wires. P3 were either given…

P3 Sensory story

P3 are doing a poets study on Michael Rosen. This morning we listened to the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. Miss Robson made it into a sensory story. One pupil said “we used green paper for the grass, swishy swashy.” Another said “Miss Robson sprayed at us, splash, splosh.” P3 enjoyed the sensory…