Newsletter 24th June 2021
24th June 2021
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We have been grateful for the drier weather at forest school and for a burst of sunshine. Year 5 & 6 made their own wooden bubble wands and ‘magic’ mix with some ingredients to make super large bubbles! Our bubbles looked amazing catching the light of the low winter sunshine. We have also been working…
CLASS 1 In Class 1 we have been learning about how and why Christians celebrate Christmas. We listened to the Christmas story. We sequenced pictures from the story and have some fabulous knitted Christmas characters that we use to act out the story and recreate the Nativity scene. We loved dressing up and acting…
Our Allotment Club leader, Georgina, continues to find brilliant things for the children to do. Last week, during a chilly after school session, she got the children hunting high and low for natural things to make up layers in their own sweet jar compost heaps. The children had to gather brown and green leaves and…
This week, the whole school has taken part in CAP workshops. CAP stands for Child Assault Prevention. The CAP team work with children and staff to help reduce children’s vulnerability to abuse. Through role play and use of puppets, the children are given strategies for how to ensure they stay safe, strong and free.
We invited Helen Plant, a Daisi registered local artist (Devon Arts in Schools Initiative), to work with the children to help create a wall hanging that represented our Christian vision. The children worked, over a period of time, on trying to unpick and understand the meaning of our school vision – ‘Aspire, believe and flourish…