| 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, which 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.
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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| Curriculum Area | Subjects and ideas for home |
| People who help us. | Each activity will be linked to our topic of ‘People who Help Us’ or directly to the story of the week.
We will be exploring the following stories-
• Charlie the firefighter-Twinkl Ebook.
• Topsy and Tim meet the Police-Jean and Gareth Adamson
• Going to the hospital-Usborne books
• Awesome ambulances-Tony Mitton & Ant Parker
• We will also be exploring informative/non-fiction books about the people who help us.
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: Identifying and ordering numbers, exploring and manipulating 2D and 3D shapes as well as exploring everyday patterns and routines during our school week. |
| 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:
•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) | We will be using different materials and tools to make things related to our topic. We will experiment with colour and textures to create our work. We are encouraging students to use different textured materials to involve more participation to create. |
| 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 puzzles and activities which are linked to our topic such as ‘firefighter’ puzzles and games. In P.E we will be working on Multi skills, bouncing balls, throwing games, using bats and balls and working together in pairs and teams. |
| Personal development/PSHE | This will be woven in through our weekly activities, exploring pupils individual PLG’s, aspirations and feelings. |
| Cooking | We will be making different snacks related to our topic. We will be taking turns, working together to produce our snacks. We will be using different equipment to measure, roll weigh and mix our ingredients. We will be following recipes and encouraging helping to clear away. |
| Community exploration | During this half term we will be drawing our busy week to a close by venturing out on the school bus, where we can explore real life experiences of our curriculum. We will spend the 1st couple of weeks exploring how to get on and off the bus safely and appropriate behaviours on the bus, while driving to and through the towns of Sheringham and Cromer, on our penultimate week of half term we hope to visit Lidl to buy our own snack for the last week. |
| Things to try at home. | • At home you might wish to explore/discuss the different people that help you? These don’t have to be Doctors or emergency services, it could be someone who is a friend or relation that helps your family.
• Try involving your child in looking at photos or pictures of those that help, exploring the way in which they help.
• Do you have any puppets or figures/toys relating to ‘people who help us’ that you and your child can role play with? Exploring these could be great for communication and exploring feelings too.
• I have uploaded signs for Danger and Help so that you can practice these at home with you child.
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