Welcome to Helvellyn!

General Information

We ask parents and carers to return the home / school diary each day, as this will enable the class teacher to provide comments and information about your child’s day in school. If there are particular things you wish to be informed about, please speak with me.

Individual Education Plan(IEP’s)

This plan sets out educational targets that your child is working on for the term. There is a section in the plan which provides parents and carers with activities or tasks you can do at home to support your child’s learning. Plans are updated each term and sent home.

Reading Books

All children and young people are encouraged to engage in reading and develop a love of stories. We have a wide range of reading books, sensory books and big books to support the learning styles and levels for each child. Every Friday, your child will bring a reading book home. Please encourage your child to engage with the characters and stories.

Homework

Some pupils will receive homework in English and Maths to support their learning. If your child is finding homework a challenge please come into school so we can discuss it together. Your child may also be set some homework tasks based online using a site called 'Purple Mash'.

This Spring half term, we are looking at:

Looking at events in Literacy, revisiting some phonics and creating an in terest in books
In numeracy - Financial responsibility and money, shape and patterns
Science - Plants
PSHE - Finances and financial responsibility
Computing - During Leisure learning clubs some of us have been learning about how to search the internet safely and we have been practising using our new tool - 'Purple Mash'.
Leisure and recreation - team sports
Creativity - Artefacts

Work related learning / Enterprise

As park of supporting young people to develop their skills, your child will take part in work related learning experiences. This half term your child is taking part in a healthy juice and smoothie making enterprise, they will be utilising skills such as:

Shopping
Money handling
learning about healthy foods
health and safety
peeling and cutting fruit and vegetables
using a nutri-bullet
Selling
Numeracy
Literacy

They also learn about the importance of attendance and time keeping and socialising with colleagues during break times. They really enjoy our World of Work day every week.

Community Visits

As part of Leisure and Recreation and ASDAN we will be going on a number of visits out of school, including:

Kirkstone shops
Balls Wood Park
Scrummies Cafe
The Vue cinema
Marian Square Shops
Local Supermarkets
Museums

Your child will be learning how to access these places and giving them life skills that they can continue to practise in school or at home. They will also be following targets set by the teacher to ensure they can gain modules for ASDAN accreditation.

Making healthy juices

Numeracy - Measurement and Capacity

Christmas at the Nag's Head

Leisure and Recreation - Kirkstone Shops

Noah and The Whale - 5 Years Time

This is the song 'Helvellyn and the whale' will be practising and playing in a few weeks time. We would be grateful if you could play this at home to familiarise your child with the song and help them to practise playing their instrument. Thanks, Lee :)

Japan - National Geographic Traveler

Home to the world's leargest urban metropols, rugged wilderness, and a culture steeped in ancient tradition, Japan is a travelers dream.

Literacy - Japan

Japan intro.ppt

As part of Literacy, our new topic is all about Japan.

If you would like to read our powerpoint with us to help us remember some simple facts such as the capital of Japan (Tokyo), or food they eat in Japan (Sushi).

Lee will add more powerpoints, links to videos and worksheets for us to practice at home.

If you have any questions, please write Lee a message in the home/school diary or give him a call.

Thanks

Helvellyn :)

Helvellyn and the Whale

Technology - Preparing our natural dye

World of Work - Delivery service

A Dark Dark Tale

a dark dark tale.pptx

Halloween 2016

What a fun filled and spooky day we had today. Our literacy lesson was based on the spooky story 'A Dark Dark Tale' and we measured ingredients during numeracy and counted out our cake cases. We made some scarily tasty cakes and decorated them with icing.

This afternoon we played duck apple and performed an operation on our skeleton by digging through his guts to find things.

It was great and we all had a good day!

Happy Halloween!

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