Our class Butterflies

We started with tiny caterpillars that we watched turn into chrysalis and then hatch into butterflies. Then Cranford and Sunflowers went out onto the field to set them free before the holiday.

Newsletter: 22nd May 2026

Wrap-Around Provision As you will have seen from the Class Dojo Message I sent out on Wednesday, we are currently looking at the viability of our Wrap Around provision across all three schools from the Autumn Term. Thank you for all of you who have already replied! If you haven’t already done so, please could […]

We won!! 🏆 Year 5/6 Girls Cricket 🏏 Competition at Instow

We took nine girls from all three schools to the countdown cricket tournament at The North Devon Cricket Ground, where they played 4 matches against 4 different schools. The weather was not on our side, and they were incredibly resilient battling against all day wind and a bout of rain. Despite this, they kept each […]

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (4)

In this book, a noun that we discussed was ‘lift’. Errol used a lift to get to the roof in the block of flats. Sunflowers really enjoyed listening to the poem “Uplifting” by Joseph Coelho and we are learning the words and actions to this poem. In order to understand what a lift was, there […]

Walkability workshops May 26

Ashmansworthy and Alminstone learnt all about road safety when the Walkability team visited Woolsery. We listened to a presentation and then put the Green Cross Code into action in the village. Remember to stand with your feet behind the kerb and keep looking and listening as you walk across!  

The Water Cycle

Today in Gorwood, we explored evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We did two experiments to observe how each occur. We put some warm water in a beaker and then covered it with cling film and placed ice on top. As the warm water evaporated it formed condensation on the underside of the cling film. When water […]

A World of Wonder!

Foxdown have been learning about lifecycles this half term and the children have enjoyed seeing so many wonderful changes happen. We have been busy planting, broad beans, sunflowers, potatoes, radishes and carrots, Some enjoying  hand picked  radishes for snack! We have also enjoyed watching the lifecycle of frogs and butterflies

.although we are still waiting for butterflies […]

Year 5/6 football competition

Well done to our Year 5/6 football team who had a great tournament at Westcroft this morning. The team who only played together for the first time today demonstrated great team spirit, encouraging each other in every game. We scored six goals across our games and showed great touches, passes and tackling throughout. You all […]

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (3)

In order to connect to this book, Sunflowers walked around the School and we talked about all the different plants and flowers we saw.

Teeny Weeny Tadpole in story dough

In Story dough we made ponds, frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets and frogs out of play dough and we talked about the life cycle of a frog. We are developing our pretend play, creativity and understanding the world.

Making Patterns Together in Maths

In maths we have been talking about identifying patterns eg. Stripes on clothes and wallpaper designs. We have created and tried to extend an ABAB pattern showing some organisation and regularity. We have experimented with two or three repeating items or colours.

Newsletter: 15th May 2026

Vacancies Just a reminder that we currently have a couple of part-time vacancies in our schools: one is for a Cleaner at Woolsery School and the other is for the Clerk to the Governing Board. If you are interested in joining our staff team in either of these roles, please speak with someone in the […]

For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction

Today, we dodged the rain and had great fun exploring Newton’s First and Third Laws. We tried a penny spin, inertia tower, water pressure glass, basketball and tennis ball bounce and the chemical reaction of alkaseltzer and water.

EYFS Continuous Provision

We were very excited to find real visitors in our tuff tray. We learnt that they were likely to be toads as they were brown with a bumpy skin. At the maths table we had the challenge of making ladybugs and then counting their spots.

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (2)

In this Love of Reading Book, Errol was sad because he lived in a block of flats and had no gardenđŸȘŽ đŸȘ. Sunflowers decided that they would make Errol a window box full of beautiful flowers đŸŒ· đŸŒș đŸŒč.

Music in sunflowers

Today we had music in sunflowers. The children chose different instruments to play and tried really hard to play in time with the music, we really enjoyed singing along too.

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (1)

The action words (verbs) that Sunflowers learnt in this Love of Reading Book were “grow“ , “water” and “dreamed”. The seeds then began to ‘grow’ and we imagined the different coloured flowers the seeds would grow into pink, yellow, red and purple. Errol “dreamed” of a garden. We pretended to ‘dream’ of a garden with […]

Newsletter: 8th May 2026

Happy Birthday! Thank you to everyone who supported our “Wear Green” day to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. Hopefully your child will have had a thoughtful day marking this remarkable milestone, and also learnt some interesting things about Sir David’s work in broadcasting and environmental causes. Residentials Three of our four residentials are now […]

Judo đŸ„‹ festival

Today, we travelled to Kingsley school with some year 4 and 5 children from each school to experience a new sport – Judo. We joined children from other local schools to learn about Judo through a range of fun and exciting games. In addition, we learnt some Japanese words including how to count to five. […]

Story dough ~ The very hungry caterpillar

This week in story dough our story is the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We learned about life cycles. We made a tiny egg on a leaf, then a caterpillar, then a cocoon, then a beautiful butterfly.

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