We opened our doors this afternoon so that family members could see what life was like in the classroom. We always say that this is quite artificial (I had a good conversation about self-portraits and that they would have had some pre-teaching about the positions of your eyes and the colour of lips) but it's still just a great opportunity to [...]
After tasting a range of chocolate biscuits last week, class 4 designed their own biscuit with a chocolate theme and today we baked them. Their ideas were all really creative and involved a lot of chocolate.... At the end of the day we had a bake off challenge and Mr Thomas had the enviable job of tasting all [...]
Thanks Miss Hill and Mrs Rinvolucri... and thanks to everyone who came to our 'Mastery in Maths' evening... Everyone can be good at maths. https://youtu.be/J3wiBVDpSNg Encouraging a Growth Mindset in maths... Praise effort not achievement. Promote challenge and see mistakes as valuable. Easy = a waste of time! Remove fixed ability messages in class Anyone who has never made [...]
That was a really nice day. Traveling to Exeter and grouping up with the whole of the Braunton Learning Community and the Choristers from the Cathedral, singing almost a dozen songs. ...but it was also the community feel of traveling to Exeter, having lunch together, meeting up with friends and sharing a great time in beautiful surroundings. The children did [...]
The theme for Children in Need this year is 'Champions for Change.' So..in class 4 we decided in make Champion medals to explain what we want to make sure every child has-all of the time! Some of our wishes were that every child had love, safety, food, support and someone to trust. One that I thought was lovely [...]
48 Operation Christmas Child boxes all collected this morning and sent off to Barnstaple with the other 65 from St George's. We didn't beat our record of 50 boxes from last year but the 113 in total beats our village target of 100 so we're all happy. Thank you very much for thinking of others, making a box up and [...]
"Feeling peckish?" asked Keri. ...Well I worked late last night. ;-)
Mr Tanner and some of the Choristers came for a quick practice this morning. It sounded great... but rather than giving you a spoiler, I'll video the actual event on the weekend for you! actually... http://youtu.be/jVYqTSzkRXQ
In science on Monday we have been learnt about shadows.We received a letter from a local puppeteer who wanted to know how we could change the shape and direction of a shadow. We were then asked if we could have a go at our own puppet show to tell the story of Night Monkey, Day Monkey which is the story [...]
We all went to Braunton Academy and were split into 2 Groups. Group 1: First Game - They lined up in groups and the first person runs to put the rugby ball down on the line. The next person picks it up and runs back. Then it goes all over again. It’s a lot like rugby! Second Game – They [...]
