Last week our oldest pupils enjoyed a fabulous day out at the Farm Wise event held at Westpoint, Exeter. The event is designed to give children an interactive ‘out of classroom experience’ and to ‘touch, feel and smell’ farming and understand how it links with food production in the local environment within Devon. Children visited …
This week Sally was helped by Year 1 and Year 6 to plant spring bulbs. The children read the labels to find out when the bulbs would flower and the conditions in which they need to grow. They worked as a team to plant some snowdrops, tete-a-tete and crocus. The children are really enjoying working…
Last week the children in Class 1 and 2 joined a global ‘Code-a-long’ hosted by Code Club. The children used chromebooks and iPads to access Scratch, where they celebrated World Space Week by making their sprite experience weightlessness. The children followed the live stream to create their code, and really enjoyed being a part of…
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Year 2 enjoyed a super afternoon in the sunshine at Forest School this week. After a safety briefing, they enjoyed having time to explore the site and work in a small group to make necklaces with Anglo-Saxon initials on. All the children got to use a range of tools, with adult support, and were delighted…
We welcomed back Mrs Stoneman (Sally) to school this week, she has volunteered to help our children sort out the garden ready for spring. The first job was clearing the weeds and preparing the soil. Our Year 1 pupils were willing helpers and donned gloves to pull out weeds and get rid of stones. Luckily…
After our recent visit to Bovington Tank Museum, the children were really interested in finding out more about the rations that people had to survive on during World War 2. We were kindly donated some apples from a local orchard and we discussed how we could make this produce ‘stretch’ to feed a family with…
Class 1 visited Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset last week linked to their topic of World War 2. The children took part in two informative workshops and they learnt about the various roles people had in Britain during the war; they dressed up as Air Raid Wardens, Women’s Land Army and the Home Guard. Pupils…
As the weather has been so kind over the last few weeks, we are still enjoying PE on the field. Mr Keast is working with each class to improve and build on their prior knowledge with ball skills. Our oldest children have been invited this term to play in local 5-a-side tournaments against other schools,…
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