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Woodcookies

Posted on September 18, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Our sessions was a chilled one with wood cutting, swinging and woodchip moving. We also talked about our sessions coming up and how they wanted to cook something to celebrate harvest.

Posted on September 8, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today we eased ourselves back into school with a lovely session of forest school. The children learnt how to use a bow saw as we are making some wood cookies with their forest school names on them. They had fun with some boomwhackers and enjoyed the sunshine with building dens.

Posted on September 7, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

This afternoon, Ashmansworthy had a fencing taster session. They started with a warm up with four pupils having foam swords trying to strike their classmates below the knee who were trying to dodge them. We then learnt about the stance and how to hold the foil. Following this we learnt how to move forward, […]

Posted on July 23, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

We had an amazing day at the Wake Park: the weather was kind and the activities were awesome! What a fabulous way to celebrate the end of primary school for Year 6!

Posted on July 20, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today was a lovely day. We explored the woods and built new dens. We had cheese and chocolate fondu (not in the same pan though!) We had a new arabic dish called Mejadra (suggested by one of the year 6 boy’s) everyone tried, most enjoyed, and some even had seconds! We did some whittling […]

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 July 10, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

Our Business Week was a resounding success! Everyone worked collaboratively and efficiently throughout the week, sticking to budgets and deadlines. The week finished with a variety of stalls on the playground and it was lovely to see children from across the school spending their money on games, drinks and snacks. Thank-you to the parents who […]

Posted on July 4, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Posted on June 20, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

We had an amazing time at Hartland Abbey: we walked around the beautiful grounds, using our senses to observe and respond to the different landscapes, before enjoying a picnic lunch and an unexpected treat! Malory Towers is currently being filmed at Hartland so the producer kindly gave us a tour of the base and the […]

Posted on June 15, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today was a scorching hot day! So we decided to do some grounding and had a fee games. But over all chilled out in the shade chatting about the changes that are happening in the next few weeks.

Posted on June 14, 2023 | By sappletonwoolsery

Today Miss Grant and I took 11 year 5 children to a cricket festival, which was held at North Devon Cricket Club Instow. We were competing against year 6 children from schools across Devon. In our group we played Caen, Marwood, Woolacombe and Goodleigh. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to play St Helens as all of […]

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 23, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

We had a great time during Science Week, enjoying the combination of class investigations and independent research. We even enjoyed making our spectacularly unsuccessful slime! We were impressed with the extra effort with home learning, the resilience when things didn’t go according to plan and the genuine desire to develop understanding in science.

Posted on May 15, 2023 | By cdavieswoolsery

Today in Alminstone and Ashmansworthy, we investigated which paper boat would hold the most weight. After working out what our dependent, independent and control variables were, we looked at the 5 different types of paper and tried to predict which would hold the most weight. We used card, printing paper, tracing paper, glossy paper […]

Posted on May 15, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

At the end of our topic on micro-organisms, we had great fun creating our own!

Posted on May 11, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Today the year 5’s from Ashmansworthy were able to visit Northam Care Trust in Bideford..they had so much fun learning more about planting and growing. They also were amazing and working along side the trusts clients. We are so proud of them. They were kind, respectful and polite. They were treated to a roast dinner, […]

Posted on May 2, 2023 | By forestschoolleader

Year 5 in Ashmansworthy have been working with some people from the Trust on our poly and allottement area. It’s been great fun.

Posted on April 26, 2023 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Today we were joined by lifeguards from the RNLI. They helped us to explore and understand water safety. We learned how the lifeguards help those in trouble in the water and what we should do in an emergency.

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 April 18, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp

We had a fantastic time on our World War II History Day. We learnt how to dance the Lambeth Walk and the Lindy Hop, tried out a recipe for cookies using only rationed ingredients, constructed model Anderson shelters and enjoyed learning some Make Do and Mend techniques. It was a fabulous end to our topic […]

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