Class Teacher: 

Miss Mason

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs Holland

Miss Iddon

Mrs Holding

Our class has 8 children; 4 boys and 4 girls. We are working on a tailoured curriculum that supports our learning styles. We learn through lots of hands on activities that support our sensory needs. 

Have a look at what we get up too each week!

Autumn 1 week 5

What fun we've had this week in Morpurgo Class!

Special events taken place this week: 

- WOW French Day 

- Poetry Day

In literacy we started looking at our new book "Time to make friends - By Penny Tassoni". We have begun to start activities around our story and will continue this next week. 

In maths this week some of us have used the coloured bears to match to the numicon shape, some of us up to 3, 5 and 10. The rest of us have begun to explore number lines using numicon and then covering numbers up on the number line to see if we could find the next number to follow on, we all tried very hard with this! 

In topic this week, we have been super busy! 

In topic we made pasta friendship bracelets, we enjoyed choosing different shaped pasta to go on our bracelets, they were tricky to thread, but we tried very hard with our fine motor skills. In cooking we made friendship pancakes, making them into heart shapes, spreading jam and adding love and sprinkles on top - these were very yummy!

We have enjoyed two special days this week including our WOW Wednesday French Day and World Poetry day on Thursday. We explored French nursery rhymes and counting to 10 songs in French, we decorated our own French flag, did some French food tasting and decorated our own Eiffel towers with pasta. On Thursday we focused on the nursery rhyme 'Incy Wincy Spider' linking to Poetry day - we made our own spiders and made our own Spider cupcakes - we loved these! On Friday we did some colour matching activities, tested our new trampoline and enjoyed our rewards time. 

Our Pupil of the week is Riley

Have a fabulous weekend Morpurgo Class! 

Miss Mason & the team 

Autumn 1 week 4 

What another busy week finishing off our Owl Babies story. 

This week in literacy we have finished learning about our focus book "Owl babies" and we have done more activities around the story including making our own Owls using pinecones, cotton wool and googly eyes, they look amazing! Later in the week we completed our colourful semantics work using, communication boards and symbols to convey meaning to our sentences. In phonics this week we have focused on the 'p' and 'x' sound, applying it to our mark making, writing and reading. 

In maths this week we have continued our numicon activities focusing on, comparing sizes of the numicon shapes, through exploration and printing in paint to see the finished results. We explored the shape through touch in a feely bag and then used a communication board to communicate which number we found. Some of us practiced our number formation, writing our numbers to 10 and beyond, we all tried really hard with this. 

In topic this week, we have had lots of fun! 

In cooking this week we made Owl rice cakes using jam to spread, apples for the feathers and bananas and raisins for the eyes, each owl looked unique which Miss Mason loved the most! In PSHE we have continued to learn about 'How we can be a good friend and relationships with friends.' 

Our new topic for the last few weeks is "My friend and me - How are we all different?' and our class story is 'Time to make friends - By Penny Tassoni'

Have a lovely weekend Morpurgo Class,

Miss Mason & the team.

Autumn 1 week 3

What another busy week we have had in Morpurgo Class! 

This week in literacy we have started our new story called "Owl Babies". 

We enjoyed learning about how owls come out at night time and sit on a branch. We have done lots of activities around the story including decorating our own owl pictures and finding pictures, symbols and making sentences about the owls in our colourful semantics work. In phonics this week some of us have been focusing on the 't' sound and the 'w' sound. We have used letters to mark make in the sand, and make CVC words like, tap, sat, at.

In communication we enjoyed choosing some of our own Singing Hands songs and using our PEC's to communicate what we want. 

In maths this week we have carried on with our numicon, we introduced colour matching with numicon, matching the numbers to coloured plates. Some of us even used two of the same colour to add numbers together. We also used coloured pegs to match with the numicon and we all matched the colours and some of us counted the pegs and could add them together. 

In topic this week we have been very busy and creative! 

In cooking we decorated our own owl biscuits using oreos cut in half for feathers, chocolate buttons for the eyes and a carrot for the nose. 

In PSHE we made our own friendship stew using different coloured rice to represent what we'd like in our friendships using a communication board. Red rice - for loving one another, Green rice - for help our friends and blue rice - being kind. We loved this activity stirring and sprinkling the rice. 

In Art we enjoyed making our own owl collages, using brown paint to spread the feathers, gold tissue paper for the feathers and cupcake cases for the eyes. We loved the paint! 

In messy play with Mrs Birtwell we made our own nature collages. 

Our star of the week is Maddison

Have a lovely weekend Morpurgo Class, 

Miss Mason & the team. 

Autumn 1 week 2 

What another fantastic week we've had in Morpurgo Class! 

We've enjoyed carrying on our learning 'All about me'. 

This week in maths we have started looking at numicon and the relationships with numbers. We started off by exploring numicon through a sensory activity. We used the numicon to print in the playdough to see if we could feel the shape and some of us even started to count the dots in the playdough. We then looked at how we can match numicon to a flash card and see if we could look at the colour. 

In literacy this week we have continued our story 'From my head to my toe - By Eric Carle'. We have continued doing our colourful semantics work, making sentences about the story and sequencing and looking at key pictures from the book. In phonics this week our focus sounds have been 'a' and 'v', we explored hearing, saying, reading and mark making with the letter a and v. 

In topic learning this week we have enjoyed making our face biscuits, mixing icing sugar and adding our eyes, mouth and hair on to make our face - the best part was eating! We have enjoyed PE and learning about safety and forest school with Mr Banks. On Thursday we learnt about how to be a good friend in PSHE and on Friday we enjoyed messy play with Mrs Birtwell and in topic time we decorated our own monkeys using brown crayons and feathers. 

Our pupil of the week is Ahmad for having a excellent week in class

Enjoy your weekend Morpurgo Class!

Next week our new story is Owl Babies. 

Miss Mason and the class team. 

Autumn 1 week 1 

What a brilliant start to the year we’ve had in Morpurgo Class. It has been lovely to welcome all of our new friends to our class and we’re all starting to settle in really well. 

This week we have started our first topic “All about me”, learning all about our features and what we each have as an individual. 

Our class story this week and next week is called “From my head to my toe - by Eric Carle”. In this story we have done some our colourful semantics work, looking at the characters in the story and what they do. We all worked super hard on making our sentences, with “who” “doing what” “where” and “when”. Some of us did intensive interactions with our teachers, doing the actions from the story, like wiggle my arms and clap my hands. In phonics this week we have started looking at the ‘s’ sound and applying it to our mark making skills by exploring the sand with our fingers. 

In maths this week, we have enjoyed finding out each others favourite counting songs, like 10 in a bed, 5 speckled frogs and one tomato, two tomato. We have started looking at our numbers, some of us up to 3, 5, 10 and beyond. 

In topic this week, we’ve been very busy. In cooking this half term our focus skill is spreading ingredients and we made marvellous me wrap pizzas, spreading tomato puree and sprinkling cheese with circle cheese for our eyes and peppers for our mouths - we loved having a taste as we decorated! In art, we created our very own mirrors using card, tin foil and stickers to decorate and on Friday we explored new expressive media and made our own pasta portraits of ourselves. We enjoyed PE and Forest School with Mr Banks and messy play with Mrs Birtwell. 

Our pupil of the week is Ayda - for having positive interactions during activity time. Well done Ayda! 

Have a lovely weekend Morpurgo class, 

Miss Mason & the team. 

Morpurgo Class 2023 - 2024

Summer 2 Week 6

We have had a super week in Morpurgo Class. 

We have started our final topic of the year "Under the sea/ Summer holidays"

Our focus story is called "Rainbow fish" 

We have started activities around the story including making our own rainbow fish with shining scales using tin foil. We have made fish 2D shape pictures, a sensory bug picture in outdoor education and with Mrs Birtwell in messy play we celebrated England winning the Semi Finals by making the England badge using our hands. 

Next week: 

- Our class performance (Monday)

- Class trip to Mrs Dawson's Farm (Thursday)

- Continuing our under the sea/ summer holidays topic through cooking and craft activities.

Have a lovely weekend Morpurgo Class! 

Miss Mason, Miss Chadwick, Mrs Holland, Mrs Holding, Miss Iddon & Mr Harrison

Spring 2 - Weeks 1-6

Happy Easter Morpurgo Class, have a look at the Easter learning and activities we have been up to over the last few weeks. 

Have a wonderful break at home ready to come back to school raring to go for the summer term. 

See you all on Monday 15th April. 

Morpurgo Class Team

Spring 1 week 5 

What a super finish to the half term! 

We have started our new topic 'Field to fork' and we have learnt lots about where food comes from and what we eat. 

In literacy we have been reading the story 'The Enormous Turnip' and we have done lots of work around the story. We started off with a hook to the book by having a ginormous turnip, rope and soil. We learnt about how all the characters struggled to pull the turnip out of the soil. We then did some activities around the story including our colourful semantics work by making sentences and using language around the story including 'turnip, man, pull, ready steady go'. In phonics this week the phase 2 group have been focusing on the sounds 'g' and 'o' and have played the alphabet soup game with the tins and phase 3 group have focused on 'ch and sh' making words like, chop, chin, chip, ship, shop. 

In maths this week and last week we focused on 'Capacity' and we learnt about 'full, half full and empty'. We used different containers to represent capacity and filled these up with pasta. We enjoyed exploring, pouring and tipping the contents to practice modelling the key language. 

In topic this week we have learnt about where our food comes from. On Monday we did an activity about making our own vegetables patches and learnt about which vegetables grow in the ground. On Tuesday in cooking we practiced our chopping, scooping and peeling skills using different fruits like strawberry, kiwi and oranges. We then had these as toppings on our pancakes. On Wednesday in PSHE we learnt about healthy and unhealthy foods and we explored what these look like and also which foods are our favourites. On Thursday in outdoor learning we met a very special reptile called Bamboo the Bearded dragon, we learnt about the food she eats such as critters and vegetables, some of us even stroked her! On Friday we enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year by having a feast and trying different foods such as noodles, spring rolls, prawn crackers and fortune cookies. 

Our pupil of the week is Maddison

Have a lovely half term break Morpurgo Class and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 19^th February. 

Miss Mason & the team. 

Spring 1 week 3

What another lovely week we have had in Morpurgo Class. We have started our new topic 'Superheroes'. 

In literacy this week we have been reading - "How to be a superhero" - Little Golden Books. We enjoyed finding out about the different powers a superhero has and we have done lots of activities around the story. Miss Mason did a hook to the story on Monday, she got some magic power dust and sprinkled this on the superheroes to help them fly. Then we did a colourful semantics activity focusing on the page when the superhero flew to the sky, we used communication boards and made our own sentences. In phonics this week phase 2 have focused on 'i, n' initial sound bags and phase 3 have focused on building CVC words with y, z sounds. 

In maths this week we have working on numicon patterns to 5, 10 and some of us in our teen numbers to 20. We looked at patterns within a number including 10 and 1 more is 11 and looking at the pattern, whilst some of us used coloured pompoms to represent the quantity up to 5. 

In topic this week, we have done some fantastic learning. On Monday we made ourselves into superheroes and some of us chose what superpowers we'd have. On Tuesday in cooking, we decorated our own gingerbread superheroes, we used different ingredients such as laces for the belt and stars for the costume and in PE, we focused on more throwing skills in a variety of ways including using bean bags to a target, coloured hoops and foam rockets. On Wednesday in PSHE we focused on good and not good choices, we could all look at the pictures to help us visually understand which choices they are, some of us read these to our teachers. On Thursday for forest school with Mrs Birtwell we made kites and took them outside, we enjoyed watching them fly in the wind. On Friday, in RE we have carried on with our Chinese New Year topic and made lanterns using red, orange and yellow colours to collage.

Our pupil of the week is Levi

Please find attached the homework map for our new topic, which has also been posted on Seesaw. 

Have a super weekend Morpurgo Class. 

Miss Mason & the team. 

Spring 1 week 2 

We've had a super week in Morpurgo Class. We have finished our topic about colour and we have really enjoyed this! 

In literacy this week we finished off reading 'Elmer' and did some more activities around the story. In colourful semantics we focused on the scene where the rain drops on Elmer and the berry juice comes off and reveals it is him. Miss Mason did an attention autism activity with an elephant, paints and water. We all enjoyed watching the paint go on Elmer and then Miss Mason washing him with water. We then did our colourful semantics activity using communication boards and building sentences about this scene from the story. Later in the week we did our phonics work, the phase 2 group focused on 't, p' initial sounds sensory bag and pictures and phase 3 built CVC words with the sounds 'w' and 'x'. We did really well with our phonics and enjoyed watching the Yakka Dee sounds episode. In communication we recapped on our singing hands - makaton signs for colours. 

In maths this week we have focused on colour patterns within 2D shapes, we all worked super hard on this and some of us could use the shape visuals and real-life shapes to build a repeated pattern between up to 2 and 3 shapes. On Tuesday, some of us did a 2D pattern worksheet and the rest of us built pattern towers using two different coloured cubes. We have also worked on our individual maths targets this week, including taking away from 9, number bonds to 5 and one less from 5. 

In topic this week, we have had lots of fun! We did an experiment mixing coloured paints and learning about key knowledge such as 'mixing, primary colours'. One of us even asked what a secondary colour is! On Tuesday we made pattern kebabs using strawberry, bananas and mini pancakes. We also enjoyed our snow day and spent short bursts outside, we were all very sensible and wore our wellies and coats. On Wednesday in topic, we finished off our Colour monster activity in PSHE, we used pipe cleaners to make coloured feeling jars, linking to each monsters' feelings. On Thursday, we enjoyed forest school in class and our sensory engines activities going to the sensory, and light and sound room. On Friday, in messy play with Mrs Birtwell we enjoyed making colours of the rainbow with fruit skewers and fruit pastel lollies. In Friday topic we have started looking at the celebration for 'Chinese New Year' we all made marks and wrote our own names in Chinese. 

Our pupil of the week is John.

Have a lovely Morpurgo Class. 

Miss Mason and the team.

Spring 1 week 1 

Happy New Year Morpurgo Class. 

A very warm welcome back to school and raring to go with our learning. Our new topic for the next two weeks is “Colour". 

In Literacy this week we have been reading the story "Elmer" by David McKee. We loved the part when Elmer shouted BOO and made all the other elephants jump! We have done some activities around the story including our colourful semantics, making sentences about parts of the story and some of us used communication boards to name specific parts of the story I.e, elephant, jungle, colours. In phonics this week, the phase 2 group are recapping 's and a' initial sounds using exploration bags to match the items and the phase 3 group have looked at 'j and v' making CVC words and writing them. We have also been learning about how to be independent with our routines, such as putting our own belongings in the places, i.e. bottle in the box, our visual board has helped us with this.

In maths this week we have started to look at patterns within numbers. We have used our numicon to order in a sequence and recognise a pattern, we used the peg boards to help us with this. Then some of used visual cards with this concept to add an additional challenge. 

In topic this week we have been very crafty and colourful. On Monday, we made our own colour wheels, learning about a colour in each segment before mixing them. We all worked really hard on our creations. On Tuesday in cooking, we made Elmer crispy cakes and we used a different technique of rolling the rice krispies and chocolate and then cutting our elephants with a cutter and adding smarties for colour. In PE we started our new MATP focus for the half term; ball skills. We started this by rolling a ball in a direction towards a target, like skittles. On Wednesday, we worked on our individual targets and in PSHE we listened to the colour monster story linking to different emotions and feelings through colour and decorated our own colour monsters. In forest schools with Mrs Birtwell, we began to look at the next season to follow which is spring, listening to songs. On Friday in communication, we used Singing hands to learn new makaton signs for colours and in topic we decorated our own Elmer collages. 

The homework mindmap and learning links for the next two weeks have been posted on Seesaw and are below.

Our star of the week is: Maddison

Have a lovely weekend Morpurgo Class. 

Miss Mason & the team