Year R Forest School Term 4 2024-2025

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This term in Forest School the children learned a little bit more about insects, playing an ant game which was all about team work and carrying items, learning how to use spades and showing good understanding of the Forest School rules. Caterina and Lorcy built an electric motorbike from natural…

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Year 5 Pig Visit 2

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Yesterday, we were again joined by head chef from The Pig, Andy, for our second session as part of their Adopt a School programme. The theme this time was around cutting skills and the children learnt both the 'claw' and 'bridge' methods for chopping vegetables. They then used a combination of…

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Year 4 Forest School Trip March 2025

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Welcome back to the woods Year 4. 

We had a member from Forestry England join our session (they give us permission to use the woodlands). She brought a tawny owl feather with her and 2 different types of deer antlers and told us a little bit about the forest and the animals. 

We listened to…

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Musical theatre workshop - opera

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Year 3 had the amazing enrichment opportunity of working alongside four professional musicians as part of their curriculum music focus this term, Music Theatre. During the hour-long workshop with two choral scholars (an organ scholar and the Singing Partnerships Lead from Canterbury Cathedral…

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Competition Winners in Year 2

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Congratulations to Year 2 for being the winners of a competition run by the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh to celebrate he work of Artist, Author and illustrator Emily Sutton. The children learnt a little about Emily and her work and then wrote about one of their toys and why it was special to…

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Pesky clay rats

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We hope that the families of Year 2 have enjoyed their clay rats? these delightful creatures were made by Year 2 as part of their Art project linked to Science; Animals including humans and English ‘That Pesky Rat’ in Term 3. the children studied texture and how to create a ‘furry’ look to their…

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Tar Beach and story quilts by Year 4

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Year 4 are delighted to share with you our cross-curricular project inspired by the life and work of Faith Ringgold, an African American female artist and author.

Our current display in the Year 4 corridor is of our own ‘story-quilts, a title used by Faith to describe her own particular form of…

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Shadow puppet workshop - Hazel class

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A big thank you to Creative Folkestone for running an Art workshop for Hazel class last week. The children worked with two local artists, Emily and Tania, who delivered the workshop: Character making, storytelling and performance.

The children began the morning by discussing storytelling…

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The human figure - Year 6

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In term 3, Year 6 designed and made sculptures depicting the human figure in motion. To begin the project, pupils explored the proportions of the human figure and drew from wooden mannequins. They then sketched from movement on film (running, dance, skipping etc).

 As a class, we studied the…

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Year 5 Forest School Term 3 2024-2025

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Welcome to Term 3 Forest School with Year 5. 

I love how creative this year group is - I might be putting out ideas and suggestions, but the children know exactly what interests them. Today we had children building dens, bird houses (including swings) and trying to reach pine cones in the pine…

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Year R Forest School Term 3 2024-2025

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Welcome to Forest School Year R. 

The children have settled in really well, getting to know the rules and the area. They have explored the hammock, the ladder and slack line, the digging area, mud kitchen and mound. We had some hot squash in week one as it was very cold. Year R got to role play…

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Safer Internet Day 2025

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Tuesday 11th February was Safer Internet Day. This years theme was  ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online’. Every class began by sharing a PowerPoint introducing the topic.

‘Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year we cover…

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