Welcome to Cedar

Teacher Grace Burton
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Welcome to Cedar Class

Cedar is a class of 11 active boys and girls aged 7 to 12, being supported by 6 staff. We use a total communication approach to communicate our needs, choices and feelings. Cedar covers an upper Key Stage 2 curriculum with focus on routines and consistently, this is important to help us reach our full potential. We use multi-sensory approaches to incorporate a variety of learning approaches in order to meet individual needs and help us learn.

Cedar class is working on reading, writing, number and communication along with developing our skills and knowledge in a range of foundation subjects and developing our personal, social and independence skills inside and outside of school.

We love to share our achievements throughout the day and celebrate during daily golden time.

Cedar Widgit timetable – Autumn 2 – 2025

 

Curriculum Info: Autumn Term 2 25/26
Strand and ProfileProfiles in ClassIdeas for home
Communication and LiteracyWe will be continue our learning about the book ‘Old Hat’ – focussing on Characters, using ‘Talk 4 Writing’, an approach that teaches children the language and structure of stories and non-fiction writing through three stages: Imitation, Innovation, and Independent Application. We will continue to read 1:1 weekly with your child and our Library slot will be on a Thursday.Play reading – encourage your child to play at reading before they can read words. Play reading games when you are on public transport or at the supermarket. Set up a regular time for reading – bedtime is excellent.
Mathematics and Problem SolvingOnce children are confident counting backwards and placing numbers on a track, the language of “less” and “more”, can be introduced. We will build on prior learning to continue secure development. We will continue to develop number skills, counting as far as we can and looking at larger/ smaller numbers in order. Read Ten Little Dinosaurs by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickety. Key questions for development at home: • What does “1 less” mean? • How can you show 1 less? • 1 less than is...
Personal DevelopmentWe will develop pupils’ understanding of the relationships that exists within families and friends. Consider the activities we do with friends – hobbies and interests, and how to resolve conflict through a variety of experiences and activities. We will continue our learning within the community to include road safety and community awareness while out shopping.Please communicate freely if there are any elements of PSHE that we can support your child with in school and at home which aims to ensure knowledge, skills and understanding to lead confident, healthy and independent lives
Physical DevelopmentWe will continue with weekly sensory circuits to develop gross motor skills, coordination, team skills and balance. We will continue accessing weekly yoga sessions to promote wellbeing, mindfulness and to support sensory processing.Try to enjoy 30 minutes of exercise 3 times per week to increase heart rate.
ScienceWe will be thinking about different animals, including humans, and where and how they live and survive. We will conduct some experiments to support our understanding. We will continue to access to the patch to explore habitats. Visit a local zoo or animal sanctuary and discuss which animals you can see. Notice what type of habitat they have – is it woodland, underwater or arctic?
MFLIn MFL we will be finding out things about Spain. We will be making our own snacks using ingredients from Spain. Our focus is to follow a simple recipe to make our own snack to share as a group. Try different foods related to Spain. Make a snack together using ingredients related to Spain and enjoy listening to Spanish music.
REWe will be learning about Christianity. We will be finding out about this religion through exploring objects related to what Christians believe in. We will be finding out about the Christmas story and making things related to this Christian Festival.Read stories related to Christianity, the birth of Jesus in the Christmas story, listen to Christmas carols and Christian music that may be heard in churches. Make something for your Christmas tree to resemble the Christian Festival.
Art We will be learning about colour, pattern, texture, form and pattern, with emphasis on senses. We are taking part in some enterprise activities to provide Christmas crafts for our Christmas fair. We will explore a variety of ideas and mediums and continue to make choices on colours and materials in Art.Fire up the senses by creating Art using different foods/ spices i.e. make scented paint by crushing up strawberries or Christmas spices and using the liquid to paint with – amazing!
MusicWe will be finding out about how music is used in Drama and Film. We will be listening to music used in comedy, scary, love, adventure and of course Christmas movies. We will talking about how the music makes us feel and our likes and dislikes. We will be using instruments to play along to the songs. We will be using the microphone to join in and sing along to the music. We will be dancing along and acting to the different musicListen to music from different movies. How do you feel listening to this type of music? Make up some moves and actions to join in with the music from the movies.
Humanities We will be finding out different changes and things that happened during the Floods of 1953. We will be experimenting with different water scenarios, foam, jelly, debris to find out what happens if we use these things to flood our small world people and villages. We will make our own houses to make a village and see what happens when they are flooded by water, wind and debris. We will be discussing if our houses will be able to survive the floods and what we could use differently to make them. Make your own junk model village and experiment what happens when you flood them. Use fans to blow the leaves and debris away like in a storm.