SLD H
Welcome to Mrs Holland's SLD Class.
Language & Literacy - April - June 2024
Communication
Talking and listening
- Develop active listening skills
- Begin to take turns in a physical way
- Experience verbal instructions with support to complete activities
- Intensive interaction activities
Writing
- Make purposeful marks - sensory activities
- Use iPad to complete explore effect of marks using ICT – lightbox app
Reading
- Experience an adult led story with sensory elements
- Show interest in books
- Makaton Reading programme – Book 1 Transport and Clothes
- Harberton Reading Programme
- Story time – Range of transport books from the That’s not my …
Big books – Trucks, Aeroplanes and Boats
Mathematics & Numeracy - April - June 2024
Using Mathematics
Number and Money
- Experience the use of numbers in everyday life
- Experience number use in simple number songs
- Experience Numicon and magnetic numbers
Measures & Sorting
- Match and sort by colour
- Match and sort for big and small objects
- Experience terms ‘first’ and ‘then’
Patterns and Relationships
- Experience, explore and identify colour matching
Shape and Space
- Experience shape sorters
- Shape matching games
- Using shapes during art
General Subjects - April - June 2024
PDMU
- Make appropriate choices for behaviour with support
- Experience personal hygiene routines and engage with support
- Develop independent feeding skills
- Make choices and identify preferences
- Experience sharing equipment and taking turns with peers during outdoor play activities ( Foundation playground area – slide and roundabout)
- Experience sharing an area and equipment with pupils from another class
Exploring our senses through Sensology activities
Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities
- Make appropriate choices regarding own behavior
- Indicate preferences during break, lunch and play
- Develop personal hygiene routines
- Recognize their own belongings and that they have a specific place – coats on coat hooks / shoes in basket
- Show awareness of daily routine
Accept sharing space with an adult / peer during play
MHWB
- Participate in daily outdoor play and physical activities
- Be encouraged to try new foods
- Experience the change in the season from Spring to Summer notice the change in the weather / flowers blooming
- Spring / Summer walks – for relaxation and explore the environment
- Explore the sensory garden/wall
Social Skills
- Remain seated for ‘focused teaching’ times
- Make eye contact, wave or Hi five as appropriately during circle time to adult
- Make appropriate greeting during Hello / Good afternoon focus time
- Follow single verbal instruction
- Celebrate occasions and success
- Develop ability to take turns / wait for their turn
Contact Details
Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE
T: 028 8772 2250