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What does your child need for KS1 Resource Base?
- A school uniform and shoes (discuss with your child’s teacher any adaptations needed).
- A water bottle (school water bottles available from KS2 Office)
- A suitable coat for weather (hooded if possible).
- A pair of wellies (waterproof over pants if possible).
- A set of spare clothes / a multi pack of underwear/ socks in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
- Necessary self-care items if required e.g. pull ups.
- A preferred healthy snack in case of restricted food choice / allergies (we provide fruit and breadsticks for example daily)
Please label all your child’s belongings clearly with their name.
We do not allow other personal items such as toys to be brought into school as these often cause disruption for your child /other children. We have a range of sensory toys and transition items and toys that children can use.
Thank you for your understanding.
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING IN AUTUMN?
This theme for our Autumn terms is ‘TOYS’.
Autumn- Toys History: Mathematics- Time
Key Enquiry Question: What happened? What happens next?
During the Autumn Term children in the KS1 Resource Base will be learning through the topic of TOYS (with the main focus being on Knowledge and Understanding of the World :History and Maths:Time )
Key Enquiry Questions: What happened? What happens next?
In addition to History and Maths:Time we will explore learning within the following themes: History(Maths), Position & Movement, Forces & Motion, Grouping, Sorting & Recording, Making things work, Old & new, Daily Routines- activities, Festivals & Celebrations, Turn taking, Games.
Some of the learning, across the range of subjects, will be topic based with some subjects being taught discretely.
The learning will cover opportunities from each of the seven Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum Areas which are:
- Communication and Language: Developing listening, attention, understanding, and speaking skills through a language-rich environment.
- Physical Development: Building gross and fine motor skills, coordination, control, and an understanding of physical health and self-care.
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED): Fostering self-confidence, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and positive social relationships.
The Four Specific Areas
- Literacy: Encouraging early reading and writing skills, including phonics and a love of books
- Mathematics: Developing number sense, counting, spatial awareness, shapes, and pattern recognition.
- Understanding the World: Exploring people, communities, the natural world, history, and everyday technology.
- Expressive Arts and Design: Supporting imagination, creativity, role play, music, movement, and art.
Regular sessions take place daily of programmes such as: Attention Autism, Curiosity Approach, Sensory Circuits, Core Words for AAC, Sensory Stories, Dough Disco, Squiggle While You Wiggle, and Supersounds.
Children will also receive small group and individual sessions informed by their EHCP and current Individual Learning Plan targets and work directed or advised by SALT, OT and involved Educational Psychology Services.
Outdoor Learning
The children have access to outdoor areas for sensory exploration and gross motor play. The outdoor learning areas give children another setting to explore, experience and learn through different areas of the EYFS or KS1 stage curriculums.
Sensory Spaces
In addition to our outdoor sensory space, we have a sensory room for children to explore and meet their sensory needs.
Maths
Daily sessions of Number Maths Rhymes and Stories take place plus opportunity to explore maths resources from our Maths areas in Continuous Provision with adults to adapt activities to match individual children’s needs. Daily opportunities for short 1 to 1 sessions focussed on individual work on Maths using precision teaching and overlearning using ‘Teaching Number’ programme is used where appropriate for each child.
Our Number Rhymes in Autumn include:
5 Little Pumpkins, Counting Pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch, Autumn Leaves , Counting Fireworks, 10 Cuddly Teddies, Bouncing Balls 1,2 3.
Literacy
Our activities within Literacy focus on AAC/ speaking and listening effectively to communicate and understand the world. Also developing the pre-skills and early skills necessary to become a reader and writer. We will also be developing our vocabulary and learning core words for communication. In our Supersounds lessons children listen to and respond to a range of stories, rhymes and pre-phonic and phonic games.
Autumn Terms words include:
- I /me/ my
- want
- help
- yes/no
- like / more
- finish
- wait
Phonics
In Phonics we use Supersounds, an active and fun programme of regular short daily sessions aimed at supporting all the developmental skills and understanding to be ready for Phonics learning as a route to reading and spelling. The children explore all the aspects of Phase 1 Phonics. The seven aspects are: environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, and oral blending and segmenting.
During Autumn terms we will be exploring a variety of text including:
Noisy Farm by Rod Campbell
Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Spider Car, Car, Truck, Jeep by Nick Sharratt
Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
The Shopping List by John Burningham
I want to be a duck by Oxford Children’s Books
A busy day for birds by Lucy Cousins
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr
Dinosaur Roar by Paul Strickland
The Dinky Donkey by Craig Smith
Twizzle my tongue The Bathroom Boogie by Clare Foges
Children will have regular opportunities to share books they have enjoyed with adult support either to listen or read together or independently.
The Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs we will share this Term are:
🎵 Humpty Dumpty 🎵 Wind the bobbin up 🎵 Incy Wincy
🎵 The wheels on the bus 🎵Old Macdonald had a farm
🎵 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive 🎵 The Drummers in the Ring – Fast and Slow 🎵
🎵 Feel the beat 🎵 A sailor went to sea, sea, sea 🎵 The bear went over the mountain
As children become confident with all aspects of Phase 1 they will learn phonic reading using Big Cat Little Wandel Phonics reading books- learning letter sounds, word blending and segmenting within the context of the stories ,rhymes and non-fiction texts and related multi-sensory activities.
Children have opportunities to hear, read and re-read their favourite ‘real’ books and animated version of their favourite stories.
They also have opportunities to use reading Apps such as Hairy Letters and Reading Eggs to support their reading development.
PE
We have two PE session per week where children have the space to explore large equipment for gross motor development of skills like climbing, balancing and jumping using different resources to within their outdoor play. They will practice coordination skills such as throwing and catching with a variety of resources likes balls, beanbags, skittles, ribbons and hoops. There will be opportunity to join in collaborative activities such as parachute games and see-saw.
Happy Learning !
from the KS1 Resource Base team –
Mrs Ethell, Ms Harney, Mr Occleston and Miss Wrigley