We Love Continuous Provision

We love playing to learn in continuous provision and this week we have experimented using different containers and resources at the outside water tray 💦. There was lots of language of size and great communication with each other. Pouring, filling, carrying buckets, filling jugs and using watering cans helps develop our gross motor skills. “Let’s […]

Girls U11 North Devon Championship Finals

This morning in the sunshine, our girls team played in the North Devon football Finals having qualified last month. There were three leagues with the top two progressing to the semi finals. We had four matches in our league. We won our first game 2-0 against South Molton, followed by a 0-0 draw against Pilton […]

DT Split pins ….Spring has sprung

We used split pins to make a beautiful spring daffodil.

Orleigh class visit Clovelly.

Today was Orleigh’s last session at Clovelly. They had some time to explore while the tide was out. Then had a delicious s’more.

Fun at the beach

Burscott had fun at Clovelly with playing in the waves, building stack stones, hunting for creatures.

An amazing game in the sunshine ☀️

After school, 22 children made their debuts representing the schools in a friendly match of Woolsery versus Buckland Brewer and Parkham. In a highly entertaining and skilful game we saw incredible tackles, dribbles, saves and goals along with great passing and team spirit. A huge well done to everyone who played, you were all amazing. […]

Flaps

Today in DT we looked at adding flaps to hide and reveal people, animals or objects on our castles.

Newsletter: 21st March 2025

Wrap-Around Provision As You know, the government has committed to each school offering before-school and after-school childcare (“wrap around care”) available by 2026 from at least 8am to 5:30pm. As part of a pilot, we are able to access funding through Devon County Council to put some provision in place in order to see what […]

RE Easter eggs

We learnt that Easter eggs are a symbol of new life…… then we designed our own

Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (4)

We used the dressing up box to discuss the verbs in this book; “puts on”, “is wearing” and “tries on”. It was great fun.

DT: Adding a flap to a picture

Today in DT we read ‘Everyone hide from Wibbly Pig’ there are lots of pigs in the book hidden behind flaps. We coloured in our picture, then decided where the flap should go! Here they are!

River walk and sing song

Our final activity was a pleasant river walk. We walked alongside the river to a clearing and enjoyed some repeat after me songs and ended with the Hokey Cokey.

Orienteering, but not as you know it.

After tidying our rooms and packing our bags we had breakfast. Then it was time to do some orienteering in small teams. Around Pixies Holt there were 20 bird boxes to find. In each one was a scavenger challenge to find the answer to. They ranged from finding a pink flower 🌸 to an animal […]

Film night 🎥

After dinner we enjoyed a film 🎥 with popcorn 🍿. We voted for our top choice which was Minions. We were so tired watching it we nearly fell asleep. 💤

Archery 🏹 group 2

Jamaican Chickens were victorious in the second archery group. Well done to Monty and Jack for scoring bullseye’s 🎯 . Jaxon was the winner of the Eliminator of Doom.

Caving adventure

All the children were very brave travelling down into the cave. Crawling, sliding making there way through the mud and water challenging themselves through tiny gaps and crevasses. We are so proud of all of you for undertaking the challenge, especially turning off their headlights and sitting in total darkness and silence for a unique […]

Picnic lunch before caving

Group One Archery 🏹

This morning group one started their day with archery. Well done to Ben, Odin and Lily C who both got a bullseye 🎯 and to Iris, Jacob and Hugo who popped a balloon 🎈 for a bonus 10 points. The winning team were Red Leicester by two points. Congratulations to Hugo who won the eliminator […]

More photos from the children’s perspective

Photo taken by the children around the centre.

Bedtime 🛏️

All ready for bed!

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