Key Stage 2 Specialist Teaching Facility for ASD - Mrs Bray
We enjoy learning together and exploring the world around us. We like to visit our local area, and participate in new experiences. We are supported by Mrs Raikes, Mrs Evans, Mrs Davies, Miss Picton.
- Class fund is £3 to be paid every Monday. This covers the cost of fruit, snack, cooking and shopping.
- P.E Kit needed for Thursday afternoons.
- Forest School on Monday afternoon, starting after half term - Try and remember your wellies!
- Shopping Friday morning.
- Try and keep us updated in your home/school link books.
Information, Support and Advice for Parents/Carers.
http://www.swanseacarerscentre.org.uk/
https://www.asdinfowales.co.uk/
The Victorians
This term our topic is Victorians. To begin our topic we met some Victorian people where we could ask questions about Victorian times.We are learning about people, their jobs and schools. We are looking at the history of Queen Victoria and other famous Victorians.
We also learnt about light and shadows by creating Victorian style silhouette portraits of ourselves.
For World Poetry Day, we listened to poetry by Lewis Carroll called, The Jabbawocky.
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day by reading The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. We made line paintings of Victorian houses, in the style of Quentin Blake.
We celebrated Harvest by making our pumpkins.
Victorians Overview
Folly Farm 2019
Thanks to the Rotary Club for giving us the opportunity to see and learn about many wonderful animals we had a great day out.
Visit to Tir John Recycling Centre
We were very lucky to have the opportunity to visit the recycling centre where we were able to see where all our rubbish goes, Swansea council were very helpful and happy to help us learn. We were able to see different things that can be recycled such as plastic, cardboard, batteries, paints and garden waste amongst others.
Visit to the Environment Centre
We had a great learning experience at the Swansea Environment Centre where we found out about environmentally friendly alternative products, we saw socks made out of bamboo and wooden toothbrushes. We also saw many refillable products that we can use in the home to save buying plastic and found out about how to recycle toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, bread bags and crisp packets.
This term we have made the most of the wonderful weather and explored the outdoors. We are reading the Gruffalo story and enjoying our sessions at Coed Clase, we have been searching for characters in the book and finding out about the woodland they live in.
We collected things we found in the forest to help us learn and relax, we printed, painted, cut, counted and made transient art.
We visited Perriswood in the Gower who taught us all about owls, we even got to hold them and watch them fly.
We looked at real birds nests, and made our own, we had help from the RSPB to discover the minibeasts that live in Coed Clase.
We had fun making log pile houses, bird feeders and bug hotels to help animals living in our Wild Wood (Coed Clase).
We enjoyed making and tasting owl decorated pancakes and roasted fox sandwiches (Ham)
You can view ideas for 30 Days Wild by using the link below.
There are also a range of activities you could take part in at the National Waterfront Museum.
You could also view whats on in Swansea in the document below.
The Celts
We have been learning about the Celts. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Castell Henllys where we experienced life as a Celt, making flatbread and exploring wattle and daub.
Back in school, we practised weaving in our outdoor area. We visited the Mission Gallery where we used wool and ribbon in our weaving workshop.
Welsh Tales
We have also been learning about Welsh tales this term. Our favourite is the story of Yr Afanc, the lake monster. We visited Fendrod Lake, but didn't see Yr Afanc. We even designed our own lake monster, as well as using Monet's 'Waterlilies' to inspire our lake paintings.
Merry Christmas!
Christmas has been a very busy time in our class.
We performed 'White Christmas' in Makaton sign for our parents, and have made Christmas cards and gifts for our families.
In the last week of term, we visited Santa in his Toy Mine. We all enjoyed, and loved meeting Santa!
Travelling Around - Spring Term 2019
Our topic this term is Travelling Around, where we have been finding out about different types of transport.
We visited the local area in the minibus and found pictures of old and new buses.
Learning about bicycles was fun, and everyone enjoyed reading the story of 'Mrs Armitage on Wheels'
We even designed a new bicycle for Mrs Armitage!
We learnt to program our BeeBot and we did a traffic survey, to see how many cars, lorries and buses went around the roundabout.