Blists Hill visit

We have had a wonderful day learning about life in the past. The children were amazed (and horrified) that the toilets were outside. They were also concerned about sharing a bath, especially as the children went in last when it was cold and dirty!

Our Egg-citing Easter Activities

We are hoping to make Easter egg-stra special and have planned some egg-cellent activities! I’m so egg-cited and I just can’t hide it!

Hoppy Easter everyone!

Parent Partnership; Supporting Children’s Communication Skills

We regularly invite our parents in to observe our provision and join in with the fun!

This week parents have been shown how we support their child’s listening and communication skills through a daily Talk Boost group. They had an opportunity to discuss their child’s needs and listen to our advice about using talk at home. They also received some books to share with their child at home. This support is amazing and will make such a difference to their child’s learning and development.

Kieran Larwood chats to Year 5

Mr Andrew’s class were extremely fortunate today to have a video call with Kieran Larwood – the author of the ‘Podkin One-Ear’ series of children’s books. He answered questions about the book and being an author in general, and even read some of the book for us! The children really enjoyed it and hopefully will remember it for a long time!

Author Visit

Children in year 1 and 2 enjoyed having Sarah Griffiths, a local author, visit school.

Sarah talked about how she became an author and gave us top tips for writing stories. It was very inspiring.

She read her newest book Tom’s Gift and we sang a song that she had written to accompany it too! We use all of our senses to explore stories here. It also linked well to our music curriculum and we thought about musical artists that we love to listen to.

Happy Half Term

Happy half term everyone!

We look forward to seeing you all back healthy and germ-free on Monday 19th February 2024.

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt!

Educators at Sir Alexander Fleming have selected a reading spine of core literature that children will be immersed in throughout their time at our school.

These books are chosen as we believe they are a right of passage, they are age appropriate, they match recommendations from leaders who are experts in literacy and they give our children knowledge about diversity in our world. They also enable us to teach our curriculum and link to other subjects.

Nursery have been exploring Michael Rosen’s book. This books is awesome become it teaches children rhythm, repeated refrains and environmental sounds which is apart of our phonics curriculum. It is also developing children’s geographical understanding and understanding of the world around them. Children will be mapping out the places in the next few weeks.

It’s raining, it’s pouring . . .

Children attend weekly forest school sessions. These sessions provide amazing opportunities to explore the world around them, natural objects, the season and the weather.

Today we got soaked and had so much fun in the process! What better way to learn about the rain than be immersed in it!

We sang lots of songs and nursery rhymes about the rain in order to develop our conceptual knowledge and widen our vocabulary.

We used all of our senses to explore the rain. We talked about what we could see; water gushing down the drain, rain pitter-pattering on the puddles. We talked about what we could feel; the cold water on our skin, hair and tongues. We talked about what we could hear and imitated these sounds using our mouths which is a part of our pre-phonics learning. This is all really important knowledge the children will need for later in year one when they explore materials and whether some are waterproof.

This also helped our gross-motor skills. We applied the skilling of jumping that we have been exploring in our gymnastic sessions; landing of bended knees. Children needed to take manageable risks to jump from objects. Some even applied jumping and landing in a star shape.

Pep the Poet Upcoming Visit . . .

On Monday 19th February we have a poet visiting school to complete workshops with the children from Y1-6. This will develop their love of reading, writing and speaking skills. Pep will be selling his inspiring books in the school hall straight after school. Stop by to meet him, find out what your child’s been doing and browse his work. We hope to see you there!