Exploring employability and community in Fox Class

Our term so far has been very busy in Fox class! The focus for our Life Skills curriculum is ‘Employability’ so we have been practicing a range of skills which will help us as we grow up, including becoming confident communicators in a range of situations.  

In English, our book ‘A superhero like you’ has been our inspiration for looking at the jobs we would like to do when we grow up. In the story, the main character, Lily explores a range of jobs including being a vet, teacher and recycling truck driver. This has helped to us recognise different jobs and how they help people in our community. We have each chosen a job that we are interested in and are creating a class story to celebrate these jobs.   

We have continued to go out into the community each week, focusing on exploring the different types of jobs found in familiar locations, such as in shops. We have watched busy butchers, bakers and have even learned about all the different types of fish at the fishmonger! Back in school we have been using communication boards to run a small cafe as a class and shared it with Class 2. We have been choosing preferred items and practicing skills of pouring and spreading to make juice and yummy toast.  

In Pets at Home, some of us interviewed members of staff to find out their favourite part of their job, it was no surprise that caring for the animals was a unanimous answer from all of the people we spoke to! They were very happy to show us some of the amazing animals they care for, including snakes, spiders and geckos, although some of us preferred the rabbits and guinea pigs.  

Our trips to the library have also been very exciting, we have greeted the librarian and observed some of the jobs that they do each day, chosen books to share with the class and practised being responsible when using our library card. We have also been taking the skills we have observed back to school where we have carefully looked after books and helped to tidy our class and school libraries.  

During Me and My World lessons we have been learning about our senses, exploring special places to us and in the wider community and been busy experimenting with light and sound as part of our science focus.