Essential Dates
Tuesday 29th April 2025 INSET 12midday closure
Wednesday April 30th 2025 Confirm your Primary School choice
Wednesday May 21st 2025 INSET 12midday closure
Friday May 23rd 2025 Nursery School Term 5 ENDS
Primary School Allocation and Acceptance
Have you accepted your Primary School yet?
Your child’s keyperson will talk to you about your choice.
Primary School allocations will be taking place on Wednesday 16th April and you will need to respond to this offer by 30th April 2025.
Click Here to respond to a primary school place.
Starting Reception
Starting Primary School is a big step for both children and parents, isn’t it?
Our Curriculum Promise really helps children be LIFELONG LEARNERS and have the attitudes, skills and knowledge they need.
And in Term 6 we provide lots of experiences and opportunities for children to help them talk and understand, practice and rehearse what School might be like.
There’s lots of great information for parents, carers and children to help them get ready for school. You can find some here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/groups/cx1lpm3ve37t
https://startingreception.co.uk/
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/bristol-family-hubs/age-4-to-11/starting-school
Look out for our “drop in” session for parents about Starting Reception.
Friday Garden Club – started again every Friday Morning
Jo Ingleby from Children’s Kitchen is returning in Spring to help us start planting our allotment garden. Friday Garden Club has started. We would love you to come and grow your ‘green fingers’ with us!
Can you come along and help us plant and pot, weed and water?
Nicky from EY2 will be leading our Gardening Club alongside Jo from Children’s Kitchen and Amber from Nursery School.
The Brilliance of Blocks
Our BLOCK PLAY research in Nursery School is helping us learn with the children all about Early Maths, particularly pattern and symmetry.
Michael from Bristol University is helping us develop our understanding of Early Maths
Blocks seem to have their “own language” with children’s mathematical understanding and skills “made concrete” through their exploration and play with the blocks.
Our research is focused on
• What learning are we observing in Block Play?
• What subject knowledge do the adults need to best support Early Maths and Block Play?
• What is the Adult Role?
• How do we best document the children’s learning and reflect that back to them?
The children have been returning again and again to BLOCK PLAY with such absorption and problem-solving.
The children’s play has become increasingly complex and full of pattern, symmetry and transformation.
Here is a magiscan of one of the constructions
