🗣️ Before the end of the year we wanted to share some of the communication strategies that the boys use in Badgers. Everyone has made so much progress with their communication skills this year and the Badger team are super proud of them!

📸 A lot of the boys use the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECs), this requires them to swop a picture of an item with an adult for the real item. Some pupils exchange photos and others use symbols. We also use Aided Language Displays (ALDs) in class, these are used for specific activities like art and craft. The boys use these by pointing to the symbols that represent the items they would like. We also have a pupil who enjoys spelling out words to communicate his wants and needs.

What a clever lot! 🥳

⭐️This week we have enjoyed creating photo keepsake pages to remember our time in Badger class. We will send these home to you soon! We have also continued with our Attention Autism sessions, we enjoyed joining in with paint splat and confetti activities!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend! ☺️🦡

🌈 It is always such a treat to see the boys with their parents! Thank you so much if you were able to join us on Monday. The boys had a lovely time exploring equipment in the new gym. Some of the boys made sandcastles and others had the opportunity to show their parents our wonderful sensory room and movement room. 🤸‍♂️

This week we continued with our farm topic! 🦆🐄🐖 Our sensory tough tray contained ducks in a pond of blue rice! We added to our farm display by painting colourful trees using scrunched up bubble wrap to create the leaves and flowers. Our art topic this half term has been painting so we are trying lots of different techniques.

Hope you have all had a fun weekend with your boys!☀️

Rosie, Jackie & Badger Team 🦡

If the boys come home exhausted on a Friday afternoon then this is why! What a warm and busy week!

🛁 We did lots more work on our topic book, Mrs Wishy Washy’s farm. We enjoyed our farm role play, particularly opening and closing all of the doors on the farm! We explored lots of dry textures in our sensory tough spot, we enjoyed taste testing all of the cereal! Some pupils went on to sort different animals into groups, whilst others found the set of animals with “more”. We also built our own sentences from the story using colourful semantics. 🌈

☔️ During our Attention Autism sessions this week we did an activity called “rain on you”. All of the badger boys were able to have a turn to sit under the umbrella and watch the rain fall above them. Attention Autusm is a brilliant activity to support engagement and turn taking, we all look forward to this session everyday! 🤩

☀️ Finally we have to share our wonderful fun in the sun! What a hot week! The boys have had loads of fun playing outside with the splash pools and water guns. We saw some beautiful turn taking as the boys were waiting for their turn to be sprayed with the water gun! We also discovered this week that our soft play has air conditioning! So when the heat got a little too much we went for a hide out and a sneaky play! 🥵

Hope all of our Badger families have had a wonderful weekend together! ☺️

Badger Team 🦡

🐖🐄🦆 It has been wonderful to welcome the boys back into school this week. We have started working on a new book, it’s called “Mrs Wishy Washy’s Farm”. The boys have really enjoyed washing the farm animals just like Mrs Wishy Washy does. We have also enjoyed animal matching, sight reading key words from the story and painting ducks, pigs and cows for our farm display. 🛁🫧

🤸‍♂️ Everyday at Oakwood our boys have access to a sensory circuit in the gym. This is a circuit of activities that supports our pupils to regulate their bodies ahead of a day of learning. Each sensory circuit contains activities that fit into three stages; Stage 1 is Energy Lifting, stage 2 is Organising and stage 3 is Calming. Badgers think that the sensory circuit is lots of fun! 🤸‍♂️

Have a wonderful weekend,

Badger Team 🦡☺️

Badgers have had a brilliant week at school. We can’t believe it is now time for another week at home! We are excited to welcome the boys back on Monday 2nd June for our final half term of the academic year!

🪣 We always love to watch and join in with our Attention Autism sessions. This week our favourite activity was the lemonade explosion! These sessions support the boys to develop their listening and attention skills; they are also a great opportunity to introduce new vocabulary. 🍾

🦙🦚🚜 The highlight of this week was our class trip to Burntwood Alpaca & Animal Farm! This trip was planned by Harriet and the boys were so happy to spend the day with her again. As you can see from the photos everyone had a wonderful visit. Badger’s loved visiting the animals, exploring in the sandpit and bouncing on the giant bouncy pillow! Travelling somewhere new can be really challenging and the boys took it all in their stride. All adults in Badger class are beyond proud of the boys for their engagement in this special trip. Well done Badgers! 🐐🦎🐒

Have a wonderful week!

Rosie & Badger Team 🦡

Badgers have enjoyed another busy week at school; we have had lots of fun together and engaged in some excellent learning!

🍩 We have continued to enjoy our topic story, “Norman the slug with the silly shell”. This week we used our art lesson to create a silly shell sculpture for Norman. We mixed flour, salt and water to create a salt dough. Then we rolled it into long sausages and twisted it to make a shell. We used sequins to add some sparkle! ✨

🪣 The Badger boys have engaged beautifully with our Attention Autism sessions this week. One of our favourite moments was turn taking on the wobble board; the boys were all so willing to have a go! As the boys sat on the board we wobbled them and sang “jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble wibble wobble, jelly on a plate!” 🍮

Have a wonderful weekend!

Rosie & Badger Team 🦡

It has been wonderful to have the boys back at school now for two weeks. There has been a change of teacher in Badger class and the boys have done a brilliant job of adjusting to having new faces in the classroom. Here are photos of our whole class team; the rest of the team remains the same as the spring term. I have been blown away by the wonderful relationships that I have seen between the staff team and the Badger boys over the last two weeks.

🍩 Our topic book for this half term is “Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell”. We have enjoyed sharing the story together over the last two weeks. The boys have engaged beautifully with exploring resources from the story and some have gone on to complete word matching, sight reading and word building activities. Of course our favourite part was exploring the slime! 🦠

☀️ It has been wonderful to get the know the pupils in Badgers. We have enjoyed playing in the sunshine, modelling with play dough, playing with new toys, making milkshakes, decorating CD snails and much more.

Have a wonderful weekend! ☀️

Rosie & Badger Team 🦡