We have spent the past 11 years creating Learning Naturally; an active model, enabling children to learn in an age-appropriate way, indoors and outside every day.
There are three strands to our Learning Naturally methodology:
- Whole Class Teaching
- Small Group Learning
- Independent Learning
Independent learning offers children meaningful opportunities to pre-learn, embed, use & apply and review. Challenges are placed around the year group (in all three classrooms, central areas and outside areas).
We had a Section 5 Ofsted inspection in the last week of the Summer Term 2023. The first line of the Ofsted report states that ‘Children thrive here.’
We were awarded Outstanding for Early Years, Personal Development and Behaviour & Attitudes. The Ofsted team loved our methodology, commenting that all children ‘deserve to learn in this way,’ and making it clear that we should share it with other schools. Challenge Partners, our Local Authority Education Team and all visiting professionals say the same.
We offer a truly holistic education. An external inspector once said that our provision offers a second curriculum. We successfully offer the academic curriculum, as outlined in the National Curriculum, but also a social and emotional curriculum.
We have hosted local schools who have made adaptations to their provision as a result.
We are currently preparing a full professional development offer.
If you are interested in finding out more we offer free visits for professionals. Click on the links below to book your place.