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Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 1:15pm
This week, in both the Yellow and Green class, the children have settled back into school routines really well.
It has taken time to regain engagement in lessons but we have improved over the week.
We have been concentrating on fine motors activities, sticker art, jigsaws and a creative activity of ripping, and sticking to celebrate Bonfire Night 🔥 . The children enjoyed this a lot and we will send these home tonight for you to keep 😊
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott and Mrs Henwood
Mrs Coleman, Ms Mort, Miss Caine and Mr Waring
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 4:01pm
This week in EYFS, we have been learning all about Bonfire Night! The children discovered why Bonfire Night is celebrated and learned the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We also talked about fire safety and how to enjoy fireworks and bonfires safely.
We have been very creative, making our own bonfire pictures using chalk and tissue paper to create bright, fiery effects. The children also practised their fine motor skills with firework-themed activities and worked hard on their cutting skills to make beautiful fireworks.
In maths, we have been ordering numbers on rockets, helping us practise our counting and number recognition. During PE, the children had lots of fun moving like rockets, zooming and bursting just like fireworks in the sky.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 3:48pm
This week, the children have been learning all about Diwali, the Festival of Lights! They have enjoyed exploring the traditions and celebrations that take place during this special festival.
The children have been very creative, making their own diya lamps using plasticine and painting beautiful watercolour diya lamps. They also explored colourful rangoli patterns, creating them in lots of different ways – using shapes, Numicon, and oil pastels to design vibrant patterns full of colour and symmetry.
We watched videos about Diwali to help us understand how people celebrate around the world and even had lots of fun learning some Bhangra dance moves!
To finish our week of celebrations, the children made their own Diwali cards to share with their families.
It has been a joyful week full of creativity, colour, music, and learning – a wonderful way to celebrate the Festival of Lights together!
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 6
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:42pm
This week in the Yellow Class, we have been busy! We have been doing lots of colour sorting and jigsaws! The children have been persevering at the task for longer and longer which has been lovely to see!
The children impressed us very much with the knowledge of colours and sorting them in different ways.
See you all in Monday, have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 6
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:41pm
This week in Green class, we have been continuing with our shape theme and colour sorting activities. All of the children are becoming much more confident with this and are showing increased amount of engagement with these activities. We have slowly been introducing new colours and shapes for the children to recognise and some of them are beginning to be able to do this.
This week, we have also done some mark making using water colours. Lots of the children enjoyed exploring the paint using the paint brush or their fingers. Some children needed a little bit more reassurance and allowed an adult to use hand over hand support to complete this 😊
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring 🙂
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:50pm
To support World Mental Health Day in school, the children wore a yellow accessory to spread awareness!
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 5
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:46pm
We are so proud of all the children in Green class. This week, we have been continuing to practice our pencil control and we have seen all children take part in this with less adult support than in previous weeks.
We have also introduced some fine motor activities, including a coloured peg board. It has been great to see some of the children copying the picture cards and others creating their own patterns.
We have been practicing our turn taking whilst completing our activities this week and some of the children are showing patience and fleeting eye contact whilst waiting for their turn which is great to see.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring 🙂
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 5
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:14pm
In the Yellow Class this week, we have been continuing with our routines of sensory circuits, snack and Bucket Therapy in our daily timetable.
The children have been improving at following objects of reference for these activities and have also been improving at sitting at the table for a prolonged period of time for both snack and Bucket Therapy.
This week we introduced bubbles into our bucket session, all the children enjoyed these very much and showed sustained looking and listening. We used key words such as “more” and “finished”.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 10:18pm
Today we were joined by our EYFS parents to welcome our new Reception children into the family of St Basil's!
It was wonderful to see our Year 6 children taking on the responsibility of being Prayer partners and offering their guidance and support.
Year 6 led our Celebration and lit candles for each of the children, also leading them in song and prayer.
Mrs Sheppard then presented all of the children with a special book as a welcome gift from the school family.
Feedback from our parents was lovely to hear and we were delighted to share this occasion with all of those who were able to join us.
Family Fast Day Simple lunch: Friday 3rd October
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 9:48pm
Today,a large and enthusiastic group of nearly 40 Key Stage two pupils, joined us for a special lunch.
To mark CAFOD family fast day, we focused on 'living simply' in order to show solidarity with those who live in need.
Our 'simple' lunch consisted of soup and bread with fruit. It reminded us of others around the world who live without luxuries.
In particular, we were delighted to welcome some year three pupils to this event for the first time.
Well done and thank you to all the pupils and staff who took part in such an important event.
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 4
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:16pm
This week has been super busy for the children in Green class. This week we have been sorting objects by colour and shape. The children are becoming much more confident in this. The children have also been taking part in sensory song. This is where we listen to a song and a sensory experience such as bubbles or blowing a balloon up are led by an adult. This is working on anticipation skills as over time, the children will associate the different songs with that sensory experience. All of the children have loved this and have shown great engagement in this session which we are very proud of them for.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 4
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:14pm
In the yellow class this week, we introduced a new friend into our class, Gabriella! 😊
We have had another busy week exploring activities, staff have been engaging with the children whilst doing so. It’s so nice that we have all already built great relationships and the children are tolerating us in their space more 😊
This week we have introduced Bucket Therapy into our timetable, this is a group activity that enhances the children’s anticipation skills, we are so proud of the children for coming and sitting at the table together for this.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Year 6 Meeting their Prayer Partners
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 9:41am
Year 6 went to meet their prayer partners. They had a great time and didn't want to leave! Year 6 have already started to help their prayer partners settle into life at St Basils and look forward to supporting them throughout the year. All of Year 6 and reception are looking forward to all the fun things they will do together this year.
Year 6 Courage Celebration of the Word
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 9:35am
Year 6 led a celebration of the word on the theme of courage. This is our school value for the year.
EYFS - The Gruffalo and Post Office
Date: 1st Oct 2025 @ 8:34am
The children have loved role-playing in our post office. They’ve been very busy sending letters, emptying the post box, and making special deliveries. They even practised their cutting skills by making their own stamps!
In shared reading, we enjoyed The Gruffalo. The children can now retell the story in their own words and had great fun using stick puppets for some sensory play. They also got creative and made their very own Gruffalo characters.
Across EYFS, the children have been busy learning in all areas and making lots of new friends. They’ve especially enjoyed exploring our new resources, including the stacking pyramids and Geostix.
Year 2 Science- Testing materials
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 8:20am
During their materials unit it science, year 2 have tested the properties of different materials.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 8:18am
Year 2 have been learning about the key differences between basketball and netball. They have practice their dribbling and passing skills.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 8:14am
Year 3 have been learning about the differences between basketball and netball. They have been practicing key skills such as dribbling and passing.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 8:12am
Year 4 have been learning how to serve in table tennis and have been practicing forehand and backhand shots.
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 3
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 3:34pm
This week has been another busy week for the children in the Green class. We have seen lots of the children showing us longer levels of engagement with different activities particularly in our colour sorting activities. We have also seen some children becoming more familiar with the core board to request more and others continuing to build confidence when using the communication board. This week we have introduced some mark making and pencil control activities. All of the children have really enjoyed this and have been exploring using different hands to complete this.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort and Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 3
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 3:30pm
This week in yellow class, it’s been another busy week! We have been exploring more of our cause and effect toys and some of the children have been allowing adults in engage in their play- only on their terms though!
The children are definitely becoming more familiar with objects of reference, walking independently towards the hall door at lunchtime and sitting down at the table at snack time! You will see from the photos the children all sit for snack and remain seated for the entire snack time! This is very good! We are very proud of them!
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 3:01pm
Today in RE, Year 4 listened to the song Abraham linking to our scripture and then created a dance based on the lyrics.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 12:36pm
Year 5 and 6 enjoyed a visit to Hightown beach. We travelled by train to get to Hightown and had a short walk down to the beach. Once there, we worked together on different stations to find out about the coast and how the sea can cause coastal erosion, as well as exploring the sand dunes too!
Date: 23rd Sep 2025 @ 1:33pm
Year 4 sketched different kinds of leaves and then decided on one leaf to turn into a printing tile. We then used different colours of printing ink to use with our tiles to print our leaves.
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 2
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 2:26pm
We have had a very busy week in Green class. This week we have been continuing to introduce the children to a range of sensory experiences including sensory circuits and sensory song. All of the children have really enjoyed this and we have seen increasing amounts of engagement as the week has progressed. We have also been introducing some colour sorting activities using a communication board for the children to request more when they are ready to move onto the next colour.
With the weather changing over this last week, please if you have not already done so could you send a spare change of clothes, wellies and a puddle suit into school with your child’s name on it. Our school grounds are getting muddy and we don’t want any of the children’s uniforms to get ruined.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort and Mr Waring 🙂
