Bear Class

Welcome to Bear Class

We are a very active, lively and fantastic class! We love singing songs, soft play, sensory play and exploring very messy things.

Our learning is structured around the Beech Pathway. This delivers a unique and personalised curriculum to develop social communication, emotional regulation skills and promoting independence as much as possible. Activities are tailored to encourage and develop the pre-requisites for learning including joint attention, engagement and participation, communication, mutual regulation and self-regulation. We aim to maintain flexibility and adapt individual timetables to support children to regularly access interventions outside of the class. 

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Term 5 Timetable

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Term 5 Focus

English (Sensology)

Maths (Shape)

Pupils will be learning about Shape, focusing on the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We will be learning how to identify these shapes both when we are physically seeing them and within the environment. 

Bucket

Bucket (attention autism) is a learning approach that aims to develop natural and spontaneous communication skills and progress attention levels in children through the use of visually based and highly motivating activities. 
The 3 stages of attention autism that Bear class accesses are:
Stage 1: The Bucket to Focus Attention.
Stage 2: The Attention Builder.
Stage 3: The Interactive Game - Turn-Taking and Shifting Attention.

Opt-in Sessions 

Pupils are encouraged and invited to take part in a range of motivating activities that target key skills and areas of knowledge. If the pupils decide not to opt-in, staff members will work on different aspects of their development bespoke to their needs and targets.

Horse riding

This term the pupils have the opportunity to go horse riding this term on a Monday.

Rebound

This term the pupils will have the opportunity to take part trampolining sessions every Thursday. 

Swimming

Every Wednesday Bear class have swimming in the onsite hydro-pool. Please bring: a swimming kit, any eye or ear protection and a towel.

How We Learn

In Bear Class, we follow the TEACCH cycle (in Maths & English).
This structured approach aims to:

• Build independence.
• Allow pupils to interact and communicate with peers.
• Retain attention throughout the lesson.
• Teach key functional skills.
• Increase predictability.

 The class are split into 3 groups who will cycle round the classroom, spending equal amounts of time at each area.

Group Table

This is where main learning takes place, the teacher and TAs will support pupils with achieving the objective of the lesson.

Workstation

Pupils will have short independent tasks pitched at their ability

Leisure

A brain break for pupils, with an opportunity for them to relax, explore or initiate play amongst a variety of resources.

Important Information

Juice/Squash
If your child drinks juice/squash, please could you bring a bottle in every couple of weeks with their name on.
Swimming Kits
Please bring swimming every Wednesday. We do have spares but may not be available to certain sizes.
Key Essentials
Snack, spare clothes (including shoes), waterproofs.

Evisense
You will be able to track your child's progress through the use of photos and videos (once consent is given), using the online tool Evisense. If you do not have login details, please contact a member of Bear Class.

Contact

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions:
Morgana Malane
Bear Class Teacher