Davenies Pre-Prep

All the news & views from Davenies' little people

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Reception began their ‘Once Upon a Time’ topic visiting tales 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' and 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' by exploring positional language and size comparisons, sorting small medium and big objects #justright #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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After the Great Fire of London, to identify that a property was covered by insurance a ‘fire mark’ was fixed to the wall. Year 2 have designed their own fire marks and some were able to make a 3D model too! 🔥 #history #art #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Using a range of resources, Reception became engineers this week and designed and made a bridge that could withstand a small weight 🔩 #engineering #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Happy New Year as today the Pre-Prep are celebrating the Chinese New Year welcoming in the Year of the Ox. With a Padlet full of activities based on this festival, we look forward to seeing what the boys get up to 🎆#ChineseNewYear #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Reception had to find things around their homes with the letter sound ‘ng’ and young men took it upon themselves to give us a tune with some singing 🎤 #phonics #readwriteinc #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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In Science, Year 2 were challenged to seek out examples of plants ‘thriving in Winter’ as part of their work on living things 🌱

Luckily, it also coincided with a chance to enjoy some snow in the sunshine! ❄️ #winter #walk #plants #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Year 1 enjoyed an Italian extravaganza in Topic and got creative in the kitchen making some yummy looking pizzas 🍕 #Italy #pizza #worldtravels #cooking #littlechef #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Boys enjoyed an NFL themed fitness workout with Mr Allen today, in honour of this weekend's Super Bowl 💪 🏈 @DaveniesSport #fitness #keepactive #SuperBowl #NFL #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Year 2 enjoyed creating larger models of Tudor houses in art this week 🏠 #Tudors #History #Art #HistoryinAction #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Year 1 have had great fun making their very own volcanic eruptions 🌋 #Science #STEM #volcano #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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In Topic, Reception were invited to go on a winter walk and carry out a range of challenges, including finding a number of stones and making a shape out of sticks 🍂 @DaveniesPrePrep #GreatOutdoors #winter #nature #shapes #engageinspirechallenge #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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Mrs Battersby heads up our start of term assembly with this reassuring message for anyone feeling slightly worried about the coming weeks - welcome “back”! 💻🖥 #engageinspirechallenge #remotelearning #wevegotthis #DaveniesDigitalLearning

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For our #ChristmasJumperDay in aid of @savechildrenuk the PP boys designed and made their own mini jumpers from craft materials #creativityforkids #charity #earlyyears #Christmas

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He’s back! This classroom is under elf surveillance! Parents - we will let you know whether the boys are on the #nicelistornaughtylist 🤣🤣🎄😉 #ks1 #christmas #elfontheshelf

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Reception have been learning les couleurs in French and used what they had learnt to make un arc en ciel 🌈 with a partner #mfl #earlyyears #opportunities #broadcurriculum #teamwork

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#year1 are making great progress with their #earlyliteracy skills with the help of the @RuthMiskinEdu Read write Inc programme. #phonics #reading #writing #perseverance

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Being Wellbeing Lead at Davenies is an honour but it is definitely not easy at this unique time in our history so Mrs Mc is taking part in @TakeAMoment2020 in aid of @MindCharity to raise awareness of the importance of #mentalhealth for our young people but also for our teachers

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Over the past few weeks, I have been bowled over by the passion, resilience and drive of the teachers and leaders I have been working with. No matter how tired, no matter how much pressure and uncertainty, they continue to grow and look to develop their teaching for the good of..

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Whilst Y2 have found out all about polar bears and written non-chronological reports followed by making their own ice cream 🍦 to great excitement #engageinspirechallenge #lovelearning #schoolisfun

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So far today in our #curriculum collapse day,linked to the story ‘Leaf’ by @sandradieckmann Y1 have learnt about empathy by acting our different scenarios and discussing the emotions involved and then they carried out a #ClimateChange experiment to show the polar ice caps melting