Panda Class is Southtown Primary School's Specialist Resource Base.

We specialise in supporting the Speech Language and Communication needs of ten children from primary schools across the local area and beyond. 

The children are supported by a specialist teacher, an HLTA and a TA, all trained to work alongside our Speech therapy colleagues to help the children improve their communication skills and return to their mainstream classes Our speech therapists are in the SRB for two days each week.

All of our children have access to the full Foundation Stage or Key Stage 1 curriculum and also have lots of opportunities to join in with activities and events within the school.

Our Learning this Half Term

Our curriculum focus for the second half of the summer term is on the lives of significant people. We will be finding out about Mary Anning and learning about her fossil discoveries and how these have helped us to understand the world better. We will compare her life with that of Sir David Attenborough and consider the things that they have in common - and the differences between them. We will consider what we can learn from fossil discoveries and find out about dinosaurs, remembering what we have learnt about animal groups and about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

We will continue our outdoor learning, using the school environment to learn about seasonal changes in the summer. We will have a particular focus on plants and will be growing seeds, thinking about what they need to grow and be healthy. We will learn about the parts of plants and trees.

Have a look at our Curriculum Plan for the term to see some of the other learning that the children will be doing across the curriculum this half term.