3 months ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2024 by Katie Reese

Reading Club Starts!

Every Friday lunchtime the Reading Ambassadors run a Reading Club in which children can spend time in the whole school library and listen to a story or book of their choice.

There were lots of gorgeous discussions on our first Reading Club of the year. Some children wanted to read books that had been shared with them in reading assembly; The Kindest Red. One child asked for books that had a style like a comic and was pointed in the direction of Dog Man. Reading Club gets us talking about books and authors. You can see how inspired the children are about reading at SAF.

3 months ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2024 by Katie Reese

Jolly Phonics Assembly: Working with our Parents to give our Children the Best Start!

Today our parents were invited to an important assembly all about Jolly Phonics.

The children in Reception and Year 1 helped their parents to understand how Jolly Phonics is taught by saying the letter sounds and doing the actions. They sang the Jolly Phonics alphabet and grapheme phoneme correspondence songs.

Parents were then told about our scheme and strategies so that they can support their children to read at home. They can also look forward to watching weekly phonics videos made by our teachers, showing which GPCs the children have learnt.

3 months ago
Posted on 17th Sep 2024 by Katie Reese

Alex Bear loves to read!

Each week in nursery Alex Bear goes home with a child. He loves to read and wants to share lots of stories over the weekend with our children and their families. This promotes a love of reading for our youngest children.

Parents then upload what their child and Alex read on the Seesaw App so that we can see it in class. The children love seeing which books he’s read and this motivates them to read even more!

Alex loved reading Dear Zoo and The Jungle Boogie with Zulikha.

4 months ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2024 by Katie Reese

Parent Reading Mornings

Each day a year group invites parents in to read with their child in school. Check out our parents in the EYFS this morning!

This shows our children how we all value reading here at Sir Alexander Fleming.

Reading to children is one of the most important things we can do. Children who are read to every day hear millions of words which they can use in their play and learning. And it is such a nurturing, fun and interesting thing to do.

Thank you to all our parents for their wonderful support.

4 months ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2024 by Katie Reese

What a great start to the term! Relationships, routines and fun!

The children and practitioners in nursery have had a wonderful start to the term.

We support children to transition into nursery in many different ways, starting with home visits. This enables children to meet their teacher in the place they feel most comfortable and allows parents and staff to chat about important information that will shape the provision offered to children in the EYFS. It builds the foundation for strong relationships between families, staff and children and we have continued to nurture these by interacting with the children at every opportunity.

Children have been exploring the environment and developing an understanding of the opportunities on offer and where resources are kept. ‘Sorting time’ is a wonderful time for mathematics. They are already beginning to show our school value of respect.

Routines are a crucial within our setting and children have been helped with visual timetables to involve themselves fully within these. They are starting to show the ability to self-regulate and following an adult’s instructions.

Educators pride themselves on getting to know children well and are continually interacting, observing and assessing what children can do and what they need next.

6 months ago
Posted on 09th Jul 2024 by Katie Reese

Our Sequence of Learning for Expressive Art and Design – Printing

This term in nursery we have explored printing, following the whole school pedagogy for Art.

Practitioners plan a range of carefully timed experiences, including enhancements to the environment and adult directed activities in order to develop children’s knowledge and skills in printing.

The sequence culminated in the children creating Ghanaian inspired Kente Cloths using clay and paint. This also linked to their learning about the continent of Africa.

7 months ago
Posted on 17th Jun 2024 by Katie Reese

Cooking Up a Feast at Forest School!

The children in nursery always have a nutritional snack each day at nursery.

Throughout the year they learn how to prepare and make a range of dishes, which gives them the prerequisite knowledge to thrive as humans, great fine-motor practise and some early design technology skills.

The staff make considered choices about what they offer children in order to widen their knowledge of types of food and their appetites.

Recently, we have been cooking plants as part of our Understanding of the World topic. The staff and children also made Nigerian inspired Jollof rice as they learnt all about countries in West Africa.

7 months ago
Posted on 17th Jun 2024 by Katie Reese

Nursery Open Day Wednesday 19th June 3:30-4:15pm

Come and visit our nursery this week!

We have 15 and 30 hour flexible places for 2-3 year olds from September 2024.

We will be taking ‘Rising Threes’. This means if your child is 3 already, or turns 3 between now and December 20th, they qualify for a place in our nursery.

We look forward to meeting and playing with you soon!