Merry Christmas everyone! Head over to the video resource centre to see the next instalment of our stories at bedtime or anytime - this time a funny festive story to get you into the Christmas spirit.

Merry Christmas to all our pupils and parents.

 

Wishing everyone across the Honiton community a very happy Christmas and New Year. We hope you enjoy this precious time with your families. 

 

Best wishes,

 

The staff of Honiton Primary School

Nursery were very lucky today to have a great gymnastics session with the school's PE teacher Mr Watson. The children balanced, jumped, climbed, rolled, problem solved, took risks and most of all had lots of fun! Thank you Mr Watson!

Here are just some of the photos taken today from the stay and play this afternoon. Thank you to the families for coming, we all had such a lovely time decorating cookies, making Christmas trees and candy cane reindeer. 

What a fantastic afternoon Year 2 have had! We shared our SOLE books to each other and participated in challenges. Challenge 1: Can you make the strongest tower structure using spaghetti and marshmallows ? Challenge 2: Can you make the tallest tower out of paper? Challenge 3: Can you make a tower, castle, or tunnel out of recycled material? After the challenges were completed, children and parents reflected upon and wrote about what challenges they completed. 

Thank You to all who came and participated in such a wonderful, creative afternoon. 

Young or old, you can’t miss these two classic stories which have been animated for TV this Christmas season. The Snail and the Whale is being broadcast on Christmas Day (BBC 1) at 2.30pm whilst The Tiger Who Came to Tea is being shown on Christmas Eve (Channel 4) at 7.30pm. 

We will be collecting home reading books this week in preparation for the Christmas break. We shall be placing holiday reading books in your child’s book bag on Friday. Please continue to read over the holidays. Christmas is a great time to share and tell stories with family and friends.

Reception have had a lovely time down at the woods today! They have had hot chocolate warmed up on the fire, they have sliced and peeled their own apples to make a delicious pudding and then the adults joined us for some mince pies. Reception also learnt how to use a bow saw and a hand drill to make their own festive tree decorations! 

This afternoon we looked at the impact of diet and exercise on the health of our heart. Did you know that our arteries are lined with endothelium which is a smooth layer of cells? If we make poor diet choices and don't exercise enough, our blood vessels can become occluded and this could potentially lead to a heart attack.

We used models and Stop Motion Animation to show this. Check out how we got on!