We will also enjoy drama and music session where we will get to dress up in various costumes and enjoy music and movement. We will create topic related arts and crafts for our displays and we will engage in drumming, anticipation, and rhyming songs in the ‘Music for interaction’, ‘morning group’ and ‘resonance board sessions. This academic term we will follow the school’s whole topic ‘All about me’. This topic will work as an umbrella under which all other teaching is themed. The students will also engage in cooking and food therapy sessions after listening to our Food tech related stories such as: ‘The fabulous pie’ and ‘The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch’.

We will resume our community walks and will go on trips to the sea side, Playdale farm, and Filey birds and animals garden, Take the map spread of the book as your starting point to draw a route for your own bus. As in the story, children can add landmarks of any sort, and then incorporate them into the design of your own bus. Half the class could be in charge of the map while the other half build the bus accordingly. This term the students will engage in multi-sensory sessions built around the following stories: What I like about me, My amazing photographs, The meanie greenie genie, Frank the 15 stone fairy, The night before Christmas.Our topic for the first half term is ‘Under the sea’ followed by ‘Celebrations and Festivals’ in the second part of the term. Our topic this term is Vehicles’. We will be learning about various times of vehicles that run on the ground, water or in the air. We will look at emergency and community vehicles and will learn how to sign their name. Then as a finale, pile them up. First of all see if you can get it to stay up. Secondly see if you can reach the ceiling! Pupil’s daily timetable will comprise individualised daily communication and cognition work based on their individual educational targets in all areas. This will also include physical management and postural change wherever needed. We will also focus on improving personal and social development, self-help skills and confidence.

Here are some ideas for how you can use the book in classrooms and at home. If you come up with any other great wheezes, please let me know and I'll add them here. Enjoy You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Relish the illustrations and amusing scenarios. Invite children to select their favourite and to use because to provide a reason for their opinion, e.g. A whale riding a bike because it is funny to see something so big on something so small. We will continue to learn through play and hopefully we will have great fun exploring the environment and make sense of the world around us. The students will engage in messy play, create items sensory display and collages around the farming topic. We will explore foods Chinese foods, spices and textures as part of our Humanities curriculum and create arts and crafts based on the ‘Chinese new year story’. We will go exploring and hunting for Easter eggs in the second part of the Spring term. The students will engage in messy play, create items sensory display and collages. They will also build a picture book about their personal experiences in school and outside trips, containing their favourite items, places and rewards.We will create a daily weather chart and we will engage in drumming, anticipation, and rhyming songs in the ‘Music for interaction’, ‘morning group’ and ‘resonance board session.