Harvest Festival. Well done to all the children for an amazing performance in the church on Monday to celebrate harvest. The children have worked really hard to learn songs, lines and dance’s. The children spoke very confidently and they were very proud to show off their amazing art work.
Chestnut Class have been busy learning a new dance in PE with Mrs Arrowsmith. The children have been focusing on learning different dance techniques and then putting them together into a sequence.
Dear Parents, In small teams, year 5/6 have worked extremely hard to create businesses and make products to sell using a £5 loan from Sir Richard Branson. The following link will allow you to watch videos made by each business. Each video explains who the teams are, the products that they are selling and how much…
On Thursday 17th June, Chestnut class went to Exmouth beach as a reward for good behaviour over the year. We started the day with sand sculptures which were judged, followed by a picnic lunch, a paddle in the sea, ice creams and quick cricket. It was a lot of fun and everyone had a good…
Chestnut class had the exciting opportunity to explore some archaeological props from a parent volunteer who used to be an archaeologist. The children were shown a collection of finds comprising five Lower Palaeolithic hand axes (from Broom Pit, Axminster – circa 350,000 to 450,000 BC, made by Homo heidelbergensis), a Mesolithic flake, Neolithic thumbnail scraper, Bronze Age flint…
Chestnut class had a lovely morning making Anglo Saxon thumb pots. They then used tools to decorate them with the same patterns that the Anglo Saxons used.
Oak Class and some of the children in Chestnut Class enjoyed their last forest sessions of the term this week. We finished making bows and arrows and practiced firing as far as we could. It was easy to spot which children have done archery with Mr. Tyrell in the past! It was a pleasure to…
Chestnut class have had a day of art with a local willow artist making willow and tissue paper lanterns for a theatre show at Powderham castle.
Chestnut Class have been enjoying adventurous play and creativity at forest school recently; creating large dens and swings, climbing trees and playing games. Unfortunately our session last week had to be cancelled due to a lack of staff to accompany the group off-site to the woods. We wish Mrs. Daniels a speedy recovery from her…
All week, children from across the school have been taking part in special activities which all have a link to science as part of Science Week. These have included KS1 children having a visitor who helped them to design, build and test Mars rovers out of Lego. KS2 children then watched NASA video animations of…