Pathway 4 Curriculum Overview - Spring 2023 – KS3 (some parts for KS5)
“Environments and Wildlife”
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Maths
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English
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Global Learning
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Number and Counting
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Reading: The Great Kapok Tree (Wildlife/ Environment)
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Geography Focus - Environments
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- Daily opportunities for Number and Counting within a range of lessons and practical experiences.
- Number games and songs, 1-1 correspondence.
- Social interaction and group Maths songs and games.
- Maths No Problems and Power Maths ongoing mastery programmes where appropriate
Geometry and Measures: Sequencing
- Practical use of positional language and ordinal numbers within cooking tasks
- Copying simple sequences of familiar animals and key details, e.g. Jaguar’s spots
- Sorting familiar objects by shape, colour, size
- Sorting familiar animals by simple criteria
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- Daily reading of Rapid Reading scheme books and personalised word and symbol books based on Wildlife theme, individual experiences and / or interests.
- Daily opportunities for reading symbols, cue cards and symbol sentences across all activities.
- Group reading- Sensory story time “Great Kapok Tree” with routine, signs, objects, actions and touch,
- Further individualised topic reading - pictures, symbols, words and sentences related to the story and wider topic
- Reading and Sequencing cooking instructions and identifying ingredients.
- Reading (appropriately simplified) key theme texts – e.g. “Monkey Puzzle” Julia Donaldson and simple Factual Texts
- Personalised social stories where relevant
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- Simple exploration, naming and matching of key elements and iconic wildlife of “Rainforest” environments
- Exploring and simple recognition of key elements and features of contrasting Earth Environments, Sea, Mountains, Polar, Deserts
- Link to temperature and weather and sensory exploration
- Matching key iconic wildlife to key environments
- Making models / art of environments and wildlife
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Geometry and Measures: Sequencing
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Writing: Environments and Wildlife
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Science – Living things and Life cycles
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- Practical use of position language and ordinal numbers within cooking tasks
- Copying simple sequences of familiar animals and key details, e.g. Jaguar’s spots
- Sorting familiar objects by shape, colour, size
- Sorting familiar animals by simple criteria
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- Developing pre writing skills through related fine motor control activities.
- Mark making with a range of materials, paint, chalk, pastels, pens.
- Tracing and copying key vocabulary, ingredients, names and places related to Environments and Wildlife theme and individually motivating / relevant words.
- Rehearsing symbol or text words, phrases / sentences to describe key familiar experiences or personally relevant stories and activities
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- Recognising, Naming key features of iconic wildlife
- Recognising simple stages of life for familiar wildlife and humans, labelling, ordering
- Creating and exploring themed environments in the sensory room e.g. rainforest
- Exploring sounds and textures of different animals within play, simple games and art
- Identifying and linking iconic wildlife to key environments
- Growing simple plants
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Physical Education
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• Daily access to structured movement activities and sensory movement breaks
• Swimming where appropriate
• Regular Trampoline
• Daily Scooters use
• Daily yoga routine where appropriate
• Multiple opportunities each week and daily to carry out OT plans and related sensory activities
• Weekly community inclusion sessions using various parks and other play areas
• Weekly walking for health
• Daily individualised “sensory diet” for students.
- Option to join weekly Dance groups
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Communication
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- Expressive communication modelled through Communication books, Makaton, gesture, vocalising and speech across all activities,
- Explicit modelling of language through personalised books and social stories themed on our topic “Wildlife and Environments” using colourful semantics approach to build vocabulary and structure.
- Developing and Using objects of reference and symbols within familiar routines and structures
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Creative Arts
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RSHE – First Aid
Whole school
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Assembly themes -
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- Group social interaction via familiar group songs, sensory and musical stories e.g. “Going to the Rain Forest”
- Developing 1-2 keyword vocabulary related to the theme of “Wildlife”, through the topic sensory story.
- Exploring various instruments, rhythm, tempo, volume, voice and the ways they can be used to create motifs and themes for individual iconic animals, including electronic effects
- Exploring simple drama, role play and interactions / expressions and turn taking to fit these stories, e.g. looking for the monkeys
- Exploring simple Musical and electronic instruments – keyboards, etc with support to create “Soundscapes” for iconic Environments, e.g. oceans.
- Using a variety of Basic Art techniques to create simple Iconic wildlife and environment backgrounds, e.g. Monkeys, Snakes, Whales, Rainforest, Oceans.
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- Building Tolerance, acceptance and understanding of a variety of First Aid Procedures within a routine structure / role play (not actually giving first aid!) E.g. plaster, bandage, ice pack, medicine, thermometer etc.
- Embedded words, symbols, signs, communication books and social stories
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Supporting and related activities:
- Pride and diversity
- Internet safety
- Wildlife day, World book day
- Clean water / water aid
- Easter
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Food Technology – Wildlife Recipes
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Preparing for Adulthood +16 students - ASDAN Life Skills Challenges (in addition to elements of KS3 Curriculum)
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- Making various simple recipes that support our wildlife theme E.g. Animal Biscuits, pastry snakes, Frog Cupcakes, turtle shaped break.
- Communication embedded within activity
- Procedural and ordinal language, sequence sorting and simple measure.
- Improving ability to complete basic self-help tasks with less support.
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Daily experiences and activities under the 4 PFA outcomes, both as part of a small groups and individualised, personally relevant activities:
· Employment
· Independent Living
· Community Inclusion
· Health
E.g. visiting local community facilities and places, choosing something to buy in a familiar shop, making simple drinks and snacks, looking after our “Flat”, choosing leisure activities.
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