Oak Class visited Kenn Primary School for a day to learn all about the Ancient Egyptians. The History Man came up from Exeter’s RAMM museum. He had a wonderful range of Egyptian artefacts and resources for the children to use. The children had a go at wrapping up a ‘body’ (one of the children!) in…
In Cherry Class this term, we have been approaching topic work in a slightly different way. Children have been challenged with ‘Quests’ – a question that they can interpret in their own way, find out the answers to the question and present their work in a format of their choice. Our first Quest was: ‘Where…
Children from Oak Class enjoyed a ‘Wildside Experience’ last week. The overnight camp included teamwork games, nature activities, bat detecting and even a night-time rope walk through the woods! There was hot chocolate around the campfire before the children climbed into their sleeping bags in shared tents. We were all woken by gentle violin music…
On a beautiful Tuesday morning four schools from across the Partnership gathered together at St Luke’s Science and Sports College in Exeter for the annual DLP Key Stage 1 Athletics tournament. Each school sent along a team of two girls and two boys from reception, year 1 and 2 to take part in a variety of activities. All…
Recently St John’s Ambulance came in to teach Oak Class more about first aid. We talked about how to get help from the emergency services as well as learning about putting the patient in the recovery position and bandaging wounds.
Cherry Class were invited to walk up to Powderham Castle for the 2015 Garden Festival and all had a wonderful, if slightly chilly morning! After the walk up to Powderham, the children were treated to a fireworks display and even met Lady Devon! Inside the show, they headed straight to the activities tent, especially set up for…
Willow Class have been busy meeting lots of animals for Animal week. They met Tess the tortoise from Powderham Castle, Beeble the dog and lots more animals that live around us. In the next few weeks the children will be busy learning all about Safari animals and the African Savannah whilst also enjoying their new Safari Jeep Roll Play area!…