| Strand and Profile | | Profiles in Class
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| Mathematics & Problem Solving
| Mathematics: Multiplication and Division | Some pupils will focus on sharing objects into a certain number of groups. Other pupils will move on to learn about multiplication and division with larger numbers. | Share out snacks with family members of friends.
Baking cakes – how many in each row, how many columns?
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| Functional Numeracy | We will transfer skills learnt in our maths lessons, to other areas of our day and other subjects, such as cooking. We will measure ingredients, use different pieces of equipment etc. This will also allow us to use other skills also. | Explore money when shopping.
Use scales or count out spoonfuls when cooking.
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| Communication & Literacy | Literacy: Talk4Writing
Book of the half term: The Dark by Lemony Snicket | We will read the book as a class and then explore the different settings in the story through a variety of activities. We will also learn some new words and create a class dictionary with definitions that are relevant. We will start to be innovative and replace words to create our own version of the story, using colourful semantics to support us. | Read different stories based in dfferent settings: dark, light, small large. Can they describe it? Can swap any words for different ones? |
| Phonics & Reading Comprehension | Some students will continue to learn new sounds and recap old sounds, supporting them to segment and blend words, developing their reading skills. Those students that are free readers and no longer need to do phonics will work on skills to support them to retrieve information from texts, infer and predict what will happen next and to be able to discuss and share their viewpoints of different texts. | Do 1:1 reading at home to support segmenting and blending of words.
Read a story together – ask your child some questions afterwards. Can they retrieve the information that they need?
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| Functional Literacy | We will use skills learnt from our phonics and reading comprehension sessions to support us in other aspects of our learning. For example, reading recipes, signs around the school or out in the community. | Read a book or watch a programme about magic. Encourage your child to use adjectives to describe what they have read or watched. |
| Library | Our focus in Library time will be on developing Library skills and independence in using the school library and reading books for pleasure. | Apply reading skills to everyday tasks – reading labels in the shops.
Visit a local library
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| Expression & Creativity | Community Inclusion: TITAN | Pupils will take it in turns to go into the community to practice walking sensibly with others, following instructions and pedestrian etiquette. | Practise walking around your local area and your child following simple instructions.
Walk around the local town, discussing when to wait for other people to pass
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| Art: Group Project: Dragons | Pupils will be making a range of different dragon related art pieces, ending the half term with a large group project. | Do some differen dragon crafts.
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| Developing Hobbies | Students will get to experience different creative activities, such as drawing, colouring, painting, dancing, listening to music etc., and will have the opportunity to express their opinions. | Try some different activites: dance, crafts, singing, sports |
| MFL: Greece | Greece is our topic for the term. We will be covering traditions, music, food, clothing, famous people and landmarks and will try to learn some Greek vocabulary in a themed day. | Listen to some Greek music.
Try some traditional foods.
Visit a Greek Resturant.
Read stories about the Greek Myths
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| Understanding the World | Life Skills: Cooking | Each week students will be preparing a snack or a meal as independently as possible. They will collect the things they need, follow the correct hygiene procedures before and after preparing the food and also wash up and put away the things that they have used. | Encourage your child to help make meals at home. Support them to make their own lunch. Try to use functional literacy and numeracy skills to support, i.e. reading recipes, weighing ingredients. |
| Independent Living: Budgeting | We will be focussing on money recognition. Trying to identify the different coins and notes. We will also be starting to think about the school prom and the things we might like to be there. How much are they going to cost? Do we need to raise some money to help with the cost? | Get your child to pay for some shopping.
Role play café at dinner time – can they recognise the coins to pay for their dinner?
Do a fundraising project.
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| Employment: The Patch | Whilst half of the group go shopping, the other half will go to The Patch to work on animal and plant care skills, listen to instructions from the adults to complete garden related jobs. | Discuss different jobs that family members do. If appropriate, visit family members at their jobs on the weekend or during holidays. Visit different places to explore different employment possibilities, i.e. café, charity shops. |
| Personal Development | Online Safety | Students will be learning about personal information. What it is, what it is used for and why we need keep it safe. We will also explore safe and trusted people that we can share personal information with. | Discuss about personal information and how to keep it safe when they are at home.
Identify the safe people outside of school that they can share personal information with.
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| Health: Keeping Clean and Hygiene | We will be focusing on how to keep not only our bodies clean, but also our clothes and places at home. We will focus on why it is important to be clean and will experience and practice some personal hygiene routines, i.e. washing hands, brushing teeth etc. | Hold discussions at home and get everyone to express their opinions: strawberries are better than chocolate. Who agrees, who disagrees? |
| Physical Development | Dance Therapy: No Limits Dance | Each week pupils will be participating in a dance session, based on physical development targets. They will follow instructions from an outside dance teacher and learn different skills within dance, alongside communication and interaction skills. | Dance to different types of music.
Go to a dance class.
Watch videos of people dancing.
Do some party dances – can pupils follow the instructions in the song.
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