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.
Love of Reading: Car, Car, Truck, Jeep
Posted on February 11, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This is a fun Love of Reading book sung to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep. One of the nouns we are talking about is “traffic lights”. We played a game of traffic lights in the school hall. We connected to the book by riding vehicles in the school playground. It was fun stopping […]
Magnetism 🧲
Posted on February 11, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday in science, we investigated another property of everyday materials – magnetism . We explored which objects are magnetic around the classroom and discovered that only metal objects can be magnetic. But not all metals were magnetic. We found that Nickel, iron and steel were three metals that were magnetic.
Art ~ exploring cardboard & shape, designing & building with cardboard
Posted on February 9, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We explored a range of boxes and materials, stacking, arranging and imagining what we could make. We used resources such as glue sticks, sellotape, tubes and boxes, the children made a lighthouse, a police station, a play area, a garage, a shelter, a tractor shed, and a remote control tractor. We learned some vocabulary such […]
Year 3/4 girls football ⚽️
Posted on February 6, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
A huge well done to our Year 3/4 girls football team who played in a competition at Kingsley this morning. This was the first time that the girls had played together and without a practise. Despite the rain, the girls were positive throughout the competition scoring four goals – Three for Abbie and one for […]
Newsletter: 6th February 2026
Posted on February 6, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Consultation Reminder Thank you to everyone who has replied to the consultation about how we use children’s images online. We’ve had just over 20 responses so far. If you would like to share your thoughts, the survey remains open until next Friday, 13th February. You can complete it by following this link: https://forms.gle/9W4DxqqwaoXTwW986 If the […]
Catapults and levers
Posted on February 5, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today in science we investigated have levers and pulleys work. We made some catapults and then had to work out how to modify the design with regard to the fulcrum and the load to allow the catapult to fire a greater distance. It was great fun.
Playing to Learn
Posted on February 5, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week, we have enjoyed building in our construction area, digging in the sandpit and playing at the water tray. At the art table, we have made some lovely bear pictures using different media.
What material would make the best house?
Posted on February 3, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
In science, we have been looking at different materials. We have looked at their physical properties and designed an investigation to find out if the three little pigs chose the correct materials. We found out that plastic straws blew away and let water in. Playdoh became very wet and soggy, but didn’t blow away. Water […]
Indoor Athletics at Kingsley School
Posted on January 30, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, we sent a team of 6 girls and 6 boys to Kingsley School for an indoor athletics competition against the other Bideford Schools. We started with a range of running relays, followed by an individual race for one girl and one boy. This was followed by three field events including speed bounce a […]
Bikes and Scooters
Posted on January 30, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers had great fun taking it in turns to use different vehicles on the school playground. This activity helps our gross motor skills, communication and coordination. We also talked about our Love of Reading book; Car, Car, Truck, Jeep and pretended to go slowly up the steep hill and then zoom off we go. We […]
Newsletter: 30th January 2026
Posted on January 30, 2026 | By Mr Cole
It’s a Boy! We are so happy that Mr Roberts’ second child made his entry into the world around lunchtime last Sunday. Both mum and baby Jack are doing well and Mr Roberts is enjoying two weeks’ paternity leave bonding with the new arrival. I am sure you will join me in wishing the Roberts […]
Water resistance
Posted on January 29, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
In science this week, we learnt about water resistance. We investigated how a variety of shapes would sink at different rates. By using Playdoh, we moulded the same piece into different shapes and timed how quickly it would sink. We discovered that some shapes are more streamlined and sank quicker. The larger the surface area […]
Story dough ~ Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Posted on January 29, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week in story dough our story is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We told the story during story dough, while we made the three bears out of brown play dough, using our fine and gross motor skills. We also built the cottage of the three bears, the chairs and the beds. We learned vocabulary […]
Love of Reading : Hello Friend (1)
Posted on January 29, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This is a story of enthusiasm, empathy and first friendships. In this Love of Reading book, we talked about and acted out the action word “jump”. We jumped like kangaroos and frogs. We also talked about and acted out the action word “shake”. We had fun shaking the Poms Poms like in the story. “We […]
Playing to Learn in Continuous Provision
Posted on January 29, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We had fun having a tea party at the water tray using different size cups and dishes. We are good at using the language of size; large, medium and small. We are good at retelling the story using the masks and using our imagination to act out the storyline.
Pickleball with Ashmansworthy, Jan 26
Posted on January 28, 2026 | By jrichardsonvsp
Our second set of sessions at ARC focused on pickleball. We really enjoyed learning this new sport and some of us found it easier than tennis. We even managed to get to 38 in a rally!
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