Archive | Parkham Primary
Goldworthy Class at Kents Cavern
Posted on July 7, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
Goldworthy Class had an amazing day at Kents Cavern. We learnt a huge amount about the three stages of the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the evolution of us over time, from Neanderthals to Homo Sapiens. We learnt about how the caves themselves formed over hundreds of millions of years and how calcite gradually […]
Goldworthy Class at Somerset Cricket
Posted on July 2, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
Goldworthy Class on Dartmoor
Posted on June 27, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
What an incredible trip! Goldworthy Class went to Merrivale on Dartmoor National Park to find out about a prehistoric Bronze Age settlement. We saw the ruins of approximately 30 Bronze Age round houses, a couple of stone rows, that form a path to ancient graves and a stone circle that people used to know when […]
Football ⚽️ friendlies at Hartland
Posted on June 24, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
We took two teams to play Hartland away this afternoon. The boys played their game first and started really well with goals from Tommy and Alfie. Hartland pulled one back before half time. Jack was desperately unlucky not to score, hitting the cross bar twice! Logan and Jenson took turns in goal, with both producing […]
Terrific Tag Rugby 🏉 (Year 2)
Posted on June 18, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning in the blazing sun, we sent a Village Schools Year 2 Tag Rugby team for a competition at St Mary’s. Despite never having played together as a team, they were very successful, not losing a single game. They won 7-2 against Hartland, 8-1 against St Mary’s 2, 6-0 against Westcroft 2, 7-2 against […]
Swimming Gala 2025
Posted on June 17, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
A huge well done to all of our amazing swimmers today at the swimming gala. Children from years 4, 5 and 6 from across the partnership took part at Torridge pool against other local schools. Children took part in front crawl and back stroke races varying in length from 25m to 100m. They were in […]
Cricket 🏏 competition
Posted on June 13, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Today we travelled to Instow cricket club for a competition with over 30 teams. With only one practise with half the team we had an amazing start beating Caen by 18 runs. We then had further success winning our second game against Yeo Vale by more than 20 runs. In our third game we narrowly […]
Burford woods back in time
Posted on June 12, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Our Burford woods trip this time was based on the stone age the children had so much fun making spears using tools and making pine pitch glue, weaving plates and cooking stone age food.
Year 5 Cricket 🏏 Festival
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This afternoon, all the Year 5s from our three schools attended a cricket festival at Shebbear College. Joining other primary schools from the local area they were coached and led by some of the senior pupils and staff from Shebbear. The children took part in a range of activities and games to help develop their […]
Parkham Mini Marathon
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning the we did the Mini London Marathon. The challenge was to run 2 miles, which is 11 laps of the field. Everyone did so well showing inspirational performances running the whole distance. It was lovely to see children running and walking together to encourage one another to keep going. Well done to you […]
80th Anniversary of VE Day
Posted on May 9, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
At midday Parkham joined in with national two minute silence to remember VE Day. The previous week, every child made a poppy which we turned into a collective piece of artwork. You may have seen this on display in the village hall over the weekend.
Key Stage 2 Judo at Kingsley
Posted on May 2, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning, we took children from each of our schools to try out a new sport, Judo. Kingsley hosted a workshop for the children to learn about the sport. After learning the rules and how to score points, we played a range of games to understand how to do some of the moves […]
Indoor Athletics Final
Posted on May 1, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Having qualified for the Indoor athletics final in January, yesterday the Village Schools team took part in that final at the North Devon Schools final. This time they competed against 15 teams from across the whole of North Devon and not just the Bideford area. Once again their determination and support for each other shone […]
Stone Age Cave Paintings
Posted on May 1, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
Goldworthy Class experienced what it was like to be a Stone Age child painting cave paintings using their fingers in unusual places.
Stone age art.
Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week’s session in Forest School was all about map reading and compass work with some Stone age art thrown in. The class created their own cave den then created their own cave painting with charcoal.
Easter cards and games
Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week was our last session for the term. We had so much fun making easter cards then changing the rules on traditional games to make them easter themed. They also had some downtime to practice there new calming technique. ‘Take a moment, take a breath’
Pewter casting on the beach
Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week was pur last session at Clovelly and we had fun casting in clay with Pewter. The children were fascinated by the fact the solid metal was able to turn into a liquid on the fire that we had made ourselves.
Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Competition
Posted on April 2, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Today we took three teams to a Tag Rugby Competition at Bideford Rugby Club. There were ten teams in total which meant every team played 4 matches to see who would progress to the semi finals. There was some excellent play from all three of our teams with some outstanding individual and team tries along […]
Girls U11 North Devon Championship Finals
Posted on March 26, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
This morning in the sunshine, our girls team played in the North Devon football Finals having qualified last month. There were three leagues with the top two progressing to the semi finals. We had four matches in our league. We won our first game 2-0 against South Molton, followed by a 0-0 draw against Pilton […]
An amazing game in the sunshine ☀️
Posted on March 24, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
After school, 22 children made their debuts representing the schools in a friendly match of Woolsery versus Buckland Brewer and Parkham. In a highly entertaining and skilful game we saw incredible tackles, dribbles, saves and goals along with great passing and team spirit. A huge well done to everyone who played, you were all amazing. […]
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