LSC W
Welcome to Mrs Wharton's LSC Class.
Literacy - September - December 2023
Communication
During Term 1 we want to:
- Develop basic communication skills: listening, following instructions, avoid speaking when others are talking
- Use simple body language: eye contact, physical stillness, attentiveness
- Build relationships: ability to work & play co-operatively (kind hands, kind feet, kind words)
- Develop interpersonal skills: turn taking, sharing, working as part of a small group
- Develop problem solving skills: asking for help, apologizing to others, deciding what to do, accepting consequences
- Recognise feelings of both self & others
We will be using these activities to develop our communication skills:
- Listening games eg. Simon Says
- Board games
- Circle time activities
- Role play of social situations
- Class stories eg. Fantastic Mr Fox
Numeracy - September - December 2023
Mathematics & Numeracy (At appropriately differentiated levels)
During Term 1 we will be studying:
Number
- Read, write and order numbers to 5/20/50/999 – missing numbers, number before/after/between, order biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest.
- Understand & use a range of mathematical language associated with number
- Money: recognise coins, use money to buy things in the class shop
Measures: Time
- Order of days of the week, months & seasons
- Read a calendar
- Sequencing
- Recognise times on an analogue clock: o’clock/half past/quarter past & to/times past & to in 5 minute intervals
Handling Data
- Sort & classify objectsfor one or two criteria & represent using Venn Diagrams
- Present data using real objects or pictures
- Discuss & interpret the data
Shape & Space
- Use a variety of positional language
- Recognise & name a variety of 2D shapes around school
- Use 2D shapes to copy, continue or make patterns/explore tessellations
World Around Us - September - December 2023
World Around Us (Topic Work)
This term our topic is Special Events. Through our topic we will be:
- Discussing special events this term (Autumn, Harvest, Hallowe’en, Remembrance Day, Christmas)
- Using language to identify position of objects
- Observing & recording weather daily using simple symbols
- Recognising changes happening in everyday life
- Using words and phrases relating to the passage of time
- Discussing personal hygiene – handwashing & keeping our bodies clean
- Using practical activities to investigate how germs spread & what is best to use for washing our hands
- Investigating the impact of an invention on people’s lives (penicillin)
- Finding out about famous people in the past (Florence Nightingale)
- Exploring changes over time (compare hospitals in the past & today)
- Exploring personal hygiene (handwashing & keeping our body clean through practical activities)
Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities
- Use a range of methods to record information
- Make comparisons
- Understand how our actions & words affect others
- Develop routines of turn-taking, sharing & co-operating
- Manage our behaviour in a range of situations
ICT (At appropriately differentiated levels)
- Access data & information with less adult support (log on, open saved documents)
- How to keep safe online
- Present information digitally using pictures & simple text (change size, font, colour, use of space bar,caps lock button, return button)
Contact Details
Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE
T: 028 8772 2250
