On Wednesday we walked up to Springfields residential care home. The children took their home reading books and read to the residents and spoke to them about their learning. Some children played word games. Everyone enjoyed the experience. A big thank you to the staff and residents at Springfields for making us feel so welcome and for the cupcakes too!
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We have made a superb start to learning this term in Barn Owls. We are currently learning about the detective genre through our English text, High Rise Mystery. Children have been practising writing to build tension, as well as how to include a wider variety of adjectives and technical language. We were delighted to be joined by DC Jordan from Okehampton Police Station who talked through how the Police investigate serious and organised crime. The children were able to take part in a role-play. The children played roles such as scene guarding, and scientists. Our main suspect even had her finger prints taken!
The Owlets have had a fantastic first week back at school. They have been learning about the polar regions in Geography, capacity and weighing in maths and in Drawing Club they have been exploring the book 'Penguin'. The Owlets were visited by a local police officer to learn about this important occupation. They tried on hats, jackets and hand cuffs. During computing, the Snowy Owls used a programme called Scratch to explore coding. The children inputted codes and explored their effect. The children quickly learnt how to use the programme and were very creative.
The Snowy Owls were palaeontologists during their session with Sara from the Devon Wildlife Trust. The children learnt that a palaeontologist is a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record. Fossils are the evidence of past life on the planet and can include those formed from animal bodies or their imprints (body fossils).The children explored fossils and learnt about Mary Anning.
The Tawny Owls showed their creativity by painting without paint brushes! They used a range of unusual materials including foil and shoelaces!
The Snowy Owls learnt about pneumatic systems and the power of air to make things move. Their design brief was to make a Christmas themed, moving toy for a younger child. The children worked effectively in their pairs and listened respectfully to each others ideas. They shared their finished toys with the Owlets of whom were delighted to see the moving parts!
We were treated to Jacob playing tunes on the keyboard as we prepared to eat! What an amazing, confident performance. Thank you to Mrs Berry for cooking us a delicious lunch to end the term.
All the children enjoyed the school Christmas dinner and reading the jokes in the crackers others had made. A great way to end the term.
The pupils in Tawny Owls, Snowy Owls and Barn Owls had great fun working in groups to create wooden reindeers today in forest school.
The Tawny Owls enjoyed prepping the oaty cookie mixture ready for baking tomorrow. These will be eaten while celebrating their performance of the winter play with their family.
The Tawny Owls went for a walk around Bridestowe village to generate ideas for their English writing, based on the text A Walk in London.
Sarah from Devon Wildlife Trust took the Wildlife Champions litter picking around the village. They collected a range of different types of rubbish and recorded this on a tally chart. Look out for their posters about rubbish which will be coming soon.
The Snowy Owls performed a number of Christmas Carols to the residents of Springfields. They enjoyed singing and the residents enjoyed listening. A wonderful way for the children to be a key part of our wider community. The Snowy Owls were treated to cakes and biscuits after they had sang.
The School Council were joined by other children from the Moorland Hub schools to sing carols at Waitrose. It was great to see all the children coming together and there were lots of compliments of their singing. We even had a message from a professional singer saying they were very good! The public were generous with their donations and we raised a total of £105 for the five schools.
Thank you to our friends at Open the Book for sharing another Christian story from the Bible - this story was about the birth of Baby Jesus and the preparations which Christians make in the lead up to Christmas. Each child has been gifted a book from the Chapel which tells them more about the Christmas Story.
It was fantastic to welcome so many family members into school this afternoon.
It was a productive hour, where pupils worked in their teams alongside their relatives and peers to make crackers for our Christmas lunch next week. They also had the opportunity to create decorations for the community Christmas tree - as well as one to take home. Thank you to FoBS for organising the resources/craft materials and anyone that made a donation towards these. The Tawny Owls have been studying the Julia Donaldson story, Cave Baby this half term in English. They have re-written the story, edited and published them beautifully. The Tawny Owls team were delighted with the quality of work every child produced and couldn't resist making a display of them. Well done Tawny Owls!
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