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Hello everyone! Apologies for the late nature of this update - wifi is not very strong this far south!!
It's midnight on day one and everyone is sound asleep. We have had an amazing day, with lots of laughs and adventures. As you can see from the pictures below everyone is in high spirits and looking forward to another action packed day tomorrow.
We will upload a few photos now, and then hopefully steal the Maritime Museum wifi to get lots more on!
Everyone sends lots of love back home! Thank you for all of your messages - we will read them all out tomorrow over breakfast!

We had a great day enjoying the sunshine at Flambards. The exhibitions were brilliant, and we were so impressed with the questions all of the children asked and answered. We also had great fun on the rides - and went round on them lots and lots of times!

Winter Walking

Sat 20 Feb 2016

As you can see from the snow we've started our "Ten Tors Challenge" training early this year !

There was more than enough snow for a snowball fight, although it's got to be said that we had to work hard to find some "white stuff" as it was only lying on the very top of the moor between Yes Tor and High Willhays.
As much fun as it was we didn't stick around for too long because with wind chill the temperature was well below zero !!

It was a much kinder day once we were back in the valley, however it was pretty wet underfoot - as you can see from the photo it was "knee deep - wet underfoot" in some places !!!

Orienteering 2016

Fri 19 Feb 2016

Class Four have been continuing to improve their orienteering skills with a trip to Castle Drogo on Dartmoor.

The children did both of the orienteering courses that are available to use at Castle Drogo and walked over 5 miles throughout the day. We were grateful to all of the parents that assisted with transport and leading groups around the courses and luckily the weather was on our side.

The children all enjoyed the day and we are currently planning our next orienteering trip.

Tri Golf 2016

Thu 18 Feb 2016

On the 9^th of February the Year Four children took part in a Tri Golf festival at Holsworthy Community College which was run by Tiffany McKenzie from Saunton Golf Club.

The children were mixed into small teams with children from other local schools and did a circuit of eight activities covering different aspects of tri golf scoring points for their teams at each one.

We did really well with children coming in the third, second and first place teams and four children winning a free lesson at Saunton Golf Club with Tiffany.

A good afternoon for year four!

Fire Service Visit 2016

Wed 17 Feb 2016

On Monday Classes Two and Five were visited by the Devon Fire Service.
We learned about the protective uniforms they need to wear when fighting fires. We also learned about how to stay save if we were ever in a fire. All the children were asked to make sure their parents check their smoke detectors at home regularly.
We had a fun morning and learned lots too.

Gliddon and Squire - Finals

Tue 16 Feb 2016

We'd like to say how proud we are of the thirty children who gave up their Sunday mornings this winter to take part in the Gliddon and Squire Cross Country League.
They never put in anything less than 100% effort, even when the weather was terrible, and we are all incredibly impressed with everything that everyone achieved.

As well as loads of effort we also had a great deal of success:

Our Under Eleven Girls' Team had a brilliant season to finish a close second to North Devon Athletics Club; and our Under Eleven Boys also did really well to finish in the top ten.
Our Under Nine Teams were mostly comprised of Year Three children who were running against much older children this year so it is amazin to be able to report that both boys' and girls' teams finished in a wonderful fifth place at the end of the season - roll on next year !!!

Our best placed individual runner was Amelia (Year Six) who finished the season in fourth place.
Imogen (Year Three), George (Year Five), Imogen (Year Five), Joe (Year Six) and Maddie (Year Six) all finished in the top ten overall.

We'll be taking part in the atletics league this summer so you'll need to keep checking our web-site to find out how we get on.
The first meeting is at the end of April and we're already in training !!

New Library 2016

Mon 15 Feb 2016

The story teller and author Clive Pig visited us in school this Friday.

He entertained us with his wonderful stories and also helped us to officially open our wonderful new school library.

Mary is our school librarian and we're really grateful to her for her hard work over the last couple of months setting up this wonderful new area.
We think that it is vitally important for children to develop a love of reading and with Mary's help we are determined to do everything we can to make this happen.

Clive Pig's visit certainly helped !!!

Bude Cross Country 2016

Sun 14 Feb 2016

We took over forty runners to Bude this February to take part in the annual event on Summerleaze Down.
The standard is always really high with schools from across the South West attending and it was great to be able to try and rise to the challenge.

We were very proud of the effort that everyone put in.

Our Under Eleven Boys' Team had a fantastic afternoon; finishing in second in second place, with George coming in sixth and Joseph and Adam finishing in the top twenty.