Furze Down School

Furze Down School

A Specialist School for Communication and Interaction

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EYFS to KS4 - Verney Road, Winslow, MK18 3BL / Sixth Form - Well Street, Buckingham, MK18 1EN

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Hazel

Hazel

Overarching Themes and Topics Rotation 1 and 2 – Hazel Class

 

Rotation

1

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

 

Spring 1

 

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Themes

Healthy Me

We love Music!

 Wonderful Weather

Where I Live

Aliens, Monsters and adventures in space

Princes and Princesses

Example Texts and resources

Oi Frog /Oi Dog

I’m Special, I’m Me

Snail Song

Relationships

Hungry caterpillar

Bones

Suddenly

Lighthouse keepers’ lunch

Funny bones

Over the rainbow

Puff the magic dragon

The rainbow bear

The popcorn popper

The musical teapot

But Martin

Peace at last

Music maker

The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly

One magical day

Tuesday

Bella gets her skates on

Dear Greenpeace

At the beach

 Say Hello to the Snowy Animals

The whale’s song

Smugglers of Mourner

The smallest bear

Pattans Pumpkin

Every bunny Dance

Here we go harry

Dilly Duckling

Farmer Duck

Mucky Duck

The Mouse hole cat

Gardening for beginners

The Tin Forest

Pied Piper of Hamelin

Owl Babies

 

 

Man on the moon

Here come the aliens

Frankenstein’s cat

Who said boo?

Micky Moonbeam

Star girl

Children’s history of Space

 

Handa’s surprise

Handa’s Hen

Cinderella’s Bottom

+ Traditional Fairy tales:

The Frog prince

Rapunzel

Alice in wonderland

Cinderella

The Princess and the Pea

 

Keywords, Communication and Languages (reading, writing, communication)

Body Growing

Moving Eating

Drinking Healthy food

Healthy exercise

Keeping myself clean

Healthy relationships

Friends Family

Keeping safe

 

Instruments

Beat Rhythm

Singing Song Dancing

Performing Loud

Quiet Fast Slow

Celebration Christmas

Birthday Musical notes

Band Orchestra

Playing together

Rain Snow

Sun Thunder

Lightening Clouds

Wind Frost

Icy Hot

Cold Wet

Dry Damp

Foggy Muddy

Bright opposites

Town Village City Winslow Aylesbury Milton Keynes Buckingham          Marsh Gibbon Brill House Home Bungalow Caravan Flat Tent   Igloo Mansion Road Safety Garden Park Shop

Church Pub Mosque Swimming Pool

People that help me

Space Shuttle

Rocket Explorer

Scary Friendly

Big Small   Planets

Aliens Saucers

Slimy Eyes Lasers

Aerials dishes Spaceship E.T Moon

Nose Mouth Ears

Antennae Colours

Prince Princesses

Queen King

Royal Family

Palace Castle

Throne Crown

Dress Tiara

Cloak Knight

Soldiers Magic Silver

Mystery Horses Gold

 

Total communication approach at universal level:  Makaton, PECS, sing and sign sessions, choice boards, intensive interaction, visual timetables/posters, now and next boards, reduced language where appropriate, key topic vocabulary, shape coding, colourful semantics

Maths

Number – to know and use numbers, addition and subtraction

 

Measures – time and capacity

 

Shape and Space – 2D shapes and fractions of shapes

Number – to know and use numbers, addition and subtraction

 

Shape and space – 2D and 3D shapes

 

Measures-length, height

 

 

Number – to know and use numbers, the four operations

 

Measures – capacity, time

 

Shape-space shape pictures, position and direction

 

Number – to know and use numbers, the four operations

 

Fractions-halves and quarters of amounts

 

Measures – weight, money, length, height

 

 

Number – to know and use numbers, the four operations

 

Measures – time, length, height,

Number – to know and use numbers, the four operations

 

Fractions

 

Shape and space – position and direction

 

 

Understanding the world

 

My body and bones

My family and my history

 

 

Forest School

Music history

Christmas Songs + Carols + Children’s songs

Rock and Roll

Pop +Dance and disco

Funky music

Weather around us

North and South Pole

Hot and Cold

Animal Habitats

 

Forest School

My House

In the garden

Planting seeds

Planning a day out.

Where can we go?

Who lives where?

Space

Explorers and Astronauts

Planets and Stars

Materials

 

Animal Habitats

Protecting the Environment

Recycling

 

Forest School

Expressive Arts and Design

Skeleton Art

Fashion and Dress

Giant group collage

Diwali Art

Good to be me song and percussion instruments

Rhyming songs, composing a song,

Healthy Songs

 

Eat Like a Rainbow Large scale collage animal

Design an igloo

Trains

Christmas Songs and music

Stomp’-style making instruments and choreographing a dance

Garage Band

Weather station

Weather songs

Album and Lyrics

Painting

 

Wintery Scenes

Christmas Cards

 

Making fossils

Charcoal drawings

Cave man paintings

Large scale collage owls

Nature pictures

Designing and building habitats

Animal drama scenes

Make large-scale forest plants and trees

Shape Art

Starscapes

Planet papier mache

Building a rocket

Stars and Planet Songs

‘Space’ group instruments and pictorial scores

 

 

Giant Beanstalk

Create your own Giant

Princes and Princesses

Fruits and Vegetables Display Work

Recycled materials instruments

 

Personal and Social Development

 

PSHE My qualities

Caring for each other

 

PSHE Friendship

Caring for each other

 

PSHE Being Brave

Caring for each other

 

PSHE Healthy Lifestyles

Caring for each other

PSHE Growing Up

Caring for each other

 

PSHE Caring for the Environment

Caring for each other

 

MFL /RE - Wow week Italian week

MFL – Greetings

French

 

RE Christianity and the Nativity

MFL Weather (ties in with topic) French

RE Christianity and Easter

RE Islam, Ramadan and Eid

 

MFL

Italian Week – Pizzas the Romans and the gladiators!

Life skills

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Physical and Sensory Development

Ball Skills

Sensory Circuits with OT

Multi-skills invasion games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Multi-skills net games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Dance

Sensory Circuits with OT

Outdoor Games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Outdoor Athletics

Sensory Circuits with OT

Extra-curricular links

Set up photo books

Family connections

My family tree and history.

Can I plot my family on a UK map?

Report via seesaw

‘The Wizard of Oz”

Yellow brick road

Magic nature walks

**Grow caterpillars** Magical journeys Roald Dahl…

… where else for next time?

One child each day to be our weather person and to report to class.

Weather station

Weather cams around the world

Ski Forecast

PYO visit? Green Dragon farm?

Forest/Woodland Trust Sites? /other suitable locations to go on the minibus

Leicester Space centre?

Mobile Planetarium?

Woodland Walk-Salcey Forest/Woodland Trust Sites? /other suitable locations to go on the minibus

 

  

Rotation

2

Autumn 1

 

Autumn 2

 

Spring 1

 

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Themes

I’m special, I’m me

Magical Journeys

Space

Walking with Dinosaurs

Let’s Grow

Enchanted Woodland

Books and example texts

I’m Special, I’m Me

Bones

The Smartest Giant in Town

The Hueys in the New Jumper

Funnybones

 

Polar Express

Big Bear Little Brother

The 100 decker bus

Betty and the Yeti

The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly

Arctic

Transport

Places

Holidays

Weather

Look Inside Space

What’s Out There?

The Darkest Dark

Wanda and the Alien

Aliens Love Underpants

 

Dinosaur Roar

Dinosaur A-Z

Bumpus Jumpous Dinosaurumpus

Tiny T-rex

Dinosaur Time

Yohance and the Dinosaur

Dinosaur Poems

 

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Real Story of Jack and the Beanstalk

How Things Grow

Where do Vegetables Come From?

Where do Fruits Come From?

Oliver’s Vegetables

 

The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

One World

Where are the Night Animals?

Into the Woods

The faraway tree

 

Communication and Languages (reading, writing, communication)

 

 

 

Body Growing

Moving Eating

Drinking Healthy food

Healthy exercise

Keeping myself clean

Healthy relationships

Friends Family

Keeping safe

Smart/Casual choice clothing

Christmas

Cold, Icy,

Magic

Sparkle and glitter

Weather

Animals

Artic

Sports

Space Shuttle

Rocket Explorer

Scary Friendly

Big Small   Planets

Aliens Saucers

Slimy Eyes Lasers

Aerials dishes Spaceship E.T Moon

Nose Mouth Ears

Antennae Colours

Dinosaur names

History, geography

Where they come from?

Maps

Fossils

Dinosaur eggs

 

Healthy

Fruit

Vegetables

Body

Growing

Food

 

Woods

Trees

Woodland Animals

Maps

Different types of tress

Magical

Fairy tales

 

 

 

Total communication approach at universal level:  Makaton, PECS, sing and sign sessions, choice boards, intensive interaction, visual timetables/posters, now and next boards, reduced language where appropriate, key topic vocabulary, shape coding, colourful semantics

Maths

Number – to know and use numbers

 

Measures – time and capacity

 

Money

Number – to know and use numbers,

 

Shape and space – 2D and 3D shapes

 

Measures-length, height

 

 

Number – to know and use numbers,

 

Measures – capacity, time

 

Shape-space shape pictures, position and direction

 

Number – to know and use numbers,

 

Fractions-halves and quarters of amounts

 

Measures – weight, money, length, height

 

 

Number – to know and use numbers

 

Measures – time, length, height,

Number – to know and use numbers

 

Fractions

 

Shape and space – position and direction

 

 

Understanding the world

 

My body and bones

My family and my history

 

 

 

Forest School

North and South Pole

Hot and Cold

Animal Habitats

History of Transport

 

 

Forest School

Space

Explorers and Astronauts

Planets and Stars

Materials

 

Forest School

A long time ago…

Fossils and Bones

Digging and discovering

 

 

Forest School

 

Growing Plants

Keeping Healthy

 

 

 

 

Forest School

Animal Habitats

Protecting the Environment

Recycling

 

 

Forest School

Expressive Arts and Design

Skeleton Art

Giant group collage

Diwali Art

 

 

 

 

 

Good to be me song and percussion instruments

Clay polar animals

Large scale collage animals

Design an igloo

Design a train

Wintery Scenes

Christmas Cards

 

Christmas Songs and music

 

Shape Art

Starscapes

Planet papier mache

Building a rocket

 

 

 

 

Stars and Planet Songs

‘Space’ group instruments and pictorial scores

Build a dinosaur

Making fossils

Charcoal drawings

Cave man paintings

 

 

‘Stomp’-style making instruments and choreographing a dance

 

Garage Band

Giant Beanstalk

Create your own Giant

Princes and Princesses

Fruits and Vegetables Display Work

 

 

 

Rhyming songs, composing a song.

Large scale collage owls

Nature pictures

Designing and building habitats

Animal drama scenes

Make large-scale forest plants and trees

 

Recycled materials instruments

 

Personal and Social Development

PSHE My qualities

 

 

MFL Greetings

PSHE Friendship

 

 

RE Christianity and the Nativity

PSHE Being Brave

 

 

MFL Colours

PSHE Healthy Lifestyles

 

RE Islam, Ramadan and Eid

PSHE Growing Up

 

 

RE Christianity and Easter

PSHE Caring for the Environment

 

MFL Animals

Life skills

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Fine Motor/Gross Motor skills

Develop gross motor skills

To develop dressing skills

Use tools safely and with care

Cutting skills

Food

Recipe and cooking skills

Drinks, fruit, veg.

Using utensils and putting things away. Washing up

 

Physical and Sensory Development

Ball Skills

Sensory Circuits with OT

Multi-skills invasion games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Multi-skills net games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Dance

Sensory Circuits with OT

Outdoor Games

Sensory Circuits with OT

Outdoor Athletics

Sensory Circuits with OT

Extra-curricular links

Set up see saw and continue to populate for all

 

‘The Wizard of Oz”

Yellow brick toad

 

Magical journeys Roald Dahl…

… where else for next time?

 

Mobile Planetarium?

 

PYO visit?

Lakers nursery?

Food to Fork?

 

Tring Museum?

Woodland Walk-Salcey Forest/Woodland Trust Sites? /other suitable locations to go on the minibus

Birds of Bray if still in operation.

 

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