Treehouse Autumn 2025

What an exciting start to the year it has been in Treehouse class. Our pupils have been very busy getting to know each other, learning how to share the new classroom space and have been working hard to develop their learning.

 

Have a look at all the wonderful experiences we have had so far this year...

 

RE

We have started the year exploring Branch 1 of the RED curriculum, Creation & Covenant. First we explored what a covenant was and how this was a very big promise. Through the story of Noah's Ark, we recalled how God made a pledge to us all and sent a rainbow to remind us of this. We created our own rainbows and made our own pledges too.

We have reminded ourselves that Jesus in the light and through the Sacrament of Baptism, water is used, just like the flood, to cleanse sins. We are reminded through the Baptismal candle, that we must take His light out into the world; we made lanterns to represent this. 

Throughout this branch, we have been considering God's creation and all the treasures we have been given to look after on our planet. We have discussed how we can help to look after the planet and how we can help endangered animals too.  

 

 

Branch 1: Creation & Covenant

 

 

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Mathematics

 

 

 

 

 

Life Skills

 We started our year by getting to know our new surroundings and familiarising ourselves with class routines and systems. We had to negotiate how we share our space and all of the provision within our classroom. This has meant we have had to work hard on turn taking and sharing as a core skill. 

Throughout the day, we have always maintained a keen focus on being able to name our feelings and think about how we can express them safely. We have focused on the NSPCC Pantosaurus project and also talked about kind hands, kind hearts and kind words. 

To help us focus on specific life skills, we have been learning how to brush our teeth and have incorporated that into our day. We explored the importance of handwashing properly and making sure we stay healthy. 

Our next step was to think about how we can get ready for school every day and what we needed to bring in. As a group we created a list of things we need to have in school each day. One area that we decided to focus on was zips and buttons as we know these can be quite tricky. 

Outside, we have been playing lots on our equipment and also participating in Forest school with Mr Smith. 

 

Autumn Life Skills

 

 

Imagine & Create

 Treehouse has been a very creative space these last few weeks. We have made wonderful RE displays with clouds, flowers and rainbows. We have painted, printed and used stencils to even create our own art aprons. 

 

Autumn Imagination & Creation

 

People & Places

To get to know each other, we have been sharing lots of information about ourselves. We now know that all of our families are different and unique. We have drawn who lives in our house and we have even created aprons which express things that we like and our interests. 

To understand more about who we are, we have been exploring where we are. First we looked locally where we live and our school community. We then discovered that we are part of a bigger city and also a country! This peaked our interest even further when we realised that the UK has four countries and they also have capital cities. 

Autumn People & Places

 

Explorers and Investigators

Our science topic of 'Animals and Living Creatures' has been a very exciting place to start science this year. Through the eyes of a scientist, we have been exploring what is alive and not alive. We even had a robot doggy in class and then a normal dog - we had to decide which was alive and which was not. It was so much fun!

Once we knew that some things were alive and not, we then went on to look at different types of animals and where they live. We decided that a penguin couldn't live at home with us because they have a different habitat than us. 

We have been outside exploring different areas of our school to see what creatures we could find and considered why they live where they live. There were lots of creepy crawlies in dark places!

As part of being an explorer, we have been learning how to use the Ipad safely and we have even started to use them to take photographs.