Rainbow Unit: Gallery
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Trip to Children's Adventure Farm!
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 5:04pm
The children in the Resource Base visited Children's Adventure Farm in the Autumn Term! Some Year 6 play leaders came along as helpers too- thank you to those children!
The day consisted of visiting the farm, feeding the ducks, visiting the woodland, watching a show, drinking hot chocolate and visiting the park! The children even had a visit from Santa!
A great day was had by all!
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 15
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 4:43pm
We have continued our Christmas festive activities this week- what a fun week we have had!
We had our Christmas party were we played on a Christmas bouncy castle and with Christmas soft play!
We had a visit in our classrooms, from Santa and his elf! The children especially loved touching his beard! 🎅
We had our Christmas party food yesterday and pulled some crackers! 🎉
I will send a message to you all including photos of your child at the farm, and taking part in Christmas activities, for you to share if you wish!
We wish you and your family a joyful and safe Christmas and a happy new year!
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 14
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 4:40pm
This week, we have been completing lots of Christmas activities such as painting, colouring in, making and decorating our biscuits and even making our own gingerbread men. The children have had lots of fun completing these and so have the adults!
Hope you have a lovely weekend and we are looking forward to seeing you all on Monday.
The SEND team.
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 13
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 4:31pm
It’s has been a lovely week for the Rainbow Unit this week as we have had our first school trip. We are so proud of all the children, they coped well with the coach journey and enjoyed exploring all the different areas of the farm. Whilst we were there, some of the children enjoyed watching a magic show with the year 6 play leaders. They all enjoyed playing in the park at the end of the day and some were that exhausted from a day of fun that they fell asleep on the journey home.
This week we have also been continuing with our bucket therapy lessons. It has been lovely to see most of the children engaged during this session and showing their anticipation skills as we have been waiting to see what is next to come out of the bucket! We are also consistently using a communication board during this time when we are using the bubbles.
We will share the photos from our trip to the farm soon, you will be invited into school to see them along with photos of Christmas activities 😊
If your child has come home with any of our school spare uniform over the last few weeks, please could you send it back in to school.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 12
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 3:07pm
The children have had another busy week in the rainbow unit. This week we have been using the mirrors to look at ourselves. Some children have been pointing to their nose and eyes and other children have been pulling their tongues out.
The children have also enjoyed being in our creative area and doing some hand painting this week. We heard lots of giggles from the paintbrush tickling their hands and the children created some lovely pictures which we will share later on in the term.
Throughout the week we have introduced the children to their social stories with pictures of their families, they have all fleetingly engaged with this throughout the week. If you haven’t already sent any pictures of your close family members, could you please do so by sending them via dojo message to your child’s class teacher.
We are all very excited for our first school trip next week. Please could you send into school a pair of wellies for the children so that they can wear these when we are on our trip!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 11
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 3:04pm
This week we have taken part in a lot of intensive interaction with the children. A lot of our children have the target of fleetingly notice an adult is there and we feel the children are becoming more aware of us in their play but we are now wanting them to be so comfortable, that they allow us to join in with them!
The children LOVED the snow this week! They put their coats and wellies on and played in the snow! The children loved the snow, picking it up feeling it in her hands and stamping in it!
The children all took part in a sensory circuit in the hall, they manoeuvred themselves safely on the equipment, jumping and landing safely. This is something we will continue in school.
Have a lovely weekend and stay safe in this frost!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 10
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 3:47pm
We have had a lovely week in the Rainbow Unit. The children have all settled back into our school routine and have very quickly remembered what our objects of reference mean for our different areas which is great.
This week, we have followed the children’s interests and after some of them had shown a key interest in some dressing up costumes, we have looked at different people who can help us. The children have had an opportunity to dress up in a hi-vis vest and explore some tools. Some have completed a puzzle, matching the different body parts of the people who help us.
We have also been exploring Lego this week which has been a big hit! We built some towers of all the different colours and then made the number blocks out of the Lego pieces. We have also seen lots of requesting for different nursery rhymes on the screen and even some dancing along with the songs!
We hope you all liked the children’s school photos, we thought they were all amazing!
Please remember to send through some photos of the children’s immediate families.
Hope you have a lovely weekend,
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 9
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 3:41pm
Welcome back to Autumn 2!
This week we have been concentrating on settling back into school life! The children have coped very well and have settled back into our timetable very well! I think they are tired today!
The children have enjoyed playing with the pumpkin from last half term. They have remembered us decorating it and some children have done this independently this week!
The children have enjoyed playing with the play doh! Using the tools and rolling it into sausages! Amazing fine motor skills!
The children have loved ordering the numbers, counting and playing with the cubes! They have also enjoyed sharing the pram and the baby dolls.
In your child’s bag, you will find the overview for Autumn 2 and we will send this electronically on another post 😊
Have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 8
Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 4:13pm
Final week of half term this week! I cannot believe the children have been at St Basil's for a whole half term!
It has been an incredible 8 weeks with your children, we have really got to know them really well and they have settled into school life amazingly which we are incredibly proud of!
This week we have finished our new beginnings topic by exploring fruit! The children explored apples, oranges, lemons, melon and pineapple! The children especially enjoyed feeling the textures of the pineapple, they were very intrigued by the spikes and the leaves! 🍍
The children have enjoyed exploring the foam mirrors, pulling faces at themselves and even trying on new items of clothing in front of them! The children have explored the trolley and babies more this week and the children have enjoyed picking up the babies, carrying them around and playing with their soft eyelashes.
We have decorated our every own Rainbow Unit pumpkin! 🎃
We hope you have a lovely half term off- please don't forget to send us some photographs via Class Dojo of the children with their familiar people. Don't forget to tell us who they are!
Thank you so much for your ongoing support and allowing us the joy of looking after your children!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 7
Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 4:11pm
We have had a busy week in the Rainbow unit this week.
We have introduced the children to lots of new sensory toys throughout the week.
These have included some light spinners, some sensory rollers, some smudge tiles and some sensory gel filled numbers. All of the children have enjoyed exploring these and have even tried using the rollers on the adults and each other.
All of the children have enjoyed taking part in water play in our outside area. We used beakers and funnels to pour the water onto the boats. The adults outside repeated the words 'pour' and 'splash!
In the blue class, the children have been playing with a doll and a shopping trolley, kindly brought in by Mrs Coleman. All of the children have been putting items from around the classroom into the trolley and pushing it around. We have also been using a shape sorter and experimenting which shapes fit in the holes.
In the yellow class, we have been taking part in some parallel play which has been lovely to see. All of the children had their own vehicle and were all pushing it around the track and walking around the work unit at the same time. We also had a special visit from Mrs Sheppard were some of the children enjoyed listening to a story.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week at parents evening.
The SEND team.
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 6
Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 4:08pm
This week we have had a busy week; the children have enjoyed being outside on the playground playing with the Pre-School and Reception children! The children have showed that they have enjoyed this a lot by the fact they didn’t want to come back inside!
The children have enjoyed playing with the numicon pieces, making patterns with them and putting them in order. They have also enjoyed solving puzzles such as jigsaws and shape sorting. The children have also enjoyed more cause and effect toys this week, showing anticipation when playing with them.
We hope you have a lovely weekend, and we are looking forward to seeing you all next week for parents evening.
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 5
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 4:53pm
This week we have taken part in some creative work, we have been finger painting! All children took part! Some children were a little bit more reserved at first but enjoyed it in the end! We have also been doing lots of mark making with hand over hand support when necessary.
We introduced some sensory toys in the blue classroom this week and the children have loved them! In the yellow classroom, we have been covering the children with different materials. We have heard lots of giggles and seen lots of smiles from all of the children. We have also been completing lots of insert puzzles and been using the coloured pegs with some children even saying some of the numbers too.
We have all continued to enjoy our time outside with some children even having a go at riding the tricycles and balance bikes which we have outside during lunch time. This week, we have started to master the object of reference for outside with all children following it at some point. We will be continuing to practise this so that it is consistent for all children.
Have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 4
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:55pm
We have had another brilliant week in the Rainbow Unit. The children are beginning to get used to our school routine and are beginning to follow some objects of reference.
This week, we have been working on our fine motor skills, using tweezers to pick up different shapes and place them in a box and pushing the beads along the bead maze.
We have also enjoyed using the different tools to cut and make shapes in the play doh and have been completing a shape sorting activity.
This week we have introduced the children in groups to the front playground during lunch times. All of them have really enjoyed mixing with the reception children and exploring the play ground equipment that we have outside at that time.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 3
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:47pm
You all should be so proud of your incredible children, because we are!
This week we have mastered everyone sitting down at the same time to eat their lunch at lunchtime!
We have been taking part in intensive interaction this week with the children and they are becoming so familiar with us as their teachers and accepting us to take part in their play, which is amazing!
We have been making use of the lovely weather and spent a lot of time outdoors! We have been playing with bubbles outdoors, working on our anticipation skills of ready, steady, go! We also brought the perspex shapes outside and some children enjoyed looking through them seeing the different colours!
We introduced some new cause and effect toys such as the click clack track for the cars- the children have enjoyed this a lot!
We also introduced a logical thinking game with numbers and padlock trains, some children enjoyed working out the correct locks and even ordering the numbers! Well done!
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we think the children will sleep tonight after their first full week in big school!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 2
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:45pm
What an amazing week we’ve had in school!
The children have surprised us so much on how well they have settled into “big school” and returned to school!
Although they are still very independent in how they play they are accepting their new friends to be in their space and play alongside them, which we are so proud of them for!
This week we have continued to explore our setting, playing with new toys and getting familiar with all adults.
Today has been our first full day and what a lovely day the children have had, they have coped amazingly, sticking to our jam packed timetable of learning and fun!
We have continued to be consistent using our objects of reference and some of the children have taken to this straight away, our three superstars from last year (Tilly, Dhruv and Andrew) have been leading the way when it comes to objects of references, teaching our new children!
The children have coped very well with the snack time and the lunch hall too! All sitting whilst eating!
With it being our first full day, we have started in our new classes. We have sent you all a message today letting you know what class your children are in!
Have a lovely weekend!
SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 1
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:37pm
Welcome back to the first term of 2024-2025! We are so proud of all the children for the way they have come into school this week and adapted to their next chapter in their educational journey. The children have lots of time exploring their new classroom and outdoor area at their own pace. The children have coped really well with moving between the different areas in our environment. We have introduced objects of reference this week which will aid us in our transitions and all of the adults will be consistently using these in the coming weeks.
We hope you have a lovely weekend and we are looking forward to seeing all the children again on Monday.
The SEND team
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:19am
The children have loved exploring and playing with our new sensory equipment in our classrooms this week! Between the two classrooms we have brand new soft play equipment, a mini trampoline for vestibular movement, a sensory light tube and a sensory bubble tube! The children are able to change the colours of the tubes and have loved exploring this! Scroll through the photos to see it all!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:18am
We have had another busy week in the resource base. This week the children have enjoyed playing in the spinning top in our outside area. All of the children have had a go at this and explored the different ways in which you can make it move. Some children have had a go at matching up the head to the correct animal. We have had some strange creatures being made but with adult support, they were able to match them up.
We hope you all have a lovely 2 weeks off and we look forward to welcoming the children back into school on Monday 10th June.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:16am
How lovely is this weather! The children have had lots of water play this week to cool down, including having an ice lolly for snack!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:16am
Exciting news! We have had a new visitor in our Resource Base this week called Andrew! The children have welcomed him with open arms and we are so happy to see how well he fits into our St Basil’s family!
It has been a busy week this week for the Resource Base. We have had some new outside equipment delivered for our outside area which all of the children have loved playing on especially the climbing apparatus. Some of the children have loved the transport equipment outside too and have played in the water, even watering the plants!
In our creative area, some of the children have been doing some mark making with pencils and felt tips. They have explored using both hands sometimes with hand over hand support when needed. They have continued to enjoy the sand and water play and have been using the sand spinners to fill the trucks! How clever!
Sticking with our topic of animals, Mrs Sheppard brought her trained dog in from home for all children in the school but Wilf (the dog) visited the Resource Base too. Some children where not too sure but some children loved him! We have also been using the animal matching jigsaw game to match the correct parts of the animals together and then making animal noises!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:15am
What a lovely week we have had! The children have continued to enjoy our animal topic and have been playing with and lining up the toy animals that we have in our classroom. We have looked at lots of images of animals from under the sea and from the rainforest. The children have continued to enjoy our nursery rhymes, particularly ‘old Mac Donald had a farm’ with some of the children even singing parts and making animal noises.
All of the children have really enjoyed being outside this week. We have been using ‘ready, steady, go’ when pushing things down the ramp and running around and the children have shown lots of eye contact when waiting to hear ‘go’.
Throughout the week, we have been reinforcing with the children our everyday routines including picking resources up off the floor. All of the children are able to do this with hand over hand support however this week, some children have done this independently following an instruction from an adult. This is something that we will continue to work on as we progress through the term.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:14am
This week we have continued with our animal topic. We have been engaging in intensive interactions using animal noises! Some child have enjoyed looking at the puppets and even watching themselves in the mirror. The children have played beautifully together this week, acknowledging each other more frequently and engaging in the same activity. Story time with Mrs Mort was a big hit and all the children have had story time at some point in the week. Some children enjoyed banging objects on the railings outside so we introduced ‘boom whackers’ and the children loved hearing the different noises when banged on different objects outside. The children also played with a new cause and effect toy this week, the click clack car track!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:13am
This week we have concentrated on settling back in to our school routines and rules. This has taken a few days but the children have remembered most of our objects of reference and have especially remembered where to sit when it is snack time!
We have started our topic on animals this week and the children have been playing with new animal jigsaws and their pieces as well as animal puppets! The children have enjoyed watching the adults wearing the puppets and it has made them giggle a lot- even giving the puppets some kisses! Some children have been been observed wearing the puppets themselves which is very clever!
The children have loved the outdoors this week, rain or shine! Particularly loved having a go on the whizz dizzy which we introduced last half term and balancing on the river stones!
We have listened a lot to number songs to 5, played with the number jigsaw and built using cubes. We have also done some painting!
If you have taken any photographs over half term then please send them over to us and we can add them into their social story, we would love to see what you all got up to 😊
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:13am
The children have had another lovely week. This week, we have been able to use our new outdoor area. All of the children have loved being outside playing with some of our new sensory toys. One of the favourites has been the 'wizzy dizzy'. This has been something that all of the children have had a little go on and we have heard lots of giggle from them when they have been playing on this.
We have continued using our creative area and some of the children have been doing some mark making using chalk. We have introduced some funnels and beakers into our water area and the children have been using these to pour over the boats.
To end our healthy me topic, we have explored the different textures of fruits. All of the children explored how the different fruit felt with their hands and some of them had a little taste of the more familiar fruit.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:12am
This week as part of our ‘Healthy Me’ topic, we have been looking at some body parts, particularly teeth and eyes and using the mirrors! We watched an episode on the screen to do with visiting the dentist. We paused the screen when you could very clearly see teeth on the screen and said “teeth” and we indicated our own teeth and then the children’s teeth. Ask the children, “where are your teeth?” See if they can indicate this! We have also been looking at eyes, their eyes and our eyes too!
The children have enjoyed some new vestibular movements this week! They have liked being wrapped in a blanket or being swung safely whilst in the blanket. It has been so lovely to see them laughing and enjoying the movement!
We have a brand new train track in our room, and the children have enjoyed putting the cars on the track! The children have also visited the creative area in the resource base with sand and lots of space to run in!
