Rainbow Unit: Gallery
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 9
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 2:45pm
This week in Green Class we have fully introduced our ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ sensory story. All of the children have shown such interest and engagement in the story and sensory experiences. The sensory aspects include things like splashing in water, pressing their fingers in slime, touching ice and feeling the teddy bear, all lead by an adult. The children will learn and associate different sensory experiences with parts of the book. All of the children have enjoyed this and shown so much anticipation for the next part of the story. This week we have also been painting which they enjoying more and more every time. We have been doing dough disco this week too which the children always love.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring 😊
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 9
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 2:38pm
This week in Yellow Class the children have enjoyed taking part in sensory song. The children are becoming more engaged every time we do this! Well done Yellow Class! 🎉
We have also been concentrating on our maths lessons this week. The children enjoyed listening to our maths nursery rhyme (5 little frogs 🐸). This is always followed by a maths activity. We have used a cause and effect spiral tower where the children had to push the ball through the hole and watch it go down. All the children enjoyed this activity!! 😄
Have a lovely weekend ☺️
Miss Abbott, Miss Caine and Mrs Coleman
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 1:15pm
This week, in both the Yellow and Green class, the children have settled back into school routines really well.
It has taken time to regain engagement in lessons but we have improved over the week.
We have been concentrating on fine motors activities, sticker art, jigsaws and a creative activity of ripping, and sticking to celebrate Bonfire Night 🔥 . The children enjoyed this a lot and we will send these home tonight for you to keep 😊
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott and Mrs Henwood
Mrs Coleman, Ms Mort, Miss Caine and Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 6
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:42pm
This week in the Yellow Class, we have been busy! We have been doing lots of colour sorting and jigsaws! The children have been persevering at the task for longer and longer which has been lovely to see!
The children impressed us very much with the knowledge of colours and sorting them in different ways.
See you all in Monday, have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 6
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:41pm
This week in Green class, we have been continuing with our shape theme and colour sorting activities. All of the children are becoming much more confident with this and are showing increased amount of engagement with these activities. We have slowly been introducing new colours and shapes for the children to recognise and some of them are beginning to be able to do this.
This week, we have also done some mark making using water colours. Lots of the children enjoyed exploring the paint using the paint brush or their fingers. Some children needed a little bit more reassurance and allowed an adult to use hand over hand support to complete this 😊
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring 🙂
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 5
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:46pm
We are so proud of all the children in Green class. This week, we have been continuing to practice our pencil control and we have seen all children take part in this with less adult support than in previous weeks.
We have also introduced some fine motor activities, including a coloured peg board. It has been great to see some of the children copying the picture cards and others creating their own patterns.
We have been practicing our turn taking whilst completing our activities this week and some of the children are showing patience and fleeting eye contact whilst waiting for their turn which is great to see.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring 🙂
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 5
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:14pm
In the Yellow Class this week, we have been continuing with our routines of sensory circuits, snack and Bucket Therapy in our daily timetable.
The children have been improving at following objects of reference for these activities and have also been improving at sitting at the table for a prolonged period of time for both snack and Bucket Therapy.
This week we introduced bubbles into our bucket session, all the children enjoyed these very much and showed sustained looking and listening. We used key words such as “more” and “finished”.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 4
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:16pm
This week has been super busy for the children in Green class. This week we have been sorting objects by colour and shape. The children are becoming much more confident in this. The children have also been taking part in sensory song. This is where we listen to a song and a sensory experience such as bubbles or blowing a balloon up are led by an adult. This is working on anticipation skills as over time, the children will associate the different songs with that sensory experience. All of the children have loved this and have shown great engagement in this session which we are very proud of them for.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort & Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 4
Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 3:14pm
In the yellow class this week, we introduced a new friend into our class, Gabriella! 😊
We have had another busy week exploring activities, staff have been engaging with the children whilst doing so. It’s so nice that we have all already built great relationships and the children are tolerating us in their space more 😊
This week we have introduced Bucket Therapy into our timetable, this is a group activity that enhances the children’s anticipation skills, we are so proud of the children for coming and sitting at the table together for this.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 3
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 3:34pm
This week has been another busy week for the children in the Green class. We have seen lots of the children showing us longer levels of engagement with different activities particularly in our colour sorting activities. We have also seen some children becoming more familiar with the core board to request more and others continuing to build confidence when using the communication board. This week we have introduced some mark making and pencil control activities. All of the children have really enjoyed this and have been exploring using different hands to complete this.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort and Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 3
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 3:30pm
This week in yellow class, it’s been another busy week! We have been exploring more of our cause and effect toys and some of the children have been allowing adults in engage in their play- only on their terms though!
The children are definitely becoming more familiar with objects of reference, walking independently towards the hall door at lunchtime and sitting down at the table at snack time! You will see from the photos the children all sit for snack and remain seated for the entire snack time! This is very good! We are very proud of them!
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 2
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 2:26pm
We have had a very busy week in Green class. This week we have been continuing to introduce the children to a range of sensory experiences including sensory circuits and sensory song. All of the children have really enjoyed this and we have seen increasing amounts of engagement as the week has progressed. We have also been introducing some colour sorting activities using a communication board for the children to request more when they are ready to move onto the next colour.
With the weather changing over this last week, please if you have not already done so could you send a spare change of clothes, wellies and a puddle suit into school with your child’s name on it. Our school grounds are getting muddy and we don’t want any of the children’s uniforms to get ruined.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Henwood, Ms Mort and Mr Waring 🙂
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 2
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 2:24pm
This week in the yellow class, we have introduced sensory circuits into our timetable!
We do sensory circuits in the school hall. Not only have we introduced sensory circuits, we have introduced the objects of reference for it and one for back into the classroom. The children have responded really well to these!
The children have continued to explore the resources within the classroom, they have especially enjoyed the peanut ball and the trampoline. This week we have had a few sleepy children, getting used to being back at school, who have sneaked in a nap or two 😴😂
With the weather changing over this last week, please if you have not already done so could you send a spare change of clothes, wellies and a puddle suit into school with your child’s name on it. Our school grounds are getting muddy and we don’t want any of the children’s uniforms to get ruined.
We have you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Green Class Week 1
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:32pm
What an amazing first full week the children in Green Class (Mrs Henwood) have had!
The children have settled back into our school routine well and have all been following objects of reference to transition around the resource base. This week we have been completing a shape sorting activity and focusing on the children requesting more either using a core board or communication board. We have also had lots of fun playing with the sand in our outside area.
Happy Bithday to Khairav for today!All the children are coming home with a bag of cookies and some sweets!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Henwood (Miss Brellisford), Ms Mort & Mr Waring
Rainbow Unit- Yellow Class Week 1
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:30pm
This week in the Yellow Class (Miss Abbott) we have been exploring our new classroom!
The children have settled in beautifully and have investigated all our resources and had fun doing it! Some children have been making themselves at home by taking off their shoes and socks!
The children have also enjoyed the outside area, especially the sand pit!
We have introduced core boards, and communication boards at snack time and for some activities. Some children are fleetingly noticing these, which is a great start!
Really proud of them all!
A big happy birthday to Khairav in the Green Class, you will notice some Haribo and Cookies in your child’s bag, these are from him! Thank you Khairav! 🎈
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 9
Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 9:17am
Another busy week, full of fun and activities!
The weather is getting hotter! ☀️ 🥵
This week the children have LOVED the water tray! The adults even ended up needing to dry in the heat, even though we didn’t play in the water!
Have a lovely weekend and keep cool!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 8
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week we have introduced even more activities relating to colours of the rainbow! The children have loved colour sorting activities and the coloured sensory tiles!
We have introduced more challenge into our sensory circuits which the children are working hard to achive! Well done!
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 7
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 11:19am
This week we have been making the most of the warm weather and spending a lot of time outside! ☀️
We have introduced new resources into our classroom for our new topic, ‘colours of the rainbow’ 🌈
Have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 5
Date: 23rd May 2025 @ 1:03pm
Happy half term! We hope you all have a lovely 2 weeks off!
See you all on Monday 9th June 😀
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit-Summer Term Week 4
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 12:07pm
What another lovely sunny week!
In the Rainbow Unit this week, we have been taking part in lots of intensive interaction! We have been following some movements on the screen, playing with lots of cause and effect toys and being creative!
One day we did an adult led activity with mirrors, the children loved looking at themselves and pulling funny faces!
Some children have been continuing with phonics and maths activities and have been doing so well! Many jigsaws have been played with and lots of physical activity outside in the warm weather!
Have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 3
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:41pm
It has been a busy week! We have been painting, organising, learning phonics, doing jigsaws and playing outside!
This week we introduced a balloon into our sensory song, the children anticipated the adult letting go of the balloon and even enjoyed playing with the balloons!
Have a nice weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 2
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week, we have been building on our group sessions of dough disco and bucket therapy and been taking part in sensory story and sensory song sessions. We are going to continue building this up, but for now it’s lasting for a few minutes which we are really proud of them for! 👏🏼
The weather has been glorious this week and some children have been enjoying playing outside more, even using the equipment outside on the playground!
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend, see you on Tuesday!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Summer Term Week 1
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 1:13pm
First week of Summer term and the children have settled back in very well!
We have completed lots of whole class activities this week including bucket therapy and dough disco! More children have been taking part in bucket therapy which is good to see, and staying for the whole session.
Dough disco is a new experience for the children, and they have started to explore the PlayDoh to enhance their fine motor skills. These two sessions are on our timetables every day and will soon be embedded in our daily routine.
The children who have been interested have also explored some panting with water colours 🎨
From school, you will soon receive the half term overview, our topic this half term is Fairytales.
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit-Spring Term Week 13
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 4:20pm
This week, the children have enjoyed taking part in Easter craft activities!
Some children enjoyed decorating and eating bunny biscuits, and some even tasted hot cross buns! Yummy!
We hope you have a happy Easter, enjoy the break and we will see you in the Summer term!
Happy Easter!
The SEND Team
Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 12
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 2:37pm
It has been a busy last full week in school for the children. This week, we have continued practicing our fine motor skills with mark making and pencil control activities.
Some of the children visited Walton Gardens with Year 1 and Year 2 and had a great time! ☀️
Just a reminder that we are in school Monday-Wednesday next week before breaking up for Easter.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team.
