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• Year Four Lee Valley 2024 Day 3

  Fri 26 Apr 2024 Nick Lapham

  Good morning everyone.

   

  The children all slept really well again - recharged for their final day on residential. 

   

  We've had our breakfast, left the YHA Lee Valley and driven across to Legoland. The weather here is great today and the children are having the best time enjoying the rides. 

   

  I'll try to add some pictures during the day. 

   

   

  Travel update, just leaving Taunton services, hit some hard traffic in the Bristol area, due to be back for 8pm.

  Mr L

   

   

   

  

• Year Four Lee Valley Residential Day 2

  Thu 25 Apr 2024 Nick Lapham

  Morning 

  All the children slept really well last night. 

  At the moment, they are getting ready to go for breakfast and straight after that we will be going to Harry Potter World where we have a creative writing lesson booked for 10:30am. 

  Mr L

   

  Thursday 25/04 5pm 

  We've had the best time at Harry Potter World today. 

  It was a little busier than we anticipated it to be but the children did themselves proud with their behaviour and respect for the public with several compliments throughout the day about their fantastic manners. 

  We are having tea at 5:30pm and then it's straight off to Quasar for Laser Quest and the Gamers Cage. 

  I've just spent the last half hour trying to get some pictures of the day on the website but unfortunately the quality of our Internet connection here at the hostel isn't good enough to let me complete the upload so I'll try again at Quasar. 

  Mr L

   

  Thursday 25/04 - 10:15pm

  Quasar was great fun this evening with all the children (and staff) enjoying their sessions in the laser tag arena and the gamers cage.  

   

  We haven't long been back at the hostel but the children are all tucked up in bed and drifting off to sleep as I write this. 

   

  If you haven't already. Please check out the pictures of all today's fun. 

   

  We've got a fairly early start in the morning to make sure we are at Legoland for their opening time of 10am. We will be buying the children dinner at one of the restaurants in the park during our visit and departing for our journey home at around 3pm. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to us 🤞. 

   

  Please keep your eye on here tomorrow evening as we will update this page if we are expecting to be delayed. If all goes to plan, we should be back in Bradworthy by 7:15pm. 

   

  Mr L

   

  

• Year Four Lee Valley Residential 2024

  Wed 24 Apr 2024 Nick Lapham

  Hello everyone. 

   

  We are having a great day here at Longleat and all the children are having a fab time. 

  We arrived just before midday and headed straight for the boat tour. The children really enjoyed seeing the sea lions, monkeys and gorillas on the ferry. I'll add some pictures of this later. 

  After the boat tour, we had a quick stop for some lunch and then went to the safari. Thankfully, we avoided the monkeys so all the busses are still in one piece. 

  As I write this, the children are currently having a 20 minute play in the park before we load up and head off to AirHop. 

   

  I'll update again later with some pictures when I have a better internet connection. 

  Mr L

   

  Wednesday 6:20PM

  The children are all having a wonderful time in AirHop at the moment. 

  We'll be having tea here when they finish their session at 7pm and will then be driving to the hostel at Lee Valley. Hopefully the children will all be worn out by then after their busy day and ready for bed. 

   

  Wednesday 10:15pm

  Evening. 

  We have arrived at YHA Lee Valley and all the children are tucked up in bed asleep excited for a their day at Harry Potter World tomorrow. 

  Mr L

  

• Reception at the Dinosaur Park

  Tue 26 Mar 2024 Rose

  The reception class have had an amazing visit to the wildlife and dinosaur park today. They were completely enthralled with the whole day, and have been a delight to take out. 
  We have added some photos today of our adventures and we will add comments from the children tomorrow.

  

• Cricket Engagement Day

  Thu 14 Mar 2024 Elliot Lewis

  On Monday the 11th of March we had Martin Brice in from Devon Cricket. 

   

  Martin ran 45 minute sessions with all of the children in classes 2-6, lots of fun was had with the children working on multiple skills including catching, throwing, bowling, batting, fielding and more. Some of the older children played match based games such as speed cricket and jailbreak, we even managed to get out onto the field which Martin tells me was the first time this year he'd ran cricket on grass!

   

  We pass on our thanks to Martin for coming in to engage our children with the wonderful sport of cricket, the children had a great time. 

  

• EFL County Finals Football Qualifier

  Mon 27 Nov 2023 Elliot Lewis

  On Thursday 16th of November we travelled down to Exeter to take part in a 11 team round robin to qualify for the County Finals in January. 

   

  Coming up against some of the best and biggest schools in Devon, mainly Exeter based schools, we more than held our own, registering five wins, three losses and two draws, our games ended with us in a fourth place finish, top eight qualify for the finals so we finished comfortably, a strong finish to the day with three wins in a row in the afternoon solidified the event. 

   

  I am really proud of the team and their efforts, everybody played really well throughout the day, a special mention to Zachary, Ryan, Edward and Robert who up until now hadn't played for the school team but fully deserved to be in the team and played excellently against a very high standard.

   

  We are really looking forward to returning in January for the next round, well done guys! 

  

• Textiles Club

  Tue 31 Oct 2023 Helen

  Our after school Textiles club have been learning about 'wet felting'. We rolled the felt into balls, using lots of warm, soapy water. Then we added sewn details turning the balls into fabulous pumpkins. Finally we decorated with felt stalks, leaves, faces and a few googly eyes. All finished just in time for Halloween. 🎃

  

• Appledore Book Festival Author Visits

  Fri 29 Sep 2023 Kymble

  On Wednesday we had 3 Authors talk to school at part of the Appledore Book Festival School's Week. Year 4, 5 and 6 talked to Tom Palmer via a video link and were very keen to ask him lots of question about his books, mostly about football, running and history. They then meet Gill Lewis in the school hall. Gill talked to us about her new book (Moonflight), acted out a scene from it and got us all singing a sea shanty! Year 2 and 3 then had a session with Gill, hearing abut Willow Wildthing and Gill did an amazing job of answering all the question. Reception and Year 1 listened to the story of Betty Binoculars with Author Suzie Laverty and then made their own magical binoculars.

  We would like to say a massive thank you to Appledore School's Week for very kindly buying every child in school a book by our visiting Author's. Thank you and Happy Reading everyone! 

   

   

  

• KS1 Sports Day

  Tue 11 Jul 2023 Helen Carey

  After an uncertain start weather wise, we were delighted that the KS1 sports day was able to go ahead. The children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a fabulous morning, showing determination and resilience while competing, and enthusiastic support for their peers. We were also well supported by the children's family and friends and of course our fabulous PTA.
  1st place : Puffins

  2nd place: Magpies

  3rd place: Herons

  4th place: Robins

  

• London Residential all Photos

  Sun 09 Jul 2023 Elliot Lewis

  Hello everybody, I hope everybody has reached some sort of recovery by now after a very long week in our nation's capital.

   

  We travelled all over London doing some absolutely wonderful things, some days leaving the Hostel at 8am, getting back as late as midnight, then getting up and doing it all over again the next day!

   

  The children worked very hard throughout the week to keep the pace of what was an immense trip, I hope the photos that were shared over the 4 days and all the ones here you may not have seen reflect what an incredible time we all had, staff and children. 

   

  We are very proud of the children, their attitude and efforts all week were brilliant to be around and a pleasure to go away with. Throughout the week we were told by strangers, police officers, staff from the places we visited and underground attendants what wonderful, well mannered children they are. They are a credit to our school and you all as parents.