Welcome to term 2.

Congratulations to all the students in Early Years (EY’s) as everyone has earnt a Bronze Ardy award and are working towards their silver award this term.

In week one, EY’s students joined the rest of the school for Cross Country. It is great to see families come and support the students and cheer everyone on.

On Monday of week two, we held our school Anzac Parade. Thank you to the senior staff and students who organised and ran this event. It was especially lovely to have a visiting bugle player. EY’s students listened with respect to the speakers and took part in the minute's silence. Harry, Jack, Evie and Miles laid the classes handmade wreaths on behalf of Early Years sector.  We are so proud of all our students.

On Tuesday the 9^th May EY are holding a Mother’s Day event from 9am till 10am, you should have received an invitation in the communication diaries – we are looking forward to seeing you.

Dale will being teaching Athletics to the EY students for the rest of the term ready for week 10s Sports Day. We would love to see as many family members as possible there, supporting and cheering on all the students.

EY1 have welcomed a new student this term, Oliver. He has settled into the class well and all the students have made him feel very welcome. Harrison has taken a particular liking to Ollie and will regularly engage in play with him which is lovely to see.

Now that the weather is getting cooler all our students are now accessing the playground at first break and the ball pit area at second break. Jack likes to spend his time exploring the playground picking flowers for his teacher(s), whilst Charlie is quite content on the swing. Evie and Harrison, along with students from the other early years classes like to run around and race/chase each other. Ollie enjoyed trying out the trampoline today and the carousel much to his delight. 

EY2

Isaiah received a student of the week award last week for being a learner and staying engaged for longer periods during learning sessions.

Ayden is using more spoken vocabulary across the context of the day and is highly motivated by favourite songs and stories. Jade is using the big keys word processor to write her whole name and is beginning to type word approximations during independent writing.  Indie, Dominic and Isaiah are responding to visuals to express an opinion and make choices with exciting success.

They have all enjoyed the rhymes for each week, "I'm a Little Teapot" and "This Little Pig Went to Market."  EY2 have been doing lots of craft to express our learning visually and to practise the skills of sitting and completing tasks.

EY3

I am pleased with how well Kruze is using his new PROLOQUO2GO to talk to his friends and access his learning and in turn how all the students in class are interacting with Kruze. I am enjoying Henry and Kruze using their PROLOQUO2GO’s to make comments, give an opinion and interrupt to talk off topic. Autonomous communication at its best! As a class we use waiting for the toilet to have great conversations. Miles likes to tell us about snakes and his family, Kruze talks about motorbikes, Rose talks about everything, Henry talks about food and Isaac tells us about numbers. We also use eating time to learn social interactions and use our voices (verbal, PODD or PROLOQU2GO) to ask for help opening items and to engage in conversation. A shout out to Miles and Isaac who have progressed to signing in with both their first and surnames. Miles enjoyed being the teacher today and read ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ to the class during book of the week.