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Health and Fitness in Orleigh
Posted on July 16, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
In Real PE today, we have been developing our strength, balance and agility. We have been moving like cats on all fours and discussing the strength and balance needed in our arms and legs to move quickly. In pairs we moved liked cats to collect different equipment to design and make our own pictures.
Science investigations
Posted on July 16, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Following on from science week, we have been doing some investigations, predicting and making observations to conclude what has happened. We have been making links from our previous learning to help predict and understand what is happening in each investigation.
Parkham Sports Day 2024
Posted on July 13, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Despite some rain, the pupils were fantastic at Sports Day. We all completed 10 round robin events, demonstrating our amazing throwing, catching, jumping and shooting skills as we gained points for every event. We then moved onto the track for the long race, egg and spoon, sack race, novelty race and the sprints. The afternoon […]
Final match of the season
Posted on July 11, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
On Tuesday after school, Village Schools had their final match of the season away to St Mary’s. Once again the team played really well, showing great skill and teamwork. But for their goalie who had an amazing game we would have won by more. In the end it was a 3-2 win, with the goals […]
Sports Day 2024
Posted on July 10, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
The rain just about stayed away at Sports Day, today. We all completed 15 round robin events, demonstrating our amazing throwing, catching, jumping and shooting skills as we gained points for every event. Just before lunch we enjoyed the much anticipated tug of war, with some fantastic matches between the family groups. After lunch we […]
Orienteering around the woods
Posted on July 5, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This morning all the year 6s from across the partnership came together in Melbury Woods for a morning of orienteering. We split into smaller groups and went in different directions and had to find nine control points hidden in the woods. Using What3Words to guide us from one point to the next, we navigated our […]
A wet afternoon fixture!
Posted on July 3, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This afternoon in the rain, Woolsery played a home match against St Margaret’s. Despite going 2-0 down in the first few minutes, we fought back to 2-2 by half time. With great play from both teams in the poor conditions, it was an end to end game. With some amazing last ditch defending and saves […]
Another home victory
Posted on July 2, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
A huge well done to our Year 6 football team who put on their best performance of the season at home to Instow. Despite a two goal lead they were pulled back by some great play from Instow to 2-2. With some excellent movement and passing, along with super skills and acrobatic saves, we played […]
The science behind gliders
Posted on July 2, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today we continued our science week with another fun investigation. We experimented making straw gliders thinking about different variables to work out which design travelled the furthest. We found the smaller circles tended to work best with our arms provided thrust, the curved surface giving the glider lift, the shape of the circles reducing the […]
Science week
Posted on July 1, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today was the start of science week. As well as starting their research on their chosen science topic, we tried a class investigation. We investigated straw gliders thinking about different variables to work out which design travelled the furthest. Our arms provided thrust. The curved surface gave the glider lift. The shape of the circles […]
Year 1/2 tennis festival
Posted on June 25, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This morning, we sent a team from each school to ARC for a tennis festival. All the children did really well, playing lots of games to develop their skills in a different setting. They showed great support to one another and sportsmanship. Well done to all of you.
Year 1,2,3 Sports Festival
Posted on June 24, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This morning, all the Year 1, 2 and 3 pupils from the Partnership travelled to Woolsery for a Sports Festival. Lead by the Year 6s they took part in lots of fun warm up games such as hit the deck, beans and fruit salad. Each Sports Leader then led an activity for the children to […]
Key Stage 2 Athletics Competition
Posted on June 21, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Yesterday afternoon, 32 children from across the Partnership took part in a Key Stage 2 athletics competition against 5 other local schools at St Margaret’s in Northam. Woolsery came 4th overall and Buckland Brewer and Parkham came 6th. The children were a credit to our schools, supporting not only each other but all the other […]
Football vs St Margaret’s away
Posted on June 17, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
After school, the Year 5 and Year 6 boys football teams travelled to Northam for two matches. We were surprised to see two very small goals on one pitch as well as regular goals on the other. Each team played one half on the smaller pitch and one on the regular sized. As everyone was […]
Professional athlete visit
Posted on June 17, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today, we had professional athlete David Hill come to Woolsery and Parkham schools. David is a Paralympian in two sports, swimming and triathlon and won multiple medals at World and Paralympic Games. He set us 4 one minute challenges to complete; press ups, spotty dogs, mountain climbers and star jumps. It was very challenging to […]
Cricket festival 🏏 at Shebbear College
Posted on June 12, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This afternoon, the Year 5s from across the Partnership went to Shebbear College to enjoy a cricket festival in the sunshine. We were split into eight groups and mixed with children from other local primary schools to take part in a range of cricket activities. This included batting skills, throwing and catching, bowling in nets […]
Working together
Posted on June 12, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Yesterday, Gorwood class used their skills as leaders to teach the younger pupils how to take part in a range of activities. Through great modelling and instructing, they worked well together to explain what to do and gave excellent support and encouragement throughout each activity. Well done to all of you. Also, a huge well […]
Year 2 Tag Rugby
Posted on June 12, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Yesterday, two teams from the VSP took part in a tag rugby competition at St Mary’s School. There were 6 teams who played. This was the first time many of the children played a competitive sport against other schools. Well done to all of you who did really well following the rules and scoring some […]
Football ⚽️ success
Posted on May 20, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp
A huge congratulations to the Year 6 Woolsery team who won 11 – 4 against Appledore after school. A superb team performance led to some excellent passing and movement from the players resulting in a resounding win. Wonderful defending by Harry, Alfred and Leo along with incredible goalkeeping from Xavier kept the Appledore attack at […]
The Water Cycle
Posted on May 14, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp
Today in science, we created our own water cycle using plastic bags. We explained each part of the cycle from evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. In the lesson we also spoke about how we are still using the same water that was used millions of years ago. We have hung our water cycles on the […]