Sycamore Class Resources

Welcome to Sycamore Class's Home learning page.

We hope that you will find the ideas and videos here useful whilst your child is at home.

Your child has a routine that they follow at school.

Routines help children to understand the world around them and can reduce anxiety. Visual information and auditory cues such as songs help children to understand what is happening now and next. We are working on creating resources that can help maintain this routine and that you could use after their usual morning routine ends at home.

Routine PowerPoint Presentations

Routine Slideshow:- This is a slideshow that contains all of our visual and auditory cues for the school day routine.

Circle Time:- This is a slidehsow that we use to start the school day and indicate it's time to start our learning

End of Day Collective Worship:- This is a slideshow that we use at the end of the day it is a time for reflection, calm and preperation for the school day to end.

Time Capsule

We are living through History in these extraordinary times right now. Below you will find a " Time Capsule" that you can create for your future self to look back on.

My Time Capsule

Spring Term Topic

Our theme this term is 'Castles and Knights'. This half term we have been focusing on the story: Saint George and the Dragon. Doing any castle or knight related activities would be beneficial to supporting your child's continued progress in Literacy. Please see some of the suggested activities below.

This half term in maths we have been focusing on counting, addition and subtraction strategies. Any numeracy or problem solving activities you can do with your child would support their continued education in maths. Please see our suggested activities and videos below.

Literacy/ English Resources

Maths Resources

Maths Songs

Aided Language Display Board for Activities At Home

An ‘aided language display’ is a symbol display where all the relevant words for a specific activity are displayed on a single page in symbol form
Ensure that symbols are easily accessible in activities
They can be used to supplement systems already in place such as Makaton, Communication books or with purely verbal communication as they are quick to make and easy to implement
They are a useful tool to support students to communicate in a functional way, within various activities throughout the day
Vocabulary is organised to help combine words and build simple sentences from left to right across the display
Certain key symbols such as ‘more’ and ‘finished’, which frequently appear on displays, should always be located in the same place each time to help the learner’s understanding and use of them. At Cherry Oak these key symbols or ‘Core Vocabulary’ are located on the left hand side of the display in yellow boxes.
When using an Aided Language Display, or ‘ALD’ for short it is important for the person communicating with the child to use the ALD as well.

An example of using an ALD to play a game

Here is a short video of two people playing a game using and ALD to support communication. Although the display is slightly different from the ones we use at Cherry Oak the principle is the same.

Aided Language Display Boards:

Fine Motor Skills

Sensory Resources

Calming, relaxation and quiet time

It is really important for our children to have the opportunities to have some quiet reflection time during the day. We have 15 minutes of quiet relaxation time every day. We usually listen to 'quiet time' music and do some mindfulness activities such as 'finger breathing'.

Sometimes calming and relaxation time is crucial for our children when they are in distress. Continuing to give children the opportunity for some calming time at home can be beneficial to those that need it.

Please see some of the suggested activities and videos below. You can also find calming music with symbols on our 'Routine Visual Support' PowerPoint attached above.

Finger Breathing

Calm Myself Down Prompt Cards

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