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• Dartmoor Training 2013

  Mon 10 Jun 2013
  Year Six are in training on Dartmoor for our annual Ten Tors Challenge which is our most extreme sporting event.
  We've learning to use maps and navigate with a compass, and in the last couple of weeks there have been four 12 mile training walks.
  The main photo shows clear skies at Sourton Tor, however most of these walks have involved rain, gale force winds and visibility which has been as low as 20 meters.
  Pretty standard weather for June really !!!

  

• Bideford College Netball 2013

  Sun 09 Jun 2013
  We took two teams over to Bideford College this Saturday to play in the annual "Langtree Reunites" Netball tournament.
  Our A-Team had another successful tournament, playing some great netball to finish in 3rd place.
  Our B-Team were playing in their first proper tournament and we were all really proud of how well this group of younger children played - if they keep on working they'll be World beaters in a couple of years time !!!

  

• Sponsored Walk 2013

  Sat 08 Jun 2013
  Our annual sponsored walk took place last week and as usual the sun shone down on us while we walked around The Tamar Lakes.
  We had a picnic lunch ( which was prepared in our school kitchen ) and, as well as playing in the play area and beside the lake, there was time to play some songs with our ukeleles.
  When we got back to the farm we had a free ice cream.
  Everyone had a great time raising money for the school.

  

• Ice Cream Making

  Fri 07 Jun 2013
  This is Reception sitting in the sunshine at Dunstaple Farm and enjoying some ice cream.
  Before they could eat it they had to go in to the cold of the ice cream factory to make it !

  

• Sculpture Garden

  Thu 06 Jun 2013

  Not everyone wants to run around when they are outside so we have decided to develop part of our school field so that we have a quiet area for us to use during our breaks.
  One of the things that we want to do is create some sculptures which we can display in this new area. We've been creating sculptures for Rosemoor Gardens recently and now we want some of our own !!!

   

  We decided that the best way to get some ideas was to go and look at some sculptures.
  The photos show us in the Broomhill Sculpture Garden near Barnstaple and at Damien Hurst's controversial sculpture in Ilfracombe.

  

• Life Skills 2013

  Wed 05 Jun 2013
  Life Skills is a fantastic event which is held at Barnstaple Football Club each year.
  We spent a whole morning with the fire service, environmental health, the police, St John's Ambulance, the coastguard and groups like that.
  They taught us loads of different skills and gave us lots of information which will help us to keep ourselves, and other people, safe.
  We also had a great time !

  

• Year 4 Residential 2013

  Tue 04 Jun 2013

  It's the end of the trip and everyone is safely home!  We finished our residential with a fabulous day at Crealy, and everyone was certainly tired out by the time we left.  As you can see from the photos we had a great day exploring the reptile house, being daredevils on the rides, getting soaking on the water rides, and wearing ourselves out in the play area!

  Now that we are back I would like to say how very proud I am of all of the children who were on the trip.  Their attitude towards everything that we have done has been amazing, and we have received no end of comments from people we have met about their behaviour.  They have certainly made all of the adults feel incredibly proud of them, and they should be pleased with themselves!

  As always with these residentials there are many people to thank.  Special thanks must go to Mrs Brown, Mr Moulton and Mr Lewis for all of their hard work over the last three days.  Also, thanks to Mrs Carey who came with us to the Eden Project on Wednesday - Mrs C, if we could have snuck you into our suitcases we would have!!

  Final thanks go to the children though, without you guys and your sense of fun and adventure we wouldn't have had such a good time!   Now go and have a restful weekend!!!

  

• Year 4 Residential 2013

  Mon 03 Jun 2013
  It's now 11:30pm on Day Two, and everyone is tucked up in bed and fast asleep.

   

  We have had a fabulous evening at the Minack, and everyone really enjoyed the play!  Luckily we only had one slight rain shower, and that was right at the end!  Everyone went to bed dreaming of rollercoasters and play areas, so I imagine there will be lots of excited faces when we wake them up in the morning!

   

  It's 5:30pm on Day Two, and we are just getting changed and ready for our tea before we head off to the Minack.   We have had an awesome day, exploring the Maritime Museum, building our own boats, racing our boats, traversing the path to St Michaels Mt (despite the wind!!), and finding the Giant's Heart on the way to the very top where we were able to explore the enormous castle!  Needless to say we are all having a well earnt rest for a moment!

  We started the day at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth.  We carried out lots of experiments to help us get ideas for our own boats, then we were let loose on the scrap materials!  As you can see, our boats were very imaginative!

   

  This afternoon we have been on a rather windy adventure to St Michael's Mount.  We had lots of fun finding out about the legend of the Giant whose heart is buried in the path.  The teachers acted out the legend for us which was entertaining for children and all the other tourists - especially Mrs Brown's performance as the poor sheep!

   

  It's eleven pm and everyone is safely tucked up in bed!  We have had a fabulous day at the Eden Project and Laser Quest, with the scores being very very close and the winning team changing 15 seconds before the end of the match!  We worked at two teams - the red team vs the blue team, and in the end the blue team were victorious!  Needless to say everyone had a great time shooting and being shot!!

  

• Kayaking 2013

  Sat 01 Jun 2013
  Year Six are spending the next eight Friday evenings on the Bude Canal where we are learning to kayak.
  These photos were taken at our first session which went pretty well - we're sure well be on the white water by the time we've finished the course !!!