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The Senior Skills Class 2016-17-18

This class is for learners who are unable to cope in the remedial academic and pre-vocational stream.

• Our main aim and focus is to educate and

teach our children to function competently and independently in our community and within their private lives. In order to achieve this, a home, work and social simulated environment is created to facilitate independent thinking and planning so that learners are able to apply their skills they have learnt.

• Each child has an IEP (Individual Education

Plan) and it is specific to each child’s needs.

The academic areas that we focus

• n in this stream are….

LITERACY

• Reading and comprehension is encouraged at the

level of the learner.

• Writing skills are basic but a necessity. (as it is

required to read understand and fill in forms for the future)

• Spelling is not a priority but is also encouraged.

(breaking down and building of words) (computer skills- word correction and dictionary skills)

• Proper use of language like grammar and

punctuation is used daily

NUMERACY:

• Math is used in a functional and academic manner
• Measurements for cooking and baking as well as

measuring for woodwork and sewing.

• Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

are encouraged

• Enhance basic mental math if they are able to do so
• Calculator skills for learners less abled.
• Computer math activities are also used to facilitate

learning.

LIFE SKILLS:

• Learners are taught to recognise their own appropriate or

inappropriate behaviour within their social environment as well as conduct at home and at school.

• How to deal with inappropriate behaviour and its consequences.
• Social skills and conversation to adults, peers and family
• Practice daily skills e.g. kitchen safety and skills namely cooking and

baking and serving.

• Activities of daily living e.g. grooming, self-presentation and

personal appearance.

• General skills e.g. sewing, wood work, tie dying and crafts
• Work habits and work ethic are also addressed
• How to cope and deal with life's pressures
• Applying First Aid

• All subjects are all taught on a functional level

and it practised daily in the class, on outings and at home.

• Parents are all included and informed of

school events,activities, behaviours and achievements Fatima Boomgaard Occupational Therapist/ Senior Skills Teacher

Tie dyeing projects.

• Dye and material being tied in different patterns
• End products
• Modelling their tie dyed creations

Wood work examples of the boys and girls

• Functional literacy and numeracy.
• Understanding how to spell and break down words using phonics.
• creative writing
• budgeting
• nderstanding how money works

• Chicken briyani

chicken soup chicken pie chicken wrap mince lasagne breakfast roll

• The children made bags out of jeans
• Table cloths and curtains
• They are able to thread and handle a sewing machine.

• Sewing
• loom knitting
• tool hanger (woodwork)
• Cleaning, sanding and spray painting their desks
• Indoor Gardening

• Spagetti and meatballs
• Bar one muffin surprise
• Breakfast surprise
• Malva pudding
• Chocolate cake
• Chicken ala king.

• Decoupage
• mosaic big tins
• gardening flowers
• Planting a herb garden
• replanting the aloes
• paving to neaten up our

garden

• Computer skills used for research of activities and recipes
• First aid training and CPR
• Representing Orion College at our Golf day
• Weekly Yoga exercise
• Cleaning up after a cooking presentation

Classroom display

• Big wood work project- benches at the pool
• Hand sewing emoji cushions

Donuts and quiche made from scratch

We have fun through learning and we learn through having fun