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Gym tests in Burscott!

Play to Learn

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed lots of activities to strengthen our fine motor skills and improve our hand eye coordination. The activities have also encouraged us to use our imagination and communicate with each other.

Little Wandle Love of Reading : Lulu Loves the Library (2)

Lulu knows all the words and the actions for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and in order to connect to the book, Sunflowers have enjoyed singing and performing the actions to this nursery rhyme.

Little Wandle Love of Reading : Lulu Loves the Library (1)

Sunflowers are enjoying participating in the fun activities connected to this book which help bring the language and storyline alive. It was fun taking part in a library role play which gave us the opportunity to use and act out the verbs and nouns in the book. We have also explored the sensory aspect of […]

Air resistance and parachutes

In science this morning, we looked at the effects of air resistance on parachutes. 🪂 We made parachutes with different surface areas to see which would slow the descent most. After our investigation results, we found that the larger the surface area, the slower the parachute falls because more air is caught in the parachute. […]

Planting and Growing

In Understanding the World we have been planting seeds and learning how to care for plants. We planted carrot and cosmos seeds and we are caring for them by making sure they have light and water. We are excited to observe the changes as the seeds begin to grow.

So far in forest school

This half term so far we have planted seeds in egg shells, made bug hotels and cut wood with a saw and learnt about plants and planting seeds for out polytunnel.

World Book Day in Ashmansworthy

We thoroughly enjoyed playing Guess The Book on World Book Day – there were so many good recommendations!

Really Wild Learning in Ashmansworthy

We had a fantastic time with Kim from Really Wild Learning. We learnt lots of new information about reptiles and we were proud of the way that several people overcame their nervousness to hold Mr Mango and his friends!

World Book Day : Guess my Book

Sunflowers were very excited to bring in their wrapped books, props and clues for World Book Day. It was fun guessing what book our friends had brought in and then watching them unwrap their book.

Burscott World Book Day

A slow worm

‘A slow worm. I can touch it’ After experiencing and seeing the Really wild man last week. This boy was brave enough to touch the slow worm today. Well done

Tennis fun with Lottie

Today Lottie from tennis ARC came and taught us some skills to help us play tennis.

Rocks! Rocks! and more Rocks!

This term we are studying rocks and fossils. Here are some highlights of our experiments and explorations. We started the term learning about the different types of rocks, then we became geologists and began to identify the type of different rocks in order the classify them into the different types. We drew the rocks, described […]

Stroxworthy Geography – Landscape

In Geography we have been looking at the differences and similarities between The Rocky Mountains and Dartmoor. We then created an example of these landscapes in lego and on paper in beautiful landscape drawings.

Lego Man!

Burscott Class had  a great morning with Nick from Stemgineering on Monday, which we then followed up in class in the afternoon. We worked brilliantly together to produce habitats and animals linked to our Geography work an Hot and Cold Places.

A morning of fun with Lego

Today Nick brought his enormous collection of Lego. We talked about our learning in class and told him all about the planets. When we went off on an adventure to build some great creations . We built a rocket to get us to the moon. We built some moon buggy’s. They went fast. Thank you […]

Exploring Space

In continuous provision we have enjoyed exploring lots of space themed activities which as well as being fun, developed our fine motor skills and introduced new vocabulary.

Football vs Hartland in the pouring rain ☔️

Yesterday after school, we played two football matches against Hartland in the pouring rain. In the first match, the boys gave a fantastic team performance, all playing really well and working hard for each other. With two goals from Cobain, one from Aaron and another from Alfie, Woolsery ended up winning 4-2.   In the […]

Little Wandle Love of Reading : Monster Clothes

Little Wandle Foundations for a Love of Reading provides an opportunity to engage in the text of a book. It gives children language development opportunities, enjoyment and a chance to learn key verbs and nouns. Sunflowers had fun bringing the language alive by building in actions as the story was read, learning a new rhyme […]

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