Problem Solving at Alver Valley Schools an insight from Jade our Maths Lead As part of our School Improvement Plan (SIP) this year, we are focusing on problem solving in maths. Following discussions at Maths Core Provision, it was clear that this is a wider focus for many schools across the county and probably across
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
Respect is one of our 6 Strands Learning Behaviours, and really important to our school community here at Alver Valley Schools. In an assembly in November 2021 we were talking about Respect. As part of the assembly, classes were challenged to think about what respect means and how we can show respect, and they were
Mental Health Awareness Week is the 10th -16th May 2021. The theme this year is Nature. Read more here. Here at Alver Valley Schools we promote wellbeing and positive mental health in a number of ways all year round, and we thought we would take this opportunity to share some of those with you here!
As a school and SEND team we had been discussing the sensory needs of a number of children at our school and how best to support a growing number of pupils. I was recommended a book called ‘Sensory Circuits’ by Jane Horwood. It was a great quick read that explained the theory behind sensory integration