Barn Owls really enjoyed moving and grooving like particles within a solid, liquid or gas. They presented these to the class and explained why they were moving in this particular way. 

Barn Owls have become employees at NACA/NASA; they have enjoyed learning all about the space and aeronautical organisation that they are now a part of through the inference of top secret files. 

The Tawny Owls are studying the topic, Explorers and Adventurers through Forest School this half term. They had a fantastic session with Mrs Roberts, learning about Ernest Shackleton. They heard how the crew of the ship Endurance hit an iceberg whilst on an Antarctic expedition. The crew (the pupils) got stranded on Elephant Island (the environmental area) and had to build shelters and make fires to stay safe. They worked brilliantly in teams and had fun learning key facts too.

The Tawny Owls finished their Art unit, mixing colour by creating beautiful winter watercolour paintings. There were a mixture of ski slopes, northern lights and general festive cheer!

The Owlets and Tawny Owls created some amazing winter pictures this week using a variety of medium including; chalk, pastels and pencils. 

The Tawny Owls have shown fantastic learning behaviours this half term and earnt their 10 golden stars. Their treat was to make, decorate and eat their biscuits!

The Tawny Owls and Owlets had a fabulous time at the Barnfield Theatre in Exeter watching, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The runaway cookie was one of the highlights!

On Monday this week, Barn Owls completed their Science unit: Magnetism. Therefore their end unit assessment task was to create a detailed fact file all about Magnets and the facts they had learnt this term. The Barn Owls children then shared and discussed their work with the Tawny Owls children; the classroom was filled with learning focussed chatter and discussion. The Tawny Owls were so inspired by the older children, they then began to share their Science work and learning. 
It was a wonderful opportunity for all the children to practice and develop their oracy skills as well as actively listen to one another. An excellent way to conclude our Science learning this term, well done Barn Owls and thank you Tawny Owls. We hope to share more learning with you next year!

This term in Construction Club, the children have thoroughly enjoyed letting their imaginations run wild in order to build and create different creations using the construction materials. As you can see Lego has been a firm favourite. The children really enjoyed sharing their ideas, verbally discussing what they had chosen to create as well as explaining to peers and supporting adults all about the different constructed elements. Well done to all who attended. 

This afternoon Barn Owls and Snowy Owls enjoyed a shared PE session. The children worked in House Teams and participated in a variety of Action Stations. First the teams enjoyed a game of football then moved on to a netball game before working within their teams to build and navigate through an obstacle course station before finally moving on to the skipping and hula hoop station. Mrs Court and Mrs Drew-Hill were amazed by the children's team work skills, kindness, consideration as well as their endless perseverance to develop or perfect a new physical skill. Well done to all in Key Stage 2!

Barn Owls and Snowy Owls really enjoyed decorating the village Christmas Tree this morning. All the children had designed and decorated their very own wood slice in order to add yet more festive-ness to the Christmas Tree. 

Bridestowe Primary School all donned their most festive and wintery jumpers as part of Christmas Jumper Day! 

The Tawny Owls have been completing tasks from a kindness advent calendar. Today, they created cards for the elderly in their local community. We hope that spreads some happiness!

Animals near extinction have been wandering through the Tawny Owls classroom and it has started an interesting topic for English. The pupils will be writing letters to the government about the importance of looking after our world. 

Using manipulatives is a key way to learn various maths concepts. The year 2 have been using counters to help them understand crossing 10 when adding and subtracting. 

Barn Owls are really enjoying making and creating different playground items as part of their DT block within Forest School. 

Barn Owls had the opportunity to sing carols and Christmas songs at Castle Drogo to members of the public, Drogo team, family and friends. We then enjoyed a tour of the Castle and learnt all about the family that used to live there and their love of jellies! 

The Tawny Owls have been exploring colour during their Art lessons recently. The pupils used watercolour to create paintings of landscapes of hot countries. Their mixing, tinting and shading were fantastic. 

During Wild Tribe (Forest School), the Snowy Owls explored Ernest Shackleton and his expeditions. They imagined what it would be like to be stranded on Elephant Island and and used their survival skills to get across the ocean and build shelters! 

The Snowy Owls have been designing their own biscuit packaging - they have researched existing biscuit packets and used this to help them to make their own. They have created a name and logo for their biscuits and are looking forward to making the biscuits in the next couple of weeks.   

This week we had a whole school assembly led by Rev. Brooks about advent. We explored things that we have to wait for and how we prepare for big events in our lives.