Woodland 2025/26
Brook
Brook
We’re excited to begin Module 2, where we’ll be learning all about life in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. We’ll explore how people lived, what they wore, the food they enjoyed, the music they listened to, and the technology that shaped their world. This module, we’ll also be developing our communication skills by expressing our likes, dislikes, preferences, and feelings. In Sensology, we’ll be experiencing the changes from autumn to winter and recognising these seasonal shifts during our outdoor learning sessions. Our brand-new playground is now complete, and we can’t wait to enjoy all its amazing features — from the bike track and trim trail to the interactive music walls!
Our activity schedule for this module is:
Monday - Library, Forest School and Music
Tuesday - Art
Wednesday - Rebound Therapy and Interactive Room
Thursday - Cooking, Aqua Learn and Inquiry Learning
Friday - Inquiry Learning, Aqua Learn and Music
Learning Objectives:
I can respond to a familiar adult through my preferred mode of communication, whilst completing physio.
I can engage in a turn-taking activity, by throwing and/or rolling a ball to a familiar adult.
Learning Objective: I can show an emotional response when sharing a story with a familiar adult.
Learning Objective: I can maintain focus when sharing a story with a familiar adult.
Learning Objective: I can explore an object by reaching out and touching a desired item.
Learning Objective: I can explore activities in 'Forest School'.
Learning Objective: I can activate a switch and observe a toys effect.
Learning Objective: I can respond to at least one sensory stimulus, by demonstrating observable reactions - such as smiling, relaxing, turning toward the source or vocalising.
Learning Objective: I can reach out for and touch objects placed within my reach, and show increased arm activity when responding to stimuli such as sounds, lights, or nearby objects.
Learning Objective: I can independently demonstrate intention to explore a variety of objects by reaching forward, touching, visually tracking or manipulating them.
Learning Objective: I can make purposeful and voluntary movements in response to objects and stimuli.
Learning Objective: I can show an emotional response to a personal care and well-being activity.
Learning Objective: I can use my senses and indicate a preference through my preferred mode of communication.
Learning Objective: I can demonstrate the intention to explore a variety of objects by holding and grasping.
Learning Objective: I can begin to understand cause and effect by using parts of my body to make things happen.
Learning Objective: I can sustain attention on preferred activities with a familiar adult for 20-30 seconds.
Welcome to a new academic year! We will be spending time, this module, settling into our new routines and timetables, getting to know one another, and making the most of our wonderful resources.
In our Inquiry sessions, we will be exploring the world around us in a multi-sensory, engaging, and accessible way. Together, we will learn about a range of kind and caring people from the past, including Florence Nightingale and how nurses care for others, Albert Einstein and the role of teachers, and David Attenborough and how he helps us care for the planet. We will also have opportunities to take part in and celebrate special events, such as Harvest.
In Sensology, our theme is 'Emergency Services'. Pupils will have the opportunity to track lights to represent a police search, listen to ambulance sirens, and explore bandages and water spray to represent a fire hose.
Music sessions will give us the chance to use and explore the Sound Beam, and we will also enjoy working and playing collaboratively with other classes during shared sessions, including story, playtimes and participating in celebration assemblies.
This year, in Phase 2, we are also introducing our new reading mascots to encourage a love of reading for pleasure. Our mascot is Barnaby the Badger. Each week, we will send him home to share the reading journey together. We will also be visiting our school library, on a weekly basis, with Penguin class.
Our activity schedule for this module is:
Monday - Library, Forest School and Music
Tuesday - Interactive Room
Wednesday - Rebound Therapy and Interactive Room
Thursday - Cooking, Aqua Learn and Inquiry Learning
Friday - Inquiry Learning and Aqua Learn
Learning Objectives: I can maintain my alertness and focus during my turn within a group routine.
I can express my preferences through sensory exploration, using my preferred modes of communication
Learning Objective: I can activate a well positioned switch using an unintentional movement.
Learning Objective: I can engage in a supported sitting activity and maintain a propped position with reduced levels of support.
Learning Objectives: I can engage and sustain focus during a structured activity, showing awareness of the adult I am working with.
I can give intermittent reactions (such as eye gaze, vocalisations, or body movements) in response to the activity or adult input.
Learning Objectives: I can demonstrate increased alertness and engagement during preferred activities with a familiar adult.
I can respond to familiar voices or sounds.
I can maintain focus on an activity for up to 10 seconds at a time, actively engaging through eye gaze, movement, or sound in response to the task.
Learning Objectives: I can explore different smells and indicate a preference using movements, sounds, or facial expressions.
I can sustain my engagement and focus on a structured learning activity for up to ten seconds.
Learning Objective: I can actively turn my head from side to side when seeking out familiar sounds.
Learning Objective: I can explore a range of stimuli and indicate a preference using facial expressions.
Learning Objectives: I can demonstrate increased alertness and engagement during preferred activities with a familiar adult.
I can maintain focus on an activity for up to 10 seconds at a time, actively engaging through eye gaze, movement, or sound in response to the task.
Learning Objective: I can give an emotional response when using the wheelchair swing.
Learning Objectives: I can demonstrate a preference for a preferred item.
I can reach out towards a sensory item.
Learning Objective: I can grasp an object, when placed into my arm.
Learning Objective: I can open my mouth following a physical/food cue.
Learning Objective: I can stand in my stander for fifteen minutes and complete an activity during this time.
Learning Objective: I can vocalise to express a preference during a calming, sensory activity.
Learning Objective: I can engage in an 'Inquiry' session, and explore items associated with 'Autumnal Changes' for up to ten seconds.
Learning Objective: I can hold an object for up to ten seconds.
Learning Objective: I can explore a range of items and indicate a preference through preferred mode of communication.
Learning Objective: I can engage and explore tactile stimuli for up to ten seconds.
Learning Objective: I can reach out and explore tactile stimuli.
Learning Objective: I can sustain engagement and focus when sharing a story with a familiar adult.
Learning Objective: I can engage in an interaction with an adult.
Learning Objective: I can maintain interaction and engagement for up to thirty seconds.
Learning Objective: I can maintain interaction and engagement for up to thirty seconds.
Learning Objective: I can explore different smells and indicate a preference through facial expressions.
Learning Objective: I can relax my wrist when engaging in physio.
Learning Objective: I can try a pureed taster and indicate my likes and dislikes through facial expressions and vocalisations.
Learning Objective: I can activate a switch, using unintentional movements, following an adult demonstration.
Learning Objective: I can make more purposeful arm movements in response to stimuli including light and objects placed near me.
Learning Objective: I can express likes and dislikes when exploring different textures using facial expressions.
Learning Objective: I can use Eye Gaze technology to track moving images in a range of directions.
Learning Objective: I can turn take with a familiar adult and peer throwing sensory balls.
Learning Objective: I can use Eye Gaze technology to track moving images in a range of directions.
Learning Objective: I can reach out and grasp a familiar adult's hand.
Learning Objective: I can give an emotional response when sharing a story with a familiar adult.