Happy Friday everyone.  We hope you’ve all had a fabulous week.  We have been very busy.  At the end of every half term, we reflect on what has worked well in class and what we can change.  This helps us plan an engaging and exciting curriculum for the half term ahead.  This half term was no exception. We chose a new sensory art topic and a new exploration session based on interests and skills of our class.

The general aims of Sensory Art are to show engagement, use our hands, explore a range of materials, notice effect of change, cause and effect and making choices.  This half term we are exploring sculpture.   Using wire and beads we are beginning to make our own class sculpture.  We have been using our hands to pull, scrunch, squash, move and thread.  Here are some pictures of our journey this week.

Our new exploration session is based around the theme ropes and string.  This is an open ended session with lots of  possibilities for learning.  Children are introduced to an exciting environment, filled with play possibilities.  The session is completely child led, adult’s role is to follow their child’s interests and scaffold their learning in a way which is individual to that child.  For example, some children show an immediate interest in the ropes.  They show their interest by walking and picking up/looking at the rope.  An adult’s role is then to explore what they enjoy doing with the rope.  It could be pulling, wrapping, tickling, swinging etc.  The interaction between adult and child becomes key to all kinds of communication opportunities.  Here are some of the photos of this week’s exploration.

We have also worked very hard in rebound therapy this week.  We use music and specific resources to work on a range of movement and skills: from crawling to sitting, standing to balancing. Here is a taste of our rebound programme.

On the subject of rebound therapy, our rebound therapy centre is open again to the public at weekends and after school on a Tuesday and Thursday night.  Slots are being booked up quickly.  Give school a call to book a session.