Oak Class were visited by Cara from the arts organisation, Daisi, today. The theme was Tudor buildings in response to the fire at the Royal Clarence Hotel two years ago. After looking at some of the older buildings in Exeter, they did some quick sketches in their art books focussing on the basic shapes could…
Oak’s trip to Bath (by Elizabeth, Year 4) On Friday 15th June, Oak class went on a school trip to Bath. We went to the Roman baths in Bath! First all of, Oak went to Kenn Primary to get on the coach (Jeff was our driver) so we didn’t need to stop on the way….
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…
Oak class joined with Year 3/4 from Kenn and went to visit Charmouth beach. The trip was part of our science topic of Rocks and Fossils and gave the children the opportunity to show our guide, Chris, how much they knew already. They certainly did us proud and could explain all about how fossils formed…
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,…
Cherry and Willow class were joined by their peers from Kenn Primary for an inter-school morning of multi-sports activities. The weather stayed dry and spirits were high with children working in teams to tackle each event in the carousel.
Congratulations to the mighty Year 5 and 6 Quiz Team fielded by Kenn and Kenton last Wednesday. They competed against many local schools in the Dawlish Rotary quiz, smashing their way through a whole range of questions on the topics ‘people’, ‘places’ and ‘general knowledge’. We are thrilled to announce that they came first overall…
We had a wonderful trip to Sainsbury’s, as part of our school Science Week. The children were all very excited about catching the school minbus. On arrival, Sainsbury’s took us to a special, behind the scenes room, where we were given an outline of the day. The children then had the chance to make pizza,…
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…
Oak Class have been to Plymouth University for a podiatry workshop! It began with children finding out the names of the bones in their feet and talking about what their feet are for and how to look after them. After looking at models of feet, they then all carried out an investigation about whether taller…