Elm 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Elm Class!

Introductions

Welcome to a new year at Lancasterian School. We would like to introduce the team–  Hazel, (class teacher) on Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridays. Ben (TA3), Shaun , Ruby, a floating member  and Jane(TA1s).  Jane supports us at lunchtimes, and provides cover as and when required. We have a number of established staff with experience of working with Autistic pupils. Our classroom focuses around structure, routine, independence and communication alongside other learning opportunities.

Topics

The first theme is 'Changes'. The theme builds on My World, My Communication, My Reasoning, and Me and My relationships areas of the Semi-Formal Curriculum to focus on Changes That inevitably happen for everyone. Life is unpredictable. Teaching adaptability skills and flexible thinking helps children cope with changes, uncertainty and disappointment. ‘Changes’ focuses on looking at changes we experience in our everyday and in our lifetime. These might be changes in the weather, seasons, our local environment or bigger changes such as changes in our pupil’s lives, circumstances and situations.

This topic is designed to help pupils understand themselves, family and/or the world they live in better. It can also help pupils process life events, such as new babies, growing up and death. ‘

Upcoming Trips and Events

We are accessing the community each week– starting with a visit to Withington Hospital Café. Please send £3 to cover the cost of a drink and snack whilst there. The class is working on travelling skills, making choices, communicating those choices, using money and sharing our space.

Clothing

We like to offer our pupils a large range of
experiences and encourage them to explore and interact with the world around them. As a result, the children may sometimes get a little messy. While we will do our best to clean them up a spare change of clothes , labelled with their name, in bags would be useful.

We will also be accessing both the school outside spaces and community spaces so appropriate clothing for all weathers is a must please. This could be a raincoat and wellies (again labelled please) or a full wet weather suit with trousers if your child sits on the floor.

Swimming  and PE is on a Thursday. Please send in Swim kit and towel or PE kit (class split in two each term) Thanks. The team will advise you, which session your child is doing in your childs home/school books. This will change over in Autumn 2 term. Then all of our children will go swiming together in Summer term.

Thanks for reading! We will communicate regularly via your child’s Home-School diary, please read it and send it in daily. We’re also always happy to chat or answer other questions in person, by phone, or in the diaries.

We will soon transition over to Class Dojo to communicate between home and school, it is a great tool to aid our communication, especially if english is not the spoken language at home- There is a great translation tool that can be used! I will be in touch to send QR codes so you can join up- there is no payment needed for this it is a free tool!

Please let us and transport know as soon as possible if your child can’t come into school.

School telephone: 0161 445 0123