Cherry 2025 - 2026

🌸A Warm Welcome to our Cherry Class Page! 🌸

 

Our class consists of ten wonderful children, who are taught by Christy and Sean, and supported by Kaitlyn, Susan and Freya. Cherry have had an excellent start to the Autumn Term and are all now settling in nicely. We are excited for the fantastic year ahead!

 

 

Creative Curriculum Topics - Asia and then The Industrial Revolution

English - Instructional texts, playscripts, story and fact books are all covered this term

Communication - Integrated within each lesson and within meal times

Maths - Money, Shape and Number 

Science - Light and then States of Matter

PE - Games with Super Ball Paul

Computing - Tangrams, Scratch and Communication Multimedia

Geography: Asia - India and China; Mountains

Forest School - Geography, Art and Science themes

Art - Tangrams; Shadow Puppetry; Diwali and Holi art and then Christmas art

Music - Indian music; music at Hindu festivals and then Christmas performance songs

DT - Cooking: Healthy dishes and snacks; making lists and going shopping

History: Britian as the first Industrial Nation and the impact on society; Steam and Coal; Factories/ machines/ Stephensen’s Rocket/ canals

DT - Designing and making a gift for someone special 

MFL- Makaton: Asian animals and then Christmas Makaton Signs

RE - Hindu Dharma and Judaism

ASDAN (for pupils in KS3) - Healthy Eating and Personal Hygiene

PSHE - Healthy Lifestyles and Changing and Growing

 

Every day we will continue to work on individual PLP targets, through fun activities as well as workboxes (TEACCH). TEACCH | Autism Speaks

 

If your child is in Key Stage 3, they will start (or continue) to work towards their ASDAN Exploring Aspirations Qualification. This term the ASDAN modules focus on Healthy Eating and Personal Hygiene. We will be shopping at ALDI every Tuesday and the students will buy their own ingredients for their cooking sessions.  

 

We will be having regular play sessions, based on Intensive Interaction principles, developing communication and socialisation, through scaffolded play.

 

We will be having weekly cooking and food desensItisation lessons, linked to our topics or a curriculum area, building resilience, independence and promoting healthy lifestyles.  Autism and Food Aversion | Otsimo

 

We will continue to use the Zones of Regulation to develop co-regulation strategies, build your child's toolkit and also develop a deeper understanding of our emotions and feelings and how we can ask for help when we are having difficulties. The Zones of Regulation | A Curriculum For Emotional Regulation

 

We will use Sensory Circuits Sensory Circuits - Childrens Choice Therapy, movement breaks and have individual sensory diets for each child to access. We will also build Fine and Gross Motor skills up daily, through regular exercise and access to sensory development resources, in fun and exciting ways!

 

As we move into and through Key Stage 3, we now have a focus on Preparation for Adulthood, building up our independence skills and how we’ll use these in the future. As part of this, we complete daily jobs, around Hillside and within our classroom. We will also take part in in-house Work Experience with, or directed by, the Hillside Site Team. We also have plans for guest speakers to come in and talk to the students from different career paths and local community jobs.

 

 

Please let us know if there are any issues/ new information (medical or other) or any other useful information that will help us to care for your child each day.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact the Cherry Class team with any questions or queries you may have; we are all happy to help in any way we can and someone from the team will get in touch ASAP.

 

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Best wishes,

Christy and Sean 🌞