Unbelievably, most of class 3 were up (showered!!) dressed and packed up before 7.15 - and some were up WAY before then! Everyone slept well and there are lots of smiles and hungry tummies. Breakfast isn't until 8!
Well, we couldn't really have asked for a more perfect day....beautiful weather, stunning scenery and glassy blue sea to surf in.
Monday 13th May 2019 Dear parent, We're sending important paperwork home with your child today, and we've also attached all paperwork and links to the bottom of this Blog Post, inviting you to take part in a consultation regarding the formation of a Co-operative Education Trust to be called the Braunton Learning Co-operative. Before you read that letter and other [...]
Mental Health Week starts next week. Even though there's an irony that it's also SATs week next week, we're going to be talking with the children about their mental health and introducing 5 things they can do to help themselves feel good. It also starts with YOU - the parent. I subscribe to Dr. Pooky's You Tube channel and she [...]
We didn't make Igneous rocks, or metamorphic either (few technical difficulties in doing them) but we did make sedimentary rocks. We layered sand and soil and squashed them very tightly. Peeling the pot and paper towel away, most of us were left with a crumbling mess... but we did have a few compacted sedimentary 'rocks!'
We all do Spotlights of some kind in our classes, from Class 1 doing a 'Show and Tell' to Year 6 running the whole assembly. Today we had a really interesting Spotlight from one of our year 5 girls, about a fox who visits the area. I knew about this already as some of our community were worried; she hasn't [...]
This week, the year 1's have started looking at multiplication. We started looking at repeated addition and counting in groups of 2s, 5s and 10s. Today, we started building arrays to help us multiply! We took cones and some chalk outside, and began solving multiplication sentences. It was tricky at first, but by the end we all had 'double thumbs [...]
Our school is part of a growing number of schools within the Teaching School Alliance that is leading the way for more school-led teacher training. This is really important to us because it means we can choose the very best talent and develop them into teachers. Being able to choose who we train as teachers helps us in delivering the [...]
I was teaching in class 3 and I decided to do an impromptu drama session to help the children to remember the different types of rocks and how they are formed: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Then in class 4 we revised our knowledge of perpendicular and parallel lines plus lines that intersect using actions.
Another booster session with year 5s this morning where we recapped how to do division by chunking it away. We started with 452 cubes and they were very quickly bored of repeatedly taking away 3... How about taking away 30, or 60 someone asked! 😁 Brilliant... how about a whole 300?! We also reviewed some of our writing and worked [...]
