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We have been grateful for the drier weather at forest school and for a burst of sunshine. Year 5 & 6 made their own wooden bubble wands and ‘magic’ mix with some ingredients to make super large bubbles! Our bubbles looked amazing catching the light of the low winter sunshine. We have also been working…
Our Allotment Club leader, Georgina, continues to find brilliant things for the children to do. Last week, during a chilly after school session, she got the children hunting high and low for natural things to make up layers in their own sweet jar compost heaps. The children had to gather brown and green leaves and…
Have a look at the eggs we’ve been experimenting with in science… Class 3 left these eggs in different liquids over half term to see what would happen. We left them in lemon juice, Coke, vinegar, blue food colouring, and finally, a mixture of all of the above! The vinegar had dissolved the hard shell…
Class 3 have completed their half term of PE lessons at St Luke’s in Exeter. For the last 5 weeks, the class have been doing gymnastics and finished off yesterday by showing routines on the floor mats and blocks which included balances and rolls. Following on from this, they have also been doing swimming lessons…
The school had a visitor from Fizz Pop Science in assembly this week. She was here to tell the children about an after-school club that begins after half term and gave an interactive presentation all about air which involved straws, a hairdryer and a leaf blower!
Class 2 loved performing their rhyming poems – some of them were very amusing!
This term, Class 4 went to Belmont Chapel to experience a LIFE exhibition put on by the ICE team. They learnt about Jesus’ life through interactive quizzes, music videos and stories. Thank you to Jemma and Karen for driving the children as this enabled us to offer the trip free of charge.
The Department for Education released a league table of primary school performance, showing the results of the 2019 Key Stage 2 assessments. Kenn Church of England Primary School reached fourth place in Devon with an incredible 93% expected and 27% high. View the Devon Live article here
Due to the very high level of trespassing on the tracks by young people in our local area, Network Rail in partnership with Learn Live are working to help raise awareness to students across the UK educating them about the dangers of the train tracks through interactive digital delivery. Please watch and share this video….