Archive | Parkham Primary
The Lion King đŚ
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 âThe Stampedeâ. 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 â˝ď¸ 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 yuckyâŚ.
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
Our busy week!
Posted on October 16, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
This week the children have focused on developing fine motor skills. Â They have refined their pencil and scissor control and enjoyed using a hammer to nail golf tees into a pumpkin! On Monday Foxdown was visited by Harold the Giraffe and his friends. These characters helped the children think about how we look after ourselves […]
ARC pickleball and badminton đ¸
Posted on October 15, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
After our first two weeks of tennis, we have progressed onto learning how to play pickleball and badminton in our PE lessons at ARC. After warm up games we tried to get use to how the pickleball and shuttlecocks flew by throwing them at different targets over the net. This was followed by partner work, […]
Foxdownâs week of creativity.
Posted on October 9, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
This week the children have expressed their wonderful imagination and creativity. Alongside many other things, they have enjoyed exploring Autumn through leaf rubbings, extending their learning on spirals by cutting coiled snakes and have become engrossed in emergent writing – giving meaning to the marks they make.
Preschoolâs very physical week!
Posted on October 2, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
Preschool have been developing their balance, coordination and stamina this week. They started the week with their very own cross country event! Working as a team to draw the track. They also worked collaboratively to make their own obstacle course and tried hard not to wobble off when going round.
Posted on September 25, 2025 | By lmccannvsp
Foxdown has dived into their learning of spirals in art. We explored how to form a spiral and how they looked different when we used different media. We focussed on pastels, handwriting pens and sketching pencils. To develop our learning further, we then used spirals to draw continuous line drawings of shells.Â
RHS Rosemoor Trip- 23rd September
Posted on September 24, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
Goldworthy Class enjoyed a day at RHS Rosemoor on Tuesday 23rd September. We took part in an art workshop, focusing on natural art. See some of our artwork!!
Racquet lessons in PE at ARC
Posted on September 11, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp
Yesterday, Goldworthy travelled to ARC for their PE lesson. Up until half term ARC have offered their facility and coaches to help us develop our racquet skills. We will do two weeks of tennis, two weeks of pickleball and two weeks of badminton. This week we played a range of games to improve our stance, […]
Year 6 Treat!
Posted on July 23, 2025 | By jrichardsonvsp
Ashmansworthy and Goldworthy had a fantastic time at the Wake Park to celebrate the end of primary school. The weather was not in our favour but it didnât spoil the fun!
Sports Day at Parkham
Posted on July 13, 2025 | By dmarksvsp
What a scorcher of a day we had for Sports Day on Friday. A massive thank you to Mr Davies for organising. Congratulations to the Blue Stilton for winning. Thank you to FOPS who provided the children with a well deserved ice-lolly and flavoured water.
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 â˝ď¸ 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 […]
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