Robins have had a great last week, celebrating all their achievements. We throughly enjoyed the summer celebration assembly. Thank you to the parents and families that came along to celebrate with us. We are all so proud of each one of our little robins, they have all worked so hard this year, whilst having lots of fun along the way.

We had a special visit from the ice cream man. Some of us enjoyed eating our ice creams and got very sticky. Yum yum 😋.

On Friday we enjoyed water play outside. We had so much fun splashing around in the trays to keep cool. We then continued to enjoy the warm weather and had dinner outside too.

We would like to thank each and everyone’s parents and families for all your support throughout the year. We are super proud of all of the children. We have a few children moving class in September so good luck to those children, we will miss you lots.

Thank you for all the lovely gifts and cards we really appreciate them all.
We hope you all have an amazing summer and create lots of memories.
See you all in September.
Team Robins x

Robins has a wonderful time at the summer festival. A big thank you to the parents that were able to attend the festival. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Also a big thank you to those who organised the Summer festival. We all thoroughly enjoyed it all.
We enjoyed meeting the Gruffalo.

The bubble man was amazing. The wind made them go everywhere there were sooooo many bubbles! Some of us even had a go at blowing our own bubbles.

Some of Robins enjoyed having their face or hand painted during the festival. The staff even got involved and all had little robins on their faces too.

We all enjoyed exploring the different messy play Gruffalo activities.

Bevs musical area was excellent. At the end of the festival some of us enjoyed banging the drums loudly and singing head shoulders knees and toes. Some of us enjoyed eating doughnuts 🍩 and ice cream 🍦 too.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at our summer celebration assembly on Wednesday.
Leeanne and the Robins Team.

What a fantastic trip we had Robins. All of Robins were superstars during the trip. We enjoyed finding lots of different animals, giraffes, tigers, owls, flamingos, monkeys, and lots more. We saw the red land train and we waved as it passed us by.

We enjoyed our picnic whilst in the zoo. We are so proud of how well you all managed with being in a different environment and having dinner.

Robins enjoyed, our star of the week assembly. All of Robbins are star of the week this week for their fantastic engagement during the trip to Dudley zoo! We are all so proud of how well you all managed with a change to the normal daily routine.

A big thank you to Nikki for our picnic, robins enjoyed all the yummy food especially the chocolate cake😊. A huge thank you to all the staff that came along and made the trip amazing for all the little Robins.

Have a good weekend Robins.
Leeanne and Team Robins.

The past couple of weeks in Robins we have been reading the story Dear Zoo in preparation for our Zoo visit on the 3rd of July. We have enjoyed exploring the props alongside the story and using the picture symbols to support our understanding.

We worked really hard on making choices during painting. We chose the colours and tools we wanted to use to create marks on our paper. Some of us chose to use our hands to create marks and some of us chose to use paint brushes and rollers.

During music with Bev this week we explored violins. We all listened to the violins and then took turns to explore and play the violin. Harris really enjoyed the violin when it was being played fast. Oliver, Preston and Poppy enjoyed exploring and playing the violin.

Robins also did some excellent choosing between toast and crumpets on Friday morning. We also made choices between butter and jam. We practiced our spreading skills by using a knife to spread either butter or jam. Then enjoyed eating them for our snack.

Robins star of the week is……. Deeya. Deeya has been self feeding using a spoon during. Snack and sometimes during lunchtime. Keep up the excellent work Deeya.

We are so excited for the Zoo on Wednesday! Thank you to the families that have made voluntary contributions so far we really appreciate it 😊. Fingers crossed the rain holds off for us, there are areas where we can take shelter around the zoo. But please can you ensure you child has suitable clothing in case it does rain.

Have a lovely weekend.
Leeanne and the Robins Team.

The sun has finally come out yay! This week Robins have enjoyed exploring the sensory garden. We have found worms and enjoyed doing some gardening and digging in the soil. We also enjoyed playing with the Lego blocks outside.

During music we explored the sounds of guitars. We enjoyed listening and playing them. We saw some excellent communication during music with Rumaysah requesting more of the guitar. Well done Rumaysah.

Robins enjoyed soft play with Doves earlier in the week. Robins really enjoy their mornings in soft play burning off some energy and using their communication skills to request ‘more’.

Robins had a football sensory story. We got to dress up in an England T-shirt, kicked a football , held a trophy, and we blew or listened party poppers to celebrate a goal. Let’s hope England do better in their next game. 🤞 ⚽️

Robins has 2 stars of the week…… Freddie and Poppy. Freddie has been taking some steps independently this week. Keep up the excellent walking Freddie. Poppy was able to tolerate having her new AFO’s fitted and was very happy wearing them. Excellent progress Poppy well done!

Have a wonderful weekend in the sunshine Robins.
Leeanne and the Robins team.

We would like to wish all the Robins Daddy’s a happy Father’s Day. Also the families who are celebrating Eid. Eid Mubarak. Hope you all have a wonderful time celebrating with your loved ones.

Robins have been busy making cards for their special person in their life for Father’s Day. They used paint brushes, paint dabbers and their hands to create marks around the template. We hope you love them.

We have created England flags for the football. We used red paint and we tried to stay in the lines. Come on England! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We enjoyed some social time with our friends this week. We enjoyed sharing the iPads and dancing to music.

Robins have won the most improved attendance this week. So we have the bear with us for the week. Well done Robins!

Our star of the week is Harris. Harris has been engaging in lots of activity through the week. Keep up the hard work Harris!

Leeanne and The Robins Team.

Welcome back. Hope you all had a lovely half term.
We are continuing our topic of down in the jungle this term. We have been exploring the jungle in sensology. We have beeen showing likes and dislikes during the session when exploring the mud and the leaves in the jungle. We have smelt and tasted chocolate and vanilla. I think we all enjoyed smelling and some of us tasting the chocolate. We have been using ALD boards and symbols during sensology to communicate more or finished and some of us are starting to point to like/ dislike. Poppy pointed to WOW when she tasted the chocolate. Preston enjoyed getting messy in the mud. Harris kept reaching out to explore the mud. Excellent work Robins.

During music this week with Bev we have been listening to loud sounds and quiet sounds when using the chimes. We all enjoyed playing the chimes really loud when it was our turn to play. We all followed the sound of the chimes as Bev was playing them behind us.

Robins all enjoyed swimming this week. Some of you were that relaxed you nearly fell asleep. Some of you enjoyed splashing around and taking turns to push the ball to a familiar adult.

This week we have chose everyone as Robins as star of the week. We had special visitors in school and you all managed really well with seeing new faces, and we are so proud of how well you all demonstrated the amazing progress each one of your has made this year. Keep up the fantastic work Robins! 👏 🌟

Leeanne and the Robins Team.

Another 7 weeks complete Robins. We have had such a fun term, you have all made so much progress and we are so proud of you all. You are all Oakwood superstars 🌟.

We have been creating lions for our display 🦁. We have been painting the faces yellow using our fingers or painting tools such as a paint brush or paint sponge. We then used the cutting block to create our mane for the lion. The cutting block provides a safe way for pupils to cut paper.

We celebrated National numeracy day during the week. We loved all the different numbered clothes you can to school in. We did number activities using lots of different number songs. We banged on the drum and played bowling with the massive skittles.

On Friday we had part 2 of out parent showcase for swimming. Thank you to the parents that came. We hope you had a lovely time swimming with your child.

Have a wonderful half term Robins.
Leeanne and the Robins Team.

Some of our Robins have been poorly this week. We hope you feel better soon ❤️‍🩹.
We invited parents in for the sports showcases. Thank you to the parents that came in Friday. We hope you enjoyed joining in and watching swimming. We all had lots of fun. Part 2 is next week and letters have been sent out for those involved.

We have been continuing to practice and work on our physical skills each morning. Freddie and poppy did some excellent walking using the parallel bars. Preston is becoming more confident in using the ladders on the climbing frame and is able to reach the top. Poppy and Freddie have also being using the steps and working on pulling themselves up the steps. Rumaysah has been using her walker around the classroom and working in her balance skills on the roll. Zahra has done excellent tummy time even though it’s not her favourite stretch to do. Excellent work Robins.

During our creative session we each chose between 2 different colours to paint our snakes for our jungle display. We also chose between 2 different paint brushes. Some of us opted to use our hands instead of a paint brush and got quite messy. 🐍

Robins star of the week is……. Zahra. Zarha has been completing her physical management plan every morning. And although Zahra doesn’t always like tummy time she has been able to complete 10 minutes at a time and has been laughing whilst doing it. Well done Zahra.

Enjoy the weekend Robins.

Leeanne and the Robins Team.

In Robins we do ‘bucket’ every day. Bucket is part of a programme called attention autism. The ‘bucket’ captures the pupils attention with simple motivating and appealing toys. The attention autism programme develops joint attention, builds communication, interaction and listening skills by allowing pupils to opt in spontaneously rather than being pressured to communicate. Attention and listening skills are pre- requisite to language and development. Some of the other skills pupils will learn whilst engaging in a ‘bucket’ session is developing a shared enjoyment in adult led activities, development of non verbal and verbal communication, and building a variety of vocabulary. When adults carry out ‘bucket’ sessions we use repetitive language and mostly importantly we have fun.
All the pupils are engaged in bucket sessions and their listening and attention skills are constantly improving. Keep up the hard work Robins.

Robins have enjoyed being outside this week enjoying the warmer weather. We enjoyed our down in the jungle sensory story outside under the canopy outside our classroom. We have also been exploring the sensory garden throughout the week and have enjoyed bubble play whilst being outside.

We have added more animals to our jungle display in the classroom. This week we decorated some monkeys to hang in the tree. Some of us used glue spreaders to spread the glue and then stuck tissue paper onto the monkeys. Some used brown paint and dabbers to decorate our monkeys.

Robins star of the week is Harris. Harris has been interacting with his peers by crawling up to them and making lots of eye contact with them. He has also been reaching out to touch their hands. We have seen some lovely interactions. Well done Harris.

Enjoy the weekend Robins

Leeanne and the Robins Team.