A nurturing environment, inspiring achievement

We had to bring the outside inside today, but had lots of fun creating our own Christmas wreaths, cress snowmen and Christmas cards using natural materials.

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed taking their learning outside the classroom and into the school hall, where they reinforced their understanding of the order of the planets, how quickly each one orbits the Sun, and the unique climate of every planet — with Mercury being the hottest and Neptune the coldest. The children especially loved creating their own rhymes to remember the planetary order, as well as researching fascinating facts about their chosen planet. Working in pairs allow

We have been focusing on the story book Stickman so we took the opportunity (and gap between the rain) to go into the forest area and make our own stickmen!  The children worked together and made sure that they moved large sticks/logs around safely.

Year 2 have enjoyed Learning Outside the Classroom this half term. Half of the class have experienced Forest School sessions while the others have explored the materials used outside during Science learning.

This week we had a very busy, but lovely time outdoors. We planted garlic and onion bulbs, weaved willow into our fence, raked leaves for our compost heap and made a bird feeder!

We are very fortunate in the Thrive Base to have James from Seedlings helping us learn more about gardening, and our outdoor area.  This week we enjoyed planting seeds, broad beans and garlic, and also creating hedgehog homes.  We are looking forward to some more exciting gardening projects with James.

The children in Thrive have been enjoying our new garden area.

The children were learning about capacity and the meaning of 'full, empty, nearly full and nearly empty'