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Nurture Week 6 : Transition
Fri 15 Mar 2024Week 6: The importance of transition in children's lives
In our final week looking at The Six Principles of Nurture, we have been talking about what 'transition' means. We have thought about what transitions are, what transitions we have already made and how we feel about them.
Year 6 have been specifically thinking about transition when they move to their Secondary schools in September.
Year 5 have made a short video to go with their thoughts on Transition. You can see have they say "hey" their way by looking at the following clip.
Year 4 have tacked this principle from 2 directions. In their PSHE lesson, they thought about how they have transitioned from being a baby or toddler to now and what they might be like when they grow up. They also acknowledged that growing up can be exciting and scary (sometimes at the same time!)
They also thought about what transitions there are at school:
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starting a new class
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start and end of the day
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starting a new lesson
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after break and lunch
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different adults teaching us
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start of term
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Nuture Week 1 - Year 3
Thu 01 Feb 2024Nurture activity Y3
Year 3 made origami butterflies, to start they were given very simple instructions such as 'Fold in half both ways.' 'Lift corner' but the children found it very confusing.
They were then asked what would help and they said 'we need pictures'. Then, when pictures were introduced, they still needed support from an adult and they realised that although pictures helped some, it didn't help everyone.
Finally, the adults demonstrated how to fold the paper into a butterfly and worked through the steps together so everyone could understand how we all learn differently and need different things to succeed.
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Nuture Week 1 - Year 5
Thu 01 Feb 2024Year 5 were asked to draw a Monarch butterfly. Some children weren't quite sure what one looked like and commented;
"I don't know what that is?"
"Is that a queen?"
When Miss. Hanson asked what would help them, their response was;
"If we could see it?"
"A picture"
The class were then shown a picture but not given any guidance.
They were asked if anything else could help them.
"Instructions!"
"broken down into steps"
The class were then given step-by-step instructions and a visual prompt so they could complete the task.
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Nuture Week 1
Thu 01 Feb 2024The Six Principles of Nurture
Throughout this academic year, we are working towards achieving accreditation from Nurture UK’s National Nurturing Schools Programme. This project recognises our commitment to prioritising children’s wellbeing and mental health and the impact that this can have on their success as learners. Nurture UK describes the nurturing approach to education as giving children the ‘social and emotional skills to do well at school and with peers, and develop their resilience and capacity to deal more confidently with issues they may face’. (Nurture UK, 2023).
This approach is guided by the six principles of nurture. Over the next six weeks all children will spend some time learning about each of these principles. This will be shared with you weekly in our newsletter and also on our website.
Week 1 : Children's learning is understood developmentally.
The children were tasked with creating a piece of Art work; some made origami butterflies or dogs and others sketched butterflies. Initially, they had a go without instructions. After attempting this and discussing the outcome they had another go following instructions.
Before instructions were given, the children said;
- "I didn't know what to do."
- "I panicked."
- "We don't have instructions."
After being given visual and verbal step by step instructions, they commented;
- "It was easier than I thought."
- "I'm ok cause we did it together."
- "Not everyone is exactly the same and we don't always do stuff in the same ways."
- "Some of us might be fabulous at it and some might need a little bit of help!"
Why is this important?
All of our learning builds on things that we have learnt before. Everybody learns different things at a different rate. Just because two children might be the same age, it doesn’t mean they are at the same stage in their learning.
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Parent Consultations Term 5
Thu 28 Apr 2022Our Next on-line parents evening has been scheduled for the 5th May 2022 and will run from 3:30pm to 8:00pm.
You can now book your appointment by visiting the following website :-
https://hawkhurst.schoolcloud.co.uk/
We normally do two afternoons from 3:30 – 6:30pm, but as many of you have told us these are too early for you to access due to work commitments, we are going to trial one session, from 3:30 – 8pm.
If you have not used the system before or would like a refresher on what to expect when using the system, please look at the following video clip.
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2022 Summer Lunch Menu
Thu 31 Mar 2022The new Summer Lunch Menu from Caterlink is available to view on our Lunch Menu Page :-
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2021 KS1 Nativity
Thu 09 Dec 2021Our Key Stage 1 Nativity was recorded and is available to view using the link below :-
https://www.hawkhurst.kent.sch.uk/key-stage-1-nativity-8th-dec-2021/
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#HelloYellow Day
Fri 08 Oct 2021Photos from the in school activities supporting #HelloYellow day can be found in our photo gallery page and on flickr, the links are below :-
https://www.hawkhurst.kent.sch.uk/hello-yellow-day-8th-oct-2021/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/148360339@N03/albums/7215771998947248
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Virtual Parent Consultations
Thu 07 Oct 2021A reminder that we are holding virtual consultations with your child’s teacher on
- Tuesday 19th October and
- Wednesday 20th October
We are again using our intuitive and easy to use online appointment booking system. This allows you to choose your own appointment times with teachers and you will receive an email confirming your appointments.
Appointments can be made from 10th October and will close on 17th October. Should you wish to make any changes after this date please contact the school office.
Please visit https://hawkhurst.schoolcloud.co.uk to book your appointments.
A short guide on how to add appointments can be found at
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Harvest Festival Activities
Fri 01 Oct 2021Here are a few photos from the Harvest Festival activities this week.
View More Photos in our Flickr album