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Buckland Mini Marathon 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
Posted on April 21, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
With the world famous London marathon this Sunday, we decided to take part in the mini marathon for schools around the UK. Despite the cold and windy conditions, we worked together giving great support and encouragement to one another around the field. The target was to try and complete 2 miles which is 18 laps […]
French 🇫🇷 cafe
Posted on April 1, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, we set up a French cafe in the hall. We used all the knowledge and vocabulary we have learnt about food and drink as well as conversational language to order the foods we wanted to try. This included crepes, brioche, croissants 🥐, pain au chocolat, sandwich au fromage and sandwich au jam. As […]
French 🇫🇷 Cafe
Posted on March 31, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today in Gorwood, we tried to apply the language skills we have learnt this half term about food and drink in cafes. We took it in turn to order food and to take the order as a member of staff in French. It was great to try a variety of French foods including crepes, brioche, […]
Sports Festival ⚽️ 🏏 🏉 at Shebbear College
Posted on March 26, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today some of our pupils were invited to take part in a sports festival at Shebbear College. They tried developing their skills in throwing and catching, dribbling with different balls, throwing foam javelins for distance and agility skills too. The children had great fun demonstrating enthusiasm and skill at all the activities, interacting really well […]
County Gymnastic Success 🤸♂️
Posted on March 26, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
A huge congratulations to our Gymnastics finalists who competed virtually against other schools from across the whole of Devon. After excellent performances in their categories all three children had fantastic results. Issy Year 3 Woolsery 1st Place 🥇 Laicee Year 5 Buckland Brewer 2nd Place 🥈 Ethan Year 5 Parkham 3rd Place 🥉 Well done […]
Last day!!
Posted on March 25, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Tea time
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
After a tiring day of caving and archery, we sat down for a well earned roast dinner followed by ice cream and sprinkles.
Movie 🎥 night
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
After some technical issues we got the Movie up on the big screen. With thanks to Lou for the biscuits 🍪 🙏.
Archery 🏹
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Despite the drizzle and windy conditions, we got out in the garden at Pixies Holt and fired some arrows at the archery boards. After some practise arrows, we did some team and individual high scores as well as the eliminator round, which went to the gold round between TJ and Joshua, which was eventually won […]
Caving toe
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning after following the road diversions, we arrived at the cave. We had some confident and some apprehensive wannabe cavers, but a huge congratulations to everyone in group one who made it into the Bishops Chamber. You all faced your fears and rose to the challenge including sitting in the pitch black when we […]
Breakfast 🍳
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Following a good night’s sleep 💤 it was up early for breakfast, room inspection and then off to the caves.
This is what happens when you give the children a camera 📷!
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Each child was given the camera for part of the walk to take pictures for their point of view…
Dinner 🍽️ time
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
On tonight’s menu we had cheesy pasta with salad and bread rolls followed by sticky toffee pudding. It was delicious.
Night walk 🚶
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
After dinner we put on our walking shoes again and headed down to the river. We walked along the footpath next to the river to a grassy area where we turned off our torches 🔦 allowing our eyes to adjust to the darkness. We heard the river flowing and the wind moving the leaves on […]
Bed time 🛏️
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
After our night hike we are ready for bed.
Moorland walk
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
After lunch we packed our rucksacks 🎒 for a walk on Dartmoor. We went through woods before getting out onto the moor. We saw deer 🦌 as well as many Dartmoor ponies. We also lost some shoes in the mud!!! Then we rolled down the hill back to Pixies Holt.
We’ve arrived!!
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Lunchtime 🥪
Posted on March 23, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Beds are made, finally! No time for lunch in the sunshine 🌞. Off for our moorland walk in a bit. L
Tag rugby 🏉 competition
Posted on March 20, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Wow. 🤩 An incredible performance by our Tag Rugby team this morning at Bideford Rugby Club saw them progress to the semi-finals. With three players from each of our three schools, we had not played together since October. After losing our first game, we grew in confidence with each game, winning the next three matches, […]
ARC multisports
Posted on March 17, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, Melbury class joined 140 other children at ARC to take part in a Multisports event with three other schools. The children were impeccably behaved and interacted with all the children really well whilst demonstrating their sporting skills. They had great fun taking part in seven different activities including: handball, hockey, dodgeball, kick it, […]
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