The Russett School

Welcome to Holly Class! We are a KS1 class of 11 pupils who have opportunities to learn through a variety of creative ways, with a focus on fun! The children’s learning is supported through a variety of creative, sensory experiences and motivating resources including Attention Autism, sensory stories and Numicon. We promote and support the children’s communication skills, through a total communication approach in the classroom, including the use of Makaton, symbols and objects of reference.

The Holly team are:

• Jasmine (Class Teacher)
• Aimee (HLTA: Thursday pm 
• Alex (HLTA): Friday am
• Emily
• Sam
• Lynn
• Sarah (Tu)

This half term, our class theme will be ‘Traditional Tales' and our focus text is 'Little Red Riding Hood' By Mara Alperin.

Our Coastal learners will be provided with opportunities to engage in a range of activities to support their development of skills such as anticipation, participation, communication of preferences, intentional choices and making requests. They will be provided with opportunities to master these skills and transfer them to different contexts through learning centred around our theme ‘Traditional Tales'.  

In addition, we have several exciting activities planned across the term, including: light room sessions, outdoor learning, access to the magic carpet as well.

Our PE sessions are on Tuesday mornings.

Please see our class timetable for more information. 

Reading in Holly Class involves practising early reading skills through sharing and enjoying stories and books together. This promotes the children's imagination, curiosity about the world around them, communication skills and, most importantly, a love of reading and storytelling.

Our focus text this half term is Little Red Riding Hood by Mara Alperin. We are sure this exciting story will inspire a wealth of sensory experiences, role play opportunities, creative mark making and artwork. The children will also have opportunities to apply and practise their early reading skills across all areas of the curriculum.

In addition, the children take part in daily pre-phonics or phonics sessions designed to embed the foundational skills needed for early reading. Through playful, language-rich experiences, pupils accessing pre-phonics sessions develop key skills such as listening and attention, sound discrimination, turn-taking, vocabulary development and communication, providing a strong foundation for future phonics learning. Pupils participating in phonics sessions develop the core skills needed to link speech sounds (phonemes) with written letters and letter groups (graphemes), enabling them to decode words for reading and use sounds to write words For more information about pre-phonics/phonics, please visit our Curriculum Subject Statements page using the link below: 

The Russett School - Curriculum Statements

Thank you for visiting Holly’s Class page! In Holly, we enjoy capturing evidence of our learning through Evisense. Please check your child’s page to see what we have been doing, and please share what you get up to at home.