Here are some photos of Chestnut class making and testing parachutes. One group tested how changing the material of the parachute would affect the speed, another how changing the length of the strings would affect the speed and the last group how changing the size of the parachute would affect the speed. We dropped them…
Cherry Class and Class 2 from Kenn School, had a super day at Killerton House at the ‘Grimm Tales’ exhibition. We took part in lots of activities within the house, heard some of the tales told by a storyteller and followed a trail within the grounds. We found out a lot more about the tales written by the Grimm Brothers…
Chestnut class have been making electrical quiz boards this week. They have had to work out their circuits and do all the wiring so that only the correct answer on the quiz boards will light up. The children then shared their quiz boards with Oak, Cherry and Willow.
Children in Oak Class have created a dance linked to the book ‘Viking Boy’ by Tony Bradman, which we have been reading in class as part of our topic on Vikings. In the section the dance is created for, Gunnar and his family wake up and find their home is on fire. After a desperate…
Chestnut class recently enjoyed a very informative session with the fire service. They learnt all about the role of fire fighters in preventing and stopping fires from happening. The children were involved with a role play of an emergency telephone call to 999 which helped to teach them about the vital information that they would…
A big ‘thank you’ to all parents and carers who took part in our questionnaire just before half-term. The overwhelming majority of parents are very happy with all aspects of school life, which is very pleasing for us to see. The two aspects where there were some queries were about consistent days for the giving…
In Willow Class, our Foundation children have been doing lots and lots of super maths! In adult led and child initiated learning, the children have been developing their understanding of number using a range of resources, including Numicon, counters, Multilink and other concrete representations of number. We are really pleased with how the children are…
Have a look at some of the work done by Oak class over the last few weeks. Our topic has been the Vikings and the children did some writing based on a poem called ‘How to be a Pirate’, with a slight variation to make it fit our topic! Each child has also been…
On Wednesday 9th November 2016, children from seven schools across the Dawlish Learning Partnership took part in the annual DLP Swimming Gala, held at Dawlish Leisure Centre. Each school had a team of 12 children from years 4, 5 and 6. Firstly, the children had to compete in individual events, including breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl, later followed by…
Schoolchildren at Kenton Primary School have received a boost to their computing skills learning, thanks to three Exeter businesses. Amos Lighting, Devondale Electrical and Oneserve joined forces to sponsor the purchase of robots based on Crumble programmable software, to help the children gain a better understanding of coding. Learning to code is part of the…