Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Easter Egg Hunt
Wed 27 Mar 2024This year’s traditional Easter Egg Hunt was a bit different, as a nasty spell of wet and windy weather sent us crawling for cover. Plan B was an indoor event and pupils spent the afternoon searching for tokens around the school building which they could later trade for chocolate eggs and other prizes. Pupils were visited in class by a larger than life Easter Bunny, spring chicken and a giant daffodil – rumoured to have actually been staff members in fancy dress, but this claim is yet to be verified!
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Spring Performance
Tue 26 Mar 2024This year’s Spring Performance was 'Musicals Through the Ages' – a show celebrating the history of musical theatre and cinema. Classes performed a range of classic songs and more modern hits, and the show was professionally held together and hosted by two of our Upper School pupils. Well done all classes and an especially big thank you and congratulations to Nathan and Casper for doing such a great job hosting!
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Easter Market - Wednesday 20th March
Thu 14 Mar 2024Students in Upper School have been very busy this half term! Our Enterprise project this term was to prepare for and run an Easter/Spring stall in St Albans town centre. Discoverers, Voyagers and Explorers classes made some beautiful items to sell. They made Easter cards, egg baskets made from paper cups, Easter decorations, classic tray bakes, cupcakes, and chocolate creams.
Running the stall on the market, we had Evelyn, Nathan, Casper, Sam and Thomas. They had a super time and did a great job of selling their wonderful creations. A great time was had by all - even the Sun came out to say hello!
Thank you to everyone who came out to support us!!
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World Book Day
Thu 07 Mar 2024The students thoroughly enjoyed participating in a variety of activities for World Book Day, that were linked to our theme of 'Books turned into Musicals'. They:
- were immersed in a 'Wizard of Oz' sensory story with Laura
- had the opportunity to participate in a 'Mary Poppins - flying high' session in the Gym with Sally where they climbed apparatus and had lots of fun using the parachute
- enjoyed participating in a dramatic Musical performance workshop with James and Miral
- went 'Into the Woods' with Flow, exploring the sensory garden and used their imagination to make 'potions'
- used their communication tools to make 'Matilda's chocolate cakes'
- enjoyed a 'Technicolour Dreamcoat' Attention Autism and Art session
- shared stories and Musical songs using Grid 3
We saw some fabulous outfits throughout the day too. It was a busy, but very successful day!
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Winter Sports Day
Thu 15 Feb 2024We held our annual Winter Sports Day today and parents were invited along to come and enjoy the fun too.
Our gym was converted into an ice rink for skating, tobogganing, curling and snowflake hunting. To warm everyone up, marshmallows were toasted in the garden, biscuits were decorated in class and of course hot chocolate was the order of the day.
A fabulous day was had by all!
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Macmillan Coffee Morning 2023
Fri 26 Jan 2024Thank you for supporting our Macmillan Coffee Morning 2023 and giving generously towards this fantastic cause! We raised an amazing £384.10!!!
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Theme Day
Wed 24 Jan 2024We had a special 'Story, Music, Art and Dance from Around the World' Theme Day, where each class spent the morning learning all about a famous story, type of music, art genre or traditional dance from different countries in the world. In the afternoon we held a variety show where classes were able to perform or showcase their work to each other.
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Numeracy Week
Fri 19 Jan 2024The week beginning the 15th January was Numeracy Week at Watling View School. We had a theme each day and pupils learnt about the concepts of measure, pattern, number, money, capacity and shape. Friday was a Numeracy Theme Day and our pupils went on a school wide shape hunt and took part in lots of fun Maths activities in the Gym.
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LPPA Award (Leading Parent Partnership Award)
Fri 05 Jan 2024Watling View are pleased to have been accredited in the Leading Parent Partnership Award. Over the past 18 months, the school has been gaining evidence to go towards this award and in December we the school received the final monitoring visit.
The report highlighted some of the following strengths within the school.
Parents are offered a wide range of information on their child’s learning and progress. General curriculum coverage is provided, for example through half termly summaries and information on the website. Information on learning and progress reflects the very individual needs of each child. Examples include daily written 2 way communication through professionally produced, thoughtfully designed home school diaries and the Evidence for Learning app (EFL). Personalised Learning Goals are shared every term, Annual Reviews can be in school or virtual depending on parents preference and teacher ‘drop-ins’ are regularly available.
The range of events for parents to come into school is established and embedded with a programme of events during the year and a calendar of events for each term during this academic year is already posted on the website. The school is clear about the focus and priorities of different types of events
and pupils knew of a range of events, such as sports days, performances and sibling mornings. The Parent School Association has raised funds for facilities such as a courtyard garden and areas for learning and play and also provides opportunities for parents to be involved in the life of the school.
We are pleased with the result of this and want to continue to build on our partnerships with our parents and carers.
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Bus drivers Christmas Thank you
Wed 20 Dec 2023We wanted to thank our Bus drivers and PA's for all their hard work so we invited them into our cafe, Nourish to Flourish, for mince pies and drinks.
