The children in Nursery are continuing with their farm topic. This week the children have been making tractor marks on paper with muddy brown paint. The children were encouraged to use positional and directional language when making their marks, for example forwards, backwards, round and round.
On Monday 16th September, year 6 embarked on their residential trip to Grenville House in Brixham for the week. During the week, we took part in many new and daring activities including caving, abseiling, high ropes, kayaking, raft building, indoor climbing and problem solving. We had some amazing experiences such as swimming and kayaking with…
On Friday, Miss Powley’s class visited Haldon Forest as part of their ‘Enchanted Woodlands’ topic. We drove to Haldon in our school mini-bus and enjoyed walking around the discovery trail and keeping our eyes peeled for signs of autumn! We then sat in the picnic area to enjoy our delicious packed lunches and topped this…
Reception have had lots of fun in the wind and rain last week – luckily, they all had the right kit on!
Miss Discombe’s class have been experimenting to see what cress needs to grow. We planted some seeds with soil, sun and water. We thought these would grow – they were our ‘control’. We were right, they did. We also planted some without one ‘variable’ – without sun, or without water, or without soil. The ones…
We have 7 new bell tents and they are huge – 5m across and 2.5 m high! Each one should be able to sleep at least 6 children and we hope to be running camping nights on the field very soon! Massive thanks to Tesco, Waitrose and PACA (Parent And Community Association) for the funds…
Thank you again to the TCS PACA who came along and worked in our garden for a second day. All of the beds are now weed-free and we even have the base prepared for our hotboxes! The hard work of our volunteers is much appreciated by Mr Ball and all at Mill Lane. We are…
Today in Nursery, we have been learning about hens that produce eggs with chicks inside and hens that produce eggs for us to eat. We watched a clip of a chick hatching. Next we looked at eggs you can eat. Some children were not sure what the egg would look like, some said yellow. Once…
A big thank you to the volunteers from the TCS PACA (Parent and Community Association) who came to work in the Outdoor Learning Garden today. A lot of weeds had grown over the summer and the volunteers made an amazing difference, totally sorting out one of our beds. See the photos below for an idea…
Last week, pupils from across the school took part in an event celebrating the life and work of famous author Roald Dahl. The event known as ‘Dahlicious Day’ gave children the opportunity to dress up as their favourite Roald Dahl book character, including costumes from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Matilda.