Newsletter: 13th March 2026
Posted on March 13, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Red Nose Day RND-26 is next Friday! Please see below for arrangements in each school: Buckland Brewer On Friday 20th March, School Voice has planned a ‘change the rules’ day. The children will be allowed to choose from a list of rules they can change, at a charge of 20p per rule they decide to […]
Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (2)
Posted on March 12, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We had fun finding nouns in the book and then we had the challenge of creating a sentence using the noun which we all repeated. “Dylan says you eat ‘tomatoes’” “Ella has a ‘dress’ in her drawer” “Phoebe says she’s seen a hat at her house and in the shops” We had great fun “trying […]
World Book Day in Ashmansworthy, March 26
Posted on March 12, 2026 | By jrichardsonvsp
There were so many fantastic, imaginative costumes for WBD 26! We really enjoyed dressing up, taking part in a book quiz and sharing lots of stories.
Story Dough ~ The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot
Posted on March 6, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In story dough this week we made the aliens; Bork, Gork and Nklxwcyz out of green play dough giving them eyes and antennae. We also learned some new words such as alien, planet, robot, crash, strong.
Newsletter: 6th March 2026
Posted on March 6, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Parent Governor Elections Earlier this week, you should have received information about the nomination for two Parent Governor positions on the Governing Board of Village Schools Partnership. Please give some thought as to whether you would like to become a Governor and complete the third page of the letter and return to Caroline Boother, our […]
Animal visit for World Book Day
Posted on March 6, 2026 | By jseymourvsp
Buckland Brewer pupils were all treated to an animal workshop today. We had the team from Animals2U join us, along with four animals that we learned about. We learned about their diet, habitats, how they survive and their adaptations. This was arranged with the money saved up from Tasty Tuc on Fridays. At the end […]
The circulatory system
Posted on March 6, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday, Ashmansworthy learnt about the circulatory system. How the heart works with the lungs and the blood to deliver oxygen, water and nutrients around the whole body. To help us understand how long our veins and arteries are we drew lifesize pictures of ourselves including the circulatory system.
Happy World Book Day!
Posted on March 5, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We shared some lovely books and costumes for World Book Day – thank you. Sunflowers enjoyed going to the school library to choose a book to take home in our book bag to share with our family.
Crooklets beach with The2Minute Fondation
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great day at Crooklets beach with the staff from The 2 Minute Foundation. They showed us all the cool things they can finds in the rock pools from honeycomb worm to strawberry anemone. Then did a litter pick and looked at how many things they could find on the beach that people […]
Timmy Turtle
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great morning building sand art, sea defences, and talking about the tides and the solar system. As much as today was planned around sea defences the children led their own learning in different directions. Asking questions like how high does the tide get? How does the moon move the tides? How do […]
Rock pooling as a Marine Biologist
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week Melbury class became marine biologist and went to Westward Ho! to discover and record creaters and plants. We found some interesting things like a hermit crab that now has a name of Herb. They found creatures such as Chiton. They found numerous shells muscles and razor clam shells. They were really pleased that […]
Story dough ~ Whatever Next!
Posted on March 3, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Last week in story dough our story was Whatever Next! We retold the story learning new words such as space, helmet, picnic, zoom and whoosh. We manipulated the dough using our fine motor and gross motor skills to create rockets out of cardboard tubes and play dough. We also created the moon surface using play […]
Newsletter: 27th February 2026
Posted on February 27, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Gymnastics Success! Before half term, children were working very hard in their gymnastics lessons. They learnt a number of skills including balances, jumps and rolls and performed a range of sequences. Some of the pupils entered their sequence into a Virtual County Gymnastics Competition. We have heard this week that three of our pupils have […]
EYFS Continuous Provision
Posted on February 26, 2026 | By soyarzabal
It was fun trying to use chopsticks to eat our food
Love of Reading – Monster Clothes (1)
Posted on February 26, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In order to connect to this Love of Reading book, we had fun designing our own monsters. Sunflowers enjoyed talking about their monsters to their friends.
Badminton at ARC, Feb 26
Posted on February 19, 2026 | By jrichardsonvsp
Ashmansworthy’s last two sessions at ARC focused on badminton. The coaches had lots of ideas for helping us get used to different equipment. We were sorry to come to the end of such an exciting run of PE lessons!
Newsletter: 13th February 2026
Posted on February 13, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Happy Half Term! Today is the mid-point in the school year; a great time to look back at all of the amazing learning that our children have done since September. Looking back at the children’s books, the progress they are making this year really stands out, whether that’s improvement in handwriting, sentence structure, number skills […]
EYFS Continuous Provision
Posted on February 12, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week we have been playing to learn by building, counting and sticking.
Story dough ~ The Runaway Pancake
Posted on February 12, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week in story dough we have been reading The Runaway Pancake. We have been using our fine and gross motor skills to manipulate the play dough into pancakes and then we cut red, pink and yellow wool to make toppings such as strawberry sauce & syrup. We then put our pancakes in the pan […]
ART Colour Smell and taste
Posted on February 12, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week we had heart fun looking at fruit and their colour inside and out , many fruits we looked at were different inside these included apples, pineapple as well as greats we especially enjoyed eating them and finding words to describe them like, soft, hard ,juicy, sweet and sour.
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