New Crew of Digital Leaders

We have appointed our new team of Digital Leaders in school this week and had our first meeting today. In the meeting, we explored what we wanted to achieve this year and came up with the following ideas:

We are excited to see what we can do this year!

Välkommen till Sverige! (Welcome to Sweden!)

For European Language Day today, Year 5 were transported off to Sweden. We learnt how to count to 10, learnt some simple colours, video called Mr Andrew’s Swedish friend Alex who taught us some simple greetings and then researched some facts about Sweden. We had a great time exploring the language!

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.

Macmillan Bake Sale – Friday 27th September

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.

I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science

Computer science is the fastest-growing STEM subject, and yet, despite its popularity, girls are consistently outnumbered by boys. The gender gap in computing can be traced back to gender stereotypes developed in the primary years. To improve the diversity both in and beyond the classroom, we need to show girls from a young age that they belong in computer science.

Because of this, we have enrolled into the NCCE programme to encourage girls into computing. We will be doing several things this year to support our girls, including running a Code Club specifically for girls in the Autumn term, and showcasing inspirational women in computer science.

Watch this space for more updates throughout the year!

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.

National Coding Week Assembly

We had an assembly this morning to celebrate National Coding Week. We looked at what coding is, why it is important, how we do it in school and where it could take us in the future. We also looked at the inspirational figure of Grace Hopper and her impact on the computer science field.

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.

School Photographs

Thursday 19th September

School photographs are planned for the morning of Thursday 19th September.

If you have a child who attends Nursery for the afternoon session only then please come along and have your photographs taken at 8am.

All children will have their photograph taken individually and with siblings who are in school. We are unable to offer this to siblings who do not attend as we only have a morning session.