Aurora Meldreth Manor School

We all learn in very different ways and have our own special curriculum and targets to help us develop our communication and life skills in a way that will help us most now and in the future.

We have workstations to help us focus and work on lots of different trays to build our knowledge in using symbols, words, signs, numbers, using our hands and learning about our favourite topics. Some of our favourite sessions are attention autism, music, creative arts, science and sensory play where we get to explore our world through using materials, tools, textures and getting messy!

We have weekly opportunities to go to the sensory room, cook and try soft zone activities.

Lunchtimes are an opportunity for us all to come together as a school to enjoy eating tasty school meals and socialise with our friends from different classes. We have our own placemats and eating and drinking equipment that helps us to develop our skills in making healthy choices and being independent in our eating.

After lunch we can enjoy time with our friends playing outside on the swings, roundabout, scooters, trikes or have a relaxing time in the gardens and Musical Garden.

Therapeutic activities are embedded into our daily routines and our therapists help our teachers to deliver them in class. Movement and maintaining our health is very important to us and we like to spend time stretching in our standing frames, going on the drive deck, bouncing on the rebound trampoline and stretching in the hydrotherapy pool.

There are lots of therapeutic activities to help us work on our communication. We each have special equipment or communication pods such as eye gaze, switches and P.O.D.D books to help us express our opinions and choices. Some of us go to Music therapy sessions which we really love.

We have daily forest school sessions. We like to come together across the school to explore the outdoors and learn about nature. We enjoy making up our own recipes to cook on the campfire and learning how to take risks balancing on the strap line and swinging on the rope course.

If you like gardening, there are lots of opportunities to enjoy planting trees and foraging in our gooseberry and blackberry bushes.

At forest school we get to lead our learning and choose to learn how to use tools safely, make our own art pieces or watch the clouds and the birds. It is a place where we feel really calm.

Being outside in the big spaces that our school provides is where we learn best and feel happy and calm enough to learn how to manage our feelings. We have lots of spaces to choose from including our music garden, the green house and water wall, number station and the Jubilee border which we all planted together. We can take our work outside in our special learning bags and enjoy all weathers.

We like to go out into our wider community and enjoy trips on our minibuses or learning how to use public transport such as trains and buses. We go to all sorts of places including to the shops, the lido and for long country walks.

We love our community events and try to do one exciting thing every half term to share our achievements with our families and to raise money for different charities. Our favourites are Fireworks night, the Christmas Fayre and visits from Santa’s reindeer, Pancake day, Afternoon tea and Sports Day.

We like to go into the wider community to help with litter picking, to decorate Christmas trees at the local church and lay a wreath for Remembrance Day.

Sometimes we have performers come to us. We really enjoy Music performance and workshops that we can join in with.

We like to be independent, and it is important that we get to do school our way! We have lots of opportunities to express ourselves and tell others about our choices and the things that are important to us including our assemblies where we explore world events, our gallery where we can showcase our art but also tell people about what we like about school.

In class our teachers help us to give our thoughts on how we are doing and to can contribute to our learning progress and reports.

We have student ambassadors for issues that are important to us including Eco and Recycling Leaders and well as Tree Ambassadors.