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Gymnastics
Posted on November 27, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Over the last few weeks, Melbury class have been developing their floor work skills working individually and as part of a small group. We have been looking at the five shapes including star, tuck, pike, straddle, straight. Using these skills we challenged ourselves to use these shapes on the apparatus. I think you’ll agree we […]
Girls football ⚽️ competition
Posted on November 24, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
On Friday, despite the cold the sun was out at Kingsley School where our girls team played their first games as Village Schools. They performed absolutely brilliantly losing only their first game to the eventual winners and then got better with each game, scoring 6 goals in total finishing third overall. Well done to all […]
Multi skills at ARC
Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
On Tuesday morning, Mrs Barnes took some of our Year 3s to a multiskills session at ARC with other local primary schools. The staff at ARC commented on the impeccable behaviour of our children along with their great co-ordination and skills at the different activities. Well done to all of you.
ARC racquet lessons
Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This half term, ARC have been working with Gorwood class to help develop their racquet skills at the centre. With the larger space and all the equipment and excellent teachers/coaches the children have made fantastic progress. They have had two weeks of badminton and have now moved onto tennis. They will finish their half term […]
Bikeability
Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This week, some of the year 5 and 6 children have braved the elements to learn more about cycling. Starting on the playground, the children were challenged to pedal around different courses thinking about braking. They learnt about bike maintenance as well as rules for cycling on the road. As their skills developed, they […]
The Lion King 🦁
Posted on November 14, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This half term, we are doing dance and gymnastics. Our dance focus this week was a dance from the Lion King to the song ‘The Stampede’. The children learnt a whole class dance and then split into smaller groups to choreograph their own endings. We explored how to move in unison as well as canon […]
Village Schools Year 5/6 boys football ⚽️
Posted on November 14, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday, the year 5/6 boys from all three of our schools came together for their first friendly match of the season at Woolsery. It was exciting to see the children come together to play as a team with some of them playing for the school for the first time. With some super passing and wonderful […]
Village Schools Girls Football ⚽️
Posted on November 6, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This evening after school, we had 15 girls from the Partnership play their first football match of the season. The three schools joined together in two teams and showed excellent teamwork and support for one another. For some of the girls it was their first time playing for the school and they did themselves proud. […]
A very wet start to the Football ⚽️ Clubs
Posted on November 4, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
At lunchtime on Tuesday, we faced the elements and enjoyed our first football club of the season at Buckland. Despite the rain, we had great fun practising our passing skills before playing a game. Fingers crossed for better weather next week. It was dry at Parkham on Wednesday morning where we also did some passing […]
The Digestive System
Posted on November 4, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Today in science, we explored the digestive system. Using a plastic bag to represent the stomach we fed it digestives, bananas, orange juice and water. We then churned up the mixture and poured it into the intestines (tights). Finally we squeezed out the liquid before snipping the tights to create a hole for the poo […]
Bikeability at Buckland Brewer
Posted on October 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Today, some children in Gorwood Class braved the elements and developed their cycling skills. After checking all the bikes were working, they undertook a range of activities to test their skills on the playground. They progressed onto the roads after lunch, learning how to ride safely and confidently.
Stephen Shield Cross Country
Posted on October 16, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Well done to all of our amazing runners who represented the Village Schools Partnership at the Stephen Shield Cross Country event at Torrington this morning. Thankfully it was dry underfoot, but that didn’t make the course any less challenging. Our year 3 and 4 children ran 1.5km and our year 5 and 6 children ran […]
ARC pickleball and badminton 🏸
Posted on October 15, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
After our first two weeks of tennis, we have progressed onto learning how to play pickleball and badminton in our PE lessons at ARC. After warm up games we tried to get use to how the pickleball and shuttlecocks flew by throwing them at different targets over the net. This was followed by partner work, […]
Hockey tournament
Posted on October 15, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This afternoon, we used all the skills and knowledge we have been learning in hockey to play in teams in a class competition. After learning the rules of how to play, we took it in turn to play every team. There was some excellent play by every team with good passing, defending and attacking with […]
Year 2 multi skills festival at ARC
Posted on October 8, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday, we had some year 2 children from each school visit ARC. They were given a range of different skills to try out including hockey, football dribbling and an agility course. Well done to all of you for showing great determination in learning new skills through a range of games.
Periscopes
Posted on October 7, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
In science we continued our lessons on light. Today we investigated how light travels in straight lines. We explored if you could make a periscope with 3 or more mirrors as well as how tall you could make a periscope.
Year 5/6 Tag Rugby 🏉 Competition
Posted on October 3, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Congratulations to our Tag Rugby team. 3 children from each of our schools were selected to play at the tournament based on the progress in Tag Rugby PE lessons. The 9 players came together as a team instantly as if they had played together before. In our pool we came runners up winning two of […]
Key Stage 2 sports festival at Hartland
Posted on October 1, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, 20 children from our three schools travelled to Hartland and took part in a range of fun activities. These included games of Boccia, seated volleyball, floor tennis and football shooting. Everyone had great fun demonstrating their skills at the different activities. A huge thank you to Hartland for organising the event and to […]
Family Group Cross Country 2025
Posted on September 29, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
We were blessed with beautiful sunshine for this year’s cross country despite it being damp under foot. A huge well done to all the children who ran for their family groups today. You all showed such great determination, not giving up on the gruelling course. As always it was great to see all the schools […]
Racquet lessons in PE at ARC
Posted on September 11, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday, Goldworthy travelled to ARC for their PE lesson. Up until half term ARC have offered their facility and coaches to help us develop our racquet skills. We will do two weeks of tennis, two weeks of pickleball and two weeks of badminton. This week we played a range of games to improve our stance, […]
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