'All children deserve the care and support they need to have the best start in life. Children learn and develop at a faster rate from birth to five years old than at any other time in their lives, so their experiences in early years have a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe, and happy childhood is important in its own right. Good parenting and high-quality early learning provide the foundation children need to fulfil their potential.' (DfE 2023). 

Our class teachers are Kirsty and Beth

Other adults helping us are Keeley, Les, Abby, Marian, Izzy, Gina, Maxine, Megan and Lauren. 

Our children follow the informal or pre-semi formal curriculum and our learning is centred around the following key areas - 

Cognition and Learning 

Communication and Language

Social, Emotional and Mental Health 

Physical and Sensory 

Independence and Self-Help 
 

We follow a play based curriculum and learn in many ways. We have lots of adult and child-led play based activities to provide meaningful opportunities to develop our skills. We have personalised sensory regulation plans and behaviour regulation plans to enable us to stay focused and organised throughout the day. We also love Attention Autism (especially ‘bucket’) where we develop our attention, communication and interaction skills. We spend lots of time working on our communication such as listening to sensory stories, Intensive Interaction, PECS and Makaton.

Our progress and achievements are recorded in our class floor book, individual learning journey scrapbooks and folders and through Evidence For Learning. We also  share our exciting adventures on Class Dojo and on our class page below. 

Our story this half term is 'We're going on a polar bear hunt', linking to our phase 1 phonics focus - body percussion sounds.