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Art Exhibition

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.

Continuous Provision

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

St George’s Day

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

Cooking hotcross damper bread

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.  

Orleigh class visit Clovelly.

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.

Clovelly RNLI trip

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.

Key Stage 1 Multi skills festival

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 […]

Christmas came early to Buckland Brewer School

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.

Appledore Book Festival author visited all 3 schools in the partnership

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 […]

Tythecott and Year 1s tennis

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.

Orleighs summer trip to Burford woods ’24

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 […]

Health and Fitness in Orleigh

In Real PE today, we have been developing our strength, balance and agility. We have been moving like cats on all fours and discussing the strength and balance needed in our arms and legs to move quickly. In pairs we moved liked cats to collect different equipment to design and make our own pictures.

Science in Orleigh

Science week has been lots of fun! In Orleigh we explored rainbows, investigated colour and enjoyed doing lots of different experiments. Creating a beautiful rainbow wheel with skittles and blowing colourful bubble snakes were favourites!

Eden Project

Buckland Brewer School went to the Eden Project today. What a whistle stop tour it was but we still managed to pack everything in! Orleigh started with Green Machines and Tythecott started with Building Brazilian, whilst Gorwood had free time exploring. Quick lunch. Then Orleigh and Tythecott went exploring whilst Gorwood finished with Darwin Doodles.

Mud painting

In forest we had fun doing leaf rubbings and mud painting. Also learnt three new trees and what seasons are. Had a great day exploring in the sun.

Bugs,gardening and risks

Today was a lovely sunny day. We started off our session with a discussion about risks and how they can take a risk but still be safe. So we talked about the risks in tree climbing then we talked about what safety measures they can pit in place to keep them safe like how high […]

Professional athlete at Parkham School

Orleigh, Tythecott from Buckland Brewer School travelled to Parkham School to take part in the visit from David Hill a professional athlete with Goldworthy, Melbury and Foxdown.  We each participated in a training exercise and then we listened to David’s inspiring story of his life with a Q & A.  What an inspirational man!

Orleigh sharing Assembly

Orleigh shared their learning about the Rainforest with the rest of the school.

Easter visit to the Church

The whole school visited Buckland Brewer Chapel and Chapel to hear about the story of Easter starting from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. The children went into groups and experienced a variety of activities linked to Easter with an Easter egg hunt at the end.  Thank you for everyone involved and our candle now has […]

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