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ARC racquet lessons

Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This half term, ARC have been working with Gorwood class to help develop their racquet skills at the centre. With the larger space and all the equipment and excellent teachers/coaches the children have made fantastic progress. They have had two weeks of badminton and have now moved onto tennis. They will finish their half term […]

Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

Gorwood have had a great first half of term with forest school. We cooked, made scarecrows, learned how to do knots, got creative with gods eyes and weaving spiders webs for halloween.

Posted on November 4, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Today in science, we explored the digestive system. Using a plastic bag to represent the stomach we fed it digestives, bananas, orange juice and water. We then churned up the mixture and poured it into the intestines (tights). Finally we squeezed out the liquid before snipping the tights to create a hole for the poo […]

Posted on October 23, 2025 | By jseymourvsp

The playground became a car show this morning. As part of Tythecott’s History learning about transport, members of the North Devon Classic Car Group visited us with their cars. The whole school joined in and all the children were fascinated by the cars from different time periods. We even had a Penny Farthing to look […]

Posted on October 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Today, some children in Gorwood Class braved the elements and developed their cycling skills. After checking all the bikes were working, they undertook a range of activities to test their skills on the playground. They progressed onto the roads after lunch, learning how to ride safely and confidently.

Posted on October 7, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

In science we continued our lessons on light. Today we investigated how light travels in straight lines. We explored if you could make a periscope with 3 or more mirrors as well as how tall you could make a periscope.

Posted on July 23, 2025 | By ehangervsp

Goodbye to our year 6! We will miss you all so much. Good luck in your new schools.

Posted on July 16, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Gorwood class used all the knowledge of electricity in science and applied it to making a game that used electricity. As well as making the toy, they had to problem solve how to ensure the electrical components worked with the toy. We made quiz boards, a helicopter, a doorbell using a pressure pad and a […]

Posted on July 3, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Gorwood Class had an amazing day at Kents Cavern. We learnt a huge amount about the three stages of the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the evolution of us over time, from Neanderthals to Homo Sapiens. We learnt about how the caves themselves formed over hundreds of millions of years and how calcite gradually […]

Posted on June 30, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Gorwood class have enjoyed a lovely day in the sunshine watching a professional game of cricket in Taunton. Somerset were in bat and approaching 400 runs by lunchtime. The children have taken part in various cricket throwing activities and some have had their faces painted. After lunch they had a look around the Somerset Cricket […]

Posted on June 17, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

A huge well done to all of our amazing swimmers today at the swimming gala. Children from years 4, 5 and 6 from across the partnership took part at Torridge pool against other local schools. Children took part in front crawl and back stroke races varying in length from 25m to 100m. They were in […]

Posted on June 12, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week in our forest school session we worked on team work and communication with games and helping with the build of the poly tunnel. They were all great with wanting to be involved in this project and can’t wait to start growing things once it’s finally done.

Posted on June 10, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This morning we investigated static electricity. We tried 6 different activities to see how you can create static electricity which can make things move without objects touching one another.

Posted on May 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This afternoon, all the Year 5s from our three schools attended a cricket festival at Shebbear College. Joining other primary schools from the local area they were coached and led by some of the senior pupils and staff from Shebbear. The children took part in a range of activities and games to help develop their […]

Posted on May 19, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Our Year 6 boys played in a tournament at Westcroft this morning. We played six games against other local schools winning two, drawing one and narrowly losing the other three. Well done to our goal scorers, Tommy B, Tommy C (3) and Logan who scored a header from a corner when he was playing in […]

Posted on May 2, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This morning, we took children from each of our schools to try out a new sport, Judo. Kingsley hosted a workshop for the children to learn about the sport. After learning the rules and how to score points, we played a range of games to understand how to do some of the moves […]

Posted on April 30, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

We are building up to science week at the end of May by working scientifically. We designed an investigation about camouflage of moths. We thought of a question we wanted to answer and then considered independent and dependent variables to help design the investigation. We predicted what would happen before we created and placed our […]

Posted on April 2, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Today we took three teams to a Tag Rugby Competition at Bideford Rugby Club. There were ten teams in total which meant every team played 4 matches to see who would progress to the semi finals. There was some excellent play from all three of our teams with some outstanding individual and team tries along […]

Posted on March 26, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This morning in the sunshine, our girls team played in the North Devon football Finals having qualified last month. There were three leagues with the top two progressing to the semi finals. We had four matches in our league. We won our first game 2-0 against South Molton, followed by a 0-0 draw against Pilton […]

Posted on March 10, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

After school, we enjoyed a friendly Y4/5 match with Woolsery against Buckland Brewer and Parkham. It was a thrilling match that went end to end throughout with great passing, shooting and saves from the goalkeepers. A huge well done to all the players for some of whom this was their first match for the school. […]

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