Early Years Network

Thank you for your interest in the Alver Valley Early Years Network we hope that you found the opportunity to work together with other settings from across our local area useful. Below is a copy of the Presentation from the November Network Session. If you are interested in joining future Network sessions please check this

We would like to invite Early Years Practitioners to our November Alver Valley Early Years Network being held at Alver Valley Schools on Thursday 7th November 4pm-5.30pm. The network is a free opportunity for Early Years practitioners including those from pre-schools, nurseries, schools and childminders to meet and share good practice, with the goal of

Thank you for your interest in the Alver Valley Early Years Network we hope that you found the opportunity to work together with other settings from across our local area useful. Below is a copy of the Presentation from the February Network Session. Please do fill in our short survey here and give us your

We would like to invite you the April Alver Valley Early Years Network being held at Alver Valley Schools on Thursday 25th April 4pm-5.30pm. The network is a free opportunity for Early Years practitioners including those from pre-schools, nurseries, schools and childminders to meet and share good practice, with the goal of working collaboratively to

We would like to invite you the February Alver Valley Early Years Network being held at Alver Valley Schools on Wednesday 28th February 4pm-5.30pm. The network is a free opportunity for Early Years practitioners including those from pre-schools, nurseries, schools and childminders to meet and share good practice, with the goal of working collaboratively to

Thank you for your interest in the Alver Valley Early Years Network we hope that you found the opportunity to work together with other settings from across our local area useful. Below is a copy of the Presentation from the January Network Session.   Please do fill in our short survey here and give us

The Alver Valley Early Years Network is a free forum for Early Years practitioners from around the Gosport area to meet and share good practice, with the goal of working collaboratively to develop our own settings and improve outcomes for children in our local area. Our next session is  Monday 30th October, 3.30pm-4.30pm. This will

The first Early Years Network of the new academic year is planned for Wednesday 27th September at Alver Valley Schools.  The network is a forum for Early Years practitioners from around the Gosport area to meet and share good practice, with the goal of working collaboratively to develop our own settings and improve outcomes for

The final Early Years Network of the academic year is planned for Thursday 6th July at Alver Valley Schools. We are calling the session ‘Snippets of Good Practice’. Everyone working within Early Years is welcome to come along to hear a variety of practitioners across our various settings briefly share about something that they have

We would like to invite you the March Early Years Network being held at the Haven Early Years Centre. Our aim is that this network will become a forum for Early Years practitioners to meet and share good practice together, with the goal of working collaboratively to develop our practice and improve outcomes for children

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

Alver Valley Schools’ Year R team trialled a new approach to curriculum planning during the Autumn Term 2019, called “Hooks into Books”. In this article we wanted to share the approach so far, and some of the early impact. We use quality texts at Alver Valley schools to drive curriculum, and parallel texts that sit

Bear Hunt Messy Art Day As Art Leader at Alver Valley Schools, I am lucky enough to work with a highly creative and dedicated Early Years team with an amazing lead.  Messy Art Day all started in PPA one afternoon as we were discussing the text we were planning to use in Reception the following