Science Week
Posted on May 23, 2025 | By cpenningtonvsp
All the children have enjoyed science week. Orleigh presented their learning about sound, Tythecott presented their learning about shadows on google slides and Gorwood presented their investigations on boards. All the children have worked incredibly hard and we are very proud of them.
Newsletter: 23rd May 2025
Posted on May 23, 2025 | By Mr Cole
A Busy Week for Sports! This week has been a very busy week for sports across the Partnership. In all of these events, the children have participated with huge enthusiasm and great sportsmanship, which has been truly lovely to see. Please follow the links to read more about the following five sporting events. Year 6 […]
Playing to Learn
Posted on May 23, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week we have been busy playing to learn :-
Science week ~ ruler hit
Posted on May 22, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we put a ruler on the table and had to pluck it! We experimented moving the ruler further off the table to make it longer or shorter. It made a louder sound when the ruler was extended further off the table and a quieter sound when the majority of the ruler was on the […]
Mini marathon in the sunshine ☀️
Posted on May 22, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, in the glorious sunshine, the children completed a 2 mile mini marathon challenge. The children worked together, encouraging each other to keep going and complete the 13 laps of the field. They showed amazing determination, physical and mental strength to make it to the end as it became hotter. Well done to all […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (2)
Posted on May 22, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In order to connect to this book, we sang the nursery rhymes; Round and Round the garden and Mary Mary Quite Contrary. We also sang Lavenders Blue and using our senses we explored the lavender in our Welly Garden.
Fun in Burford wood’s
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
The class had so much fun today making spears with pine pitch glue, cave dens, weaving plates then eating stone age biscuits cooked on hot stones and stewed fruit.
Year 5 Cricket 🏏 Festival
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This afternoon, all the Year 5s from our three schools attended a cricket festival at Shebbear College. Joining other primary schools from the local area they were coached and led by some of the senior pupils and staff from Shebbear. The children took part in a range of activities and games to help develop their […]
Parkham Mini Marathon
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning the we did the Mini London Marathon. The challenge was to run 2 miles, which is 11 laps of the field. Everyone did so well showing inspirational performances running the whole distance. It was lovely to see children running and walking together to encourage one another to keep going. Well done to you […]
Science week ~ making musical instruments
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we used boxes and rubber bands to make musical instruments. We worked in pairs and used 3 rubber bands. We then played our instruments separately and all together as a group. We found out that different thicknesses of rubber bands made different sounds!
Science week ~ “jumping” Cheerios, rice and salt!
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By soyarzabal
We covered 3 different sized bowls with clingfilm, put them on top of a speaker then tested to see what happened when we put Cheerios on top and put the music on. Then we tried it with rice, then the salt. Our conclusion was that the Cheerios “jumped” the highest and the best sound to […]
Burford woods stepping back in time
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
We had so much fun at Burford Woods this week. Alminstone were amazing and loved all the Stoneage tasks and food. We had spear making with pine pitch glue, hunter gathering games to get get our food. We had cave den building, and cooking on a stone.
2 mile sponsored mini marathon
Posted on May 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning all the children at Buckland Brewer took part in their sponsored Mini marathon. The challenge was to run 2 miles which is 15 laps of the field. Well done everyone. You all completed the challenge. An amazing achievement running such a long distance. All the children were very supportive, helping each other and […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden 🪴
Posted on May 20, 2025 | By soyarzabal
This Love of Reading Book is about a little boy called Errol who loves gardening but he doesn’t have a real garden. One of our action words was ‘grow”. We pretended to be a seed and then grow into our favourite flower. We talked about and then created the insects Errol might find in his […]
Making predictions and working together
Posted on May 19, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
In science we were learning about making predictions before we carry out an investigation. We made predictions about what would happen if we placed different coloured Skittles on a plate and poured warm water over them. We made a few predictions including the colour from the Skittles will create a rainbow 🌈, using only one […]
Year 6 Football Tournament
Posted on May 19, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Our Year 6 boys played in a tournament at Westcroft this morning. We played six games against other local schools winning two, drawing one and narrowly losing the other three. Well done to our goal scorers, Tommy B, Tommy C (3) and Logan who scored a header from a corner when he was playing in […]
Science week ~ learning about sound waves
Posted on May 19, 2025 | By soyarzabal
This afternoon we banged our tuning forks and then carefully placed them in water to see how sound travels. The vibrations made the water splash, sometimes in our faces!
Cranford Summertime in Burford Woods.
Posted on May 19, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great session today they were all amazing being creative, adventurous, kind, supportive.
Continuous Provision
Posted on May 16, 2025 | By lgandervsp
This week the children have been very productive in provision making their ideas come to life.
Newsletter: 16th May 2025
Posted on May 16, 2025 | By Mr Cole
Science Week! Next week is Science Week across the Partnership. All children will have a big focus on science investigations throughout the week, culminating with a presentation of their investigations on Friday afternoon from 2:45pm in each of our schools. Parents, carers and friends are very welcome to come into school next Friday at that […]
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