On Friday 18th March the Alver Valley Arts Council went on a field trip with the important task of preparing to plan our first whole school art project. We headed off in the school minibus to Lee on the Solent beach for inspiration, as the art project is a countywide project on climate change. On
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, resources and signposts to other documents from the March Network Session. We need your feedback! If you
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
