Author: William Stevens

Year 6s had the chance to use the saws and began make some pencil/pen holders. Working as a team, they managed to follow instructions excellently to get the beginnings of their project ready!

Our Year 5 children have begun their new history project for the year and a new topic to the school – Dynamic Dynasties. This term, we’ll be looking back at Ancient China and moving through the various Dynasties during this time. We looked at the most pivotal points on our timeline to learn a little about each Dynasty. We can’t

Our KS2 skills academy group enjoyed exploring and experimenting with the large tree branches in our Forest School area. What started as a challenge to create a large natural piece of art, quickly turned into a game of skill and daring as the children began balancing more and more onto the pyramid structure of branches. We enjoyed exploring nature and

Another year brings about another harvest for our Forest Schoolers. We’ve been de-weeding the planters and are starting to prepare our allotment area ready for new crops to plant.

After a few years away, our Year 5s were able to return to Tudor World this week. The children were taken back in time to a place full of gruesome and bizarre crimes and punishments. The children watched as ‘real’ Tudor folk showed them all the different ways people back then would get punished. Some unfortunate pupils were put to

Off we go! Travel day today. After some fond farewells, our Year 6 children climbed aboard the coach, Wales bound. We made a quick pitstop at Telford services before carrying on through the twists and turns of the Welsh B-roads. Now back after 3 years away, we arrived at Plas Dol-y-Moch and thankfully the rain had stopped. Chester had a

Two children from each year group were able to go to Coventry University today to have a look around their engineering department. We first shared some of our amazing science knowledge with other schools and got to hear what they’ve been up to too. We then were tasked with building a car using K-NEX, which had to support a superhero

We’ve just started our new topic, Towers, Turrets and Tunnels! Year 2 were challenged to use our Kapla building blocks to create a sturdy enough wall to withstand a ball being rolled against it. In small teams they made their wall then attempted to knock down the other team’s walls. We had to make sure we kept the ball the

British Science Week wanted us to think about growth this year and how different things around the world grow and adapt. Year 2 have look specifically at Gentoo Penguins that live in Antarctica. Their habitat is becoming warmer and therefore the weather is changing. Stronger winds and more rain make it hard for them to build their nests. They have

We’ve been resourceful in Forest Schools by creating a natural drum kit out of whatever we could find. We had fun singing and dancing along to the beat whilst we made some beads out of elder sticks.