Text 1: Welcome Home Bear - Il Sung Na
This half term our story is all about a bear looking for a new home away from the forest, visiting birds in their nests and camels in the desert to find out his home was the perfect one for him!

Text 2: I Love My Home - Sebastien Braun
Next half term, our story of focus will be finding out why lots of different animals, such as squirrels and elephants love their own home and what makes each unique!

Our writing lessons are based on these stories of focus, pupils have been encouraged to create the different habitats developing their pincer grip by exploring different items and learning to pick them up. Pupils have created a bird's nest using twigs and leaves and made marks using chosen tools  in the soil digging like a mole!

Mathematics - Pupils are learning and developing their skills linked to number, position and direction! Using our multi-sensory approach to numbers, pupils are persisting in finding numbers in lots of different stimuli and then experiencing the number through the Delius number scents and making movements to represent each number found ! While engaging in activities linked to positional language, pupils are learning all about forwards and backwards. Pupils have used the positional language to go in search of the hidden animals and used the number scents to decide how many steps forward or backwards they need to move to find the hidden animals they can hear.

Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED) - 

We are learning about The World I Live In which has included engaging with activities from different cultures through the use of the sensory story ‘A world for me and you’ by Ujuj Asika and Jennie Poh. We are also learning about respecting differences between people and belonging to a community. Finally, we are finding out about rules and laws, experiencing and engaging in activities that promote our own rights!

Understanding the World (Science) We are learning about living things and their habitats. This has included feeling their own heartbeat using a stethoscope and focussing on their breathing.  They have also used drums to create a heartbeat sound.

Understanding the world 

(Geography)  - We are learning new skills about habitats! Our project has involved creating hedgehog houses that will be put in the school grounds to provide homes for our  animal friends within our area.

Understanding the world (RE) - we are learning about how different people express their spirituality. This term pupils are learning about Islam and  developing an awareness of Allah’s 99 names, through listening to Allah's names and learning about the meaning of some of the names by creating artwork to represent them. They have also been learning about how different geometric patterns are used in Islamic artwork including patterns and shapes seen on prayer mats. Next term, we will be focusing on how different stimuli represent visual arts in expressing Christianity such as mosaics and stained glass windows!

Expressive Arts and Design (Drama) We are learning how to develop our drama skills by re-enacting James and the giant peach. Our project is to dress up as the different characters and practise using their facial expressions and to create purposeful actions that will become a video performance. All the pupils have demonstrated they are super actors/actresses, stage ready born performers!

Expressive Arts and Design (Art) -  We are learning about print making with natural resources. This will include creating our own printed pictures based on the nature within Bradford such as Cartwright Hall!

Physical Development (PE)  We are learning skills linked to dancing. This term we are focusing on Ballroom dancing, pupils  have been working on performing different ballroom dance moves by stretching their arms up, stretching their legs to the movements of the feathers and fabric. They have also performed ballroom dances by choosing a friend and twirling alongside them to showcase what they have learnt. Fair to say next step - enter Strictly come dancing Delius version!

Next term, our focus will be on Bhangra dancing where our movements will change to move along to different songs such as Punjabi music. Pupils will be supported to co-actively work with adult support to create Bhangra dance moves. Pupils will then showcase their Bhangra dance moves in a Dance off competition between 2 classes!