Literacy -
Text 1: Welcome Home Bear - Il Sung Na
This half term our story is all about our class 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, encouraging pupils to make independent marks while developing their inferior pincer grip to explore and pick up items! This includes using leaves and twigs to design their own bears home and holding ice cubes with paint to decorate polar bears home!

Mathematics - We are learning and developing our skills linked to number, position and direction! Using our multi-sensory approach to numbers, we are persisting in finding numbers in lots of different stimuli, then experiencing what number we find! While engaging in activities linked to positional language, we are learning all about forwards and backwards!

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 our own heartbeat using a stethoscope.

Understanding the world 

(Geography)  - We are learning new skills about habitats! Our project in this subject is creating our own hedgehog house that we will put in the school grounds to give a home to little friends that live in the wildlife around Bradford .

Understanding the world (RE) - we are learning about how different people express their spirituality This term we are developing our awareness of Allah’s 99 names and how different geometric patterns are used in Islamic artwork. 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 exploring James and the giant peach. Our project is to use the skills of changing facial expressions and create purposeful actions to reenact the journey James that will become a video performance!

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 where some of our pupils are in their walkers and learning forward, backwards and side steps - not forgetting the all important twirls! Next term, our focus will be on Bhangra dancing where our movements will change to move along to different songs such as Punjabi music. Throughout all what we do in Class 11, all our pupils will focus on what matters most to them alongside their own individual physio plans and using their specialised equipment in PE and all subjects!