At Alver Valley Schools we use the following document in Nursery through to Reception to support progression in mark making and writing. We add children’s names to their most appropriate next step to be scaffolded. We move their name when they have embedded this skill and/or when another skill becomes the most pressing area of
Alver Valley Schools’ Year R team trialled a new approach to curriculum planning back in the Autumn term of 2019, called “Hooks into Books”. We have written a couple of articles along the way (See Hooks into Books and Hooks into Books meets the Gingerbread Man), and we have also shared some of our hooks
‘Hooks into books’ is an approach that has been developed at Alver Valley Schools over the past year or so. The process of bringing books to life using props, the outside environment and drama to introduce and explore story themes and characters thereby immersing children in the story and enabling them to ‘be the book’,
Every year the Spring and Summer terms in Reception classes are incredibly exciting and busy ones for Early Years teams up and down the country. We seem to find there is always a pressing need to start multi-tasking in earnest as we attempt to balance the learning spurt of our current children with the welcome
Our whole school curriculum approach at Alver Valley Schools is to hook pupils into new topics and really engage and immerse the children in those topics, with the aim to motivate them to investigate, to ask questions, and to drive their own learning in and out of school. In Year R our curriculum is built