All the Emotions!

As part of our PSHE work on positivity, we have been learning about different emotions such as happy, sad and angry. We pressed switches to listen to sounds associated with each emotion and practised portraying these emotions in our mirrors.

Wellbeing Walk

Our new focus in PSHE is all about positive thinking, and we’ve been exploring ways in which we can improve our mood and mental wellbeing. Today we decided to get out into nature and experience all the signs of Autumn – the photos show how much we loved this!

Multisensory Music!

We had lots of fun with Rosie from Sheffield Music Hub who visited to deliver our first multisensory music session. We enjoyed exploring a range of different instruments and pieces of equipment. We already can’t wait for next week!

Making Full Use of Our New Sensory Space

Here in Chatsworth we have a new and improved sensory space, we love using the sensory lights as part of our new topic ‘Light and Sound’.

School’s Out For Summer☀

In true Paces style we finished the school year off with a beach themed music festival. We loved seeing the donkeys, engaging in water play, and listening and dancing to lots of different music as Chatsworth loves to party!

Taking full advantage of the sun☀

We have taken full advantage of the few sunny days this week! We have been working on a new mini unit “What Can My Body Do?” As part of this we went on a walk to the duck pond and also had fun playing football and practising our aim with javelin.

Team Chatsworth left no pins standing🎳

Part 1: We enjoyed bowling and karaoke for our end of year trip!

Team Chatsworth left no pins standing🎳

Part 2: We enjoyed bowling and karaoke for our end of year trip!  

Chatsworth Café

This week we created our own classroom café!☕ We had so much fun making, smelling and tasting delicious chocolate cornflake buns. We also enjoyed selling the buns to our friends in our classroom ready for our picnic.

Fun in the Sun!

This week, we have taken full advantage of the sunny weather and have had some of our lessons outside.

Salad Making!

We have learnt a lot about our bodies growing. So, this week we have been focusing on the growth of food, and have looked specifically at vegetables. We had a great time developing this learning when making a salad – for some of us, the tasting was the best bit!

Nature Walk

We got out into the sunshine today and went on a nature walk around the school grounds. It was interesting to see how much the flowers and plants have grown since we checked on them last!

Growing Up Days

This week we have had two whole-school ‘Growing Up Days’ which have been very exciting! We’ve covered topics such as the changing body, personal hygiene, body parts and social skills. We really enjoyed spending time with other classes in these sessions.

Eureka!

We had a lovely time on our class visit to Eureka! We learnt lots about our bodies and enjoyed experiencing a new environment. Happy half term!

Multicultural Week Continued

What a day we’ve had! We’ve had so much fun going into other classrooms and learning about their countries – we’ve visited Pakistan, Hungary and Greece. We then returned to Egypt to show some of the parents what we’ve been up to this week!

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you have all had a truly lovely summer break. Welcome back to Paces and the start of a new school year in Chatsworth! We have a very busy term ahead of us, with lots to get stuck into over the upcoming weeks and months. This year, in Chatsworth, five becomes six as we welcome a pupil who has moved up from one of our primary classes. All the pupils have been really excited about this, and as a result she is already fitting in wonderfully!

Our topic for this term is: Light and Sound. As always, we will be using our senses as much as possible to learn about the topic in stimulating, meaningful and enriching ways. Our core text is ‘Little Glow’ – a story about the many celebrations of light that take place across a multitude of communities and cultures. This also ties in nicely with our RE learning, as we explore the importance of light during key events such as Diwali and Christmas. Additionally, pupils will encounter other valuable texts through the medium of sensory stories, including ‘Night Monkey, Day Monkey’ and ‘Fox in the Night’.

In Maths, we are focusing on developing our number skills and will also incorporate some elements of sequencing and sorting. Our Art sessions will involve learning about lines, light and shadow – we have already had lots of fun creating marks and shapes using continuous line drawings. In PSHE, we are learning about the power of positive thinking and will be doing lots of work to support our mental health and wellbeing through activities such as nature walks, sensory time and art therapy.

This term, we are also very excited to have weekly multisensory music sessions delivered by The Sheffield Music Hub. This explicitly links to the sound aspect of our overarching topic, and we can’t wait to make as much noise as possible!

New termly targets will be with you shortly. Of course, if you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We know that some pupils can find the return to school challenging after the long break, but we will do our very best to help them feel as settled and happy as possible.

Best wishes,

The Chatsworth Team