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…
Oak Class have returned from their camping trip with Wildside Experience. The class have been living in tents or tipis, having food cooked on an open fire, and living in a field surrounded by animals. Children did several walks through the woods, enjoying the peace and quiet (and mud), and many of them overcame fears…
As part of our class topic on rainforests and plants, Oak class have been on a trip to the Eden Project in Cornwall. We began our trip by having a workshop called Puzzling Plants. In this, the class got to find out how plants move water from their roots to their leaves – and that…
At Kenton Primary, we have implemented Chris Quigley’s approach to learning. One element of this is the ‘Secrets of Success’. Chris Quigley believes that there are many elements needed for children to become successful and independent learners. Below is the ethos behind ‘Secrets of Success’: What is success? Success isn’t just about money. It is…
Wow! What an impressive array of costumes were seen on World Book Day at Kenton! We had Horrid Henry, Little Red Riding Hood, The Worst Witch, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Anna and Elsa, Charlie Chaplin…the list goes on! We were all keen to show who we were and started the day with a catwalk, where everyone…
Back in the autumn term, the school applied to the Woodland Trust for a pack of trees. Time rolled on and last week 420 tiny trees arrived at school! Dea, from the Woodland Trust, had already arranged to come into school and help us plant them. She had marked out an area on the school field…
Linked to our rainforest topic, Oak Class have been doing some amazing artwork. Every child was given a long strip of paper and asked to draw the four different layers that are found in the rainforest: emergent trees, canopy, under canopy and the shrub/forest floor. After being coloured in with a water colour background and oil…
The dentist visited Oak Class this morning to check up the children’s knowledge about oral hygiene. Children were reminded about how to keep teeth clean and shown the consequences of not managing to do so! Everyone also got to use a lovely disclosing tablet to turn their tongues purple. It turns out that everyone is doing…
To kick-start our writing week, the children were visited by a range of animals including a tenrec, barn owl, gecko, giant millipede and several snakes! They learned about where the different animals originally came from and if they were endangered or not. They also discovered that the Lesser Tenrec was more closely related to an…
The children in Oak class have started doing some long exposure photographs. Children looked at lots of examples and learned how to change the exposure time on a camera to allow more light into the camera lens. They also saw examples that had gone wrong so they knew what to try and avoid doing. The aim…