Celebrating Book Week 2024 - Female Authors and Poets

What a joyful start we’ve had! It has been such a delight to watch our little ones settle so beautifully into the class. Each day they come in with smiles, ready to explore, learn and play.

At this point in the year, our Year 2 pupils - at the very end of KS1 - are invited to apply for the role of House Captain. This is an exciting first step into leadership that many of our Year 1s look forward to as they move up, knowing they can apply right at the start of Year 2.

When we think of writing in primary school, most of us picture neat lines of work in an exercise book. While this has its place, research shows that children also benefit greatly from writing in different spaces—on tables, windows, whiteboards, or even the ground outside. These opportunities are not about avoiding books, but about broadening the ways children can engage with writing and learning.

In June, our Metacognition Lead, Ms. Mulenga, travelled to Boston College in the US, to join 26 other Nord Anglia Teachers to discuss and share findings from the global research project on metacognition.