Welcome to our Adventurers class page 2025-26

We are The Adventurers class at Warren Hills Community Primary School.

Our class teacher is Dr Burrows. Mrs Murby, Miss Dodd, Mrs Myurray, Miss Turner and Mrs OGelsby are our teaching assistants.

PE this term will be on a Tuesday (and Friday for Y5)

Please ensure that your child has an indoor kit consisting of a Warren Hills P.E. T-Shirt, shorts and plimsolls and also an outdoor kit consisting of plain tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a Warren Hills P.E. T-Shirt, sweatshirt and pair of trainers. Long hair must be tied back and earrings removed, unless made of sillicone, (if your child is unable to remove earrings themselves, please ensure they are removed before school).

Swimming this term will be on a Tuesday for Year 1 and 2

Payment for this can be made on ParentPay at a subsidised cost of £1.60 per week. Please ensure your child has the appropriate kit of a one piece swimming costume or shorts, a swimming hat and a towel.

Forest Schools this term will be on a Wednesday and Gardening will be on a Thursday

Please ensure that your child has an outdoor kit consisting of a pair of stout, waterproof boots, a warm jumper and waterproof outerclothes (or scruffy trousers). We go outside, whatever the weather, and we are likely to get smokey and muddy!

The Philosophy of The Nurture Suite

The Adventurers is in the Nurture Suite at Warren Hills School, supporting children of all ages. We exist to build links between our children and their peers, and to ready them for joining their age appropriate class in school. We also provide facilities to support children from other classes in their academic and social development. To compliment our classroom based learning we spend one day every week learning outside, run a mile every day, practise yoga and mindfulness meditation, undertake work to improve our school environment, learn practical skills such as woodwork and DIY and work together to improve our social and emotional development. The Adventurers is spreading the word about NURTURE across the school; to parents, carers and families; and to the wider community. Please scroll down for details of our: Three Frame Day, Executive Functioning Curriculum, Healthy Body/Healthy Mind activities, Zones of Regulation and Emotion Coaching programmes.

Here is what the children have to say about The Adventurers:

"My favourite thing in The Adventurers is my teachers and the outside learning. I made a sign and Mr Burrows helped me make a dinosaur out of clay. I like to talk about things with the teacher. Mr Burrows lets me work out how to do stuff by myself and Mr Stevens teaches us good sportsmanship. Our TAs make sure I am ok."

"The Adventurers like to share and work together in friendship. I love playing conkers because you can play in friendship. I love to do things together with my friends."

"We like to help one another in cooking and everything. I like making things out of wood and I help other people. We have learned to use different tools like drills and a fret saw."

"I like to let my friends know my feelings and tell them happy things. Inside Out was awesome. We talked about feelings. Anger is my favourite."

"I enjoy being outside for a whole entire day. My favourite time of the day is when we do mixed martial arts and in guided reading I sat in a tree to read."

"One of my favourite things is going in the Safe Space. I like playing on Nessy Spelling and CoolMath using our own iPads."

"We have done lots of great things. We have made balloon-car-racers and did planting acorns and conkers. We do lots of great things. Last week we did a vegetable show."

"We tell stories to people and friends. Yesterday, I got to sit in the 'Once upon a time chair' under the tree and tell everyone a story about all of us going to a skate park."

THE ADVENTURERS PHILOSOPHY AND PEDAGOGY

The Adventurers operates a Three Frame Day pioneered by The Green School in Bali to improve pupil engagement and encourage child lead learning through enquiry. The day comprises:

Frame 1: 0900-1100 The Thematic Frame of phonics and child led topic learning in English

Frame 2: 1100-1200 The Proficiency Frame of teacher led academic skills in maths

Frame 3: 1300-1500 The Experiential Frame of enquirey led life skills, building social communication skills.

The Adventurers teaches Executive Functioning Skills to underpin the teaching of the academic curriculum and develop the children's learning skills and life skills:

1) Goal Setting and Task Initiation

2) Flexible Thinking

3) Planning, Prioritising and Organising

4) Accessing Working Memory

5) Self-monitoring and checking

6) Emotional and Impulse Control

The Adventurers believes the adage 'a healthy body and a healthy mind' hence we, run for a mile every day and undertake mindful meditation, yoga, Relax Kids, dance and fitness workouts.

Summer Term 1, 2025-26

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Frame 1: Thematic Frame - Child Led English Skills

Phonics

Most Adventurers children migrate from the Nurture Suite to their appropriate level phonics group or guided reading group in mainschool with support from Nurture Suite staff. A small group of Adventurers stays in the Nurture Suite to learn an adapted phonics programme.

English

After talking about, and watching, films and plays last term, the children decided that they would ike to take part in their own play so, this term, we are putting on a stage production of: The Hairy Toe. We are learning how play scripts work and how to write our own; how to narrate a script loudly and clearly; and perform in public. The Adventurers children are joined by some children from mainschool for their English lessons. We have usd our Art and Design skills to construct a set and props.

Some of our Year 5 children are joining their mainschool class for reading and english with support from Nurture Suite staff, whilst others are joining small intervention groups in mainschool.

Frame 2: Proficiency Frame - Academic Maths Skills

Maths

In maths this term, we are learning about measure and money. The Adventurers children are joined by some children from mainschool for their maths lessons. The Adventurers are split into three differntiated groups in maths so that they can all be taught at their appropriate stage of lerning. We make sure that our maths lessons are hands-on and can be applied to real-life situations wherever practicable. Trips to the shops help us put money learning into context and cooking and gardening allow us to apply our measuring skills.

Frame 3: Experiential Frame - Life Skills

Life Skills and Holistic Development

IN the afternoons this term, the children are using Zones of Regulation to help them understand and manage their emotions in a positive way. This is supported by Hidden Chimp intervention for ADHD and Autism and TalkAbout for social and emotional understanding and regulation. We are also investigating our Executive Functions - how the brain works and how we can use our 'Thinking Brain' as a control centre to manage our Limbic System responses.

We continue with our perenial Social Skills, Communication Skills, Forest Schools, Community Action, Cookery, Art and DT, Memory, Problem Solving and Visual Acuity Games and PE sessions to enhance everyone's holistic development.

Mondays revolve around seasonal and topic related science investigations; Tuesdays involve PE (Athletics and Games) and Art; Wednesdays are based in Forest School; Thursday comprises cooking, community tasks and gardening; and Fridays build relationships and executive function skills through game playing and our Friday tea party.

Our daily mile run and twice daily brain and body breaks help our holistic development - building resillience, self-regulation, emotional control, memory skills, listening skills, mind and body flexibility, planning and organising, team skills, winning and losing, philosophy, PSHE, and critical thinking skills - as well as being lots if fun!

Science with the Hub

We were investigating how skittles dissolve and their colours diffuse in different liquids.

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Knowledge Organiser

Out and About

Investigating the local area

Cooking

In the Experiential Frame of the day,we use our classroom kitchen to prepare and serve bagels for breakfast, fruit for break-time and drinks throughout the day. Recently the children also prepared pizzas and cakes in the classroom too. we decorated the cakes with the shapes of different tree leaves we had learned about in Science.

School Pride

In the Experiential Frame of the day, we maintain the school's outdoor learning area, sow and water plants around the school, look after the fish tank in the foyer, pick up litter, weed the vegetable plots and compost the fruit break waste. As part of the school community are proud of our school environment and look after it and improve it where we can for ourselves sand others.

Healthy Body/Healthy Mind

In the Experiential Frame of the day we do lots of activities to keep our bodies and minds healthy. As well as taking regular Brain Breaks and doing Mind Gym exercises, adults and children alike practise Yoga Pretzels and Mindfulness Meditation as well as running a mile every day. At the time of writing, we have run a half marathon worth of Daily Miles.

Practical Skills

In the Experiential Frame of the day, we learn lots of practical skills which we will be able to apply in our futures. We use our hands to paint and mould objects out of clay, our work bench and tools to make things out of wood and DIY skills to enhance our learning environment. We are currently renovating an old exercise bicycle and fitting it with a desk top so that those with an excess of energy can cycle and work at the same time!

At the end of Friday, we all sit down together for a cup of chamomile tea and some Hub baked flapjacks to reflect on the highs and lows of the week and to talk about the week ahead.

The Adventurers helps children build a sense of belonging to the school and wider communities. Leicestershire Police invited The Adventurers to go on a team building kayaking day at Conkers after a visit to Coalville Police Station. A great time was had by all with rides in the riot van, kayak races and ice lollies at Conkers.

We always make sure that our topics are child led, fun filled and based in role play or experience. Here we are sitting down to a meal with Hollywood superstar Rob Lowe and his wife Davina, after planning to abduct him in a modern version of the Greek myth about Helen of Troy.

Below: Archaeologists unearthing and recording the position of Stone Age artefacts.