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Marvellous mirrors
Posted on January 8, 2025 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott completed their final part of their science focusing on Light & Dark with investigating mirrors. They had fun writing secret messages to each other using mirrors and solving the puzzles. Then we went on a mirror maze with mirrors. Ask the children what they discovered……
Part 3 Appledore Art
Posted on January 8, 2025 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott class experienced their 3rd part to Appledore Art. We are going to create a piece of artwork with mixed media. We started with covering large pieces of paper with different shades of green with different objects to create a variety of textures, including our hands! We then created a very scary tiger face using […]
Appledore Art part 2
Posted on December 18, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
This morning Tythecott class went to their second session at Appledore Art. We made heart coil plaques and painted our pinch pots from last time. What new skills did you learn?
RHS Rosemoor
Posted on December 17, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Today, Tythecott, Stroxworthy and Melbury went to RHS Rosemoor for a festive adventure. We experienced their workshops where we learnt Latin names for some of the plants and found them in the gardens. Then we collected leaves and made Christmas cards and wreaths. We finally planted some peas to germinate in Spring. After lunch we […]
Peter Pan
Posted on December 13, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
The children of Buckland Brewer School performed Peter Pan. Here are some photographs from the dress rehearsal. The children made us all proud with their professionalism of learning their lines and their dances. Thank you to all parents who made props, scenery and costumes. We could not do it without everyone’s help.
How are shadows made?
Posted on December 11, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott class explored how shadows are made. We tried different objects and different distances from the object. We looked at opaque, translucent and transparent objects and which gave the best shadows. What was our conclusion?
Appledore Art part 1
Posted on December 6, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
On Wednesday, Tythecott class had the opportunity to go to Appledore school to participate in their art studio. We made pinch pots to hold tealight candles out of clay. We then finished with chalk polar bear designs. We had so much fun!
Christmas came early to Buckland Brewer School
Posted on December 3, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Dave Watson and the Buckland Brewer church community brought the story of the first Christmas to the whole school today by organising stations for each part of the nativity story. The children really enjoyed the interactive parts, ask the children their favourite parts….
Fire visit to Buckland Brewer
Posted on November 20, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Mrs Gosling from the Fire Service held a whole school assembly this morning and then spent the morning with Tythecott and Gorwood class. Can you remember what we say if we have a fire? Stay low, get out, stay out and ring 999. Mrs Gosling discussed the many ways the fire service help the public. […]
Steve Manning Egyptian story teller
Posted on November 19, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Steve Manning visited Woolsery in the morning and came to Parkham in the afternoon, where Melbury and Tythecott classes become immersed into all things Egyptian. He started with reviewing what we already know about Egypt and ancient Egyptian life. He was impressed how much the children were able to share with him and their peers. […]
Mummification with Tythecott
Posted on November 18, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott class enjoyed wrapping up their class pharaohs, so they could become mummies. Do you like their bandaging? We discussed all the processes in the Egyptian mummification process.
Remembrance
Posted on November 11, 2024 | By skersey
Buckland Brewer School remembered all who have been lost in conflict and stood still for the 2 minute silence.
Tythecott got muddy!
Posted on October 16, 2024 | By skersey
Tythecott went to Burford Woods and had lots of fun in the rain. We made pyramid dens, shaduf and leaf art/identification. We tried homemade chilli and smores. Best of all we had fun in all the mud and puddles!
School voice raising funds for Calvert Trust
Posted on October 11, 2024 | By skersey
Buckland Brewer School Voice have chosen to raise funds for local charities and the parents donated cakes and cookies (alongside FOBBS selling Halloween items ready for the FOBBs Halloween disco next Friday.) Our chosen charity is Calvert Trust and so far we have raised over £50. Our final total was £94.50. Thank you so much […]
Open the Book came to Buckland Brewer
Posted on October 10, 2024 | By skersey
The whole school enjoyed a bible story interacted with Open the Book. What was your favourite part?
SCARF came to Buckland Brewer today
Posted on October 10, 2024 | By skersey
Tythecott had a session on ‘Feelings’ with a link to healthy living. We discussed different scenarios and how we might feel. We looked at how our bodies feel and how we feel emotionally.
Garden design
Posted on October 9, 2024 | By skersey
Tythecott enjoyed examining our mummified tomatoes from a few weeks ago, gardening, cleaning up our forest school area, playing in the mud kitchen, building a fort and washing the stones. Next week we are all off to Burford Woods…..
Harvest Festival at The Chapel
Posted on October 8, 2024 | By skersey
The whole school walked to the Chapel this afternoon and we enjoyed sharing our harvest poems and songs with our families. Thank you to everyone that took part and enjoyed it. Rev’d Rob and Frank Watson introduced the service and the School Voice explained that all the food donations would be delivered to North Devon […]
All about the trees
Posted on October 3, 2024 | By skersey
Today’s session was all about trees…… a tree straw game to see how many straws we could suck up water, like trees do with their roots. Creating Halloween leaves and tree identification through leaves and feel tree trunks blindfolded. They looked for minibeasts and re-designing the garden area using Mr MacGregor’s garden as a theme. […]
Appledore Book Festival author visited all 3 schools in the partnership
Posted on September 25, 2024 | By skersey
One of Appledore Book Festival organisers, Judi Unwin, kindly organised an author to visit each of the 3 schools and they fully funded this exciting event. All 3 schools thoroughly enjoyed his interactive stories and saw his huge range of books. Year 1, 2 and 3 children will be given their very own personally signed […]