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Welcome to Lion Cubs and Lion Class
Our teacher is called Jane and our teaching assistant are called Pam (HLTA),
Emily H, Sue, Vicky, Evie and Emily C.
SPARKLE CURRICULUM
The children in Lion Class follow 'SPARKLE CURRICULUM' which is delivered in a multi-sensory, creative way which will enables pupils to access learning using their senses through a holistic approach. It has been designed for our pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) and Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) who require specialised management for physical disabilities, sensory impairments and complex medical needs.
The SPARKLE CURRICULUM is:
· MOTIVATING Our pupils learn when they are interested, stimulated and engaged.
· RELEVANT It is relevant to the learning styles of the pupils and takes into account their prior knowledge and learning needs.
· CHALLENGING All teaching staff have high and realistic expectations of the pupils and with specialised, inclusive teaching — progress is evident.
· FOCUSED Shared targets from EHCP, Physiotherapists, OT, SALT etc. are central to the pupils provision.
Sparkle curriculum is predominantly made up of sensory themed learning and therapeutic activities. More time will be spent on more beneficial, holistic and individualised activities e.g. positioning in specialised equipment, visual stimulation, hand and finger work (exploration – sensory play), therapies (hydrotherapy, rebound therapy etc), movement, relaxation, Tac Pac, story massage etc.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
IMPORTANT DATES
- 04.01.22 - Return to School - Start of the Spring Term.
- 18.02.22 - Last Day of Term
- 28.02.22 - Return to School
- 30.03.22 - Class Assembly 9:15am
- 05.04.22 - St Hilda's Church 10:30am Easter Service
- 07.04.22 - Last Day of Term - Easter Holidays
- 25.04.22 - Return to School - Start of the Summer Term
- 25.05.22 - Class Assembly 9:15am
- 27.05.22 - Break up for 1 week school holiday
- 06.06.22 - Return to School
- 21.07.22 - Break up for Summer Holidays
14.07.22 The children have enjoyed catching fish with a net then they coloured in the fish using different coloured crayons.
11.07.22 Our visit to Seaton, the children enjoyed exploring the sand, going for a walk along the promenade and have a drink the café.
08.07.22 All the children in lions and cubs thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Sport's Day this afternoon! It was fantastic!
08.07.22 We have been doing our sport activities in the pool this morning. The children have loved playing volleyball in the water!
07.07.22 The children have been painting a beach ball using different textured sponges, rollers, dabbers.
05.07.22 - Here are some of our children in lion class, standing up vertically in their standing frames this morning!
05.07.22 - The children used their hands and fingers to paint the bucket and spade in the colour of their own choice, we then sprinkled on some sand.
05.07.22 - The library lady came into school this afternoon to read our children a jungle animal story. Joanna helped the children to make their own jungle mask.
Speaking and Listening - The children listened carefully to a variety of jungle sounds, they had to identify which animal made each sound.
The children enjoyed making jungle monkey handprints!
Lions had a lovely breakfast at 'The Raby Arms' this morning. 27/06/2022
15.06.22 - The children enjoyed making their Father's Day cards.
14.06.22 - Making apple crumble and custard.
16.06.22 - Creating a lion's mane using paint and a fork
13.06.22 Sensory Story - 'Walking Through the Jungle'
09.06.22 - We have been mark making snakes with green paint and making our own paper plate spiral snakes.
07.06.22 The children enjoyed making Butterfly cakes this afternoon.
26.05.22 - We loved our Royal parade today with Throston school to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee! Our children looked brilliant as the red arrows!
25.05.22 - A small group of children from Throston school visited our class this afternoon. Together we have made multi-textural queen stamps, union jack biscuits and two large flags for our jubilee parade tomorrow.
25.05.22 - A few of our children went up to Throston school this morning to work with the Year 4 children. We painted our hands to make a large material flag and we coloured in some small Union Jack flags too.
24.05.22 - TimbaDash Theatre visited our school today. We loved their performance of the : 'Queen's Jubilee Party'!
AMBER TRUST - The children loved Ashleigh's music session today, thank you Jude for sharing it with us! (May 2022)
13.05.22 THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSES.
05.05.22 - Maths - Exploring 2D shapes
05.05.22 - Sensory Tray - Can the children reach out and find the three pigs in the mud using their hands and fingers? Can the children mark make in the mud? Do they notice the marks they make?
03.05.22 In cookery today, we have been making a marble cake which is a swirly mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake mix.
03.05.22 Our teacher loved reading our 'What did you do at the weekend?' books this morning! All the children have had a fantastic weekend, visiting places, attractions, cafes and family. Jude brought our class some toys from his visit to the Sea Life Centre.
28.04.22 The children have been creating a multi-textural collage of a pig.
27.04.22 We all enjoyed Mike's music lesson this morning!
26.05.22 - The children enjoyed exploring and chopping all the ingredients needed to make 'Butternut Squash' soup. Our soup was delicious!
Summer Planning Overview 2022 - Our whole school topic is 'Home and Away'.
07.04.22 - Exploring and tasting chocolate Easter eggs!
07.04.22 - The children worked really hard, moving their arms and fingers to find the easter eggs in the different sensory trays!
The children decorated the Easter eggs using different coloured tissue paper.
06.04.22 The children have been making their own 'Bunny Ears' after listening to the story of 'The Rabbit who Saved Easter'.
05.04.22 - Today we enjoyed baking Easter rabbit shortbread in cookery.
04.04.22 Sensory Story: 'We're Going on an Egg Hunt'
04.04.22 The children have enjoyed making their Easter cards today. Creating their very own Easter bunny and carrot using their own footprints.
On Friday 01.04.22 Junior received 'THE WONDERFUL AWARD' for his brilliant speaking and singing this week. Well done Junior!
01.04.22 THE WEATHER: The children explored the icy, cold snow today!
31.03.22 The children enjoyed listening to the Easter Story today. We had lots of fun dressing up as Jesus and the soldiers!
30.03.22 All our children were fantastic this morning during their class assembly! Well done Lions and Cubs!
COMPUTING: Our children enjoying working on our eye gaze machine (March 2022)
Making Mother's Day Cards - The children chose their own colour paints.
23.03.22 This afternoon, the children in Lions and Pangolin Class have been making heart prints using their hands for their mams for Mother's Day!
24.03.22 - Today we enjoyed a visit from Maisie the therapy dog.
23.03.22 The children enjoyed having a walk to their local community park this morning. With adult support, they explored all the different kinds of spring flowers.
Red Nose Day 18/03/22
Soft Play - Physical Development
St Patrick's Day Activities (17.03.22)
Sensory Maths - Five Little Ducks (16.03.22)
Looking for Mother's Day gifts and buying plant pots.
12.03.22 Eppy has been doing some fantastic school work with her mam at home this week. Well done Eppy!
The children enjoyed exploring the interactive floor mat (10/03/22)
Lions and cubs have enjoyed practising their early mark making skills today (07.03.22)
We all loved getting dressed up for 'World Book Day'.
The children loved making Pancakes! (01/03/22)
This week our children have enjoyed making Valentines Day Jars (16/02/22).
Today our children enjoyed making Valentines Day cards! (14/09/2022)
Dress to express day! (11/02/2022)
Safer Internet Day - 08.02.22 The children enjoyed listening to the story of: 'Digi-duck and the Magic Castle'. The children created a collage of the different characters in the story. We discussed that we should always keep our personal passwords to ourselves and not share them with our friends.
Lion Class made love heart biscuits and shared them with parents/Carers! 9/02/2022
As part of mental health awareness week, we enjoyed the sensory "The ugly Duckling" 9/02/2022
We had fun making our Tiger plates! 3/02/2022
We picked our own paint colours and then we used our hands to paint the Chinese Lantern's. 03/02/2022
We had lots of fun exploring multi-sensory objects/textures for Chinese New Year! 03/02/2022
Our children enjoyed continuing to stretch their bodies in their standers following physiotherapy activities (24/01/22).
Early mark-making skills (24/01/22).
We loved making futuristic monsters in Art (21/01/22).
Rebound therapy (20/01/22).
Today the children enjoyed painting underpant pictures in art (12/01/22).
Cookery - Making alien cakes (11/01/22).
Sensory story - Our children loved reading 'Aliens love underpants' and exploring a range of props (10/01/22).
The children had lots of fun making Meringue Snowmen! (05/01/22)
Happy New Year to you all. Our new whole school topic this term is: THE FUTURE
The children loved meeting Santa and his Elf! (17/12/21)
Christmas Party 2021
13.12.21 Our children have been busy making some fantastic Christmas treats for our Christmas Bake Off today! Take a look at them having fun, baking at home!
We all enjoyed our Christmas Dinner followed by Christmas Carols! 10/12/21
Bethlehem's got talent! (07/12/21)
Lion class really enjoyed a visit from the donkey's (06/12/21)
Christmas Fayre and Christmas Jumper Day (03/12/21)
No pens Wednesday 24/11/2021
18.11.21 CHILDREN IN NEED - We loved making our own Pudsey Bear hats today.
Anti-Bullying Day (17/11/21)
DT - Making Rockets (November 2021)
Cookery - Making Honey and Ginger Biscuits 09/11/21
The children enjoyed a trip to Asda today to look at Harvest fruit and vegetables! 10/11/21
04.11.21 - Bonfire Night: Making Firework Pictures
02.11.21 - Bonfire Night: Making Sparkler Biscuits
We loved making our Halloween cards this year! We painted the children's foot green and created a green witch!
22.10.21 - Mark Making Ghosts Using Our Hand Prints
Computing - Exploring Light, Sound and Animation/Vibration Halloween Toys
21.10.21 The children came to school today looking fantastic in their Halloween costumes!
21.10.21 SENSORY PLAY: Exploring Pumpkins and Spooky Spagetti
Making Halloween Hotdog Mummies
20.10.21 Exploring the Halloween decorations, costumes and masks in the shops.
We love visiting the Hydrotherapy pool at High Tunstall School.
15.10.21 - Making Autumnal Vegetable Soup
14.10.21 - This afternoon Lions and Cubs loved working in groups with Pangolins to complete Autumnal, sensory activities. We used Autumn leaves to make squirrels and enjoyed finger fainting Autumn trees.
13.10.21 - We have found acorns and conkers in the park today!
11.10.21 - SENSORY STORY - We're Going on a Leaf Hunt
We have been reading the story called: 'Elmer and the Rainbow'. The children have been painting their own rainbows.
Meeting Masie! The children loved seeing the PAT dog for the first time today! The children gently stroked her and she was so relaxed she fell asleep in our class!
(07.10.21) S.P.R.I.N.G - KEEPING SAFE We have been discussing the importance of wearing our high vis vests today. We have also been discussing bullying. What is bullying? What's nice and not so nice to do to others and how we keep ourselves safe from bullies.
The children enjoyed exploring all the different ingredients to make apple and cinnamon muffins! They also pressed the switch to activate the mixer (06/10/21)
29.09.21 - WARD JACKSON PARK - We had a lovely walk around the park - looking for signs of Autumn
Making Elephant Shaped Shortbread (28/09/21)
24.09.21 - We have been sponge painting Elmer today using lots of different coloured paints.
20.09.21 - The children enjoyed helping Elmer, roll around in the purple berries.
20.09.21 Can the children find Elmer in the sensory tray?
16.09.21 The children painted an elephant each using their hands and fingers.
15.09.21 - The children enjoyed exploring all the different ingredients to make fairy cakes. Our cakes tasted delicious!
14.09.21 Our children loved our new sensory story called 'Elmer'. They happily explored all the characters in the story. The children got dressed up as a colourful elephant - just like Elmer!
13.09.21 - Our children are so happy to be back to school - Here are some photos of our new classroom areas.
Our whole school topic this term is 'Colour'.
07.09.21 - Lord Teddington, the builders and all the staff worked extremely hard finishing off the final touches to our new classrooms last week. It is starting to look amazing!
