Yet another great week in Squirrels before our half term break. Everyone has worked so hard. We have had a focus on our literacy and numeracy this week, getting all involved in choosing and reading books 1 to 1 or with a friend. It is a great way to encourage our Squirrels to engage with books and to communicate preferences.

Some of our Squirrels thrive with their own individual challenges at workstations, followed by a highly motivating special interest activity. This promotes concentration, focus and communication.

Squirrels are developing their transition skills each week, travelling to our Walsall Wood site for swimming. Everybody is so impressed with how grown up our little Squirrels are!

Cooking was messy and tasty this week! We had lots of fantastic communication when the chocolate icing appeared. Vocalisations, chatter and ALD usage asking for ‘more please!’ Fabulous communication and problem solving there Squirrels!

Have a safe and peaceful half term holiday Squirrels and we will see you in June!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love the Squirrels team – Heidi, Josh and Chantelle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

After a long blogging delay, we are back with lots of updates and lovely photos! A busy week for Squirrels.. lots of writing, plenty of throwing and catching and some very messy play.

Some of our parents were able to join us at our swimming session too. It was a lovely way for our families to see how much their children have grown in confidence at swimming this year.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love Squirrels – Heidi, Josh, Kerrie and Chantelle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It’s been a wonderful sunny week and Squirrels have made the most of it! There was lots of water play out on the grass playground. This helped keep all of our Squirrels cool whilst having great fun.

Our fruit salad skills were out in full force again. We are mastering the chop and improving every week. One of our artistic Squirrels even recreated our fruit ALD on his whiteboard.

This week, we added extra delicious toppings. Our Squirrels chose from yoghurt, icing sugar or melted chocolate. Which do you think was the favourite?

Kerrie created an amazing ocean themed bucket session for us on Friday. She created the ocean first of all, splash.. splash.. splash.. in go the blue drops. Then the creatures were dropped in one by one, our Squirrels were shouting out the animal names. We investigated if they would float or sink and finally rescued them all with our fishing nets. Squirrels were captivated by the awe and wonder of the ocean.

Our week ended with our Superstar assembly and this week’s star is Adam! He has treated us to some amazing singing and dancing all week, moving and grooving his way around the classroom. Adam has really grown in confidence this year and is working really hard to achieve his goals. Well done Adam!

We hope you all enjoy some fun in the sun this weekend and we look forward to seeing you at our Swimming Showcase this Wednesday 15th May at 1pm.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Love the Squirrels team – Heidi, Josh, Chantelle and Kerrie ⭐️⭐️⭐️

We’ve been busy keeping our bodies and brains active and energised this week. We started with P.E, finessing our throwing and catching skills. Jackie put our Squirrels through their paces, making sure everyone is engaged and challenged.

We also got to venture to the Rainbow Room this week. 90 minutes of climbing, running, playing and laughing. We were so hot and tired by the end, it evoked some fabulous conversations about how our bodies react to exercise.

We have had some lovely magic bucket sessions, inspired by African Safari. Josh created an amazing giraffe using his arms and paint. Squirrels were mesmerised and wanted to have a go themselves.

We ended our week, as always with a cooking session where we made some more fruit kebabs. We used different fruits this time to give our Squirrels new experiences and options that they may not have had before. It is also fantastic modelling to see each other try new tastes and textures.

Our fun filled week was topped off by celebrations for Chantelle’s birthday. After assembly, we sang happy birthday and shared some cake – followed by a dance party! Our Squirrels love choosing their favourite songs, using an ALD or verbally requesting. Fabulous communication everyone! 🗣️

⭐⭐⭐ Love Team Squirrels – Heidi, Chantelle, Kerrie and Josh ⭐⭐⭐