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Fencing taster session – Stroxworthy Class

Well what a way to finish our Wednesday! We had a superb session where   the children experienced all the basic techniques of fencing. They had a wonderful and enjoyable time.

Burford woods summer time

Today Stroxworthy class went to Burford woods. They were amazing, we had a day of campfire cooking, den building and paracord dragon knotting. I can’t say enough how proud I am off them today. There was some resilience with the struggles of fire lighting with the wet ground. There was compromising when it came to […]

Stroxworthy Visit to the Methodist Chapel, Woolsery

Following on from our visit to All Hallows last week, today we visited The Methodist Chapel to compare similarities and differences in ‘what is sacred’, and how the buildings help Christians to remember the life of Jesus. Rev’d Shirley led us and we discovered many similarities, such as hymn singing (Methodists love hymns and we […]

Fire lighting and prey and predator game

Today stoxwothy worked on their resilience and team work. They worked together to try and light a fire. They were amazing at helping each other and giving each other positive advice to help each other to achieve the end goal. Some found it hard whilst others found it easy but the whole experience was positive. […]

Stroxworthy Science – Can sound waves travel through solids?

This week in science we were identifying how sounds are made; associating some of them with something vibrating. We recognised that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear and that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. We did this by making and testing out string telephones.  

Stroxworthy Trip to All Hallows, Woolsery

This afternoon Stroxworthy class visited All Hallows church with Rev’d Jane to explore what items are ‘sacred’ to Christians and how a church reminds Christians of the life of Jesus. Revd Jane helped us to understand which items in the church are sacred, their meaning to Christians and how they relate to the life of […]

Summer solstice celebrations

Today we celebrated summer solstice which is happening Wednesday. We cooked Elder Flower and dandelion fritters. We made a fairy feast of flowers. We talked about the celebration and how some celebrate it with St John the baptist festival with food and bonfires.

Forest school a little different

In this week’s session we were joined with some other students from Alminstone and Ashmansworthy. They had great fun building forts in small groups. Some also enjoyed some games of blind fetch and a orienteering game learning about North, East, South, and West.

Stroxxworthy Science Week

Stroxworthy class have had a wonderful time during science week, from STEM challenges to various experiments.  We have been exploring balloon cars, invisible ink, double bubbles, fizzy lava slime and building towers with spaghetti and marshmellows.  

KS2 visit from RNLI – meet the lifeguards

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.  

Stroxworthy the frog 28/02

Whilst digging for the poly beds we found a little frog his been named Stroxworthy. We found a lovely little safe home for him. We also got busy with our new fairy/pixie garden in the forest school area. The children also got busy making Elder pencils and paint brushes.

Stroxworthy trip to RHS Rosemoor.

On Tuesday we spent a glorious day at Rosemoor exploring the gardens and partaking in a ‘How do plants grow’ workshop.  We learned how plants develop, seed dispersal and what plants need in order to grow big and strong. We also learned how to take care of plants and we all worked together and planted […]

Mud and paper making 21/02

It was great to see Stroxworthy back outside in the forest school area. It’s all changed since they were last here. We discussed season’s and what was different, they noticed there was no leaves on the trees but buds and flowers were starting to bloom. They also started to help with the schools gardening project […]

Stroxworthy Class – The Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah

Today we learned all about the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah which is the Jewish New Year. We explored how Jewish people celebrate this festival which is all about about new beginnings and the year ahead. We found out that on Rosh Hashanah, Jewish people visit the Synagogue, hear special music played on a ram’s […]

Stroxworthy Handball

On Tuesday we began to explore the game of handball. We started with our warm up and then we practised throwing and catching. We are getting rather good!

Stroxworthy Forest School

Today we started to make a willow and hazel hurdle fence (Anglo Saxon style! – link to our History topic!), we made Christmas tree decorations from willow, leaves, wool (using our weaving skills) and still had the opportunity to exploire our usual forest school activities like the mud kitchen climbing trees, gardening, maintenance of our […]

Stroxworthy Real Gym

Today we continued our lessons of Real Gym. Today we were making rhythms in groups and then matching the rhythms using balls. We then were practising our rotation skills.

Stroxworthy Forest School

Today we were doing lots of things in our forest school area: bug hunting, painting our clay, looking for clouds through a window, maintaining the area, painting trees, mud kitchen, making shields and creating faces from items in and around the forest school area.  

Indoor Athletics

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 […]

Stroxworthy Forest School

On Thursday we had another fantastic session in our Forest School area. We explored the mud kitchen area, made clay pots and went bug hunting (for our science topic Living Things and Habitats).

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