Our school has a strong family ethos and a wonderful community feel. Our staff work hard to making learning challenging yet fun, and seek to develop strong links between staff, parents, governors and the wider community.
Our Vision, Aim and ValuesHeadteacher’s welcome
Within our school you will find a happy, welcoming, stimulating environment providing high standards of education, valuing the efforts of the individual, fulfilling the learning potential of all pupils and promoting equal opportunities. We promote learning for life and encourage children to learn no matter where they are, inside or out! We believe in developing the “whole” child and work hard to nurture, encourage, support and extend all of our children to achieve.
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For our ‘Welly Thursday’ session today, the children explored positional language. We listened to a story called ‘Snail Trail’ by Ruth Brown 🐌 Then we talked about all the positional language we could use, in this we had some cue cards with pictures of a fox 🦊 in which they identified where the fox was. The children were then challenged with positioning themselves around the yard for example on top of something, underneath something, next to something, etc. Finally when back indoors, the children built bridges and towers 🌉 and used some farm animals that they positioned in certain ways using our positional language. ... See MoreSee Less
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We have all been busy scientists this week. We have further explored the properties of materials. We have made close observations and made predictions about whether objects are waterproof/ not waterproof. We were able to use fantastic vocabulary such as ‘absorbent’ and ‘soggy’ as we observed. We also did an experiment to find out if objects and different materials sink or float. Some great predictions and a few surprises too! ... See MoreSee Less
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What fantastic story tellers our nursery children are! Working together in pairs they were all able to re-tell the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. ... See MoreSee Less
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This week in Drawing Club nursery have enjoyed the story ‘Stanley’s Stick’ and our imaginations have been bursting with all of the different things we could draw. ... See MoreSee Less
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Reception have explored the tradition tale the three Billy Goats Gruff this week. They have created their own story maps and built a fantastic bridge with space for a troll!🧌 ... See MoreSee Less
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Nursery and Reception have been busy exploring number using tens frames and part whoe models. They found different ways to mae 5 and 10 and are starting to reca number facts confidently. They have also identified and talked about the properties of different materials as they created their own material weaves. ... See MoreSee Less
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For our Welly Thursday session today, we explored the amazing weather snow ❄️ The children discussed the clothing we would wear in the snow, what activities we can do in the snow and we learned about snow safety.
When outside we had great fun taking part in a sensory winter hunt looking for icy icicles, searching for snowy footprints and discovering Christmas holly. Our favourite part of being outside was sliding down the snowy slide and whizzing off the end 🛝.
Once back inside we enjoyed some warming hot chocolate with a biscuit and we did some snowy movement activities around the classroom. It was the perfect snow filled day ❄️ ⛄️ ... See MoreSee Less
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Nursery and reception have had a great time playing and exploring in the snow today ❄️⛄️ ... See MoreSee Less
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At Whittonstall First School, we are more than just a school. We are a close-knit community where every child is known, nurtured, and celebrated. We pride ourselves on providing a family-orientated environment where children feel safe, supported, and valued.
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