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A busy Forest school (as ever). Today we looked at the fruits of the forest and found haws, sweet chestnuts, acorns and walnuts. They may indeed have come with pockets full! We also made spy glasses, hunted spiders, den built, slack lined, built a nest and quite a lot of other things, as the…

A lovely afternoon at Forest school. Today we had to find the Gruffalo child, who had hidden in the forest. Some of us made Gruffalo mud faces on the trees and others made snake or fox crumble. We also enjoyed climbing and building dens as well as digging in the mud hole. Thank you for dressing…

What a fantastic start to year 5. During our English lesson the children have been learning about biographies and each child has written a biography, on the astronaut Tim Peake.
Here are some examples of their writing:

Lunch hall lovelies - ate so well and took it all in their stride today

In Forest School this week we noticed that our apple trees are full of fruit. After picking the apples we segmented them, dipped them in cinnamon sugar and toasted them over the campfire................delicious!

Wellie walk, discovery and fruit time … morning gang are getting these routines sorted … what superstars 

We mixed red and yellow to make orange and created a sunset. We then added silhouettes of African animals!

For our term 6 topic 'Mining' we visited Kent Mining Museum. 
The children gained lots of new knowledge about our local history and geography. They enjoyed holding archived items, exploring the museum, as well as hearing from a real miner

Making dragons eyes from clay in Year 2

DT - sewing
In year 5, the children have made WW2 Gonks, as their DT project. They have has to show lots of perseverance and collaboration to learn to sew. They look amazing! 

The Koala's have been learning about plants in Science. As we have been reading 'Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk', we decided to grow our own beanstalks - and even investigated if a jelly bean would actually grow into a beanstalk. 
We learnt that beans need light and water to grow (but not too much…

For our geography fieldwork we have been thinking about which location in our school grounds would be best for creating a wildlife garden.  One of our fieldwork activities was to collect different habitats, find woodlice, leave them over night and see which habitat suited them the best.  After 24…