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…
Yesterday, Warburtons the bakers visited Chestnut class. Nikki and Lee taught Chestnut class all about the fascinating history of the Warburtons company. The children watched a video demonstrating how flour is obtained from wheat before going through multiple processes to eventually end up as a loaf of bread which we can buy from the shop. …
In science with Miss Foster, Cherry class have been learning about local habitats and what local wildlife need to survive. On our welly walk we spotted and talked about habitats such as; a river, woodland, fields and long grass. We also were lucky to find some wildlife living in the habitats! All-in-all everyone enjoyed this…
Schools from across the Dawlish Learning Partnership met on Thursday 23rd February to compete in the annual DLP Cross country run. Runners were split into teams of children from years 3 & 4, who completed one lap of the course and teams of children from years 5 & 6 ran an extended route. Thanks to all…
Cherry Class have had a wonderful week which started with storytellers telling the story of The Rabbit who stole fire. We then had a fantastic experience when we were visited by a whole range of animals and found out where and how they live. We produced our own pictures of these animals. We were very…
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…
On Monday 30th January 2017, Mike Farley, a Henry VIII impersonator came to visit Kenton Primary School. He worked with Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 to teach them all about life in Tudor times. The children learnt about how the Tudors came to power as well as learning about Tudor food, hygiene (or…
Our Reception children have been learning to write using lots of different resources and inspirations. All the children in the school are learning how to write their letters in a cursive style, which will help children with their joined writing and presentation. To help the Reception children learn these tricky letter formations, our amazing Year…