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Parkham Mini Marathon
Posted on April 17, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today all the pupils braved the cold and the wind as they took on the mini marathon challenge. Before Easter, all the classes practised running 12 laps of the playground culminating in today’s challenge to run 2.6 miles, a tenth of a marathon. Everyone showed superb determination and challenged themselves to go as far as […]
Buckland Brewer Mini Marathon
Posted on April 16, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today, we took part in the London mini marathon. Before Easter all the classes had been improving their fitness trying to run 12 laps a day of the playground which is equivalent to 2.6 miles a week, the equivalent of a mini marathon (a tenth of the distance of a full marathon). The children were […]
Woolsery Mini marathon
Posted on April 15, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Today, we just about managed to dodge the wind and rain to take part in the London mini marathon. Before Easter all the classes were improving their fitness trying to run 12 laps a day which is equivalent to 2.6 miles a week, the equivalent of a mini marathon (a tenth of the distance of […]
Virtual Gymnastics County finalists
Posted on March 25, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
A huge well done to all our gymnasts who took part in the county final today. The judges stated the standard was extremely high. Ben, Raife, Ada, Connie, Lyla, Scarlett, Evie and Seren qualified for the final and represented the Village Schools Partnership. You all performed brilliantly and we are really proud of you all. […]
Bikeability
Posted on March 21, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
A huge well done to all the year 5s and 6s who took part and completed the Bikeability course over the last couple of days. Starting on the playground demonstrating your skills before progressing onto the roads to learn about how to ride on the roads safely using the correct hand signals and where to […]
River walk
Posted on March 20, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Our final day we went for a river walk and played some games and sang some very silly songs.
Breakfast on the final day
Posted on March 20, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Final big breakfast before our last adventure.
Dinner and Movie Night 🍿
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
Following a lovely roast dinner and ice cream for pudding we had more technical issues. Finally we managed to have Movie 🎥 Night .
Team building skills group 2
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This afternoon after archery 🏹 group 2 were challenged to team building skills. Challenges included lowering a stick while keeping it level, going through a tyre in the quickest time and passing an object over the biggest gap using teamwork. Both teams set a new record of 2.95 seconds for 4 people going through […]
Caving. How dark??
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
We had an amazing time caving, learning about stalactites and stalagmites and watching them form before our very eyes. Many of the year fours demonstrated their knowledge from this terms science lessons, identifying all three types of rocks. Everyone showed great determination, resilience, teamwork, and showed fantastic character facing their fears. We are so immensely […]
Archery 🏹 group 2
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
After lunch it was group 2s opportunity to demonstrate their archery skills. Well done to the team with Ada, Elsie, Ashley, Jenson and Raife who were the winning team. Congratulations toEnna who was the highest individual scorer. Special mention to Louie who got a bullseye 🎯 and popped a balloon 🎈, Hugo also popped a […]
Team building before lunch
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 5 responses
Before we were allowed lunch we took part in some team building activities to develop our communication, planning and practise skills. Well done to the girls who set a record of 3.9 seconds of getting five people through a tyre.
Archery 🏹
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This morning we split into two groups to do the days activities of archery and caving. There was some great shooting with The Shruggers winning the team event. Tyler was the highest individual scorer and special mention to Emmie who was the only one who popped the balloon 🎈. Nobody was able to hit the […]
Start of Day Two
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
After a great night’s sleep ( all children asleep by 10pm). A relaxing start to the day with some games and then an enormous breakfast before making our lunch.
Bed 🛏️ time
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Ready for bed at the end of our tiring but exciting first day.
Dinner and night time orienteering
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 3 responses
After a lovely pasta dinner followed by sticky toffee pudding, we ventured out once again. This time it was in the dark and we were orienteering around Pixies Holt. We had to locate 17 different dibbers around the site as well as a square stone, brown thing, yellow thing and a stick as long as […]
Moorland walk to Yar Tor and Sharp Tor
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 5 responses
This afternoon we enjoyed an amazing walk being dropped at Sharp Tor and then walking to Yar Tor before walking back to Pixies Holt. En route we saw a rainbow, Devil’s matchsticks, a skull and bone as well as a grave and a four thousand year old house from the Bronze Age. We also […]
Fuelling up before Moorland Walk
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Enjoying lunch after making our beds.
We’ve arrived 😀
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
After a quick stop to have a first view across Dartmoor we have arrived safely at Pixies Holt.
Water resistance
Posted on March 13, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
In science yesterday, we explored which shapes resulted in less water resistance when sinking in a container. We moulded plasticine into different shapes and timed how long it took to sink to the bottom. We timed it three times and took an average before analysing our results. We found that flat round shapes took longer […]