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20.1.23 Throlf part 3

Today was our third lesson for throlf. The children were really challenging themselves  by making harder courses, using their non-dominant hand/foot to throw or to strike the ball and making the courses further away. They were all very creative and imaginative in creating their holes/courses. They seemed to all really enjoy themselves with a review […]

Science making blood

Ashmansworthy class had great fun trying to make blood for our science lesson (Animals including humans circulatory and digestive system). We talked about the different components that make up blood (plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets) and what materials could be used to represent these eg red counters, cubes, white pom poms […]

Swimming

Despite a hick up with transport Ashmansworthy class had a great first swimming lesson at Torridge pool. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and had lots of fun in the pool.

That is such a stereotype!

In Alminstone we talked about stereotypes in scarf. The children closed their eyes and were given a description eg a child climbing a tree. They had to say whether they thought the child was male or female. We watched a short video with an experiment of two children and how people may stereotype by colour […]

Health and fitness Real PE 13.1.23

Today for Alminstone’s PE lesson we were covering more aspects of our health and fitness unit from Real PE. We continued with the warm up ‘Team juggle’ this involved the children moving in and out of each other in a set game play area, while throwing a ball to each other. The game got harder […]

Scarf The people we share our world with.

Today in Alminstone we talked about how people are different to each other (including ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, customs and festivals.) We also talked about the word respect, what it means and how we show respect to others’ differences.We had lots of great discussions about how people can be similar or different.

Real PE 6/1/23

Alminstone had lots of fun this afternoon during PE. We started with the warm up, with a game called team juggle. This involved lots of hand eye co-ordination, skill and team work. Next came the skills part. The children were practising sending and receiving a ball. We then played throlf (Golf but with no clubs) […]

Tag rugby

Today Miss Grant and I had the pleasure of taking 8 young ladies (years 5/6)to Bideford Rugby ground for a tag rugby festival. Considering this is the first time the girls have played together and some girls didn’t even know how to play the game before we started, they all played incredibly well. We won […]

Summer disco

The children all had a blast on the field this evening for the summer disco. There was dancing, games, tattoos, slushes, lots of happy children and lots of laughter. Thank you to Siobhan for doing all the music and games. Thank you to FOWS for making it happen and to everyone that helped.

It could happen to anyone. 17.6.2022

Today the children looked at different scenarios and discussed how some people would feel, how people could react in a negative way and how people could react in a psotive way. The children had very in depth converstaions about the different scenarios. ◊

Beach fun videos

 

Karaoke video

 

Beach fun part 2

Beach fun part 1

The children had a lovely time on the beach this afternoon with a variety or activities like sand marble runs, sand scupltures, team games, exploring the local history and rounders.

Surfing

The children all enjoyed surfing this morning. The children showed great team work before they entered the sea. We learnt how to stand on our boards on the sand and had a game of bum wars as a warm up. A few children managed to stand up. Smiles all round and the water was very […]

Warm up for early morning run

A bit sleepy this morning.

Year 5/6 cricket festival

Today I had the pleasure of taking this lovely bunch of children to a cricket festival in Instow. They played incredibly. well conseridering they had only played the game once during PE. They had previously learnt all the skills they needed for fielding and batting during their time with Coach Tom (From North Devon Primary […]

Gym competition finals

A talented bunch of year 3-6 children entered a gym competition a few weeks ago and all did extremely well with lots of 1st,2nd and 3rd places being won. We balanced and rolled our way to the live finals, which was held today via zoom. The children were all amazing and represented the school well. […]

Ashmansworthy scarf 25.3 2022.Joe’s Story

Today in scarf we looked at physical and emotional needs we have and how we get these needs met. We talked about how we meet our own needs eg ‘Needing to give and receive attention.’ We then went on to look at and discuss Joe’s story and how he was getting his needs met.  

Ashmansworthy forest school (Hapa zome printing) 8.3.2022

The children had great fun playing a variety of games at the start of the session. We played a dragon game, where a child was a dragon and they had to guess who was trying to steal their keys.1 breath game, the children had to run up the field and scream until their 1 breath […]

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