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Somerset vs Hampshire

Posted on July 10, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

Today, children from across the partnership travelled to Taunton to watch a professional cricket match. There was some cricket until lunch with Somerset losing four wickets. During this time the children had their faces painted and tried out some of their own cricketing skills with bowling and throwing at different targets. At lunchtime, Mr Marks […]

Posted on June 27, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today we started to make some tent pegs for our dens in Burford woods when we go in a few weeks. However some decided to try making spoons and a butter knife sonde can use these when we cook. Some others decided to make a new pond in our area and others of course played […]

Posted on June 20, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today we talked about summer solstice and how some celebrations change depending who celebrates. We made fairy crowns with edible flowers, started our lanterns and also made paracord dragonflies and played games.

Posted on June 14, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

Today the Village Schools Partnership took a team of swimmers to a gala at Northam Pool. For many, this was their first experience in a competitive swimming race. They demonstrated great determination and resilience as they competed in their races with very little rest in between races. One swimmer lost her hat and her goggles […]

Posted on May 18, 2023 | By forestschoolleader | 1 response

Today Goldworthy were amazing they helped move some woodchip that we got delivered into our forest school area. They will be getting s’mores for their first session next half term! They had fun transforming the area and they can’t wait for the next of our on going forest school area project.

Posted on May 11, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

Well done to the year 4s and 5s in Goldworthy who pledged to run a mile to be part of the World Record attempt. We should find out next week if we are successful and officially World Record breakers.

Posted on April 20, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Monday afternoon was spent in the company of Becky Driscoll from RootNotes and the year 5 children from throughout the Village Partnership, exploring the wonderful world of folk music. In less than an hour we were all playing a musical instrument and playing a piece together. We also created our own verse for our song […]

Posted on March 30, 2023 | By dmarksvsp

A fun time was had by all at the Easter afternoon organised by the fantastic FOPS! The children enjoyed an Easter Hunt, Easter Bonnet decorating, biscuit decorating and having their faces painted.

Posted on January 12, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

Yesterday, Goldworthy class showed great trust, balance and strength in their partner work. They demonstrated good communication discussing how they would perform each balance safely thinking about body tension and shape.

Posted on January 11, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

This morning before school, was the first session for the amazing archers at Parkham. We learnt how to stand, hold the bow, set the arrows and how to shoot. We all helped each other and got better and better as the session went on. The highest score with 3 arrows was 16. This will be […]

Posted on December 12, 2022 | By cdavieswoolsery

Today, we couldn’t go on the playground because of all the ice, but we needed to run around. After lunch we were kindly offered the use of Allardyce Hall to use for a PE and fun games lesson. We were split into four teams and showed great teamwork and sportsmanship as we competed in a […]

Posted on November 16, 2022 | By cdavieswoolsery

All of the Village Schools joined together this morning for an indoor athletics competition at Atlantic Academy. The children were split into seven teams and took part in 7 field events and ended with a team relay race. The seven field events were the vertical jump, weighted ball throw, standing long jump, speed bounce, standing […]

Posted on November 3, 2022 | By dmarksvsp

Children in Goldworthy conducted an experiment which showed the human digestive system… we learnt a new word~ churned 😁

Posted on October 31, 2022 | By dmarksvsp

Goldworthy Class had a visit today from Helen, who delivers PSHE lessons for Life Education (as part of our SCARF programme in school)… We learnt about what contributes to our physical and mental health and what we can do to improve our wellbeing. We were told a story about Chris and Tyler and learnt about […]

Posted on October 22, 2022 | By forestschoolleader

So sad it was our last session today for this term. Goldworthy have come on so far. They are so kind, creative, resilient, and I know there is so much more to come from our forest school sessions. Today they’re mud kitchen ‘taco bell’ has been christened and we had Veggie chillie and Tacos round […]

Posted on October 14, 2022 | By cdavieswoolsery | 1 response

The Village Schools Partnership team were incredible at the Stephen Shield Cross Country at Torrington, showing great determination, self-belief and teamwork. Running a very muddy course, the years 3s and 4s ran an undulating 1.5km and the year 5s and 6s a challenging 2.2km. All the children showed great sportsmanship cheering all the runners. Well […]

Posted on October 12, 2022 | By forestschoolleader

8A very wet and muddy session. We had a great afternoon, with the kitchen still being built with new pots and Pans added to it, we had charcoal painting going on, a shed being moved and lots of clearing and sorting. They have worked really hard to take ownership of this little area and they […]

Posted on October 6, 2022 | By forestschoolleader

Today was the sunshine did come out eventually for us. The children were very productive today and resourceful. We had a group working on the mud kitchen. We had children using bill hooks and mallets chopping down the wood to make kindling for our camp fire. We had a group of children who were using […]

Posted on September 28, 2022 | By forestschoolleader

Wow what an amazing afternoon. As usual the sun did come out for us! But there was some rain at the end of our session. They were so amazing and so resilient working and playing in the rain. Today we’ve been looking at staying warm and dry with the survival shelters it then escalated into […]

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