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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 […]

Microhabitats

Tythecott explored the forest school area searching for minibeasts in different microhabitats for our science. See what the children found in the sunshine.

Clovelly Coastal School part 2

Tythecott class went to Clovelly this morning.  What a beautiful morning!  The tide was in, so we had to go further along the peddles and found a different view.  We ate our snack in the sunshine.  We then listened to the sounds around us.  Lou gave us some nets, collection pots and guides of what […]

Clovelly Coastal School

This morning Tythecott class had their first session down at Clovelly.  We were lucky enough to go into the RNLI at Clovelly and met Andy, a volunteer, who told us all about his role with RNLI.  We explore the lifeboat station and learnt so much.  Ask the children what they remember…. Then we had some […]

Appledore Art part 4

Tythecott class had our final session at Appledore Art this morning. We painted our heart spiral designs ready for firing.  We then started our final part of our collage. We cut our tiger head out an placed it on our blue backgrounds and began to create different leaf shapes and sizes from our textured green […]

Marvellous mirrors

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

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

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

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 […]

How are shadows made?

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

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

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….

Steve Manning Egyptian story teller

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

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.

Tythecott Children in Need Day

Tythecott got muddy!

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!

SCARF came to Buckland Brewer today

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

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…..

All about the trees

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

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 […]

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