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We would just like to say a huge thank you to the Friends Of Orchard Brae for this wonderful hamper full of hand creams that they kindly gave to staff.
Their kind gesture is very much appreciated and these will be distributed to staff at the beginning of next week.
Time is flying by and before we know it, Christmas will be here.
To help get you in the festive spirit, we are delighted to announce the launch of our very own Orchard Brae Advent Calendar! Starting on Saturday 12th December, each day in the run up Christmas we will bring you two festive treats from pupils and staff at the school.
This will be shared both on the website and our Facebook page, so get ready to join in the festive fun!!!
Room 10 have been busy investigating measurement using different materials.
We used connecting blocks and joined them together to see who make the tallest group of blocks and worked collaboratively to create the longest group.
We also took maths out into the playground, measuring the length of lines using leaves and other materials and comparing our heights to the width of the path. There was also an impromptu lesson on volume and capacity as we watched the dumper truck put a tonne of sand into our sandpit!
Room 12 found out all about Diwali in November. We watched a powerpoint that told us all about it and then made Mehndi patterns. We used a variety of stampers to create our patterns on an arm template for our ASDAN unit about celebrations in different communities.
Howes Hoose pupils are continuing to work hard. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy packing food parcels for distribution. Also, focus has been on household tasks such as bed making and washing clothes.
Bike maintenance has begun and all the pupils are enjoying it and learning lots!
Our Head of Primary, Karen, asked Room 2 in September if we’d like to do an enterprise which would involve us learning to care for plants in our classroom. Our class teacher Ann didn’t realise Karen was going to give us quite so many Spider Plants to care for! However, we have risen to the challenge and observed our plants grow, helped to transplant many of them, watered them regularly and generally nurtured them. We have all participated actively in their care.
During the last 2 weeks of term we will take turns going round the classes at Orchard Brae School asking if anyone, for a small donation, would like to have one of the plants. We will give all donations to the PE department’s bicycle fundraiser.
Room 16 had a brilliant time celebrating Dr Who Day on 21st November. We had a fun but messy time making our own tardis and taking turns to hide inside it. It looks like it may have crashed landed on far off planets a few times but it is still standing! We made scary monster masks too and listened to some of the different Doctor Who theme tunes from over the years.
Room 15 has been incorporating lots of festive activities recently (we definitely broke the no Christmas stuff before 1st December rule!).
We have spent a lot of time working on our expressive arts Christmas video, applying our communication, musical and dramatic skills (and having lots of fun). Our class elf helped us to talk about “snow”! We’ve finished the video this week and have really enjoyed watching it (on repeat, by popular demand!) and can’t wait to share it with you later this month.
This week we explored the ASDAN to decide how we want to decorate a room by creating our own Christmas tree – we each chose which decorations we wanted to add and glued them onto the tree, and it now adorns our classroom wall making the room feel a bit more festive! Our story this week has been Stick Man, and we made our own Stick Man from playground resources as part of our outdoor education sessions.
Our Attention Autism sessions this week have also had a Christmas theme – the dancing Christmas tree has been a firm favourite, and it has been fabulous to see the engagement and spontaneous communication this has motivated our learners to share – “more”! Our stage 4 activity today is making our Christmas cards.
Alongside lots of fun we equip our learners to better understand events around them and be able to communicate about them. We have also continued to use the “special activity” symbol to continue to build our resilience to changes in routine, which can be many at this time of year.
As our next website post will be after the holidays, the team in Room 15 want to pass on our best wishes for a happy, safe and restful break to all – Merry Christmas!
