Welcome to Rowan Tree Blogs.
Rowan Tree is a specialist primary school for pupils age 2-11 with severe and complex needs in Atherton, Manchester, UK
We’re delighted to welcome back our pupils for the new academic year and look forward to all we can accomplish together.
Our classes have a new blog each year but you can click here to see all the wonderful things we did last year in our previous blogs.
Latest Posts from around school…
We All Went on Safari
- Our latest production ‘We All Went on Safari’ is based on the book by Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns. We’ve used lots of different techniques to produce the film; The children have worked extremely hard creating and performing with puppets, stop motion animation, acting and signing. George showed off his excellent reading skills for the narration and CJ did a great job of reading the numbers in Swahili. A big well done to all the children who were involved, you should all be very proud of yourselves. We hope you enjoy our film.
- Our latest production ‘We All Went on Safari’ is based on the book by Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns. We’ve used lots of different techniques to produce the film; The children have worked extremely hard creating and performing with puppets, stop motion animation, acting and signing. George showed off his excellent reading skills for the narration and CJ did a great job of reading the numbers in Swahili. A big well done to all the children who were involved, you should all be very proud of yourselves. We hope you enjoy our film.
RB at the Farm 2018
Click on the link to see RB learning about farm animals.
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Taking our learning out the classroom
- 2R have learnt lots on our trip to Sealife centre and Legoland. We used lots of communication and social skills to ask and answer questions. We talked about where the fish, sharks and turtles lived. We hunted for letters to complete the Sealife challenge. We had some new experiences on rides and built our own lego models. Next term we are going to make our own models and see if we can make any that move. How do you think we could do that?
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- 2R have learnt lots on our trip to Sealife centre and Legoland. We used lots of communication and social skills to ask and answer questions. We talked about where the fish, sharks and turtles lived. We hunted for letters to complete the Sealife challenge. We had some new experiences on rides and built our own lego models. Next term we are going to make our own models and see if we can make any that move. How do you think we could do that?
Finger Puppet Fun!
In our DT lessons, 1W have been making finger puppets. They are now finished and the children are so proud of their creations - I'm sure you'll agree they look amazing!
My little pony world
- We visited ' my little pony world'. We learned how to dance with the ponies. We also wrote stories in small groups. These will be uploaded soon.
- We visited ' my little pony world'. We learned how to dance with the ponies. We also wrote stories in small groups. These will be uploaded soon.
50 Mums, 50 Kids and 1 Chromosome
- A beautiful 'Carpool Karaoke' video created by Coventry mum Becky Carless to celebrate World Down Syndrome day featuring our very own Emily!
- A beautiful 'Carpool Karaoke' video created by Coventry mum Becky Carless to celebrate World Down Syndrome day featuring our very own Emily!
Spring 1&2 in 2H
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Welcome to the Total Communication Blog
- Total Communication is an approach used throughout school to help children learning disabilities communicate using any mode of communication such as symbols, signing (e.g. Signalong), photographs as well as the spoken and written word, gesture and objects of reference.
Our Total Communication Media team aim to produce a series of short multimedia films based on stories, songs, rhymes and everyday situations. Each project will feature children from across school and be based on content created by the children such as artwork, animation, drama and role play, narration, dance, music and green screen filming.
We are proud to present our first production. It is based on the story "Please Don't Chat to the Bus Driver" by Shen Roddie and Jill Newton.
We’ve included a ‘making of’ sequence during the credits to share all the learning and fun that went into creating the video.
We hope you enjoy it! We’d love it if you could leave a comment and let us know what you think.
- Total Communication is an approach used throughout school to help children learning disabilities communicate using any mode of communication such as symbols, signing (e.g. Signalong), photographs as well as the spoken and written word, gesture and objects of reference.
Creating a wormery!
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We made a wormery today for the worm we found to live in.
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