The Water Cycle
Posted on May 19, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today in Gorwood, we explored evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We did two experiments to observe how each occur. We put some warm water in a beaker and then covered it with cling film and placed ice on top. As the warm water evaporated it formed condensation on the underside of the cling film. When water […]
A World of Wonder!
Posted on May 19, 2026 | By lmccannvsp
Foxdown have been learning about lifecycles this half term and the children have enjoyed seeing so many wonderful changes happen. We have been busy planting, broad beans, sunflowers, potatoes, radishes and carrots, Some enjoying hand picked radishes for snack! We have also enjoyed watching the lifecycle of frogs and butterflies…….although we are still waiting for butterflies […]
Year 5/6 football competition
Posted on May 18, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Well done to our Year 5/6 football team who had a great tournament at Westcroft this morning. The team who only played together for the first time today demonstrated great team spirit, encouraging each other in every game. We scored six goals across our games and showed great touches, passes and tackling throughout. You all […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (3)
Posted on May 18, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In order to connect to this book, Sunflowers walked around the School and we talked about all the different plants and flowers we saw.
Teeny Weeny Tadpole in story dough
Posted on May 15, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In Story dough we made ponds, frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets and frogs out of play dough and we talked about the life cycle of a frog. We are developing our pretend play, creativity and understanding the world.
Making Patterns Together in Maths
Posted on May 15, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In maths we have been talking about identifying patterns eg. Stripes on clothes and wallpaper designs. We have created and tried to extend an ABAB pattern showing some organisation and regularity. We have experimented with two or three repeating items or colours.
Newsletter: 15th May 2026
Posted on May 15, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Vacancies Just a reminder that we currently have a couple of part-time vacancies in our schools: one is for a Cleaner at Woolsery School and the other is for the Clerk to the Governing Board. If you are interested in joining our staff team in either of these roles, please speak with someone in the […]
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction
Posted on May 14, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today, we dodged the rain and had great fun exploring Newton’s First and Third Laws. We tried a penny spin, inertia tower, water pressure glass, basketball and tennis ball bounce and the chemical reaction of alkaseltzer and water.
EYFS Continuous Provision
Posted on May 14, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We were very excited to find real visitors in our tuff tray. We learnt that they were likely to be toads as they were brown with a bumpy skin. At the maths table we had the challenge of making ladybugs and then counting their spots.
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (2)
Posted on May 14, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In this Love of Reading Book, Errol was sad because he lived in a block of flats and had no garden🪴 . Sunflowers decided that they would make Errol a window box full of beautiful flowers 🌷 🌺 🌹.
Music in sunflowers
Posted on May 13, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Today we had music in sunflowers. The children chose different instruments to play and tried really hard to play in time with the music, we really enjoyed singing along too.
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (1)
Posted on May 8, 2026 | By soyarzabal
The action words (verbs) that Sunflowers learnt in this Love of Reading Book were “grow“ , “water” and “dreamed”. The seeds then began to ‘grow’ and we imagined the different coloured flowers the seeds would grow into pink, yellow, red and purple. Errol “dreamed” of a garden. We pretended to ‘dream’ of a garden with […]
Newsletter: 8th May 2026
Posted on May 8, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Happy Birthday! Thank you to everyone who supported our “Wear Green” day to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. Hopefully your child will have had a thoughtful day marking this remarkable milestone, and also learnt some interesting things about Sir David’s work in broadcasting and environmental causes. Residentials Three of our four residentials are now […]
Judo 🥋 festival
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By cdaviesvsp
Today, we travelled to Kingsley school with some year 4 and 5 children from each school to experience a new sport – Judo. We joined children from other local schools to learn about Judo through a range of fun and exciting games. In addition, we learnt some Japanese words including how to count to five. […]
Story dough ~ The very hungry caterpillar
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week in story dough our story is the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We learned about life cycles. We made a tiny egg on a leaf, then a caterpillar, then a cocoon, then a beautiful butterfly.
Parliament and Horseguards
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By Mr Cole
We hadn’t expected to be able to go into the chambers of the House of Commons or House of Lords because we thought both Houses would be sitting which would have meant viewing from the public galleries. However, Parliament was prorogued on the morning of our visit. This means it was the “end of term” […]
Story dough ~Fran’s Flower
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Last week in story dough our story was Fran’s Flower. We learned to roll and shape petals and leaves, using our fine and gross motor skills. Some of us made plant pots with soil in, out of play dough. We also mixed colours, talking about what colours we could make out of play dough.
The London Eye
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By Mr Cole
We split into two groups for the London Eye – here are some of the photos of the amazing views. We could see Wembley Stadium in the north of London and Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace TV masts to the south.
Newsletter: 1st May 2026
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By Mr Cole
Residential Success! A huge well done to all of our Year 5 children who took part in this year’s residential to London. It has been lovely to see them getting on so well with other children, and asking really insightful questions about the national capital, our system of government and famous landmarks in the city. […]
Welcome Summer Term
Posted on April 30, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision we have enjoyed playing to learn outside in the sunshine ☀️
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