A huge apology to the Stepping Stones parents and carers. You may witness some signs of Jet Lag this weekend and we fear it may be our fault. You see, we have covered a lot of miles this week. On Tuesday we got on a plane and flew to Africa for safari. This trip included an in flight snack, which [...]
Last week in Stepping Stones we explored bridges and this led to a huge array of activities. We talked about bridges and their uses. We built bridges out of lego, duplo, blocks, junk modelling. We also explored the 'Billy goats Gruff' story. It was a great topic and the children built some fantastic structures and started some amazing conversations. During [...]
Class 4 had a fantastic two days at the Eden Project. We did some excellent workshops: 'Plant Explorers' and 'Sustainability Sussed' and had a great 'Night in the Biome' Experience. Nick, our Eden teacher, was brilliant - he knew so much about all the plants and made our time there really interesting. Hopefully your children have told you all about [...]
Class 3 had a great time in our Artmash Glass workshop with Lisa yesterday. We learnt how glass in fired and then spent the morning making rain forest leaves for our collaborative art piece. Then, in the afternoon, everyone designed and made their own glass panels based on our Henri Rousseau jungle work. It was something really different, [...]
Last Friday, Mr Thomas challenged class 4 to extend our work in maths to make a shape that has a volume of 2 children high (last week we only did 1 child high. Here it is Mr T ...a shape with a volume of 24 children cubed (2 children high, 3 children long and 4 children wide). cof [...]
Class 4 are learning about Earth and Space in their Science on a Friday and this morning Daisy brought a fantastic model of the solar system. This was totally self initiated and independent. Well done Daisy, you are a star 🌟 dav
Class 1 and 2 had an exciting morning learning about the properties of materials and how they can be recycled. Hopefully they have brought home a useful fridge magnet reminder for the whole family! In the afternoon they turned into mini beasts and learnt all about composting. We learnt the different types of food we can (and cannot) put into [...]
Our Potato Planting kit arrived two weeks ago. They've been sitting on the windowsill to 'chit' to make sure they are ready to grow! We've learnt about the different parts of a potato plant and how it grows. We've also come up with our own ideas for how to use our potatoes when they arrive; 'Potato stamping!' - Bodhi 'Jacket [...]
Reception had a great morning out for Multi-skills at Braunton Academy. We had a very exciting bus trip down with lots of 'I've never been on a school bus before!!' We took part in lots of different activities; hula hooping, skipping, bean bag throwing, long jump and lots more. 'I liked the beanbag one!' Said Yosua 'I liked all of [...]
The weather isn't great for our pancake race on Tuesday, so we're going to wind up them ready for the day itself by doing it today. You don't need to do anything to be ready - we just take Family Groups out to the playground after playtime and set them off running, and flipping. Yep, you may have heard we [...]
