The Hundred Decker Bus

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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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. Easter Disco, Wednesday 29th March, Preston Primary School (Infants 16:15-17:15, Juniors 17:30-18:30) Of course, there is no reason why you couldn't do this as drawings on paper instead. Spot the characters

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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.

We will also enjoy drama and music session where we will get to dress up in various costumes and enjoy music and movement. We will create topic related arts and crafts for our displays and we will engage in drumming, anticipation, and rhyming songs in the ‘Music for interaction’, ‘morning group’ and ‘resonance board sessions. 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.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): This academic term we will follow the school’s whole topic ‘From farm to fork’. This topic will work as an umbrella under which all other teaching is themed. 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. 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. Our topic for the first half term is ‘Under the sea’ followed by ‘Celebrations and Festivals’ in the second part of the term.