Bringing Colour and Creativity to the Playground: Chalk Mandalas For Outdoor Art Skills Academy, we’re finding new ways to bring joy, mindfulness, and creativity to our school playground—and one of the most exciting activities has been creating chalk mandalas. What Are Mandalas? Mandalas are circular designs made up of repeating patterns and shapes. Across many cultures, they represent unity, balance,
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So far our brand new ‘fashion design’ skills academy has been a hit with our designers! Over the last two weeks, we have used natural materials to create outfits, and completed some fun designs on our iPads. Catwalks here we come!
We had fun going around the school grounds finding different fruit that has grown and ripened over the holidays. We enjoyed eating apples from the tree, and tomatoes from the vines.
What more could we want than a glorious Friday afternoon outside for Skills Academy. We are all so incredibly lucky to have a school with such wonderful grounds and talented, enthusiastic teachers who offer us a variety of clubs (Year four).
Our new Skills Academy Club ‘Walking and Talking’ has proved very popular with the children. This week, we also incorporated a little tree climbing. It has been such a treat to spend time with this group in the open air and enjoy some very diverse conversation with them.
At EGPS, we like to encourage the children to be as active as possible. On Friday, we took part in an FA run event ‘The Biggest Ever Girls Football Session.’ Girls from year one to year six enjoyed an hour of football on the field. We would like to say a big thank you to our past pupil, Lexie, who
Three of our Year Four children ran four miles during Skills Academy. That’s 16 laps of our field! We were very impressed with them. Needless to say, they were a little tired afterwards.
The sky was bright blue and the sun was shining for our first Skills Academy of Spring 2. A glorious afternoon was had by all! Our clubs this half term consist of walking and talking, handball, running, basketball, arts and crafts and knitting. We have some new clubs on offer: How to solve a Rubik cube and the Junior Ernesford