Class 3 had a great time at our St George's house residential at the beginning of the week. Despite a wet and windy start to the day, we were lucky when the weather cleared up after lunch and year 3 could head off for games at the beach while year 4 had fun with the archery and fencing.... [...]
This week we've been learning about magnetic materials. We've gone on 'magnet' hunts to find out which materials are magnetic. Today we had a competition - who can collect the most paperclips? Which magnet holds the most paperclips? Why do some magnets hold more than others?
We have had a lovely day today enjoying our new class space! Thank you so so much to all of our helpers yesterday - we appreciate all of the time and effort you gave.
A super morning at Braunton Academy taking part in the multi-skills festival. I think there will be some very tired children this evening!
We have had a lovely time over the last 2 days in Preschool! We have dressed up, made bookmarks and most importantly enjoyed sharing stories!
We had a wonderful time exploring the Eden Project before half term. We learned all about where the food in our lunch boxes comes from and where the ingredients are from. We hope this will spark questions around sustainibility and our ndividual carbon footprint. It was a fantatsic day, and a really fun trip. I was so impressed [...]
Today class 3 went back in history about 2000 years (1963 to be exact!) and became members of the Dumnonii tribe who lived in Devon and Cornwall during this period. They were called to a tribe meeting as Romans had been spotted on their tribal land and had to decide what they wanted to do. There were 3 options: - [...]
This week, we've been reading the story 'The Magic Paintbrush' by Julia Donaldson. In the story, Shen uses her magic paintbrush to paint a dragon to keep the emperor away. Today we painted a dragon of our own! 'A beast with scales and claws.' We found different ways to make the scales - from patting the brush for a 3D [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy New Year! We've made our own dragons, tried using chopsticks, had a feast whilst making our own firework fruit sticks and had our own dragon parade!
This week pre school have been learning about Chinese New Year. We Know that red is a lucky colour and that this year will be the year of the rabbit. The children may well tell you how to say Happy new year in Chinese (kung hei fat choi) too!
