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Clovelly RNLI trip.

Posted on April 22, 2026 | By forestschoolleader

Today we went to the RNLI at Clovelly. We had a great time learning how to be safe in the water amd how to plan a day at the beach.

Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader

This was our last session at Westward Ho!. We were lucky that the tide was out so we were able to venture on to the beach and take a walk to the pirate ship that has been buroed in the sand. Orleigh had an amazing time expoloring the area and creating stories with great characters […]

Posted on March 27, 2026 | By jseymourvsp

This morning we were treated to some Easter activities and storytelling. We were invited by members of the church who taught the children about the key events in the story of Easter. We were even treated to some chocolate.

Posted on March 25, 2026 | By ehangervsp

All our family groups have reached 400 points so the children spent the last part of the afternoon playing games, eating s’mores and drinking hot chocolate. What a great way to end the day!

Posted on March 6, 2026 | By jseymourvsp

Buckland Brewer pupils were all treated to an animal workshop today. We had the team from Animals2U join us, along with four animals that we learned about. We learned about their diet, habitats, how they survive and their adaptations. This was arranged with the money saved up from Tasty Tuc on Fridays. At the end […]

Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader

We had a great morning building sand art, sea defences, and talking about the tides and the solar system. As much as today was planned around sea defences the children led their own learning in different directions. Asking questions like how high does the tide get? How does the moon move the tides? How do […]

Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

For our first Forest School session we took advantage of the leaves falling to the ground and created firework pictures using the hapa zome technique. The children enjoyed using the hammers to create different pictures and working out what leaves or grass created the best colour.

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 June 27, 2025 | By lgandervsp

We walked up to the church with Gorwood class to look at and celebrate all the hard work of all the children in our school.

Posted on May 16, 2025 | By lgandervsp

This week the children have been very productive in provision making their ideas come to life.

Posted on April 25, 2025 | By lgandervsp

This week we have celebrated St George’s Day in Orleigh Class by painting dragons, making flags and going on a dragon hunt.

Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week was our last session this term and we have had so much fun. This week we cooked damper bread with an easter twist and made natural Easter cards.

Posted on March 26, 2025 | By soyarzabal

Today was Orleigh’s last session at Clovelly. They had some time to explore while the tide was out. Then had a delicious s’more.

Posted on March 17, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

We were very lucky to be able to visit the Clovelly RNLI station and was shown their uniform to keep them warm in the water. We were then shown the life boat. The children were amazing and had so much fun asking questions and learning about the RNLI.

Posted on February 11, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This morning 4 children from Key Stage 1 from each school took part in a multi skills festival at ARC. Taking part with children from Appledore school, they played a variety of games to improve their hand eye coordination as well as develop other sporting skills. They all had great fun and were amazing with […]

Posted on December 3, 2024 | By skersey

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….

We had great fun at forest school. We laid in sun under the beech tree looking at the shadows. We made bug leaves and had a visit from stick man and leaf man.

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 […]

Posted on September 11, 2024 | By skersey

This morning, Tythecott and Year 1s from Orleigh learnt lots of new skills with Lottie from ARC Tennis. We balanced balls on the racket, threw and caught balls and used the net in tennis. Ask the children to show their new skills.

Posted on July 17, 2024 | By forestschoolleader

Today reception and year 1 explored Burford Woods. They had so much fun investigation someone who had gone missing and being detectives to find clues to find the invisible trail on the map. They claimed a bridge then did it blind folded and went on a scavenger hunt..we the had s’mores and hot chocolate. They […]

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