Welcome to A7's class blog. Here you will see regular updates from our class giving you an insight into the work we get up to.
14/02/25
This week in A7 class;
ENGLISH: We’ve continued practicing our phonics at the various levels we are at and RWI, some pupils have also been doing Functional Skills Level 1 & 2 work and SpAG work looking at prefixes/suffixes and using them within sentence building. We’ve also read our class sensory story this week; Monkey Puzzle which the pupils really enjoyed. The pupils have also accessed the library and this week been responsible for maintaining the library and played phonic games to extend their phonic knowledge.
MATHS: We’ve been working on pattern and symmetry at various levels from matching and sorting to creating our own symmetrical patterns and recognising symmetry within the world. Some pupils have been working on nets, area and perimeter.
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: We’ve at leaders in our local community and how they help us and keep us safe and look after us. People with jobs who help us and those around us and what their jobs entail and describing how they help us.
HEALTH & WELLBEING: In Health and Wellbeing we’ve continued our topic of caring for clothing - how to hang washing after it's been washed and fold it, using coat hangers to hang tops and bottoms and practicing doing buttons up. We’ve also had pupils attend swimming, rebound therapy with Mr Pallas and we’ve continued exploring a range of leisure games, playing 10 pin bowling, new age kurling, velcro darts using the movement room and playing Wii sports.
We've also accessed sensory room, iMuse, movement room and soft play working on targets around communication, interaction, and emotional regulation and enjoyed sensory play.
ILS: In ILS this HT we will be working on planning and preparing food, we practiced peeling skills with our hands and a peeler. We've peeled potatoes to make chips using the air fryer with increasing independence in preparation for adulthood. We’ve also attended Community Skills this HT; Fewster Square navigating to the destination on the bus, selecting items of choice, communicating with shop staff and money handling as well as fulfilling a shopping list for class snack.
CREATIVE: With Miss Angus we've been
CERTIFICATES:
CR - Excellent skills in ILS hanging clothes on coat hangers and a clothes horse.
AMC - Great work in English with functional language to support making her wants and needs understood.
