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Pupils will become active learners in all aspects of the classroom environment.

Pupils will have the confidence and resilience to independently attempt different challenges, including unfamiliar ones.

Pupils will more independently manage their learning, belongings and resources within the classroom.

Pupils will take responsibility within school, including for their learning and belongings.

Pupils will begin to become independent when in the local community.

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Social Partners (before words).

Pupils will tend to use facial expressions and gestural forms of communication, and this will tend to involve physical manipulation (e.g. pulling a caregiver’s hand) rather than using a gesture to send a “shared message” to others (e.g. giving, pointing, showing, pushing away, waving, and a head nod/headshake.

Language partners (emerging language).

Pupils will often show a preference for object labels (i.e. nouns/ things) versus more social words, namely subjects (i.e., people’s names) and verbs (e.g. action words).

Conversational partners.

Pupils will use and understand basic conversational language but show difficulty with predicting the intentions of others and to know how to pick topics, when to initiate, how to balance conversational turns, and to collaborate.

Pupils will interact with and build friendships with peers from across the school and will begin to communicate more confidently with less familiar adults, both within school and in the local community.

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Pupils will find understanding, communicating, and managing their emotions challenging and will have difficulty following basic routines and structures.

Pupils will participate within aspects of the classroom through

demonstrating e.g. active listening and turn taking.

Pupils will recognize basic emotions in themselves and follow routines to support the self-management of these emotions.

Pupils will experience some strategies that can support good mental wellbeing.

Pupils will recognise some

emotions that they find

difficult and begin to explore

supportive strategies.

Pupils will experience an

increased range of strategies

that can support good mental

wellbeing.

Pupils will recognise their own emotions and link them to a strategy which will support their readiness for learning.

Pupils will explore and review different strategies that can support good mental wellbeing.