We had a fabulous day celebrating World Book Day across school! 

Our theme this year was Bedtime Stories & we had lots of exciting activities to really immerse ourselves. From making sock puppets to designing our own pillowcases for the midday sleepover we had in the hall!

Our tradition of decorating our doors came back too, with all the doors across school turned into our favourite Bedtime Stories! 

It was great to see so many staff and pupils dressed up as their favourite characters or in their PJ's ready to enjoy reading and stories all together!! 

Can you spot your favourite story?

Orange Base have been practicing their skills ready for Pancake Day next week! They had to communicate their choices throughout, working on their independence too, and following instructions! 

They loved tasting their pancakes after - it was a very sticky morning! 

 NSPCC Number Day! 

Pupils across school joined in with lots of number challenges today!

From counting, ordering and even multiplying, there was something for everyone to challenge themselves to! 

Did you know we also have our own Delius Multi-sensory numbers scheme? This is where a number is matched with a colour, scent and movement - so everyone can engage with numbers in a meaningful way! 

Activities were set up across our fabulous spaces, including the sensory rooms, immersive suite, learning corridors and our classrooms! 

Our Stunning Start took place last week, kicking off our new topics for this term! 

Our topics this term are:
EYFS: The Enchanted Woodland - How will you go through the woods today?
Lower Primary: Up, Up, Up and Away! - How high can you fly?
 Upper Primary: Frozen Worlds - How will you get there?

Our Immersive Room was transformed into the Gruffalo’s den! Pupils were searching for the characters through the sensory trays – who do you think they found?

Our Courtyard at BD3 and Sensory Room at BD7 were transformed into a snowy wonderland, taking our pupils into the middle of our Upper Primary story ‘A Dot in the Snow’.

We explored our new story ‘Stuck’ by knocking away the objects stuck in our trees outside! There was even a duck stuck in our tree! 

A farm also popped up, as in Geography we are learning about the differences between cities and rural environments! We had an animal farm and vegetable farm, learning what vegetables we could plant on a vegetable farm! 

We were also making waterways as we’re learning about rivers this term! 

Our pupils at BD7 were also making kites as in art we will be making sculptures – and with our topic being ‘Up, Up, Up and Away’ we had to make sure our sculptures could fly! 

In November we attended The Co-op Academies Trust Recognition Awards and came away with 3 awards! 

 Our fabulous Mumtaz won the ‘Community Award’ for all the excellent work she does within our community!

 Abdus also came away with an award for ‘being himself always’ and being a super role model for this ‘Co-op way of being’!

….. We’re incredibly proud to also announce that we’ve been awarded ‘Special School of the Year’ for the third year running! ️

This achievement belongs to our amazing colleagues and our wonderful community. Your dedication, passion, and unwavering commitment ensure that our pupils receive the very best every single day!

A huge congrats to Mumtaz, Abdus, and our whole academy team, we’re so proud of you all! 

Our first official Academy Council Meetings of the year took place this week!

We held a meeting at our BD3 site, and one at our BD7 site - making sure all our councillors could attend and contribute!

On the agenda for this weeks meeting was helping to write our Anti-bullying policy, making sure we capture all of our pupils views and voices.

We also had the exciting job of picking some new toys & rewards for our Reward Shops as stock is looking low! ️

Pupils in our Academy earn tokens for showing the ‘Co-op’s Ways of Being’, such as working hard to achieve a goal, or being a great friend. When they’ve earned 10 tokens, they get to visit the Reward Shop and choose a toy, book or activity! Our councillors made sure to choose rewards that would be liked by everyone, and to be worth working really hard for!

Our Academy Councils next job is interviewing staff that would like to work here!