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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

In PSHE the Tawny Owls have been discussing who is special to them. This included lots of family, friends and of course pets!

What a wonderful day the Tawny Owls had at the Eden Project! The pupils behaved impeccably and many members of the public were stopping them as they explored the biomes, complimenting them on their manners and outstanding behaviour.
The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the Building in Brazil workshop and Emily, our guide was fantastic! She helped the children to clearly understand the climate and challenges that people have when building shelters and homes in Brazil. It was a great way to kick-off our Geography topic; Hot and Cold Countries. 

This week we welcomed Saturn the snail to the Tawny Owls classroom. One of our DMAT schools were wanting to rehome some Giant African Snails and after discussing a class pet with the children we thought it would be a great idea!
The year 2 pupils have been researching information about them and writing their own Giant African Snail guides. These are going to be laminated and kept with Saturn for you to read if he ever comes to visit you during the school holidays.
When he arrived, the children thought about what to name him. All their ideas were written on pieces of paper and then one was randomly selected. We all love the name and we look forward to keeping you up-to-date with how he is getting on. 
The Tawny Owls would like to thank, Mr Brentnall and Miss Barrington for their generous donation of the tank and bedding and to FOBS for contributing to the heat pad and other ongoing costs such as feed. We hope Saturn will be very happy in his new home. 

The Tawny Owls had an unexpected visitor enter their classroom during a break time last week. After a visit from Constable Nosey, they looked for clues as to who could have created such a mess! 
Goldilocks was the main culprit and after hours of searching through CCTV a picture identifying her was discovered. The pupils made these fantastic wanted posters to help Constable Nosey find Goldilocks and while we are waiting to see if she is caught, the class have read and retold the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I think you will agree that the presentation of their English work is outstanding. 

The Tawny Owls are exploring colour this half term. They began by looking at primary and secondary colours and creating these fantastic colour wheels using watercolour paints. 

Rev. Brooks visited the children to talk about saints. The children shared people who are important to them. We learnt that Bridestowe got its name from Saint Bridget who is the saint of the church across the road from our school. 

We wore yellow to show our support for World Mental Health Day!

We were delighted to see the church full of family and community members on Friday for our annual Harvest Festival. The children sang and delivered their lines clearly and confidently. Thank you to everyone who donated items for the food bank. 

The Tawny Owls went BIG with their sculptures this week for art in the environmental area. It was lovely to see some of the groups use their recent history knowledge of Brunel to create bridges. 

As part of the computing unit, Technology Around Us the Tawny Owls have been learning how to use the keyboard. They have started using the spacebar, shift button for capital letters and a full stop to create a simple sentence. 

The Tawny Owls worked in groups to sequence the journey of the lost bear in the text, The Sea Saw by Tom Percival. They are going to be creating their own narratives based on their favourite toy being lost and journeying back to them. 

We were all treated to an African food tasting experience as part of our ‘Food for Thought Project’ . The children tried yam, plantain, figs, Bobotie and much more. The plantain crisps were definitely a firm favourite.