Snowflake School

Snowflake School Vision:

• Improve the quality of life for our children and their families
• To be a centre of ABA/VB excellence

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Last week, secondary pupils attended a session at the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature reserve, learning all about #insects #habitats and the #lifecycle of frogs. They enjoyed it so much, learnt lots and definitely want to return! @Persia_FDN

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Yesterday, our secondary site kicked off their #festival #week learning all about the #environment! Pupils explored #plants and #planting seeds & made a fruit salad to explore what foods seeds grow into, before an taking part in an afternoon all about #recycling! @Persia_FDN

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On Thursday, primary pupils had the MOST fun during our summer fair for #festival #week - the most popular element of which was the paddling pool and other water elements which everyone loved! #autism #sensoryplay #splishsplash #poolparty #summerfair @Persia_FDN

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#Festival #Week continues apace at primary, with pupils combining learning with fun, shopping at our local @Tesco for items for this afternoon's #Summer #Fair . They selected items at school, found them in the aisles and then did their own scanning at the checkout! @Persia_FDN

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It’s primary #festival #week this week, and yesterday pupils enjoyed an accessible and interactive #sportsday Pupils loved taking part in the wide variety of sporting and creative activities planned by their teachers and supervisors. #sports #exercise #participation @Persia_FDN

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Some of our pupils are working on ICW: Here M at primary is learning to process information in spoken language. 'Can you put the banana [one piece of information/ICW] in the pie?’ #slt #autism #languagedevelopment #communication #speech #icw #informationprocessing @Persia_FDN

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Our learning in #Maths is differentiated for each pupil. Here you can see pupil's accessing #differentiated targets - some work on multiplication, others’ number recognition, and all pupils access maths games to make #number fun and functional for everybody. @Persia_FDN

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To continue our learning in PSHE we recently went to the @ltmuseum where pupils got to experience a day in the life of a bus and taxi driver! We learnt about the different types of transport and got to experience what the first London #underground trains were like. @Persia_FDN

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In #PSHE #learning, primary pupils have been learning about the people who help us and their jobs in the #community - who can #help us stay #safe and what help they can give us, e.g. #doctors for when we are sick or that the #dentist helps us to look after our teeth @Persia_FDN

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#PECS - Here one of our primary pupils, L, is #learning to use PECS as their main method of #communication - “I want the crisps” L hands a picture of the crisps to the #communication partner #SALT #autism #languagedevelopment #speech @Persia_FDN

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Snowflake #speechtherapy topic two: Symbolic play. Here one of our primary pupils is learning to understand verbs. 'What's teddy doing? Teddy is drinking.' #slt #autism #languagedevelopment #communication #speech #colourfulsemantics #verbs @Persia_FDN

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Here one of our students is using verbal language to describe what’s wrong in the picture. 'The woman is mixing the cake batter in the bowl, but the bowl has holes in it! Oh no!' #slt #autism #languagedevelopment #communication #speech #verbalreasoning @Persia_FDN

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On Thursday, we said goodbye to A, who joined us in Y1 and, because of a move out of the area, is moving on from Snowflake, now in Year 10. We held a #graduation for A to mark all of his #learning, #development and #progress during the ten years he’s been with us. @Persia_FDN

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Lunar class starts off the day with lots of #positivity by doing the #featherbreathing exercise during morning #circletime. We all had fun #regulating our #breathing and watching the feather go up and down #MentalhealthAwarenessWeek #autism #specialschool #send @Persia_FDN

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On Monday we kick-started our #mentalhealthawareness week for pupils with our daily breathing exercises and #meditation. Relaxation is key to be able to #selfregulate and to #selfsoothing. @Persia_FDN

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To finish off our #Coronation celebrations, pupils at both sites today enjoyed a #CoronationBigLunch & party with snacks they prepared themselves #preparingforadulthood We were sad not to be able to go to our local park due to the rain but still had lots of fun! @Persia_FDN

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This week at Heathrow Special Education Centre, pupils began different duties. They carried out various gardening activities including lawn mowing & weeding which they really enjoyed. Great job, Shooting Stars!
#Gardeningtime #Springatsnowflake
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Our #coronation themed #learning #activities continued today at primary, with pupils tasked with #reading & #comprehending #nonfiction text/symbols, following #instructions to make their own #crowns #kingcharles #queencamilla @Persia_FDN

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Today secondary pupils really enjoyed learning all about tomorrow’s #coronation during our Friday #assembly and got into the #patriotic mood, waving their flags during the #nationalanthem #britishvalues #kingcharles #smsc @Persia_FDN

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Pupils continued with their walking club yesterday, which gives our pupils the chance to access and enjoy their local community. We give them the opportunity to keep active while we also learn about spring. #inclusion #community #qualityofeducation @Persia_FDN