A big thank you, from all of class 1 and 2, for sharing your holiday stories and photos! One of our Class 3 girls recently went on holiday to Sydney, Australia. To fit in with our topic, she offered to come and share her holiday with us! She spoke with confidence and taught us lots about Australia. We especially liked [...]
The Guild of Food Writers… Young Food Writer of The Year 2019 The Write It competition is back, with your chance to be crowned Young Food Writer of the Year 2019. Just write a story on the theme of ‘Food for Sharing’ for your chance to win lots of fabulous prizes and an invite to the Winners’ Lunch to meet [...]
This afternoon, Class 1 were invited to join Class 2 for a peer reading session! Class 2 had made storybooks for their own version of 'The Three Little Pigs'. They changed the animals within their stories to fit in with their Australian topic! We heard stories such as; The Three Little Koalas, and The Three Little Joey's. Year 2s read [...]
Times Tables Rock Stars has been a big hit over the past year and since it's doing so well, we've decided to buy the app for our families too! Use iTunes or Google Play and search for TTRS TTRS logins for all of our children (Year 2 upwards) are stuck inside reading or homework books (year 2 have been issued today) [...]
We thought it was slightly ambitious but were pleasantly surprised with the cutting and sticking skills in Class 2 this morning. We cut our rectangles in half from corner to corner which gave us lots of right angled triangles. We then stuck the short edge of these to the circle, making sure we rotated rather than flip, to make sure [...]
It's been so busy at school lately that it's been extremely hard to keep the school blog up to date, so here's a summary of the amazing things that have taken place over the past fortnight, with some galleries of photos spread through the post. Father Christmas and his Elves came to play football with us! National Trust [...]
Thank you so much to Josh and all of the National Trust team for coming in and showing us how to make Christmas Wreaths! Class 1 and 2 had a great time working together to make these lovely decorations!
"Roll Up! Roll Up! Come and get your 1/2 price... cheap... reduced... FREE, cakes / DVDs / Books / Lollipops!" What a lovely 'Coffee Afternoon' / Christmas Fair - it was like a mini Apprentice! The children designed some great games, thought about the rules for how to play them, came up with some imperative verbs (STAND here, PICK UP the [...]
It was worth waiting for our lovely sunny day we picked for our farm visit. We had such a lovely morning at this amazing dairy farm. The cows are milked by a robot and computer with no adults anywhere near. We learnt that the cows come down whenever they want and queue up on their own to be milked. The [...]
Classes 1 and 2 had a great morning out at Pickwell Barton. We walked over the back fields and met the farmer Andrew Cook and his son Peter, (both former pupils!) We saw the tiny barley crop with its roots and shoot coming from the seed. Walking across towards the farm we were rewarded with fantastic views towards Lundy overlooked [...]
