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Posted on March 17, 2026 | By forestschoolleader

Stroxworthy had so much fun at the beach exploring in the rockpools, building sandcastle towns and learning about coastal erosion and then finally learning and being apart of a clean up crew. They learnt that there are leather back turtle that come to the coastline every year and how the moonsnail egg casing are washing […]

Posted on November 20, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

On Tuesday morning, Mrs Barnes took some of our Year 3s to a multiskills session at ARC with other local primary schools. The staff at ARC commented on the impeccable behaviour of our children along with their great co-ordination and skills at the different activities. Well done to all of you.

Posted on October 15, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

This afternoon, we used all the skills and knowledge we have been learning in hockey to play in teams in a class competition. After learning the rules of how to play, we took it in turn to play every team. There was some excellent play by every team with good passing, defending and attacking with […]

Posted on September 16, 2025 | By lnisbetvsp

Stroxworthy spent the afternoon thinking about ‘feelings’ with Harold.

Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week we had our last session with Easter Cards and hotcross damper bread.

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. […]

Posted on March 17, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

Last week Stroxworthy lear the about how tides work and how the moon and sun move the tides.

Posted on March 6, 2025 | By soyarzabal

Today on world book day the children came dressed in their P.J’s, brought in their favourite bedtime story and joined classes to share their books together.

Posted on March 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader

This week Stroxworthy were invited to go see the RNLI station at Clovelly. They got involved in safety activities looking at dangers on the coast and how to stay safe on the beach.

Posted on February 26, 2025 | By cdaviesvsp

Yesterday, Alminstone and Stroxworthy joined 120 other pupils from local schools to take part in different sporting activities. They were split into seven groups mixing with the other schools and played a range of games including handball, ultimate frisbee, tag, 5 bats cricket, hockey, dodgeball and an agility challenge. They had great fun attacking, defending, […]

Posted on December 4, 2024 | By forestschoolleader

Today was our last session so we had toffee apples over the camp fire. Fun in the sun den building.

Posted on November 19, 2024 | By skersey

Steve Manning visited Woolsery in the morning and came to Parkham in the afternoon, where Melbury and Tythecott classes become immersed into all things Egyptian. He started with reviewing what we already know about Egypt and ancient Egyptian life. He was impressed how much the children were able to share with him and their peers. […]

Posted on September 4, 2024 | By soyarzabal

Last term the children in Burscott class wrote letters to King Charles expressing their concerns over the deforestation of our rainforests and what it is doing to our planet. Today we received a letter back on his behalf. The children were so excited to hear his reply.

Posted on July 8, 2024 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Last week we enjoyed spending the week creating experiments nad having fun with science. Amongst our experiements were paper rockets, fireworks in a jar and lots of interesting creations linked with our curent topic on plants.

Posted on June 24, 2024 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

What an amazing day we had on Friday. We had a brilliant workshop about becoming a Rainforest Ranger and visited the Rainforest Biome to discover items we could use to survive in the rainforest. We then had lunch, then visited the Mediterranean Biome. We had a play in the park then came back to Woolsery […]

Posted on May 21, 2024 | By forestschoolleader

We had a great day in the woods surviving crocodile infested waters, poison ivy webs and surving without water. They also had to explore and find a missing person with their orienterring skills . We then cooked damper bread, s’mores and campfire pizza.

Posted on May 16, 2024 | By soyarzabal

Sunflowers enjoyed listening to and then learning the words to the poem “Big Green Crocodile”. They also put actions to the words. Sunflowers recited and performed the poem in front of Cranford Class – Sunflowers you were amazing! In order to explore the sensory aspect of this story book, Sunflowers were shown the different musical […]

Posted on April 18, 2024 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Using painting and sewing skills to create a piece of art on fabric, design inspired by Alice Kettle and Hannah Rae.

Posted on April 16, 2024 | By forestschoolleader

Today we were planting and the children were discussing what makes plants grow. This led to a further discussion about what would happen if we gave plants different liquids. So they all decided to do an experiment with lettuce seeds. They broke off into four groups and each group have a different liquid to water […]

Posted on March 20, 2024 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

On Tuesday we made a dough from flour, salt and coffee grounds, the class smelt interesting! We then used this dough to create some fossils using various items. They are now drying and you can come and see them on our windowsill.

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