Allangate Academics

At Allangate we believe that it’s important to allow children the opportunity to absorb as much as they want to know about current affairs and tricky situations. Help your children answer questions about covid-19 and what the world is facing using this superb free online book published by nosy crow. Support those curious minds.

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Nature and books is the only way to save this generation of children. Send them outside to play, play, play! It’s half term which means “wellies on and get outdoors to play”

Hard-Hitting Nature Valley Ad Shows The Terrifying Side Of Kids Addicted To Technology Nature Valley Canada recently sat down three generations of families and asked them one simple question, "What did you like to do for fun as a kid?" Take a mome

Allangate “helpful tutoring for curious minds” we support the exams and school based education knowing in our hearts that curiosity is where the true learning happens!

‘Schools are killing curiosity’: why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn Pupils who ask lots of questions get better results, especially those from poorer homes

Let’s make dens this summer holiday! Claire recently qualified as a Forest School Advanced Leader having studied with Bridgewater and used her practical skills at The Acorn Nursery in Trinity.

Forest schools: how climbing trees and making dens can help children develop resilience Forest School helps children learn without realising it.

Results are never our focus, the learner experiencing an all round approach and finding new ways to enhance their knowledge is what we are about. Helpful tutoring for curious minds! Yet this evening we’re celebrating the exam success for all of our 7+ boys all of whom have been offered places in their chosen schools. This makes us feel so so proud to be a tiny part of their learning journey!

Allangate now proudly has 100% success for 11+ pupils who sat exams in November into both colleges, and 100% 7+ entrants, who sat exams this week, bursting with pride for everyone involved!

Photos show some of the ways we’ve prepared for our exams this year...

Keep sharing the story of war so that we learn from the mistakes of our past so we never repeat them in our future. This animation proves that no one should be left out of the discussion - even the tiniest of minds.
https:/www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/poppies?fbclid=IwAR0hkiftK54Ay--1-JuSYkymsE9O0kX8J9PFd3186lWzrR5wfEWrTpyU83A

Poppies A beautiful animation following a young rabbit through the poppy fields.

There really is no greater skill than to inspire and excite through storytelling... when someone springs to life telling the most gripping of stories it can change you.
Don’t be a boring fella, be storyteller... tell one today!

Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead Writing stories is a craft that is crucial for life. And if the government insists, you can test it, measure it and use it in commerce, too

We’re comitted to furthering our own knowledge as practitioners. This academic year we’ve completed courses in British Sign Language and Forest Schools. We’ve also expanded our thinking whilst at the Jersey Learning Conference and at Knowledge Makes Change seminars. Loving the work of Dr Whitebread on “play” this week.
There is endless research out there to further our teaching and to stretch our minds!

Off on an adventure today... isn’t every day a wonderful adventure? We think so here at a Allangate! Enjoy yours.

It truly is a shocking reality that music, the arts and other apparently ‘non core’ subjects are not given the status they deserve...

‘It’s ludicrous that the government doesn’t understand the importance of music’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber The famous composer took aim at the government’s education policy as he picked up a Special Recognition Award at the Classic BRITs

When learners bring in beautifully frangranced flowers to compliment our learning space it reminds me how our senses influence us... feeling buoyant in our sweet smelling classroom today! Thank you Claude!