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

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 🙂

Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 2

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 2:24pm

This week in the yellow class, we have introduced sensory circuits into our timetable!

We do sensory circuits in the school hall. Not only have we introduced sensory circuits, we have introduced the objects of reference for it and one for back into the classroom. The children have responded really well to these!

The children have continued to explore the resources within the classroom, they have especially enjoyed the peanut ball and the trampoline. This week we have had a few sleepy children, getting used to being back at school, who have sneaked in a nap or two 😴😂

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 have you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine

Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 1

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:32pm

What an amazing first full week the children in Green Class (Mrs Henwood) have had!

The children have settled back into our school routine well and have all been following objects of reference to transition around the resource base. This week we have been completing a shape sorting activity and focusing on the children requesting more either using a core board or communication board. We have also had lots of fun playing with the sand in our outside area.

Happy Bithday to Khairav for today!All the children are coming home with a bag of cookies and some sweets!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Henwood (Miss Brellisford), Ms Mort & Mr Waring

Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 1

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:30pm

This week in the Yellow Class (Miss Abbott) we have been exploring our new classroom!

The children have settled in beautifully and have investigated all our resources and had fun doing it! Some children have been making themselves at home by taking off their shoes and socks!

The children have also enjoyed the outside area, especially the sand pit!

We have introduced core boards, and communication boards at snack time and for some activities. Some children are fleetingly noticing these, which is a great start!

Really proud of them all!

A big happy birthday to Khairav in the Green Class, you will notice some Haribo and Cookies in your child’s bag, these are from him! Thank you Khairav! 🎈

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 9

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 9:17am

Another busy week, full of fun and activities!

The weather is getting hotter! ☀️ 🥵

This week the children have LOVED the water tray! The adults even ended up needing to dry in the heat, even though we didn’t play in the water!

Have a lovely weekend and keep cool!

The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 8

Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:32pm

This week we have introduced even more activities relating to colours of the rainbow! The children have loved colour sorting activities and the coloured sensory tiles!
We have introduced more challenge into our sensory circuits which the children are working hard to achive! Well done!
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 7

Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 11:19am

This week we have been making the most of the warm weather and spending a lot of time outside! ☀️
We have introduced new resources into our classroom for our new topic, ‘colours of the rainbow’ 🌈

Have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 5

Date: 23rd May 2025 @ 1:03pm

Happy half term! We hope you all have a lovely 2 weeks off!
See you all on Monday 9th June 😀
The SEND team

Rainbow Unit-Summer Term Week 4

Date: 16th May 2025 @ 12:07pm

What another lovely sunny week!
In the Rainbow Unit this week, we have been taking part in lots of intensive interaction! We have been following some movements on the screen, playing with lots of cause and effect toys and being creative!
One day we did an adult led activity with mirrors, the children loved looking at themselves and pulling funny faces!
Some children have been continuing with phonics and maths activities and have been doing so well! Many jigsaws have been played with and lots of physical activity outside in the warm weather!
Have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 3

Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:41pm

It has been a busy week! We have been painting, organising, learning phonics, doing jigsaws and playing outside!
This week we introduced a balloon into our sensory song, the children anticipated the adult letting go of the balloon and even enjoyed playing with the balloons!
Have a nice weekend!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 2

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:40pm

This week, we have been building on our group sessions of dough disco and bucket therapy and been taking part in sensory story and sensory song sessions. We are going to continue building this up, but for now it’s lasting for a few minutes which we are really proud of them for! 👏🏼
The weather has been glorious this week and some children have been enjoying playing outside more, even using the equipment outside on the playground!
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend, see you on Tuesday!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 1

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 1:13pm

First week of Summer term and the children have settled back in very well!
We have completed lots of whole class activities this week including bucket therapy and dough disco! More children have been taking part in bucket therapy which is good to see, and staying for the whole session.
Dough disco is a new experience for the children, and they have started to explore the PlayDoh to enhance their fine motor skills. These two sessions are on our timetables every day and will soon be embedded in our daily routine.
The children who have been interested have also explored some panting with water colours 🎨
From school, you will soon receive the half term overview, our topic this half term is Fairytales.
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit-Spring Term Week 13

Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 4:20pm

This week, the children have enjoyed taking part in Easter craft activities!

Some children enjoyed decorating and eating bunny biscuits, and some even tasted hot cross buns! Yummy!

We hope you have a happy Easter, enjoy the break and we will see you in the Summer term!

Happy Easter!

The SEND Team

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 12

Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 2:37pm

It has been a busy last full week in school for the children. This week, we have continued practicing our fine motor skills with mark making and pencil control activities.
Some of the children visited Walton Gardens with Year 1 and Year 2 and had a great time! ☀️
Just a reminder that we are in school Monday-Wednesday next week before breaking up for Easter.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team.

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 11

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 8:41pm

It’s been another busy week full of a wide variety of activities for the children. We feel like we have had a snippet of spring so we celebrated with ice lollies!! yum yum!
We hope all of the mummies have a lovely Mother’s Day and enjoy your surprise from the children! 😊
The SEND team

Rainbow Unit-Spring Term Week 10

Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 4:19pm

We have had a very busy week in the Rainbow Unit this week. We have been building towers, grouping the same colours together and some children have been working hard on recognising numbers. We have also been practicing our fine motor skills with some bead threading and using the peg boards (this is one of the children’s favourite activities!)
With the warmer weather, all of the children have enjoyed some time outside and we have even had part of our sensory circuit in our outside area. Some of the children have been showing some great sharing skills and turn taking as they have been pushing the cars down the ramp together. We have even employed our own window cleaner 😂
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND team.

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 9

Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:53pm

Really proud of the children this week. We have made great progress with bucket therapy with more children showing an increased amount of engagement through the sessions! All children are also really enjoying our sensory circuit sessions. This week, we have set up new activities for the children to explore which have incorporated balancing and jumping safely from a height.
Have a lovely weekend,
The SEND team

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 8

Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:50pm

This week, the children have really enjoyed exploring different parts of our transport topic. They have all enjoyed having a go at the bikes and scooters that we have available during lunchtime play outside. We have seen lots of requesting by taking an adult by the hand during this time and of course we have heard lots of giggles too.
The children all looked amazing dressed up for World Book Day and they all enjoyed looking at the different costumes that children from reception had during play time.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
The SEND team.

Rainbow Unit- Spring term Week 6

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:32pm

Last week of half term! Last week of our animals topic!
All the children have made lovely animal paintings using their handprints! These are displayed in their learning journeys.
The blue class have took part in some sensory ice play, trying different ways to release the animal from the ice! They have also been doing sorting and organising of animals!
The yellow class have been taking part in lots of fine motor activities, including making animals with the peg boards. The children have completed the animal jigsaws whilst making animal sounds and naming the animals!

We hope you all have a happy and safe half term!
We will return on Monday 24th February 😊
The SEND Team

P.S. Happy Valentines Day! ❤️

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 5

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:01pm

Another busy week for the children in the Rainbow unit.
This week the children have enjoyed building, drawing, looking through our books and completing our matching animals activities. We have also seen lots of children growing confidence when taking part in sensory circuits and becoming more independent when completing the different activities within our session.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend,
The SEND team

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 4

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 2:43pm

We went to the animal fair… 🎶 🎵
This week we have sang lots of animal nursery rhymes and songs to the children!
Adults are using makaton when singing the songs, the children are intrigued 😊
In both classes, we have introduced some new non-fiction books that the children are really enjoying! 📚
Have a lovely weekend!!
The SEND Team

Jubilee Year launch - Pilgrims of Hope - January 24th 2025

Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 11:42am

Our school community came together for an amazing launch for the very special Jubilee Year.

 A Jubilee is celebrated within the Catholic church every 25 years. This year the theme will be 'Pilgrims of Hope'.

We are called together to experience joy and strength as we embarkon a journey to be 'agents of change,' working together for justice, love and peace, locally and globally.

After learning about the importance and theme of the Jubilee, the children across school have Celebrated the Word and written their own pledges.

We gathered together to reflect and share pledges before displaying them all around the hall.

We are excited for more events to come during the Jubilee Year and are filled with hope for the difference we can make in fulfilling our pledges!

Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 3

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 4:03pm

This week we have stuck to our busy busy timetables. The children have taken part in bucket therapy, they are getting so much better at sitting for the short duration and giving lots of eye contact!
In the blue classroom we have been consistently using the communication boards during different activities. The children are fleetingly noticing us using these but as time goes on, the children may start to use these independently. We have been continuing on our animal theme, making animal sounds and we have started the story of the three little pigs!
In the yellow classroom, we have been doing lots of activities that include colours and shapes. The children have been working 1-1 with an adult and have been sorting real life pictures into the correct colours with some children even practicing saying the names of the colours. We have also been using the shape sorter to place the shapes through the correct hole. The children have had lots of fun doing this and have shown great persistence skills when they haven’t managed to get it correct first time around. We have been continuing to use our communication boards in every activity and some children have managed to communicate ‘I want more’ using this.
Have a lovely weekend- keep safe in the winds!
The SEND Team