Curriculum Newsletter Feb 7th
Welcome to our curriculum newsletter.
A message from Mrs Harridge.
Dear Parents & Carers,
It's been all action at Brierley this week: We have had Leeds Rhinos into school to lead a Panthalon across Semi-formal and Formal Pathways. The children showed off their skills using real resilience and team working to push themselves and achieve their Brierley Best!
Mrs Harridge
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Archery sessions for our formal pathways.
Our Formal learners enjoyed a wonderful archery session with some of our learners rivalling Robin Hood himself! This took a high degree of hand/ eye coordination and real persistence to try, try and try some more to achieve their goals.
Captivating Colours in Informal Pathway
The theme this term in Informal Pathway is learning colours through food, sensory play, our immersive environments and through story. Here are some of the gorgeous activities your children have experienced over the half term.
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Brierley Best Learning!
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Communication for Learning
At Brierley we use a ‘total communication’ approach and develop our literacy skills through Talk4writing. In all our Pathways, children read a focus text each half term and learn the story by heart using actions, drama, story mountain pictures and sequencing the story in drawings, we call this ‘Immersion’.
Innovation:
When the children know the text really well, we begin to change parts of the story using pictures and words, this depends on which stage children are at. So we may change an owl character to a dragon or a woodland setting to a cave. During this stage children learn to build sentences (using widget symbols) and add detailed language such as metaphors, adjectives or connectives.
Independent writing
Independent writing is the final stage where learners begin to write their own version of the text but the most important part is children using language through their chosen means of communication to express their ideas so this ‘writing’ might be using ‘Clicker’ to type, pictures or a sensory story to re-enact their ideas.
Makaton Sign of the Week:
