Yom Kippur!
We had an RE Day learning all about the Jewish celebration of Yom Kippur! We read a sensory story where we looked at traditional clothing and other props. In the afternoon, we explored the concept of ‘letting go’, and enjoyed tasting/smelling foods to represent sweet beginnings. We love learning about all religions and their celebrations!
Who’s Trip-Trapping Over My Bridge?!
We have had loads of fun in our English sessions with our new sensory story: ‘The Three Billy Goats and the Troll’ from the Myths, Legends and Fairytales collection on Inclusive Stories. We have been working hard on our writing skills by retelling key events from the story using objects or symbols.
Growing Up Days
We spent two days off-timetable learning all about growing up, as part of our PSHE and RSE curriculum. We enjoyed a sensory hygiene session, practised dressing and bathing using dolls, explored body parts with playdough, and crafted some beautiful friendship-themed art work!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to another term in Chatsworth! We’ve got lots of exciting things planned for the next few months, including some fabulous whole-school events such as Multicultural Week, the Paces Danceathon and our Growing Up Days. We can’t wait to see how much progress the pupils make over the final term of the academic year.
Our new topic is Castles, Knights and Fairytales. As always, we will be using multisensory elements in all our learning activities to encourage as much engagement and curiosity as possible. We have a range of texts to get stuck into, such as ‘Prince and Knight’, ‘The Prince, the Cook and the Cunning King’, and some great sensory stories from the Myths, Legends and Fairytales collection on Inclusive Stories. We will be using these texts to develop our mark making skills, our emerging understanding of sentence construction, and our early reading skills such as listening, attention and anticipation. The topic has close links with History as we will be learning about British castles, kings and queens, and other important historical figures. In RE, we will focus on the Christian celebration of Easter in the first week back to school, but we will also learn about Islam, specifically Eid, during the second half of the term. Our PSHE sessions will focus on money and how this works in the world around us but, as mentioned above, we will also devote time to RSE and the topic of growing up. Additionally, we are very excited to be welcoming back Rosie from The Sheffield Music Hub whose weekly sessions are always fun, multisensory and perhaps best of all, noisy!
In Maths, we will continue to work on counting and cardinality through tuff tray exploration and topic-related songs and rhymes. Within the shape, space and measure strand, we will be starting to encounter patterns and will be working hard to recognise various patterns within our environment using concrete objects. Our Computing sessions are about photo and film, and we can’t wait to create our own media using different technologies like cameras and iPads!
You will receive your child’s new termly targets shortly, and we hope you will find these an encouraging clarification of their next steps. Of course, if you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with a member of the team and we will be happy to help.
Best wishes,
The Chatsworth Team