Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Book Fair

  Fri 07 Oct 2022

  Come along to the Scholastics Book Fair taking place today, Friday 7th October, from 3pm-3.30pm in the Main Hall. The Book Fair will also be running next week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 3pm-3.30pm. 

   

  There will be lots of discounted books for sale, please come around to the main entrance to attend!

  

• Mathematics Open Lesson Day in Years 5 and 6

  Thu 06 Oct 2022

  Earlier today, the parents and carers of pupils in Maroon, Turquoise, Bronze and Silver classes joined us for the last of our open day mathematics sessions. In Year 5, pupils explored negative numbers and used number lines to explain their thinking when solving problems involving this. In Year 6, pupils used a range of methods, including pictorial (bar model) to solve multi-step word problems. 

  After the session, parents/carers commented:

   

  "A very useful session."

   

  "Brilliant maths workshop, simple methods on how parents can help their children at home."

  

• Mathematics Open Lesson Day in Years 3 and 4

  Wed 05 Oct 2022

  This morning, parents and carers of pupils in Years 3 and 4 joined us for mathematics. Pupils showed their parents how they use manipulatives to demonstrate their knowledge of place value, voiced their reasoning and showed off their times tables knowledge.

  This is what parents/carers said after the session:

  "Another great workshop! We learnt how children use their H, T, O and the number line to count."

   

  "I really liked your teaching technique and it is very helpful for parents as well to teach kids at home."

  

• Census Day Menu

  Tue 04 Oct 2022

  On Thursday 6th October, we have a special "Italian Day" menu as part of Census Day. Don't miss it!

  

• Sharing Assembly - Bronze and Cyan Class

  Tue 04 Oct 2022

  Well done to all of the children in Bronze Class and Cyan Class who performed an assembly for families today about what they have been learning in school so far this term!

  

• KS1 Maths Open Lesson

  Mon 03 Oct 2022

  This morning parents were invited to join in our maths open lessons both in year 1 and 2. Parents found the session very helpful and were able to take tips away on how to support their child at home. The focus of the session was on the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach and how to best use manipulatives to help children's mathematical understanding. 

  

• Science Open Lesson in Year 2

  Fri 30 Sep 2022

  We were very excited to have our parents join us in our Science lessons this afternoon. We enjoyed taking part in a range of experiments. We built rafts using various materials to see if they would float or sink. We made predictions and tested these. Swipe right to see what we got up to.

  

• Maths Open Lesson with parents/carers

  Fri 30 Sep 2022

  A kind reminder that parents/carers are invited to our maths open lessons next week!

   

  The sessions will show how Mathematics is being taught at our school. Mathematics is essential to everyday life and at Sir John Heron we are passionate about ensuring our children are skilled with the knowledge needed to be successful young adults. During the workshops, we will be focusing on addition, subtraction and questioning within classes. You will be able to view some of the calculation methods taught in school using concrete, pictorial and abstract representations.

   

  By attending the workshop, we hope that you will feel more confident when supporting your child with their maths homework or asking questions when discussing their school work in general.  There will be the opportunity for you to ask questions also.

   

  Take a look at the time slots below:

  

• Our First Nursery Together Session

  Thu 29 Sep 2022

  We were delighted to have our parents join us for our first Nursery Together Session today. We enjoyed showing our parents the routines in Nursery and how we play and engage with the different activities in the provision. Our parents were so impressed with how we show good looking, listening and sitting when it is story time.   

  

• Our First Family Friday Session in Reception!

  Fri 23 Sep 2022

  We had our first Family Friday session this morning which was related to reading. We had a fantastic turn out. Children enjoyed taking part in phonics activities within the provision alongside their parents. They enjoyed story time with their teacher, peers and parents. We can't wait for the next Family Friday session next half term.