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Protected: Evening Walk around London

Posted on May 6, 2025 | By Mr Cole

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Protected: Hard Rock Cafe

Posted on May 6, 2025 | By Mr Cole

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Protected: Lunch at Reading

Posted on May 6, 2025 | By Mr Cole

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Super worm has crawled in!

Posted on May 6, 2025 | By soyarzabal

To start the book off today, the children were asked to make a superworm! I wonder what he’ll turn into.

This morning, we took children from each of our schools to try out a new sport, Judo. Kingsley hosted a workshop for the children to learn about the sport. After learning the rules and how to score points, we played a range of games to understand how to do some of the moves […]

Newsletter: 2nd May 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 | By Mr Cole

London Residential After months of anticipation, next Tuesday Year 5 depart for their three day trip to the capital! The children will be enjoying a wide range of experiences in London from a West End show to a tour of the Houses of Parliament and, of course, a day at Legoland. Parents of Y5 children, […]

Indoor Athletics Final

Posted on May 1, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Having qualified for the Indoor athletics final in January, yesterday the Village Schools team took part in that final at the North Devon Schools final. This time they competed against 15 teams from across the whole of North Devon and not just the Bideford area. Once again their determination and support for each other shone […]

Lots of Fun in the Sun

Posted on May 1, 2025 | By soyarzabal

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed playing to learn together outside in the mud kitchen, sand pit and at the water tray 💦 🚿

Stone Age Cave Paintings

Posted on May 1, 2025 | By dmarksvsp

Goldworthy Class experienced what it was like to be a Stone Age child painting cave paintings using their fingers in unusual places.

Working scientifically

Posted on April 30, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

We are building up to science week at the end of May by working scientifically. We designed an investigation about camouflage of moths. We thought of a question we wanted to answer and then considered independent and dependent variables to help design the investigation. We predicted what would happen before we created and placed our […]

Our Trip to Rosemoor (2)

Posted on April 29, 2025 | By soyarzabal

After enjoying a picnic lunch, we attended the educational workshop and we learnt what an apple tree needed to grow. We were also shown different types of seeds. We were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to plant a radish seed. It was fun exploring the gardens with our buckets to find leaves, petals […]

Our Trip to Rosemoor (1)

Posted on April 29, 2025 | By soyarzabal

Sunflowers had a wonderful visit to Rosemoor. After an exciting journey on a big, blue bus, we followed a trail through the woods to find a play area.

Cranford’s trip to Rosemoor

Posted on April 28, 2025 | By soyarzabal

We started off the day with a workshop and we learnt about what a plant needs to help it grow. The words of the day were Germinate, Evergreen, Deciduous. Can you see if you can remember them?

Stone age art and minin cave dens

Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week in Forest school we talked about map and how we use them and also added how compasses work. They had some challenges to work out using the compass and directional language.

Stone age art.

Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week’s session in Forest School was all about map reading and compass work with some Stone age art thrown in. The class created their own cave den then created their own cave painting with charcoal.

Gardening, and games

Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week’s first session of forest school has was fun with planting in the poly then playing games of Bat and Moth.

Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

Forest school with Sunflowers was exciting we looked at different birds through our binoculars and then decided to make a nest to keep an aggressive safe. We discussed what the egg would need. Then put it in a tree to test its how durable it was.

St George’s Day

Posted on April 25, 2025 | By lgandervsp

This week we have celebrated St George’s Day in Orleigh Class by painting dragons, making flags and going on a dragon hunt.

Newsletter: 25th April 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Colour Run Returns! FOWS and FOPS are going forces again this year to bring you and even bigger and better colour run! Hopefully you would have received your sponsorship form before the Easter break. This is 1 per household, your children can work together to try and reach target. The cost for non sponsored children […]