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Parkham’s mini marathon
Posted on April 22, 2026 | By lmccannvsp
Parkham showed great resilience, determination and teamwork while completing the mini marathon today.
Parkham Mini marathon 🏃♀️🏃♂️
Posted on April 22, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
On Sunday, 60,000 people will hit the streets of London to take part in the marathon. Today, we challenged the children to run 2 miles and take part in the Schools Mini Marathon. It stayed dry for us and despite the strong winds, we all walked, jogged and ran our way to complete the challenge […]
French 🇫🇷 cafe
Posted on April 1, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, we set up a French cafe in the hall. We used all the knowledge and vocabulary we have learnt about food and drink as well as conversational language to order the foods we wanted to try. This included crepes, brioche, croissants 🥐, pain au chocolat, sandwich au fromage and sandwich au jam. As […]
Easter egg willow weaving
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week we had fun in Foxdown weaving some Willow shaped easter eggs. They were great at creating great patterns and the concentration was great as they enjoyed doing it so much.
Beach art adventures
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week the weather was the best we’ve had and the children were so excited that the tide was low. We had fun making up stories about a sunken pirate ship and collecting items for their beach art. They were so creative with their art. We even got Jo to show us how to do […]
Marble Jar Reward
Posted on March 25, 2026 | By lmccannvsp
Foxdown filled their marble jar last week by using good learning behaviours as well as being helpful in class. The children discussed and then voted for their reward. They chose ‘wheely day’ and had a wonderful time, even if it was a little windy!
ARC multisports
Posted on March 17, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, Melbury class joined 140 other children at ARC to take part in a Multisports event with three other schools. The children were impeccably behaved and interacted with all the children really well whilst demonstrating their sporting skills. They had great fun taking part in seven different activities including: handball, hockey, dodgeball, kick it, […]
Rock pooling as a Marine Biologist
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week Melbury class became marine biologist and went to Westward Ho! to discover and record creaters and plants. We found some interesting things like a hermit crab that now has a name of Herb. They found creatures such as Chiton. They found numerous shells muscles and razor clam shells. They were really pleased that […]
Year 3/4 girls football ⚽️
Posted on February 6, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
A huge well done to our Year 3/4 girls football team who played in a competition at Kingsley this morning. This was the first time that the girls had played together and without a practise. Despite the rain, the girls were positive throughout the competition scoring four goals – Three for Abbie and one for […]
Parkham Archery 🏹 Club
Posted on January 27, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
We are having great fun at Archery club on a Wednesday morning. Years 4, 5 and 6 are improving their skills working individually and as part of a team to win a range of games.
Foxdown are preparing for Christmas!
Posted on December 4, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
Foxdown were super excited to decorate the classroom ready for Christmas. While decorating they spent time developing their fine motor skill, by wrapping presents, making their own decorations and of course unwinding and detangling! Communication was also key, the children sharing their views and opinions and listening to others, while they negotiated how and where the […]
Gymnastics
Posted on November 27, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Over the last few weeks, Melbury class have been developing their floor work skills working individually and as part of a small group. We have been looking at the five shapes including star, tuck, pike, straddle, straight. Using these skills we challenged ourselves to use these shapes on the apparatus. I think you’ll agree we […]
Multi skills at ARC
Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
On Tuesday morning, Mrs Barnes took some of our Year 3s to a multiskills session at ARC with other local primary schools. The staff at ARC commented on the impeccable behaviour of our children along with their great co-ordination and skills at the different activities. Well done to all of you.
The Lion King 🦁
Posted on November 14, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This half term, we are doing dance and gymnastics. Our dance focus this week was a dance from the Lion King to the song ‘The Stampede’. The children learnt a whole class dance and then split into smaller groups to choreograph their own endings. We explored how to move in unison as well as canon […]
We the Curious Trip
Posted on November 12, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
Goldworthy Class left early on Tuesday morning to visit We the Curious in Bristol. When we arrived, we took part in a workshop which allowed the children to explore the digestive system. We even had an explore around some of the exhibitions, including stop motion animation, creating bubbles and exploring air resistance. After lunch, we […]
Autumn Forest School in the sun!
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great first Autumn forest school session. The sun was shining and the children had fun exploring a technique called Hapa Zome. Where they use hammers to bang on leaves that are enveloped in fabric to get the colour from the natural items. they created some great art work that then eithert went […]
A very wet start to the Football ⚽️ Clubs
Posted on November 4, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
At lunchtime on Tuesday, we faced the elements and enjoyed our first football club of the season at Buckland. Despite the rain, we had great fun practising our passing skills before playing a game. Fingers crossed for better weather next week. It was dry at Parkham on Wednesday morning where we also did some passing […]
Digestion Experiment
Posted on November 3, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
In Goldworthy Class, we recreated the process of digestion through a hands-on experiment. It was yucky….
Our Visit to the Post Van
Posted on October 21, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
We finished our Geography learning today with a visit to the post van! The children in Reception and Year One securing their understanding of what an address is and how they are used, while Preschool
Tythecott and Melbury Trip
Posted on October 17, 2025 | By jseymourvsp
Tythecott and Melbury Class had a great day In Lynton and Lynmouth. We discovered the Lynton Cliff Railway, found a model railway and learned about ice glaciers and flash floods. Ye
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