Forest School Activity
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Spring Fire
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It is that time of term again when Mrs Allen digs out her flint and steel and makes her raft ready for a fire. During the beginning of the week, you enjoyed playing fire circle games around the fire circle to learn how to be safe, and...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 01.03.24
01.03.24
Hello Red Class Families,
Fingers crossed the Red Class bug is setting sail out of the classroom! I know lots of parents have suffered too. For those still at home poorly, we wish you lots of love and a speedy recovery.
In Circle Time (Personal, Social, Health, Economic Education), we looked at...
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1st March 2024
Forest School Activity
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Pirate Maps
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Mrs Allen has been teaching you different ways to make pirate maps using chalks, pencils, crayons. You walked your area and decided where your treasure was to be buried with an X on the map. In the afternoon, Miss Barron has had you working as pirates as...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 23.02.24
23.02.24
Hello Red Class Families,
This week, we set sail into our new topic, ‘Pirates’. The children have been busy making pirate ships in Play and Explore and creating pirate ship pictures for our display. Using a fictional character, Anne, we started to learn about the life of a pirate. By the...
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23rd February 2024
Forest School Activity
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Pirates
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We have enjoyed creating our own play ideas this week as the Pirate topic took hold. We created a ship with a plank to walk, we used sticks for swords and enjoyed tying the broom to our leg to become a “Peg Leg”. Our Pirate adventures will continue...
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Happy Half Term Blue Class
Well done Blue Class for another successful half term during which you continued to work hard with resilience and enthusiasm. We kicked off 2024 with an exciting 'Blackwell Film Festival' topic where you created your own films linked to all of your learning. You proudly shared them with Yellow Class...
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9th February 2024
Forest School Activity
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Homes
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We continued our Special places topic this week as we have been sharing our home photos and talking about our home. On Thursday, we went on a wet “house hunt” walk to find some friends’ houses on St Catherine’s Road. In Forest School Mrs Allen has been teaching...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 02.02.24
02.02.24
Hello Red Class Families
Today, we waved goodbye to Mrs Birley. She was last seen heading to her car with a basket of Red Class treats including a Redmond Bear all of her own! We also visited St Catherine’s Church with Mrs Birley. Rev. Sheri gave us a guided tour and...
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2nd February 2024
Forest School Activity
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Schools
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With our new topic of Special Places, you have enjoyed creating a special school for all of the soft toy animals in Forest School. Making sure they all had a seat in the classroom and who was going to be the teacher was great to watch.
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Write Dance
(Gross Motor)
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Row...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 26.01.24
26.01.24
Hello Red Class Families,
Today, Red Class turned into a cinema. We settled back to watch 'The Wind Blew' with our Nursery friends and a pot of popcorn. Next week, our topic changes to ‘What’s Special?’ We will focus on special places and take a little trip to St Catherine’s Church...
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26th January 2024
Forest School Activity
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The Big School Birdwatch
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Mrs Allen has been enjoying sharing her special bird this week as she has hidden her in forest school. You have been exploring how to use the binoculars and the bird books to take part in the Big School Birdwatch. You enjoyed making a bird...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 19.01.24
19.01.24
Hello Red Class Families,
In PE, we used different body parts to travel around the hall. There were lots of interesting ideas! Next week, we move on to rolls! In Phonics, we focused on ‘oo’ (moon), ‘oo’ (book), ‘ar’ (car) and ‘or’ (born)....
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19th January 2024
Forest School Activity
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Snowflakes
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We have certainly experienced the Winter weather this week but yet to see any snowflakes so we just made our own. Mrs Allen has been showing you how to weave them with wool on the weaving boards and Mrs Franklin has been “crafting” them with you with cotton...
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12th January 2024
Forest School Activity
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Ice Shapes
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Mrs Allen has enjoyed hiding objects in ice this week and you have enjoyed working out how to get them out! You also enjoyed rubbing chalks together into an ice tray, waiting for them to freeze and then using for mark making around the Forest School. The...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 22.12.23
22.12.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Our last day was full of fun and laughter with party games, party food and our celebration assembly. In fact, it’s been a week of Christmas activities with our Christmas Show and a delicious Christmas dinner (thank you Mrs Barker and Mrs Miles).
Towards the end of term,...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 22.12.23
22.12.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Our last day was full of fun and laughter with party games, party food and our celebration assembly. In fact, it’s been a week of Christmas activities with our Christmas Show and a delicious Christmas dinner (thank you Mrs Barker and Mrs Miles).
Towards the end of term,...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 22.12.23
22.12.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Our last day was full of fun and laughter with party games, party food and our celebration assembly. In fact, it’s been a week of Christmas activities with our Christmas Show and a delicious Christmas dinner (thank you Mrs Barker and Mrs Miles).
Towards the end of term,...
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Happy Christmas Blue Class
Well done Blue Class for a great end of term. Your performance of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was absolutely brilliant and deserved the standing ovation you got (we've never had one of those before). You certainly led the way as Year 4s with great singing, dancing, acting,...
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22nd December 2023
Forest School Activity
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Stick Rudolph
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Combining sticks and string and adding ribbon, eyes and a red nose was very effective as you all had the opportunity to create your very own Rudolph for home. We are keeping everything crossed that these survive the Christmas boxes in the years to come!
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Write Dance
(Gross Motor)
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I...
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15th December 2023
Forest School Activity
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Sleighs
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Father Christmas and his elves have made an appearance in Forest School this week as you enjoyed making the sleigh with the crates. The pipes made excellent reigns for the reindeers and the santa hat finished off the look! Mrs Allen also opened a new resources – the...
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15th December 2023
Forest School Activity
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Sleighs
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Father Christmas and his elves have made an appearance in Forest School this week as you enjoyed making the sleigh with the crates. The pipes made excellent reigns for the reindeers and the santa hat finished off the look! Mrs Allen also opened a new resources – the...
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8th December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Decorating and a Fire Circle game
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Mrs Allen has got herself (and you) in to the Christmas spirit following a hugely successful story night on Monday with her Christmas decorations. You have enjoyed weaving tinsel in and out of the sand netting and creating Christmas stars with sticks. ...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 01.12.23
01.12.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Thank you for supporting our Big Blackwell Book Festival. We should be entered into the Guinness World Records for most people in a classroom 😊. The children were really excited to see you today and to dress up too! They looked fantastic in their costumes.
We started with...
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1st December 2023
Forest School Activity
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Caves
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Mrs Allen showed you this week a completely different way to use the crates and tarpaulin as you created a cave to match the story with your friends. Pegs are already challenging but with gloves on hands thanks to our first cold spell, this was almost impossible. Resilience...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 24.11.23
24.11.23
Hello Red Class Families,
We were scientists in Red Class as we investigated animals from around the world. We named, described and sorted animals and played a guessing game to identify animals from their silhouette. The ‘Odd One Out’ tested the children’s ability to reason as they explained which animal didn’t...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 24.11.23
24.11.23
Hello Red Class Families,
We were scientists in Red Class as we investigated animals from around the world. We named, described and sorted animals and played a guessing game to identify animals from their silhouette. The ‘Odd One Out’ tested the children’s ability to reason as they explained which animal didn’t...
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24th November 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Bears
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This week, Mrs Allen has been showing you how you can role play a story with just sticks. You collected three sticks of different sizes and used these as your story characters of Daddy, Mummy and Baby Bear. All that was left to do was to find...
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17th December 2023
Forest School Activity
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Poppies and Bear Prints
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In our first week back, you all enjoyed using the crates on the patio to create a poppy shop. You finger painted the pieces of bark with red and black and sold them to your friends. This week, Mrs Allen has been laying down paw...
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17th November 2023
Forest School Activity
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Poppies and Bear Prints
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In our first week back, you all enjoyed using the crates on the patio to create a poppy shop. You finger painted the pieces of bark with red and black and sold them to your friends. This week, Mrs Allen has been laying down paw...
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Red Class Fanfare 18.11.23
18.11.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Another busy week in Red Class. From exploring hot and cold countries in Geography, dancing like fireworks in PE and learning about road safety. We focused on ‘j’, ‘v’, ‘w’ and ‘y’ in Phonics and tried hard to read...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 10.11.23
10.11.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Welcome back to the Friday Fanfare and our new topic, ‘Best Books’. This week, we shared our new class story, ‘The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon’. The book is based on the nursery rhyme, ‘Hey, Diddle, Diddle’. With this in mind, we spent some time...
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Happy Half Term Blue Class
Hello Blue Class,
Well done for an excellent first half term in Year 4. You have worked very hard and are setting a great example to the rest of the school. Learning about 'The Anglo Saxons' followed by 'Planet Earth' have been enjoyable topics and it ended in style with your...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 20.10.23
20.10.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Thank you for attending parent consultations. It was lovely to celebrate the children’s progress. If we met via Zoom, you should find a mental maths progression sheet in your child’s book bag and their personalised target sheet. This is a long half term and the children have...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 20.10.23
20.10.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Thank you for attending parent consultations. It was lovely to celebrate the children’s progress. If we met via Zoom, you should find a mental maths progression sheet in your child’s book bag and their personalised target sheet. This is a long half term and the children have...
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20th October 2023
Forest School Activity
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Scarecrows
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Harry and Betty are all ready to go on show tomorrow as you have all worked hard with Mrs Allen to create the Early Years contribution to the festival. We look forward to seeing lots of you there as you follow the trail to see what characters Blackwell...
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13th October 2023
Forest School Activity
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Scarecrows
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In preparation for the Blackwell Scarecrow Festival, you have all been working with Mrs Allen to create our very own Nursery story character scarecrow. It was hard to imagine at the beginning of the week that wrapping two sticks in a cross position would end up looking like...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 13.10.23
13.10.23
Hello Red Class Families,
In preparation for the Scarecrow Trail, we’ve been busy making a scarecrow. We shared ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’ and then set to work making Betty O’Barley. Thank you, Mrs Allen, for helping us to make our scarecrow. The Nursery children have made Harry O’Hay. Look out for the...
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Red Class Fanfare 07.10.23
07.10.23
Hello Red Class Families,
This week, we started our new topic, ‘Planet Earth’. To introduce the topic, we used dilemma-based learning where the children share ideas and opinions, listen to the ideas of others, make decisions, ask questions and problem solve. As I am the school’s chief chicken checker, our dilemma...
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6th October 2023
Forest School Activity
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Autumn Art
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As we move into our second topic of the term Autumn, on Monday we ventured out of school on our Autumn walk. We headed over the road to our other Forest School sites and began to look for signs of Autumn. We returned with a collection of...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 29.09.23
29.09.23
Hello Red Class Families,
This week we made our ‘mini me’ puppets. The children painted and decorated their cups and used a sliding mechanism to make a moving head. Our puppets will be displayed in the classroom for open evening (04.10.23). You will also see our ‘All About Me’ display featuring...
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29th September 2023
Nursery News – Friday 29th September 2023
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Forest School
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The Gully
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Finally, the gully is officially……open! This week we have talked about how to stay safe in this area and more importantly for you, how to keep the water flowing. It has been fun to watch...
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22nd September 2023
Nursery News – Friday 22nd September 2023
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Forest School
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Open new areas
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With the sand and the mud kitchen fully open for business in our first two weeks, we were ready for the crates. Mrs Allen showed you how to transport the red crates safely, how you could stack with...
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New Year 5s
Hello New Year 5s!
We hope you have had a lovely summer and a well-earned rest after all of your hard work during our very busy summer term in Blue Class. It's nearly time for your new school adventure to start and we imagine you've had fun choosing your new stationery,...
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Blue Class 2023
Hello Blue Class,
We hope you are enjoying your summer break and have had a good rest and are feeling ready and raring to go for a new school year. We look forward to welcoming you back to school on Wednesday where we have lots of exciting learning ready for you...
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Happy Holidays Purple Class
Well team Purple, that’s a wrap!
We have had an amazing year with so many wonderful learning opportunities and memories to cherish. From creating our very own business to going to Kenilworth castle! We were amazed by how you shone during your dance festival and the lovely manners you have shown...
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Happy Holidays and Thank you
Hello everyone,
What a great last day we've had in school today! I'm sure you'd agree that the children sang and retold their Malvern adventures brilliantly this morning, with confidence and smiles. It was lovely for the children to share their books with you, see photographs of Malvern and it was...
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The Final Fanfare 21.07.23
21.07.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Although we have two more school days to go, we have reached the final fanfare! The children who walked down the path with their ‘All About Me’ boxes are now ready to fly into Year 1. I’ve worked with Mrs James for many years and I know...
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21st July 2023
Forest School
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On the Farm
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Who knew toothbrushes would make such good cleaning tools? You enjoyed cleaning all the farm animals on the patio this week – they look ready for September now. You also enjoyed creating your own object for the Festival parade today – enjoy swinging that around in the...
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14th July 2023
Forest School
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On the Farm
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Milking the cows was a popular choice this week as you had to fill the rubber gloves with water and squeeze each finger to get it out again. Such a good exercise for those hands!
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” continues to make the song choice...
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We've Returned...Safe, Happy And Very, VERY Tired!
Good evening everyone,
Well done Blue Class for a wonderful time on our residential. From trekking up the Worcestershire Beacon, to jumping off the King Swing and venturing into the 'Tunnel of Doom', we had an amazing time that we're sure we'll all remember for a very long time.
All of the...
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7th July 2023
Forest School
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On the Farm
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You had fun creating your own farm on the tuff tray with sand, mud and water combined. Those animals had so much fun travelling through all of this. You also enjoyed working as a team to build your own tractor with the crates.
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Dough Disco
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You’re Welcome, Maui
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Poor Evie....
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30th June 2023
Forest School
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Summer
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Cleaning time! The sponges, cloths and brushes came out this week as the Forest School was given a full “Summer clean”! I think it is time to start contributing to house jobs this weekend.
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” has continued to choose its favourite songs from the...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 30.06.23
30.06.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Kenilworth Castle
We started the week with our trip to Kenilworth Castle. We toured Leicester’s Gatehouse and spotted key features, for example, Robert Dudley’s initials carved into the fireplace. We also climbed steps that were over 900 years old. After lunch in...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 23.06.23
23.06.23
Hello Red Class Families,
Mark Riley
At the beginning of the week, Red Class worked with Mark Riley to create a piece of artwork for the back playground. We looked at work by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian artist. He liked to surprise people by adding faces...
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23rd June 2023
Forest School
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Summer
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Mrs Allen enjoyed showing you how you could use sticks and string to create your own raft. You had to collect enough sticks, lay them flat and then wrap. Did yours float in the gully or sink?
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” has made the choice this week...
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16th June 2023
Since our return to school, we have all enjoyed two whole weeks of glorious weather. Thank you for all the hats and cream – we are in a good routine with our longer sunny morning and shorter shady afternoons. Long may it continue for the next five weeks.
Forest School
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Summer and...
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