On Wednesday 23rd January, Chestnut class visited Plymouth University for a ‘SCITECH’ morning. There was a showcase of science and technology – which was very hands on. The children were able to play, program, test and then chat to the experts about a variety of new technologies and everyone enjoyed themselves very much.
Chestnut class enjoyed a fantastic morning with Steve and Theo from a film company called ‘Calling the shots’ who delivered a special effects in film workshop. This workshop was provided after a previous student, Emma Buckland, won a competition to design a film poster through ‘Into Film’ last academic year. The class took on the…
Stuart Raine from the Exeter Synagogue visited Chestnut class on Thursday 22nd November, he brought in artefacts from Exeter synagogue and showed the children how a priest should handle the Torah. He also explained about Kosher food and also chose some pupils to re-enact a Jewish wedding ceremony.
On Wednesday we celebrated our 200 Year anniversary! Lots of children dressed up, everyone had some cake and fun was had by all. We had a lovely open afternoon for ex-pupils and staff, and fabulous contributions from local people who hold Kenton Primary dear to their hearts. We shared lots of old photos and documents from…
Chestnut class spent a fantastic day with artist Iola Weir, making giraffe and zebra headdresses in readiness for their performance of ‘Tuishi Pamoja’. The used corrugated cardboard, masking tape and papier mache to make the headresses. The children worked with determined perseverance to assemble their designs and they added ears, eyes and decoration to make…
Sharing some photos from the recent KS2 trip to Plymouth Aquarium as part of our Science Week activities. The three activities were a VR experience of going to the bottom of the sea in a submarine; making and testing a film case that would sink the slowest. The two classes then competed against each other,…
Children in Oak and Chestnut classes had chemistry workshops this morning with Ruth from Sciencedipity. It began with Ruth demonstrating mixing chemicals to make different coloured liquids, before making ‘elephant’s toothpaste’ with another chemical reaction. Then it was the bit the children had been waiting for… making slime! To finish off, everyone went outside to…
Shortly before the Christmas break, Oak and Chestnut classes received an invitation to visit Ashcombe Solar Mill. During the trip, they split into two groups and took it in turns to find out about what the solar farm does and how it works, while the other group did a biodiversity study, looking for bugs and…
This was the second High5Netball festival laid on for the Dawlish primary schools by the Dartmoor School Sport Partnership. The festival was aimed at year5/6’s both girls and boys. Kenn, Westcliff and Kenton were the schools that bought squads to the event. The festival was meant to be on the astro turf at Dawlish Community…
Chestnut and Oak classes at Kenton had a lovely trip to ‘We the curious’ (formerly known as @Bristol) on Thursday 28th September. The children visited the 3D planetarium and attended a ‘Colourful Chemistry’ workshop (Y5/6) and saw the ‘Light Fantastic’ studio show (Y3/4) before spending some time exploring the two levels of interactive exhibits….