The students will engage in messy play, create items sensory display and collages. They will also build a picture book about their personal experiences in school and outside trips, containing their favourite items, places and rewards.

Aside from the main characters, there are several obvious and not-so-obvious recurring characters in the book. Very many occur twice, but here are some who appear more often (not including the cover): We will continue to learn through play and hopefully we will have great fun exploring the environment and make sense of the world around us. Our topic for the first half term is ‘Under the sea’ followed by ‘Celebrations and Festivals’ in the second part of the term. We will be learning about the sea life and try to bring the sea to our classroom by giving the students both visual and tactile insight of creatures that can be found in the sea. We will be exploring textures, sounds and colours of the sea. We will enjoy water play and sand play and engage in music and dancing following the ‘Under the sea’ topic. We will also be learning about weather and different colours of autumn season and listen to Halloween and Bonfire stories.

I have started a BIG work of art. it's a bit like Michelangelo's Cistine Chapel. It is inspired by my love of unicorns and nature. It will be magical when I have finished. Perhaps you would like to paint your own mural in your berdroom? ALWAYS ask your grownups first!

Read The Train Ride. Identify what the characters see on the journey. List ideas as words or phrases. Show sequencing words ( resources) and model converting the ideas into an oral recount. When the weather it is good most of our students will go for walks in parks, nature trails and opened spaced areas in our close community and visits around nearby farms and garden centre if possible. This academic term we will follow the school’s whole topic ‘All about me’. This topic will work as an umbrella under which all other teaching is themed.

Here are some ideas for how you can use the book in classrooms and at home. If you come up with any other great wheezes, please let me know and I'll add them here. When the weather it is good most of our students will go for walks in parks, nature trails and opened spaced areas in our close community.This term our students will continue to follow a sensory curriculum which allows them to engage in learning through play and sensory activities. We will continue to work on four programs of learning: communication, social and emotional, mobility and cognition. The students will also engage in cooking and food therapy sessions after listening to our Food tech related stories such as: ‘The fabulous pie’ and ‘The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch’.

Pupil’s daily timetable will comprise individualised daily communication and cognition work based on their individual educational targets in all areas. This will also include physical management and postural change wherever needed. We will also focus on improving personal and social development, self-help skills and confidence. We will create a daily weather chart and we will engage in drumming, anticipation, and rhyming songs in the ‘Music for interaction’, ‘morning group’ and ‘resonance board session. Take the map spread of the book as your starting point to draw a route for your own bus. As in the story, children can add landmarks of any sort, and then incorporate them into the design of your own bus. Half the class could be in charge of the map while the other half build the bus accordingly. This term the students will engage in multi-sensory sessions built around the following stories: What I like about me, My amazing photographs, The meanie greenie genie, Frank the 15 stone fairy, The night before Christmas. The students will engage in messy play, create items sensory display and collages around the farming topic. We will explore foods Chinese foods, spices and textures as part of our Humanities curriculum and create arts and crafts based on the ‘Chinese new year story’. We will go exploring and hunting for Easter eggs in the second part of the Spring term.Of course, there is no reason why you couldn't do this as drawings on paper instead. Spot the characters Share Mrs. Armitage on Wheels Identify each problem Mrs. Armitage solves. Discuss the improvements the children would make to their bikes/scooters, e.g. add a wireless speaker to play music, a TV, a seat for teddy. Pupil’s daily timetable will continue to comprise individualised daily communication and cognition work based on their individual educational targets in all areas. This will also include physical management and postural change wherever needed. We will also focus on improving personal and social development, self-help skills and confidence. Read You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Identify each form of transport. Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt. Enjoy You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Relish the illustrations and amusing scenarios. Invite children to select their favourite and to use because to provide a reason for their opinion, e.g. A whale riding a bike because it is funny to see something so big on something so small.

The students will also access different learning environment such as the sensory room, rebound and hydrotherapy pool.

We will also enjoy drama and music session where we will get to dress up in various costumes and enjoy music and movement. This term we will continue to follow a sensory curriculum which allows us to engage in learning through play and sensory activities. We will continue to work on four programs of learning: communication, social and emotional, mobility and cognition. Our topic this term is Vehicles’. We will be learning about various times of vehicles that run on the ground, water or in the air. We will look at emergency and community vehicles and will learn how to sign their name. The students will engage in Music for interactions sessions’. They will make music by tapping on the sensory board and anticipate sounds and actions on it. Easter Disco, Wednesday 29th March, Preston Primary School (Infants 16:15-17:15, Juniors 17:30-18:30)