Brynsworthy Trip
staff2019-02-06T07:53:37+00:00A big 'thank you' to Dennis and Lesley at Brynsworthy for the very interesting visit this morning. Hopefully, your child can impress you with some facts about recycling in North Devon!
Year 5’s Boosters…
Julian Thomas2022-08-18T13:27:11+01:00"Boosters this morning," stated Mr Thomas, "is going to cover speech marks, otherwise known as inverted commas, and also percentages, decimals and fractions." "Ah great!" exclaimed the children. 🤣 Honest... they're loving it. Working hard and finding it a good way to explore and be open about their learning, in a smaller group than usual. Speech first: Our pretend speech [...]
Recycle Devon Workshops
staff2019-01-24T21:04:47+00:00Class 4 have had an excellent day with Sally from the Recycle Devon team. We fitted three workshops into the day: -Recycled Material Challenge -Marine Litter -Love Food Hate Waste Hopefully they've come home full of interesting information about the day .....and may even be asking about your recycling habits! Did you know: -that you can buy wooden toothbrushes? -that [...]
SATs Parents’ Evening…
Julian Thomas2022-08-18T13:27:11+01:00We held an information evening for our Year 6 parents on Tuesday regarding the SATs (Standardised Assessment Tests) that are coming up in May. We don't make a big deal of the SATs and we really don't want to stress children out about this - and actually, there ISN'T anything to stress about (remember that) - but we also need [...]
“Divibilivisibility” & Boosters….
Julian Thomas2022-08-18T13:27:11+01:00A lovely focused session this morning on divisibility with year 5. Are ALL even numbers that end with 0, 2, 4, 6 & 8, divisible by 4? ...(No. What about 6... or 42?) We also revised word classes and sentence structure. That adverb at the start has something missing; can you work it out? Lastly, we upgraded the sentence to [...]
Plastic Free… and on TV…
Julian Thomas2019-01-10T12:57:34+00:00BBC and newspapers over the Christmas period, and this morning a small crew from ITV West Country came to speak to us... (showing either tonight or tomorrow night at 6pm.) Bob Cruwys and ITV cameraman, Roger, came and asked us what we'd done to become an accredited Single-Use Plastic Free School and why it was important. Our Class 4 School [...]
Boosters…
Julian Thomas2019-01-09T20:41:45+00:00They've started. Small group booster sessions (mostly on a Wednesday) for year 5 & 6 to really focus in on Maths & English topics and iron out issues and misunderstandings. Today's year 5 group did some confusing FACTORS but in a fun way and with a twist that would help them learn. ... This included posing with a mic 🎤 [...]
Times Tables Rock Stars … Christmas present!
Julian Thomas2022-08-18T13:27:12+01:00Times 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) [...]
It must be Christmas!
Julian Thomas2022-08-18T13:27:12+01:00It'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 [...]
Library visit…
staff2022-08-18T13:27:12+01:00Class 4 enjoyed a visit from the Schools Library Service today. We had a great session looking at different genres and choosing some new books for our library. A very big 'thank you' to Mrs Andrews for a really enjoyable session.....and hopefully you'll get to see some of  their choices when they bring them home to read!