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Labyrinths
Today prep 5 took part in Buckfast Abbey’s Take 5 online festival. The children drew and walked labyrinths having thankful reflections. The children fed back that they found it calming to walk a labyrinth.
Hand Puppets
In their After School Activities this week Prep 3 have been working on making hand puppets. They took plenty of concentration and good hand eye co-ordination. The tasks proved rather tricky for some, but we all got there in the end! Good perseverance P3.
Doing the Labyrinth Walk in the Early Years
The early years are very excited to be reporting on More Take 5 adventures. Today we made a large Labyrinth in the classroom. We were hoping to be outside however the weather had different ideas! We worked as a team to make our Labyrinth using yarn, conkers, acorns and fir cones. This week we have…
Mindfulness Colouring
Doing some mindfulness colouring….what better way to end a busy School day. All part of the Buckfast Abbey #take5 festival.
Early Years – Take 5 Festival
The early years have been flying high with Take 5 festival this week. We’ve been getting creative making kites and talking about what we are thankful for. The children collectively came up with some lovely ideas which we used to decorate our kites. Family and Toys came high on the list of things we were…
Self Regul8 Sessions
This morning Prep 4 have taken part in the first session of our Self Regul8 sessions provided by the Take 5 Wellbeing festival.
Prep 1 – Taste
This week Prep 1 have been learning about the 5 senses. Today they got the chance to learn about the sense taste, and I think you will agree from the pictures they had fun!
Prep 1 – Maths
In maths today Prep 1 have been investigating coins under £1, we were then challenged to add together either 2, 3 or 4 coins to work out the value, some very speedy addition has been happening this morning!
Prep 1 – Robots
For the last two weeks Prep 1 have been designing and making robots with mechanical movement, also using card engineering. The class have loved learning these processes and had great fun making them into roman solders with swords, shields and daggers.
DT – Windmills
This term Prep 5 had the challenge of completing a windmill with sails needing to turn. We had some fabulous results and Prep 5 loved getting their teeth into this project.
