Bears

Hello from Bears Class,

We would like to say welcome back from the summer holidays and we hope that everyone had a restful summer break.

Bears class have a lot of new and exciting opportunities for our pupils planed for the Autumn Term of the 2023/ 2024 academic year. Our pupils have all settled into the class routine and are enjoying being back at Lindon Bennett School.

This term our theme is ‘Our Community’ and we have been expanding upon what our pupils have learnt previously about community heroes and people who help us and have been looking at how we access the community more generally. With that in mind we have our first trip coming up to TVAP and this will be a great time to access parts of our wider community. Our pupils have been able to work on their directional language and are beginning to learn how to orientate themselves in the wider community in which they live. We have used Google Maps to visit familiar land marks and used the street view version to allow pupils to see a real-life digital view of these landmarks.

Our class have enjoyed reading stories and have adapted well to our new class routine, which will provide opportunities for independent learning by utilising workstations. We have been having lots of fun in structured functional play as well as some brilliant more traditional academic lessons. We are going to be specifically focusing on our communication skills as well as getting some of our pupils ready to transition to secondary school at the end of this academic year.