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Curriculum Enrichment

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At South Stanley Infant & Nursery School, we believe that children learn best when they are interested, inspired and motivated to learn. With that in mind, we draw on the knowledge and skills of others by welcoming regular visitors into school who broaden and deepen our children’s knowledge and understanding. We also believe that taking children on visits to important historical, geographical and cultural locations enriches our children’s experiences and helps to develop a more rounded child.

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We hope that you enjoy looking at our photographs and reading about some of the exciting things that we have done at our school in previous years. Look out for exciting updates coming soon!!

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At South Stanley Infant and Nursery School we offer a wide range of extra curricular activities throughout the school year. Check out all we have to offer by clicking the link

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Yoga

Yoga can benefit children in so many ways ! Not just physically but mentally and emotionally too and has it an impact on their health and well being too .


Yoga is good for building up muscle strength for children in a fun and engaging way . Yoga helps increase flexibility and helps with children’s balance and co ordination too . It also teaches children how to manage their emotions as we teach them breathing techniques that can help them stay calm .


Yoga has been proven to help improve concentration and focus too.
Yoga can help boost children’s immune systems too so it has a positive  impact on their health too .
We teach children the importance of mental health and we do postive affirmations about ourselves to help embed this in children .


We finish our sessions with relaxation a really important part of our session where relax our whole bodies and as the children say ‘go to their Kalma place ‘

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Check out the Kalma Kids Website for more information

Paws and Read Therapy Dogs

Every Thursday we are very lucky to be joined by the wonderful David and Ben the therapy dog. 

 

Ben and David are part of the charity Therapy Dogs and their program ‘Paws and Read’.  Paws are read is a scheme which has been recognised by The Kennel Club. 

 

We are so lucky to be have David and Ben coming into our school as it has been found that reading to a dog benefits children by improving their confidence and self-esteem and reading achievement. 

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St Andrews Church

This term in RE, Year 1 have been learning all about Christianity. As part of our RE topic we visited St Andrews church in Stanley. When we arrived at the church we met Kath who very kindly gave us a tour of the church. We were able to name some key features of the church such as the pews and the font and recalled what they were used for. We looked at the organ, rang the church bells and we loved looking at the different stained-glass windows! We were asked some questions about the church and we were able to answer them by recalling what we had been learning in RE.

St Stephen's Community Cafe

Some of our Happy Rights Team visited St Stephen’s Centre to find out what they do to help support our community. The children found out that they receive donations of food from shops and people and this food is then used to help other people within the community. The children were amazed at all of the food and that the food is free. They also have a nice warm space for people if they would like a hot cup of tea or coffee and some delicious cake. All of the money that is spent in the cafe, goes straight back into the community. The Happy Rights team think this is a great way of helping people within our community and decided that they would like to share it with the rest of the school. They have prepared an assembly to share with the whole school.

 

If you want to learn a little bit more about St Stephen's and the work they do, please visit their website https://www.southstanleypartnership.co.uk/ or their Facebook page.

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Beamish Museum

Year 2 had a fantastic time at Beamish Museum. They had great fun going back in time taking part in a Victorian Infant lesson. The boys and girls were separated and weren’t allowed to sit next to each other. We had to put our hand up to answer a question then stand up, say the answer and then we had to say Madame. We also found out if you talked or didn’t know the answer, you would receive the cane. However, we were all excellent pupils and no one received the cane!! We also explored the mine and the miner’s lamps. We were able to share with the volunteers all of the facts we learnt in Year 1 about the Stanley Pit Disaster and why they used pit lamps.

Punctuation Man

KS1 had a fabulous afternoon with our special visitor ‘The Punctuation Man’. He taught us all about the different types of punctuation marks. The children had fun learning different types of songs and actions to help them to remember when to use them.

 

“He was funny especially when he was singing the different songs.” Courtney.

“I like the ! song. I love doing the actions.” Jake.

“I loved the part when I was up at the front and had to pretend to be a comma.” Arwen.

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Tiny Tweeties

We were so lucky today as Tiny Tweeties came to pay us a visit. Tiny Tweeties are a company who provide live music and singing for early years children. We loved singing along with the guitar, dancing with the autumn leaves and playing the musical instruments. We hope they come again soon.

Refuse

What an amazing few weeks we have enjoyed working with Refuse to reduce our food waste! Ably supported by Refuse staff and volunteers, our 'Waste Warriors;' have audited, action planned and taken real action to ensure that we understand the impact of throwing away food and work to help our environment by reducing food waste!

Dogs Trust

Suzie from Dogs Trust taught us how to be safe around dogs

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