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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.

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.

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.

Year 6 applying for a Secondary School Place

Good afternoon,

It is that time of year again where you need to start thinking and looking at which secondary school you would like your child to attend in September 2025.

To apply for your place you need to access the Telford and Wrekin website and follow the pages thread below:

It should take you to a page that looks something like this:

Click the red button and make your choices.

It is vital that you make the maximum amount of choices; our experience is that if you only put one and you are not allocated this then you are given any school and that could be the other side of Telford. Visiting the schools is a great idea so you can see what they are like and get a feel for if your child will be happy and successful there; as soon as these dates are available we will let you know.

We are happy to help you complete your application and we have many colleagues that can help! Just pop and see Mrs Pilgrim or the Y6 teachers and we will organise this.

The deadline is: 31st October 2024 and applications MUST be submitted by then.

Letter from Telford and Wrekin

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