M3

November 2025 Update 

M3’s November Sparkle!

November has been packed with fun, learning, and creativity in M3!

We started the month with a bang—exploring the story of Guy Fawkes, making our own fireworks, and creating a dazzling display on the Interactive Whiteboard. Through Activity-Based Learning, we matched numbered fireworks and practiced writing letters in sensory trays. And the sweetest part? A delicious Bonfire Chocolate Cake that everyone loved!

Our adventures continued with a fantastic Outdoor Learning Day, inspired by two amazing books—The Leaf Man and The Leaf Thief. We made beautiful leaf prints with paper and crayons, crafted our own Leaf Man from sticks and leaves, and even created funny faces using conkers, leaves, and twigs. It was a day full of imagination and fresh air!

Next came Nursery Rhyme Week and Anti-Bullying Week. Our favorite rhyme was Humpty Dumpty—we built him walls, put him back together, and designed creative art showing what Humpty Dumpty could look like in different styles! We also made tasty chocolate bird nests for Two Little Dickie Birds. For Anti-Bullying Week, we focused on kindness and friendship by creating thoughtful cards for everyone in Middle School and making colorful friendship bracelets for our class.

We ended that week in style by dressing up in our onesies and PJs for Children in Need—a relaxing and comfy day that everyone enjoyed!

Then we stepped into Road Safety Week, learning the Green Cross Code, making traffic lights, and using our Interactive Whiteboard to help people cross the road safely and ensure cars stopped at the red light. We even counted the traffic passing our school—it was a lot! To make it extra fun, we created traffic light fruit skewers with strawberries, grapes, and bananas—delicious!

Finally, we explored People Who Help Us, learning about the important roles in our community. Some of us want to be firefighters, some doctors, and even some teachers!

It’s been a busy, brilliant November—and now we’re ready for the glitter, the red and green paint, and the Christmas tunes. Bring on December!

October 2025 Update 

We Did the Monster Mash! 

What a spooktacular October it’s been for M3! Our themed Activity-Based Learning sessions were a huge hit — from exploring colorful Autumn leaves and pumpkin investigations to celebrating the Harvest season, we’ve been busy learning, laughing, and creating!

Our creativity has been in full swing — we’ve made pumpkin sun catchers, skeleton art with cotton buds, apple prints, leaf and harvest wreaths, and Halloween collages that would make any ghoul proud. 

The excitement didn’t stop there! During our Attention Autism sessions, we even made fizz come out of a pumpkin’s mouth (science meets spooky fun!). Add in some teamwork on the interactive whiteboard, a few fancy-dress moments, and lots of dancing, and you’ve got one fang-tastic October to remember! 

September 2025 Update 

M3 have had a fantastic start back at school. We have really enjoyed meeting new friends and new staff and getting back into the swing of things! We have loved our Activity Based Learning sessions, Attention Autism, making play dough and cooking up some delicious treats based on our topic of All About Me! With the sunshine on our side, we’ve made the most of the outdoors—visiting the park and spending time in the sensory garden whenever we can. We’re all looking forward to October and can’t wait to see what spooky surprises our staff have planned!

May 2025

This month we have been learning all about Jungle, Safari & Rainforests.  The pupils have explored and experienced these through our sensory story, Sensology and Tac Pac.  We have also completed lots of art activities based on these animals alongside cookery and Attention Autism sessions.  We also had a lovely time exploring the outdoors and doing our work out there for ‘Outdoor Learning Day’.

April 2025

Our pupils have loved exploring Easter through lots of sensory trays, Sensoloogy, Sensory Topic and our sensory Easter story.  We completed lots of messy Easter art activities and made the most of the sunny dry weather, going to Solitude Park for PE with our friends in S1.  We also had fun learning outside and even enjoyed a splashing time in the paddling pool.

March 2025

We have had a fun filled March in M3.  The pupils enjoyed sensory pancake fun on Shrove Tuesday, and our 'Colour' themed Literacy week and dressing up on World Book Day.  We went on a scavanger hunt, explored St. Patrick through art, music, cookery and Tac Pac.  The pupils have finished the Spring topic experiencing Spring weather and baby animals through sensory trays, outdoor learning, Attention Autism and lots of mess!!  

February 2025

We have been busy in M3 exploring and experiencing the season of Winter and Arctic animals through sensory trays, music, dance, art and cookery.

The pupils loved our Music Live sessions and enjoyed playing and listening to the percussion instruments.

We also enjoyed Valentine activity based learning, Sensology and of course our favourite Attention Autism. 

In the last week of February we started to look at Spring flower and trees, and have enjoyed a few walks around the school grounds looking at the signs of Spring. 

January 2025

We cannot believe it is the end of January!  Where did the time go?

The pupils in M3 have been busy experiencing and exploring New Year, Winter and Chinese New Year so far this term.  We have enjoyed firework art, sparkler breadsticks in cookery and lots of party poppers in our New Year Attention Autism sessions.  The boys and girls have thoroughly enjoyed all our winter activity-based learning trays, Sensology, sensory topic, our polar bear sensory story and our winter themed sensory music and dance in PE.  We have also created lots of beautiful winter art work for our wall display.

During Chinese New Year week everyone tried on traditional costumes, enjoyed sensory cookery with noodles, rice and prawn crackers and created fabulous symmetry dragons with streamers and feathers.

December 2024

We have been busy little elves in M3, and we cannot believe we have come to the end of our first term. 

The pupils have been busy making and decorating lots of Christmas arts and crafts.  We loved all our sensory music, stories, TacPac and Sensology.  We have also had so much fun and excitement watching the Attention Autism activities.

The staff in M3 would like to wish you all a wonderful, happy, safe and enjoyable Christmas.

November 2024

M3 have been busy completing lots of sensory work and activities related to 5 rhymes for Nursery Rhyme Week.        We also started our topic 'materials' and did exploratory work on rough/smooth, hard/soft, shiny/dull and         transparent/opaque, to see if we had a preference for particular textures.  The boys and girls also enjoyed the story of The 3 Little Pigs to enhance the topic.  We have also enjoyed lots of art, cookery, attention autism, sensology, music and messy play.

We were very excited to put our Christmas tree and decorations up in the classroom, and are so excited for all the Christmas activities coming up!

October 2024

In October the pupils in M3 completed their seasonal work on Autumn and then participated in lots of Halloween activities.  They enjoyed sensory play, art, stories, music, and attention autism sessions.  We also loved the pumpkin patch and parade.

September 2024

M3 pupils all settled back into school life so well in September.  They are enjoying exploring their new room and meeting their new staff and friends.  We have enjoyed lots of sensory exploration through art, music, and cookery.  We have used our senses for Sensology, TacPac and sensory stories.  We have been experiencing Autumn in our sensory trays,  through Attention Autism activities and walks around the school grounds.  The pupils have been outside in the sensory garden and play park enjoying the last of the good weather.