Archive | Buckland Brewer Primary
Buford wood fun autume ’23
Posted on October 11, 2023 | By forestschoolleader | Leave a response
We had so much fun today. Gorwood learnt how to use a map and compass to explore the woods and answering different questions along the way. They used there team.work to.carry someone on a stretcher around an obstacle course, then we had pancakes and s’mores. They also learnt how to make glue from pine sap […]
Posted on October 11, 2023 | By forestschoolleader | Leave a response
today Gorwood made flowers from leaves, learnt how to light fires with a rope and stick. They so explored the den building area and digging.
Morwellham Quay
Posted on October 11, 2023 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott, Stroxworthy and Melbury travelled to Tavistock to Morewellham Quay today. What an interesting place to visit by the River Tamar. This area was once a thriving home to the mining industry. The industry needed a transport system, and a number of small quays were built along the River Tamar to ship out the […]
Morwhellam Quay – Friday 6th October
Posted on October 9, 2023 | By ehangervsp
We had a fantastic day at Morwhellam Quay on Friday. The children enjoyed having a go at breaking rocks to find copper, going on the mine train and looking round different Victorian houses. It was great to step into history and experience it for ourselves.
Soup and story telling
Posted on September 28, 2023 | By forestschoolleader
Today we explored storytelling and made tin can soup. They learnt that when we work together and share amazing things can happen. Some also finished off their dye work from last week.
Tythecott go invertebrate hunting
Posted on September 25, 2023 | By skersey
For our science project looking at living things and their habitats, it was time to look at invertebrates. Did you know some invertebrates have no heads? Or that they make up over 95% of all the animals on our planet?
Buckland Brewer Harvest Festival
Posted on September 21, 2023 | By skersey
Today we went to the church for our Harvest Festival and we braved the rain on the way back but had a wonderful celebration. Lovely to receive so many donations of food for the Bideford Harbour Foodbank Charity and to share this with so many parents. Well done to all the children and for […]
Forest school names on our wood cookies
Posted on September 19, 2023 | By forestschoolleader
This week we finished of our wood cookies and had a game of prey and predator and also learnt some more of the songs on the boomwhackers.
Electrical problems
Posted on September 12, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery
This afternoon, Gorwood class used different electrical components to investigate how to make a circuit work. Using wires, cells, bulbs, buzzers and switches we tried to get our circuits to work. We learnt that it must be a complete circuit with no breaks to allow the electricity to flow. As well as creating circuits that […]
Family Point treat
Posted on September 8, 2023 | By skersey
Last term Sting Rays won the family point treat which was a water fight. With the lovely weather, we decided to commence the water works this afternoon. Some very wet children (and slightly wet adults!) had a lot of fun!
Introducing our new topic
Posted on September 8, 2023 | By ehangervsp
Yesterday, the children were introduced to our new topic which looks at how life has changed since the industrial revolution. We first watched a clip from the 2012 olympic opening ceremony which focused on the industrial revolution. We then looked at different aspects of Victorian life including communication (making a string telephone), engineering (building a […]
Fencing
Posted on September 8, 2023 | By ehangervsp
On Thursday 7th, Gorwood had a go at fencing. They started with a warm up by running around then stopping as still as possible to practice balancing. They then learnt about the stance and how to hold the foil. Following this they learnt how to move forward, lunge and parry. They practised these skills before […]
Fencing
Posted on September 8, 2023 | By skersey
Tythecott class welcomed Becky and Andrew into the school to share their fencing skills. We learned to stand correctly, to block and to strike. Please ask your child to demonstrate these actions to you.
Sunny chilled first session.
Posted on September 8, 2023 | By forestschoolleader
We had lots of fun today with making music and learning how to use a bow saw to make wood cookies.
Year 6 Wake Park Treat July 23
Posted on July 23, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp
We had an amazing day at the Wake Park: the weather was kind and the activities were awesome! What a fabulous way to celebrate the end of primary school for Year 6!
Family group football
Posted on July 18, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery
Well done to everyone who took part in the family group football. We had three amazing games. Some great saves, a penalty miss and four goals. A huge congratulations to the winning team, the Tiger Sharks.
Village Schools Football Festival
Posted on July 17, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery
Well done to all the players who came to the VSP football festival after school at Woolsery. Year 5/6 played three matches and Year 3/4 also played three matches. They were split into even mixed teams, most of them playing with children from other schools. They all showed some excellent skill and great team work. […]
DT Baking session
Posted on July 17, 2023 | By ehangervsp
This morning, Gorwood class had a go at making Devonshire cut rounds as part of our DT project. We followed a recipe and the children added their own personal touch with ingredients like cheese, pesto and herbs. The children had a great time baking and enjoyed eating the finished product.
Buckland Brewer Sports Day
Posted on July 14, 2023 | By Mr Cole
Well done to everyone for an amazing Sports Day yesterday. Here are a few photos..
Tent building and peg whittling
Posted on July 12, 2023 | By forestschoolleader
Today was so much fun exploring how to work as a team to build a tent. They also worked on their resilience and worked on whittling tent pegs. I also got taught how to use Google lens to find out what we found inside a stick.