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Stroxworthy Maths. Rounding numbers.
Posted on September 21, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery | Leave a response
Today we played a game to round various number to the nearest 10 or 100. . Some of us were challenged further by rounding to the nearest 1000.
Stroxworthy tennis
Posted on September 18, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery | Leave a response
This term we are having lessons with ARC tennis. The children are really enjoying themselves.
Stroxworthy Class – Electricity – building simple circuits
Posted on September 17, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery | Leave a response
This week in Science we have had fun learning the electrical circuit symbols and understanding how an electrical circuit works. From a diagram we predicted whether a circuit would work. We then built the various circuits to test our theories. The atmosphere was electric!
The Industrial Revolution -What was life like?
Posted on September 17, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery | Leave a response
In Stroxworthy Class this week, we nave been exploring what life was like during the Industrial Revolution. We tried out the following; Polish your shoes (shoe polish, brushes, cloths). Work out what some strange Victorian inventions are (pictures of inventions). Make a string telephone and try to communicate with someone (string, plastic cups). Read a […]
Fencing taster session – Stroxworthy Class
Posted on September 6, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery | Leave a response
Well what a way to finish our Wednesday! We had a superb session where the children experienced all the basic techniques of fencing. They had a wonderful and enjoyable time.
Stroxworthy Visit to the Methodist Chapel, Woolsery
Posted on July 6, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Following on from our visit to All Hallows last week, today we visited The Methodist Chapel to compare similarities and differences in ‘what is sacred’, and how the buildings help Christians to remember the life of Jesus. Rev’d Shirley led us and we discovered many similarities, such as hymn singing (Methodists love hymns and we […]
Stroxworthy Science – Can sound waves travel through solids?
Posted on June 29, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
This week in science we were identifying how sounds are made; associating some of them with something vibrating. We recognised that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear and that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. We did this by making and testing out string telephones.
Stroxworthy Trip to All Hallows, Woolsery
Posted on June 29, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
This afternoon Stroxworthy class visited All Hallows church with Rev’d Jane to explore what items are ‘sacred’ to Christians and how a church reminds Christians of the life of Jesus. Revd Jane helped us to understand which items in the church are sacred, their meaning to Christians and how they relate to the life of […]
Stroxxworthy Science Week
Posted on May 24, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Stroxworthy class have had a wonderful time during science week, from STEM challenges to various experiments. We have been exploring balloon cars, invisible ink, double bubbles, fizzy lava slime and building towers with spaghetti and marshmellows.
KS2 visit from RNLI – meet the lifeguards
Posted on April 26, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today we were joined by lifeguards from the RNLI. They helped us to explore and understand water safety. We learned how the lifeguards help those in trouble in the water and what we should do in an emergency.
Rootnotes Folk workshop
Posted on April 20, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Monday afternoon was spent in the company of Becky Driscoll from RootNotes and the year 5 children from throughout the Village Partnership, exploring the wonderful world of folk music. In less than an hour we were all playing a musical instrument and playing a piece together. We also created our own verse for our song […]
Stroxworthy trip to RHS Rosemoor.
Posted on March 16, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
On Tuesday we spent a glorious day at Rosemoor exploring the gardens and partaking in a ‘How do plants grow’ workshop. We learned how plants develop, seed dispersal and what plants need in order to grow big and strong. We also learned how to take care of plants and we all worked together and planted […]
Stroxworthy Class – The Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah
Posted on January 18, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today we learned all about the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah which is the Jewish New Year. We explored how Jewish people celebrate this festival which is all about about new beginnings and the year ahead. We found out that on Rosh Hashanah, Jewish people visit the Synagogue, hear special music played on a ram’s […]
Stroxworthy Handball
Posted on January 18, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
On Tuesday we began to explore the game of handball. We started with our warm up and then we practised throwing and catching. We are getting rather good!
Stroxworthy Forest School
Posted on December 1, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today we started to make a willow and hazel hurdle fence (Anglo Saxon style! – link to our History topic!), we made Christmas tree decorations from willow, leaves, wool (using our weaving skills) and still had the opportunity to exploire our usual forest school activities like the mud kitchen climbing trees, gardening, maintenance of our […]
Stroxworthy Real Gym
Posted on November 23, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today we continued our lessons of Real Gym. Today we were making rhythms in groups and then matching the rhythms using balls. We then were practising our rotation skills.
Stroxworthy Forest School
Posted on November 17, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today we were doing lots of things in our forest school area: bug hunting, painting our clay, looking for clouds through a window, maintaining the area, painting trees, mud kitchen, making shields and creating faces from items in and around the forest school area.
Stroxworthy Forest School
Posted on November 16, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
On Thursday we had another fantastic session in our Forest School area. We explored the mud kitchen area, made clay pots and went bug hunting (for our science topic Living Things and Habitats).
Stroxworthy Forest School
Posted on November 4, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today was a very wet and windy forest school but we had so much fun. We did identifying leaves in the school field, making clay leaf pots and starting to make our shields which is linked to our Anglo Saxon topic. We also had some time to do our usual activities like playing in the […]
Stroxworthy – Story reading
Posted on October 20, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery
Today the children went to read their adaptation of a traditional tale to either Burscott or Cranford Class. They did very well and they should be very proud of their efforts.