To begin our final term of the year we will study a poem from the beautiful book 'The Lost Words', forming the basis of our Arts Week installation.  We will use the acrostic form of poetry from the book to inspire our own poetry about one of our regular visitors - the magpie. 

Other opportunities for writing during the term will stem from the children's own experiences include planning and writing a non-chronological report about OPAL play and writing their pupil passports ready to share with their new class teams around transition time.  

We will use Jeremy Strong's modern classic 'The hundred-mile-an-hour dog' as our guided reading text, building on the interests of the children in the SRP and on their love of a humorous story! 

We will also be reading a variety of texts for enjoyment as a class team, extending the use of 'Favourite Five' texts as used in some of our other classes in school. 

We will continue to use Language Through Colour prompts and strategies to support reading comprehension and writing strategies.  During English lessons we will also work on building knowledge and understanding of some of the vocabulary that the children will come across in their topics in their mainstream classes.  We will continue to use the Sound and Meaning Cue Card to support the connections that pupils build about language they are learning.

As well as the reading that we do in English lessons, we aim to ensure that all SRP pupils read daily in school to an SRP adult.  We use these focussed blocks of time to work in a highly personalised way on phonic sounds and strategies for decoding, as well as on helping the children to build their fluency in reading.  We use VIPERS question stems to structure our questioning.  

Please ensure that you hear your child read regularly at home too, the more practise they get of this tricky skill, the better they will become and the easier they will find it. 

Their other motivation for reading at home, of course, is the earning of Dojos which count towards their personal and mainstream class totals!