Mrs. Marion Davies is the class teacher and also Assistant Headteacher. She has taught Reception and KS1 children within a mixed-aged class for 30 years. She holds the qualification for Trauma and Mental Health Informed Schools (TIS), which gives her a deeper understanding of the causes of children's worries and anxieties and how to help alleviate them. Mrs. Davies is a qualified first aider.
Miss Bella Yabsley
Teaching Assistant
Miss. Bella Yabsley is a teaching assistant in Longships Class.
Mrs Debbie Johnson
Teaching Assistant
Mrs. Debbie Johnson is a teaching assistant in Longships Class and is the key person for the Reception children. Prior to working in our school, she was deputy preschool leader at a local Nursery, so has an excellent understanding of the Early Years. Mrs. Johnson has undertaken Wild Tribe outdoor learning training. She is a qualified Paediatric First Aider.
Our mornings are filled with handwriting practice and reading, Read Write Inc sessions, Maths and English writing, RE, Music, French and PSHE. At morning playtime we have milk (for the under fives) and fruit to eat. We play in our special Longships playground, which has a giant sand pit, a pirate ship, a wood chip kitchen and cafe, a music wall and performance stage, a Maths area and a reading garden. Our outdoor toys include large loose parts such as wooden blocks, foam bricks and logs, and lengths of guttering to create ball runs and hot wheels tracks! At lunch time, Longships children access the large playground, vegetable garden, tranquillity area, trim trail and extensive field.
In the afternoons, we have an exciting mixture of learning- Science (Wild Tribe for the Reception children), PE and our Lighthouse Learning sessions, where we spend blocks of time as historians, geographers, artists, computer operators and designers!
After all that learning, we love to spend the end of the day quietly listening to a story.