Making tipees is a fantastic skill that encourages to children to understand strong structure. Working out how best to interlock the branches, gives stability and coverage to the outer walls of the tipee. As the children become master builders, they can develop those skills to work on a much lar
In our assembly today, Mr Malik explained that this Thursday was National Poetry Day. It was explained how poems come in many different forms and how they can express how we feel and what we think about at different times. Mr Malik shared a poem called ‘If I were King’, by A.A. Milne (the author o
Whilst the Shaduf building continues and the children hone their ideas, this week we added in the tipee build challenge. Using only the christmas tree branches the children were tasked to build a free standing tipee shaped structure. To create a robust build with a good amount of space inside requir
Angel Court visits have restarted, so wonderful to see the residents again. Neil, a woodworking artist, is delivering the sessions. Everybody was involved in sanding the working parts for the wooden toys that we are building. Then linseed oil was then rubbed into the grain to help to protect and enh
Today Year 3 continued their investigations into building a ‘water moving device’ as one of the children described it. They are beginning to show a good understanding of the value of communication and planning, this was evident in the devices that they managed to construct. They were introduced to u
Today, the children in Year 2 to Year 6 were all excited as they got the opportunity to see cyclists racing in the Tour of Britain 2019. Luckily for us, the route led directly passed our school and we all got the chance to see the dedication and skill required to race at that level. It was all o
Year 3 will be learning about Ancient Egypt as part of their history topic. In our Forest School we have the opportunity to do some practical activities that help the children understand some of the challenges of living in other parts of the world. In class we discussed irrigation, why it is imp
Over the summer holidays, we know that children and families will have had great fun with many adventures both at home and in far flung corners of the Earth. We have enjoyed hearing lots about this from the children over the last couple of days as they have been excited to share their experiences.
During the summer holidays, Reception has had a complete refurbishment. The room has new flooring, new furniture and new resources. Each area of Reception, has been carefully planned and designed to facilitate learning linked to the seven areas of The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and th
The children took these photos at our last summer session at Angel Court. We’ve had such a wonderful time and are always made to feel so welcome. Here you can see the children preparing the render to be applied to the hens everyone has been working on over the last few weeks. Once the render dries t
