Bed 🛏️ time
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Ready for bed at the end of our tiring but exciting first day.
Dinner and night time orienteering
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 3 responses
After a lovely pasta dinner followed by sticky toffee pudding, we ventured out once again. This time it was in the dark and we were orienteering around Pixies Holt. We had to locate 17 different dibbers around the site as well as a square stone, brown thing, yellow thing and a stick as long as […]
Moorland walk to Yar Tor and Sharp Tor
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 5 responses
This afternoon we enjoyed an amazing walk being dropped at Sharp Tor and then walking to Yar Tor before walking back to Pixies Holt. En route we saw a rainbow, Devil’s matchsticks, a skull and bone as well as a grave and a four thousand year old house from the Bronze Age. We also […]
Northam caretrust visit
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By forestschoolleader | Leave a response
On Friday a small group of children went to Northam caretrust in Bideford they had a lot of fun replanting daffodils and digging a flat area for there nee shed for their gardening tools. We had a lovely lunch and then enjoyed a chilled out time in their sensory room. We were lucky to have […]
Fuelling up before Moorland Walk
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Enjoying lunch after making our beds.
We’ve arrived 😀
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
After a quick stop to have a first view across Dartmoor we have arrived safely at Pixies Holt.
Computing
Posted on March 15, 2024 | By cpenningtonvsp | Leave a response
This half term, they have loved creating images of mountains in Keynote. We have then inputed the image into AR Portal to create 360 images.
Red Nose Day
Posted on March 15, 2024 | By cpenningtonvsp | Leave a response
Tythecott enjoyed dressing up in red today.
Newsletter: 15th March 2024
Posted on March 15, 2024 | By Mr Cole | Leave a response
Happy Red Nose Day! Thank you for supporting our schools today with our Red To Toe theme in aid of Comic Relief. We’ve had a brilliant response in all three schools and photos will be appearing on the Blog throughotu the day. Please just click on the menu at the top of this page and look […]
Open the Book
Posted on March 14, 2024 | By cpenningtonvsp | Leave a response
Today Open the Book team read the story Praying for Peter. Peter was locked in jail by King Herald. John Mark and others were praying for Peter’s release. God sent an Angel to free him. We had some children help with the performance.
Play to Learn
Posted on March 14, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
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.
Charcoal pencils
Posted on March 13, 2024 | By skersey | Leave a response
Tythecott class learnt how to use charcoal to make charcoal pencils to write with. We improved our knot skills and kept warm with hot chocolate. Ask them what their favourite part of the afternoon was…..
Water resistance
Posted on March 13, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
In science yesterday, we explored which shapes resulted in less water resistance when sinking in a container. We moulded plasticine into different shapes and timed how long it took to sink to the bottom. We timed it three times and took an average before analysing our results. We found that flat round shapes took longer […]
More football ⚽️, more rain ☔️
Posted on March 12, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Well done to all the players after school tonight in the rain. The first match saw Woolsery boys win against Village Schools boys in a hotly contested game. Congratulations to Woolsery who won 7-0 with 5 goals from Cobain and one from Jamie and one from Aaron. The scoreline doesn’t reflect how close it was, […]
Little Wandle Love of Reading : Lulu Loves the Library (2)
Posted on March 12, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
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)
Posted on March 12, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
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
Posted on March 11, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
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
Posted on March 11, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
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
Posted on March 8, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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.