Trip to Hornchurch

On Wednesday some of the P-HIC children walked into Hornchurch with Mrs Murphy and Miss Meade. This was to develop the children's language and vocabulary about towns and shops.

Not only did we go to the butcher's shop and the bakers but we also went into the bank to use the cash point machine. After a quick visit to the supermarket we were lucky enough to be invited into the fire station for a tour. The children even got to use the hose!

We had a quick snack at the Queen's Theatre and then headed off to Langton's Gardens to feed the ducks. Finally we hopped on a 193 bus to take us back to school.

Deaf Identity Morning

On Monday 4th July 2016, all the P-HIC pupils got together, with a deaf child from a different school,  and enjoyed a morning of “Deaf Identity” activities. First they went on the internet and looked at lots of different hearing aid designs and ideas for decorating and personalising hearing aids after which they designed their dream hearing aid or cochlear implant. Pokemon seemed to be a popular choice as was Spiderman, Batman, Frozen and Football! 

After break, Mrs Beange taught them a signed song called “Good to be me.” They played various  instruments, such as drums, maracas, boomwhackers and chime bars, to accompany the song.

Finally, they watched a Charlie Chaplin video. Miss Meade’s Literacy group have been researching into this famous actor from the silent movies era and told the rest of the children that they had found out that Charlie Chaplin had worked a lot with a deaf actor called Granville Redmond with whom he used to communicate using American Sign language. The children all enjoyed a very funny film clip of Charlie in a food factory trying out a feeding machine!

Warren School H.I.Community Day

All the children from the P-HIC attended Warren School for a Community Day. Children had the opportunity to meet other hearing-

 

impaired children from deaf schools and primary provisions from across Essex and London. The children had a fun-packed day consisting of animals from Zoolab, Dan the skipping man and deaf identity and culture through art with Deafax.

 

 

Krazy Kat Theatre Presents the Very Magic Flute

The Krazy Kat Theatre Company made a welcome return to our school to treat hearing impaired and Key Stage 1 children to another wonderfully creative and colourful performance. Our pupils were spellbound by 'The Very Magic Flute', loosely based on Mozart’s opera, and they clearly loved the Krazy Kat's accomplished visual storytelling. Combining mime, dance, song, Commedia dell'arte, beautiful puppets and fully integrated sign language, our pupils couldn't fail to be enchanted. Thank you again to the Krazy Kat Theatre Company for another superb performance.

 

PHIC Summer Half Term Overview

Year 1 P-HIC group Summer 2016

This half term, Mrs Beange's year 1 and 3 Literacy/Language group will be working on:


Vocabulary around the garden, outside, out and about.
Vocabulary around school equipment, summer.
Work based on a variety of dinosaur books: Writing about and describing dinosaurs.





Year 1, 2 and 5 P-HIC group Summer 2016






This half term, Mrs Murphy's year 1, 2, 5 Literacy/Language group will be working on:


Using comparatives and superlatives (-er, -est)
Looking at information books on dinosaurs.
Using adjectives and adverbs.









Year 3,4 and 5 P-HIC group Summer 2016





This half term Miss Meade's year 3, 4, 5 Literacy/Language group will be working on:


Work based around The Railway Children: role-play, speech marks, punctuation, writing from a characters perspective.
Using a larger selection of adjectives and adverbs to create more descriptive paragraphs.
Using the negative form of verbs correctly.

P-HIC Spring half term overview

Year 1 P-HIC group Spring 2016


This half term, Mrs Beange's year 1 Literacy/Language group will be working on:

• Vocabulary around different rooms in the house e.g. kitchen, lounge,bedroom, bathroom etc.
• Work based on "The Jolly Postman" and letter writing.
• Traditional fairy tales, starting with Jack and the Beanstalk: reading, role-play etc.

Year 1, 2 and 5 P-HIC group Spring 2016

This half term, Mrs Murphy's year 1,2,5 Literacy/Language group will be working on:

• Work based around Jack and the Beanstalk: role-play, speech bubbles, speech marks.
• Adjectives and vocabulary related to feelings.
• Using the negative form of verbs correctly.

Year 3,4 and 5 P-HIC group Spring 2016
This half term Miss Meade's year 3,4,5 Literacy/Language group will be working on:

• Non fiction writing: posters, instructions, invites and letter writing.
• Words with multiple meanings.
• Relating feelings and emotions to story characters.

Welcoming a New Friend

The P-HIC children got together to welcome a visiting hearing impaired child to our school, we had a fantastic morning of baking, crafts and music.