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Welcome to this celebration of learning blog. I always think of the blogs as providing a window to look into the children’s fascinating world at school.  I am in the privileged position to be able to capture events across the school and community as they happen and share them with you.  It’s also a bit like a diary in that you can look back and see a colourful reflection of the year.

Mrs Harvey


Vision

Our Nursery reflects the nurturing and supportive learning environment of our current Early Years provision where your child will grow and thrive.

Our Busy Blog

The Nursery Team consists of Mrs Gilkes (Nursery Lead), Mrs Tortora , Miss Sherlock,  Mrs Iaciofano and Lunchtime Supervisors Mrs Sharp and Mrs Mitchell.

All members of the team work hard to offer a nurturing and supportive learning environment for the children to thrive and grow. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum with an emphasis on promoting the characteristics of effective learning. This approach fosters a love of learning and provides challenge linked closely to developmentally age appropriate experience.  We strive to create an environment where the children feel confident to explore and discover new things. As a Nursery, we understand that all children are unique and understand the importance of following their individual interests.

In Reception, we cultivate a love of learning for life. Our curriculum is planned to provide balanced and relevant experiences for each individual child. We are passionate about outdoor learning and problem solving. It is important that our children feel safe to be risk takers as they approach their learning during the day.

Our teachers encourage us to challenge ourselves once we have built confidence in newly taught skills. We are then encouraged to use these skills in our free play to extend and consolidate our learning.

Each week we have new 'Rainbow Challenges,' with activities we need to complete independently. They support our physical development, phonics, writing and mathematical development. Our progress and work is recorded in a number of ways such as in our writing books, ‘Our Learning Journey’ scrap book and ‘Seesaw’.

Early Years is extremely busy and fantastic fun. Keep up to date with us by following our blog.

The Reception team is

  • R Hepworth – Mrs Wise, Mrs Summers and Miss Love
  • R Van Gogh – Miss Valentine and Mrs Quinn
  • R Kandinsky – Mrs Coleman, Mrs Spina and Mrs Dempsey

We are lucky to be supported by our HLTA, Miss Gill.

Our P.E day is Friday morning. May we remind you to ensure that all your child’s kit is clearly labelled.

Please make sure that you bring your library book to school each Friday to be changed.

What_to_expect_in_the_Early_Years.pdf

 

Welcome to Year 1 September 2023. Our year group comprises:

  • 1 Kusama - Mrs Copeman & Miss Blundred  & Mrs Mustafaraj
  • 1 Goldsworthy - Mrs Hollingsworth, Miss Knapp
  • 1 Ringgold - Miss Bibi, Miss Arnold & Mrs Bedford

We are also fortunate enough to be supported by our HLTA, Mrs Burrows, who helps us with additional reading, writing and maths interventions.

In Year 2, the children develop their independent learning approaches within a supportive and considerate environment. The Year 2 team work closely together to create a thorough curriculum that inspires children to embrace learning challenges.

We are

  • 2 Maurice - Miss Lee, Mrs Parker & Mrs Mustafarj
  • 2 Kahlo - Miss Knight, Miss Mills & Miss Brack
  • 2 Klimt - Mr Ebsworth, Mrs Hinde & Mrs Holder

We are lucky to be supported by our HLTA, Miss Heycock

Welcome to Year 3!

This year, the teachers are Mr Wilson (3 Hudson), Mrs G Douglas (3 Hockney) and Miss Underwoood (3 Thomas). The teaching assistants in Year 3 are Mrs Jennifer Caine (HLTA),  Miss Poole, Mrs Da Silvla and Mrs Rose.

 

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Welcome to Year 4

Welcome to Year 4 September 2023. Our year group comprises:

  • 4 Wiltshire - Miss Hardwick
  • 4 Fraser - Miss Sheikh & Mrs Watt
  • 4 Milhazes - Mr Green

We are fortunate to be supported by Mrs Watts, Miss Crocker, Mrs Woodard, Mrs Montgomery, Mrs Odedra & Mrs Washington (HLTA).

You will find our curriculum information further down the page.

Welcome to Year 5!

This year the class teachers are Mr Lagdon (5 Gaudi & Year Leader), Mrs Douglas & Mrs Ofori-Attah (5 Basquiat) and Miss Hodges (5 Mazari).  Mrs Bayes (HLTA), Miss Price and Miss Ruff will also support learning across the year group.  During the course of Year 5 we will continue to build on the children's independence and resilience skills and also move their learning forward by using our growth mindsets.

You will find our curriculum information further down the page!

Welcome to Year 6

In Year 6, we have three classes: 6 Warhol, 6 Banksy and 6 Vasarely.  In 6 Warhol, the class teacher is Miss Holmes. In 6 Banksy, the class teachers are Miss Brown & Mrs Redden. In 6 Vasarely, the class teachers are Mrs Hallett and Mrs Spatcher. In addition, we are fortunate to have Mr Kennedy (HLTA) & Miss Morley (HLTA), Miss Peal, Mrs Masood, Miss Ottaway & Miss Tate who will support across Year 6.

In Year 6, we strive to meet the end of Key Stage 2 expectations and prepare the children for their SATs in a supportive environment.  We try to instil independence in the children, as well as develop their resilience and the skills they will need to prepare them for Secondary School and beyond.

You will find our curriculum information further down the page!

Welcome to Bridgewater’s Out of School Club (OSC). Having been established by the school, we pride ourselves in following Bridgewater’s ethos and expectations within a homely, relaxing environment. Children are encouraged to: be respectful to each other and the environment, gain independence, help others, be kind, caring and considerate within our enriching environment.

We organise a variety of activities including: themed weeks, cookery, gardening and always utilise Bridgewater’s fantastic grounds through lots of outdoor play. Children are welcome to complete their home learning on a Thursday evening in a quieter area with a teaching assistant on hand to support.

The OSC is an electronic device free zone where children enjoy playing traditional board games, role play and running outside with their friends etc.

Our afternoon snacks, which are often provided by our chef, are on a two-week rotation and fruit is always available.

The club provides wrap around care with well qualified, caring staff to support families in their busy lives. We open at 7.45 am and drop the children to their classes at 8:45am. Children are then collected from their classes at the end of the school day and we then run until 17:45pm.

Please feel free to contact the school office for further information.

Welcome to our Languages and International Blog. At Bridgewater, we have chosen Spanish as the language we teach, as it is widely spoken. This is taught to all children in years 3 to 6 by Mrs D'Agostini. We engage the children through playing games, singing songs and stories as well as developing their grasp of grammar and the written language. Please celebrate the children’s learning with us by commenting on the blog posts below. ¡Hasta luego!

We have been accredited with the International School Award (ISA) 2022-2025 in recognition of our international focus. We were praised by the British Council for our commitment to embedding a rich and creative range of international work.

We are very proud to be opening our School Nursery in January 2018. Our approach is guided by the effective characteristics of learning outlined in the EYFS framework. Please make use of the areas around this page to help you.

The teachers in our sandpit blog are Mr. Lemon and Mrs Walsh. Well lucky to be supported by two fantastic teaching assistants; Jenny Liman and Gloria Lau. We are so proud of all of the children in our sandpit blog class! They are fantastic, hard workers and really enjoy learning. There is such a pleasure to teach!

You will find our curriculum information further down the page!

What are we learning this term?

This term our theme is “The Victorians” and we will be using that theme to bring together all manner of different aspects of learning, from history and geography through to music, art, literature and science which will help us to also include mathematics as well. Interestingly, we plan to take a trip to the London science Museum to find out more about how the Victorians discovered so many different things which we take for granted today!