An expert visitor to kick start our learning . . . Laura the hairdresser!

We design our Early Years curriculum to reflect our community and address the needs of our children.

It starts with ideas that all children can access . . . this term is identity, because all children have one. It also helps children to feel seen and heard.

As part of this we are focussing on our appearance and therefore we have a Hairdressing Salon in our role-play area. This also links to the planned Expressive Arts and Design opportunities of drawing and form as children will be creating portraits of themselves. It also links to Science and body parts.

Laura the hairdresser visited us, showing us the tools she uses and describing what she does for her job. This has already enhanced the vocabulary the children are using and helped them to take on roles and use their imagination.

Next week we are having a different hairdresser to visit in order to address and highlight diversity. Staff have shared books such as Rapunzel set in Africa and My Hair is a Garden so that children are seeing a range of hair types.

Baking in The Den

This week we have been super busy in The Den making chocolate chip cookies.

What do you think we will make next week ?

Baking in The Den.

A visit to the library with our families

We visited the library with our families and enjoyed the books.

We found books that we already knew and some we didn’t. A very popular one was Little Bird by Rod Campbell. The repeated language is so helpful in making us storytellers! He is one of our favourite authors. If All The World Were . . . by Joseph Coelho brought a tear to our eyes. We sang nursery rhymes from Tony Ross’ Animal Rhymes book too.

Lots of parents signed up for a library card and took books away. They are also taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge in which they will read six books and gain stickers and a medal!

We are working towards the SEND and inclusion award

SENDIA – SEND Inclusion Award | AwardPlace

This award helps schools deliver high-quality education for pupils with SEND. Compliant with the SEND Code of Practice, the award framework focuses on removing barriers to learning through early identification, inclusive teaching and leadership.

We will keep you informed of this throughout our journey.

SPORTS DAY – YEAR 5

Fantastic work today year 5 and 6! The children should be very proud of their resilience and sportsmanship on our sports day.

     

 

     

Library Visit

On Friday 16th June, Mrs Dornan-Steer’s class walked to Madeley Library and we had a fantastic time. We loved looking at the selection of books, finding cosy areas to sit and read together and listening to a lovely poem read by the librarian. We received lots of compliments from the people in and around the library about our behaviour and how passionate we were about books and reading. It was great that we had the chance to take some books home too and we were so excited to get back to school to read them!