Don’t forget it is our sports day tomorrow afternoon (see the previous letter for all the details).  Come and join in with the fun and support your child with the activities 🙂🏃🏼‍♂️

Our school community were entertained by the martial arts, the magicians, dancers and singers during the Summer Fair when they took to the stage for the finals of Honiton’s Got Talent. You all performed with terrific confidence and pizazz! 💫🥋👯‍♀️🎩💃🏼🎤 Well done! Congratulations to our winner, Leo 👏🏻👍🏻 ... and Mr Hasler! 😁

What an amazing day of athletics at the final sporting event of the cluster calendar - KS2 Mini Olympics. There was excitement, adrenaline, determination and teamwork in abundance. The long day saw the children put every ounce of effort in to their running, jumping and throwing events. Their incredible efforts led to the team earning 9 Gold medals 🥇, 8 Silver medals 🥈 and 5 Bronze medals 🥉. And with a total of 632 points, finishing in 2nd place overall 👏🏻👍🏻. We couldn’t be prouder of each and everyone of you 🌟. Thank you and well done on a simply brilliant day. 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️☀️😎 

The children were very interested in how to create movement today. They explored moving apples down the guttering - did they go faster if we added water? They explored moving the plank by balancing on the ends and walking along the plank which involved lots of collaboration and team work. Then they discovered that they could make objects move by jumping on the plank! This resulted in lots of giggling as the dinosaur jumped up off the plank! Super fun learning, developing an understanding of scientific and mathematical concepts through open ended child led play! 

Some of the children have been learning to recognise their names, and copy some of the letters. In Nursery our children are confident to 'have a go' as we praise effort rather than end result, and you can see how the children tackle this task in different ways - some make marks, some write letter shapes, some draw around their name and others draw shapes - all these children have demonstrated mark making skills and an ability to control the pen which are early writing skills 🙂

Today, we thought about how we can manage conflicts. We came up with a list of things that we sometimes do that can heat a situation up and make things worse.   Then we thought about things we can say and do to cool a situation down. 

Year 5 have been investigating irregular and regular shapes using Venn diagrams and Carrol diagrams. Have a look at how they chose to group them here.

The Reception Team would like to thank the Year 5’s who expertly supported our youngest learners around the activity stations today. One very proud teacher....

Year 1 have had a fantastic time in PE today practising their events and activities for Sports Day next week. The children have had lots of fun thanks to the carefully designed challenges from the Year 5 Activity Leaders. And we all loved being with our Year 5 Group Leaders who made sure we were in the right place at the right time, and who entertained and encouraged us too. We can’t wait for Monday! 🏑⚽️🎾🥅☀️🍓🍦😃

 Today at the donkey sanctuary, we learnt many important life skills about what to do in an emergency: fire safety, staying safe online and staying safe at the beach.  We even learnt how to wash our hands thoroughly! After these valuable life lessons, we took a tour around the donkey sanctuary itself.