School Development Plan 2022-23
In September, we shared with you our focus for development this year. The two areas identified for us to work on were:
- Developing our lunchtime play (OPAL Play)
- Becoming a Forest School
Lunchtime Play
We hope you've been following our social media updates (Twitter and Facebook) and reading our termly newsletter on the fantastic play offer now in place for our children. During lunchtimes all of our children have excellent, high quality and engaging play activities. The activities on offer range from planned games lead by play leaders, to child initiated play of water play, mud kitchens, loose parts play and creative play areas. We will be continuing our work on OPAL next year to further develop the opportunities for play.
We are welcoming parents/carers to join in with our lunchtime play on sports day. We hope you enjoy this time and can see for yourselves how fantastic and enjoyable lunchtimes are for our children.
A huge thank you to Mr. Noone and and the Play Team who have been the driving force behind all the work happening to develop lunchtime play.
Forest School
We delighted to now be able to call ourselves a Forest School. Mrs Appleton-Smith is our Forest School Leader. This year she has undertaken all the training for this role and worked across the school trialling our forest school lessons in most classes. The feedback from parents, children and staff has been fantastic. Our children are enjoying learning about the nature all around them but also developing their wellbeing. From September all children across the school (Reception up to Y6) will have two terms of Forest School lessons.
Thank you to Mrs Appleton-Smith for all your hard work and the parent volunteers who have helped develop our forest school area- we are very grateful for all your support and hard work.