| Strand and Profile | | Profiles in Class
| Ideas for home |
| Mathematics & Problem Solving
| Mathematics: | Length, height and perimeter
Some pupils will focus vocabuarly around length/height and understanding the difference, and recogning long and short. Others will learn to use standard unit of measure and some will go on to learn about perimeter.
| Measure items around the house
Help with some DIY
Use length and height vocabulary in play – ordering teddies
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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. | Build lego towers – which one is tallest?
Height chart on the wall – discuss who is the tallest and the shortest in the house
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| Communication & Literacy | Literacy: Talk4Writing
Book of the half term: | 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 they swap any words for different ones?
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| 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. |
| 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. | Apply reading skills to everyday tasks – reading labels in the shops. |
| 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 | Community Inclusion: TITAN | Pupils will take it in turns to go into the community to practise walking sensibly with others, following instructions and pedestrian etiquette. Pupils will also use public transport. | 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. Use public transport.
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| Art: Group Project: | Moving Lines
Pupils will explore different types of lines and try to create pictures using them.
| Create some art pieces using different types of lines. |
| 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: France | France is our topic for the term. We will be covering traditions, music, food, clothing, famous people and landmarks and will try to learn some French vocabulary in a themed day. | Listen to some French music.
Try some traditional foods.
Visit a French Resturant.
Read stories ro watch films about France – Rataouille, Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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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 for Business enterprise | We will continue to work on money recognition. Students to work together to come up with an enterprise project to raise some money to go towards the school prom. Students will learn to budget for it and run and event. | Run an enterprise project – garage sale, carboot, lemonade stand etc. |
| 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 belearning about the importance of consent. Students will learn who can help them if they are in a position they are uncomfortable with. | Discuss consent at home – explore who they can speak to or ask for help at home or in the community. |
| Road Safety/TITAN
| Pupils will take it in turns participating in TITAN sessions, learning about safe places to cross the road, pedestrian etiquette and using public transport. | Use public transport
Practise crossing the road safely – can your child identify if it safe to cross the road?
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| Physical Development | Athletics | Pupils will practise their running, jumping and throwing skills in this half term’s PE lessons. They will take part in different activities, individually and in groups, working on their fine motor skills | Have a mini sports day in the garden.
Play throwing games
Go to a trampoline park
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