| Seal’s topic this half term will be exploring ‘Our local community’.
Each week we will explore a new story related to our current topic. During each week we will engage in a number of activities that are topic related. Your child will be encouraged and supported to explore and engage in each of these activities at a level that meets their individual needs. The holistic approach to learning in Seals class will allow your child to progress at a pace that is suitable to their individual needs and abilities within a rich and enabling environment.
Your child will regularly bring home information on their individual learning targets, individual targets may change in line with the topic, as and when experienced or consolidated. Each pupil will have individualised timetables to work alongside our class time table. Each individual timetable highlights targets taken from your child’s personal targets such as EHCPs, Sensory enrichment plans and communication plans. Your Son/Daughter’s individual timetables and current PLGs were sent home at the beginning of the term, if you have any questions or require an additional copy please do feel free to contact me.
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| Curriculum Area | Subjects and ideas for home |
| Our local community | Each activity will be linked to our topic of ‘Our Local Community’ or directly to the story of the week.
Week 1&2 will be based on the town.
Week 3&4 will be based on the woods.
Week 5&6 will be based on the beach.
Every Monday afternoon we will be visiting our local community, keep your eyes on EfL for photo updates of our adventures.
We will be exploring the following stories-
In the City- Holly James
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt- Michael Rosen
Let’s Go To The Seaside-Twinkl
Total Communication will be running throughout each activity and working alongside children’s individual Communication plans, we will be learning topic related words/signs and symbols found in our stories. We will continue to work throughout the half term on contextual words that support requests, play and social situations.
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| Daily Activities | As is our class routine, each day after registration we will continue to take part in a number of activities such as –
Number songs
• Engaging in counting behaviours
• Exploring numbers 1-5, recognition of numerals
• Order of numbers
Disco dough
● Exploring listening skills and comprehension.
● Fine motor skills and dexterity
● Following direction-pinch, roll, splat etc., forward, backward, numbers 1-5
● Tactile discrimination
Wake up shake up
● Exploring listening skills and comprehension, following instructions
● Gross motor-wake up shake up.
● Recognition of body parts, feet, hands etc.
● Moving around the room safely/spatial awareness.
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| Multi-sensory Listening and Attention | We will be exploring our individual PLGs and communication targets/SaLT programmes. This will involve attention and anticipation activities, following instruction in activity songs, exploring our listening skills in line with music and expressing our preferences to stimuli. |
| Maths/Problem solving | In maths we will be taking part in activities exploring: maths schemas such as connecting and stacking, moving and transporting, containing and enclosing, we will do much of this through exploration of and play with resources that are topic related, as well as building blocks, construction items and junk modelling |
| Communication/English | We will be exploring the stories above through daily story time, mark-making activities, listening activities, and activities focussed on the characters or theme of story, during this time we will be focussing on:
• Recognising/identifying key symbols.
• Having some favourite books or stories.
• Listening to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Tolerating hand over hand support from adult during play/learning activity e.g. to complete a task, to request/exchange a PECS symbol.
• Beginning to understand the cause and effect of our actions in their mark making.
• Demonstrating pleasure/interest in drawing and writing on paper and/or in different media, e.g. in sand or playdough, foam, paint, styling gel.
• Showing increasing control in holding, using and manipulating a range of mark making tools.
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| Creative (Art, Craft and DT) | In Creative we will be exploring and making things related to towns, the seaside and going on a bear hunt. This will include tactile sea pictures, buildings we may find in our local town and things related to our bear hunt story. |
| Exploration and investigation | We will work on the area of ‘Understanding the World’ and ‘Imagination and Expression’ such using everyday materials linked to our stories to explore, understand and represent our world - ideas, interests and fascinations ad exploring emotions linked to make believe situations or characters found in our stories. |
| Motor skills development
| As well as our usual motor skills activities such as; pencil control, hand eye co-ordination activities and puzzles, we will be exploring how to use switches for cause and effect. We will continue to work on our individual physio and SE plans alongside our motor skills too, including fine motor skills to develop independence (holding cup, cutlery, isolating fingers to point manipulate objects.), we will also explore role play and activities which are linked to our topic.
In P.E we will be looking at various types of dance. We will be putting together various dance moves such as Morris dancing, May pole dancing and expressing ourselves through using different resources to use to dance. We will be using the P.E equipment to move along, under and over through dance and expressing ourselves through different types of music.
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| Personal development/PSHE | This will be woven in through our weekly activities, exploring pupils individual PLG’s, aspirations and feelings. |
| Cooking | In Cooking we will be creating different snacks related to our topic. Encouraging independence to create our snacks by using different ingredients and tools. This will include such snacks as octopus pizzas, bear hunt sandwiches, town pastries, seaside desserts and lots more. We will be encouraging students to try different things and working together to make a snack to share. |
| Dance | On a Friday morning we will be taking part in dance session with Lauren, No Limits inclusive dance. This will provide us with further opportunity to explore our motor skills, sensory regulation and our enjoyment of movement. |
| Things to try at home. | This topic lends itself to lots of opportunities to explore the area of understanding the world and personal development as well as social/communication development-
• At home you might wish to spend time exploring your surrounding area/community-where is the local park/bus stop-what can you do there?
• You may have small world toys to play with, modelling interactions and scenarios, exploring emotions.
• Maybe plan a visit to the local community with your child, what/where would they like to visit? How would you get there? What would you need to take with you?
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| Please do feel free to explore individual targets at home, it would be great to hear about your child’s experiences via their home School book or EfL, |
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