| Strand and Profile | | Profiles in Class
| Ideas for home |
| Mathematics & Problem Solving
| Mathematics: Shape | Some pupils will focus on naming and identifying 2D and 3D shapes. Other pupils will move on to learn about vertices, edges and faces, as well as lines of symmetry. | Identifying and explore different shapes at home and out in the community.
Make different shapes out of playdough.
Bake biscuits and use different shape cutters, discussing them as you make them.
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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: : I Can Catch A Monster by Bethan Woolvin
| 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: island, forest, underwater etc. 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 â 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.
Apply reading skills to everyday tasks â reading labels in the shops.
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| Library | Our focus in Library time will be on developing Library skills and independence in using the school library and reading books for pleasure. | Visit a local library. |
| Expression & Creativity | Music: Call and Response | We will be learning a variety of different rhymes and songs that require a response. Pupils will work in groups to hold rounds together and lead differnet sections of the song. Pupils will also learn some of the signs to go along with some of the songs. | Sing rhymes and songs that require a response.
Watch Learning Station Videos and try to fill in the response: Boom Chicka Boom.
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| Art: Sculpture | Pupils will be making sculptures out of different materials, i.e. playdough, clay, junk modelling. We will have a topic on hedgehogs, using fine motor skills to add more details to our sculptures. | |
| 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. | Go shopping. Support your child to create a shopping list to follow. |
| 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.
Create an enterprise project. Make crafts to sell to family and friends for Christmas.
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| Independent Living: Budgeting | We will be focussing on money recognition. Trying to identify the different coins and notes. | |
| 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: Human Rights | We will learn what our human rights are and how we can respect each others rights. We hold some healthy debates, encouraging pupils to express their own opinions based on the human rights we are learning about. | Hold discussions at home and get everyone to express their opinions: strawberries are better than chocolate. Who agrees, who disagrees? |
| Physical Development | Community Inclusion: Swimming at The Reef/Hydro | Each week, all pupils will participate in a swimming lesson. Pupils will learn new skills and also how to keep themselves safe in the water. Pupils will also work on the hygiene routines afterwards, as well as their independence skills. | Go swimming at a local pool.
Visit a hydro pool for therapies.
Encourage putting deodorant on and getting dressed as independently before and after a swimming session.
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