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• MacMillan 2015

  Thu 29 Oct 2015

  On Friday 23rd October 2015, Teena, Leanne and Year Six organised a MacMillan coffee morning in the hall to raise Money for Cancer Research. There was also a non-school uniform day for the other classes and Year 6. There was a stall for Cakes [organised by Maisie and Maya] and a separate stall for coffee. The Cakes were 20p and the Adults were asked to pay a donation so they could have a coffee. The classes had two chances to come round and choose a cake to buy; the adults also were allowed to buy a cake too. Lots of people from various classes had made some cakes and dropped them in the hall so we could sell them and so we are really grateful to all the people who did bring in some cakes for us to sell, Thank you! To wear your own clothes for the non-school uniform you had to bring in £1, then you could wear what you wanted. I think everyone enjoyed it, the adults too! All together we raised £241.31p. By Maisie, Year 6

  

• Torrington Cross Country 2015

  Wed 28 Oct 2015

  Our Cross Country Running teams had a very successful time at the area championships in Torrington recently.

  In the team competition three of our eight teams finished in medal positions:

  Our Year Six girl's team finished first.
  Our Year Five girls finished second.
  Our Year Three boy's team finished in second place.

  In the individual competition we recorded three silver medal placings and one bronze place:

  George (Year Five), Imogen (Year Five) and Maddie (Year Six) finished second.
  Imogen (Year Three) finished third.

  

• Harvest 2015

  Tue 27 Oct 2015

  We went down to the village church at the end of October for our Harvest Festival. We were joined by loads of our parents and we had a great time singing and playing for them.

  

• Class 3 at Julian's Farm

  Mon 26 Oct 2015
  Taking our learning out into the local environment is a very imortant part of our work in school.
  
  These photos show Year Three at Julian's Farm.

  

• Holsworthy Cross Country

  Sat 24 Oct 2015

  Our Cross Country Running Teams put in a dominant performance in the annual Holsworthy competition this October. In the team event we won all of the races, in both the under nine and under eleven age ranges, with our individual runners finishing first, second and third in all but one race. We've got some very strong runners in school this year and we're looking forward to many more tests of our ability this winter.

  

• Halloween Disco 2015

  Fri 23 Oct 2015

  Thank you to our PTA for organising another amazing disco for us this Halloween - everyone had a brilliant time !!!

  

• Bees

  Fri 23 Oct 2015

  On Tuesday 20th October Class 6 went to Julian’s farm to meet Chris the beekeeper.

  The class was ferried across in two minibuses and when we got there Chris started to talk about the bees. The first thing Chris talked about was how bees came to live in hives.

  Chris told us that before people kept bees they lived in hives they made themselves in trees, cliffs or even down in the ground. Humans had to climb up a tree or cliff in which the bees had made their hive.

  He also told us about a man called Langstroch, who came up with the idea of keeping bees in a thick, woven, upside-down basket called a skep.

  These progressed into hives.

  Chris bought a fake hive in and asked us a lot of questions about what bees needed to survive.

  We had a great time and learnt a lot about bees and their habitat.

  

• Swimming 2015

  Tue 20 Oct 2015

  Learning to swim is a vital "life skill" which is why we make sure that every child at our school has an annual programme of lessons.
  Our aim is for every child to be confident in water, and to be abe to swim at least 50m, by the time they leave at the end of Year Six and in recent years everyone has achieved this.

  As you can see from these photos lessons have satrted and it especilly exciting this year because we've been able to go down to the fantastic new 25m pool at Ruby Oak Park.

  

• Okehampton Castle

  Mon 12 Oct 2015

  As part of our Castles topic Class 2 visited Okehampton Castle on Friday. We had a fantastic time exploring the Castle ruins. Mrs Carey had taken lots of photos around the castle and the children had to search for their location and tick them off their list. After eating our packed lunches in the sun, we tried on some of the costumes. As you can see the chain mail was a favourite. We had an amazing day.

  

• River Habitat

  Wed 07 Oct 2015

  On Monday 5th October Class 6 made the journey to Julian’s farm to think about Habitats.

  We were lucky enough to meet up with Matt from the Devon Wildlife Trust who has spent several months surveying and assessing the quality of the water in the stream. We spent the morning taking samples of water and then counting the number of creatures present. Lots of creatures means healthy water.

  In the afternoon we walked up to the Long Barrow on Warrior’s Moor. Although the barrow is pretty low now you can see that when it was built 5,000 years ago it was absolutely enormous. Andrew Guy has a small collection of flint tools found there although, as there is no flint in our area, these must have been traded with someone from a long way off.