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Project helps to develop our Unit students' communication skills

An award-winning book was brought to life to help develop our Unit students’ communication skills.

An award-winning book was brought to life to help develop our Unit students’ communication skills.

Students took part in an interactive reading of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.

The conditions the characters face in the story were imaginatively brought to life in the lesson and our students used speech and symbols to discuss the story and their feelings about it.

Teacher Clare Judge said: “The lesson was designed to develop the students’ communication and listening skills and to find out how well they could anticipate what was coming next in the story.

“The students used symbols or speech to show they understood what was happening in the story.

“All the students worked really hard during the lesson.

“Lucy Bersey communicated fantastically well, Joseph Callendar engaged with the symbols very well and Zak Fairhurst anticipated what was going to happen next in the story very well.

“Throughout this project their communication skills have really improved.”

During the reading plastic plants were used to mimic the sound of the story’s swishy swashy grass, a whoopee cushion made the sound of the squelchy mud, bubble wrap and bubbles created the look of the snow and a black sheet was used to create the dark cave.

To see more photographs from the lesson click here