A7 (6th Form) Class Blog

 

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. 

13/12/24

ENGLISH: We’ve continued practicing our phonics at the various levels we are at. We’ve also read our class sensory story this week, The Grinch who stole Christmas

MATHS: We’ve continued looking at time in various capacities; sequencing events, recognizing activities that take place at different time of the day/year, converting analogue to digital time and reading clock faces to the hour, half hour and quarter past the hour.

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: We’ve continued exploring traditions around the world at this time of year and explored different types of foods from around the world at the festive period.

HEALTH & WELLBEING: In Health and Wellbeing we’ve looked at private and public activities and sorted into groups then discussed why these are so. We’ve also had pupils attend swimming, rebound therapy with Mr Pallas and in PE we’ve accessed the new movement room and used sensory room/iMuse.

ILS: In ILS we’ve made pasta in the microwave setting the time and temperature correctly and using oven gloves to safely remove the hot plastic bowl. Pupils then mixed in pasta tomato sauce and cheese concentrating on mixing and combining skills. We’ve also attended Oakwood shops as part of our community skills visits and the pupils have all made excellent progress this HT already navigating to and from the shop, selecting items of choice, communicating with shop staff and money handling.

CREATIVE: With Miss Angus we’ve been filming the final scenes of our Autism Christmas performance and editing ready for next week’s performance.

CERTIFICATES:

AMc – Very engaged in ILS hoovering and in Food Tech following instructions to keep safe when using electrical equipment and excellent mixing and combining skills.

CR – Excellent ILS skills when hoovering being very thorough and demonstrating good progress in the technique of using a hoover on hard flooring.

Meet the team...

Mr  Morton

Mr Morton

Teacher

Mrs  Wilson

Mrs Wilson

Teaching Assistant

Mr  Thompson

Mr Thompson

Teaching Assistant

Miss  Tate

Miss Tate

Teaching Assistant

About us

A7 is the 6th form class within the Autism Department. The class has 4 staff and 8 pupils. The majority of pupils access the informal and semi formal pathways however, some pupils integrate with main school 6th form to access the formal pathway and undertake accreditation (Functional Skills).

The pupils work towards the Hill Top School;  Life Skills Passport, alongside thematic curriculum topic areas. The pupils also focus on the emotions and feelings using; Zones of Regulation, access sensory diets, Attention Autism and the principles of SCERTS and TEACCH. Pupils EHCP targets are also an important part of learning each academic day as they prepare for adulthood and life after Hill Top School.

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