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 first half of the autumn term is on our houses and homes. We will be thinking about where we live and the 'human and physical' features of the local area. We will learn our addresses and look at aerial photographs to explore the area around the school and our homes. We will learn some mapping skills and use these to find our way around the school and the area around it. We will learn about our addresses and about the different types of homes that people live in. We will explore the materials that are used to build our houses and to make the things that we use every day. we will think about their 'properties' and how materials are chosen to different jobs.

We will also be focussing on Autumn and thinking about seasonal changes. we will explore these in our outdoor learning and in our storytelling and literacy activities.

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.