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Welcome to Holly class! 

We are also known as the therapeutic class.

We have 7 pupils in our class, ranging from Year 4 to Year 8.

Meet our team: 

Teacher: Kerrie

Class TA: Kirsty

Behaviour TA: Lauren

LSA's: Bev, Tom, Ally, Astride, Abi & Becca

What is a Therapeutic class?

• Holly class is a bespoke class for pupils who are finding accessing ‘mainstream’ Addington classes challenging.   
• We have a high adult to pupil ratio to ensure that the environment and curriculum is enriching, engaging and nurturing.  
• The high staff ratio means that your child always has at least 1:1 support throughout the day.  
• The classroom staff use the same interventions and strategies that are used across Addington but we have an even greater focus on communication and emotional regulation skills.   
• Each pupil has a highly personalised and individual timetable, which meets their individual needs and we focus on child led engagement and curiosity.        
• All the learning opportunities that are offered in our class are highly individualised and based on repetition so all the learners can anticipate and increase/develop their level of understanding and engagement.   
• We use a range of strategies and interventions to support the pupils in our class and we follow the SCERTS programme which forms the basis of our curriculum in this class.  There are 2 main areas within this programme that we focus on, which are Social Communication and Emotional regulation.  
• We also focus on developing the pupils’ independence and life skills.
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• Where appropriate the pupils will also take part in Literacy and Numeracy tasks and activities. 
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• We are a dedicated team that is always looking for new therapeutic approaches to support the pupils within our class and across the school. 

Interventions/Therapies we use:

• Attachment play/Floortime
• Intensive Interaction
• Attention Bucket
• Call & Response
• Sensory/Messy Play
• Curiosity Programme
• Explore time
• Life Skills - Cooking
• individulaised senosry diets
• Yoga
• Aromatouch/touch talk/massage
• relaxation/leisure time
• PECs
• Communication Boards 
• Colourful semantics.
• Structured communication time
• Big Maths/Little Big Maths 
• Reading
• and much more!

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