Apple Day at Castle Head Field Centre was great fun as always!  Year 6 children went down, in the morning, as ‘Young Leaders’ to learn how the apple pressing machinery works and get organised so they could lead groups of younger children later in the day.  Early Years and KS1 children walked down for the afternoon and had great fun collecting apples in the orchard, throwing apples into the apple mill, scooping pulp into the press and, of course, tasting the delicious apple juice they had helped to make.

The Key Stage 1 and EYFS children have been making the most of the outdoors and doing some activities in the school grounds.

This week we took hoops out, put them on the ground and then looked to see what we could find in the circle.  We found different types of plants, fallen leaves, sticks, stones and worms!  We have also been on an African animal safari around the school grounds as part of the KS1 ‘Go Wild!‘ topic.

Today we had the most brilliant day.  We went to Castle Head Field Centre in the morning with Reception and learned about food chains, played fun chasing games, hunted for minibeasts and went on the ‘Low ropes’, it was a really fun morning.

Then after lunch we went in the minibus to Humphrey Head and had a really exciting time; climbing and scrambling over rocks, squeezing through tiny gaps and doing things we had never done before. It was challenging and a bit scary at times but we were all brave and did amazing climbing.  Mrs Law and Becky were very proud of us!

We returned to Castle Head for tea and then did some evening activities about nocturnal and diurnal animals.  A fantastic day, we can’t wait till we go again!

Today we spent the morning at Castle Head Field Centre.  We had lots of fun playing chasing games and finding out about food chains, learning that animals rely on plants and other animals for food.  We also hunted for minibeasts and had a brilliant time going on the ‘low ropes’.  It was an action-packed morning!

This week at Forest School we found lots of leaves and seeds that had been blown down from the trees by the wind.  Mostly they were from sycamore and ash trees, we enjoyed collecting them and filling our pockets!

We had time to explore and find other interesting things, then we did a hunt for different nature pictures around the woods.  We searched for a snail, frog, hawthorn, celandine, ladybird, blue tit, rowan, hedgehog and tortoise shell butterfly and when we found them we ticked them off on our checklists.

This week in Reception and KS1 we have been doing some poetry work in Power of Reading.  One of the poems was about water so we have been thinking of where we find water, what we use it for and what sounds water can make.  KS1 children wrote water poems and Reception have explored water sounds and written poems using these ‘watery’ words.

The children have also been looking at artwork showing water and have had a go at using pastels and paints to create their own pictures.  Today in maths we worked on capacity; comparing which containers hold more/less than others and using water to measure.

Today we had a rainy afternoon in the woods.  Although it was wet we still had fun; exploring, finding interesting things, looking at and identifying different plants.

This morning Reception and KS1 children were weighing in maths.  Older children were selecting objects, estimating weight in grams and then using balancing scales and weights to see what their mass actually was.   Y1 were trying to find items that weighed more than 1/4 kg, using scales to weigh each item and reception children were comparing weights of objects and balancing objects with cubes.

Well done children you worked really hard!

We have been enjoying Spring and, this afternoon, we had fun walking around the village to find different colours.  We had colour charts to look at and tried to match things we found to a colour on our chart.  We saw lots of plants with different coloured flowers and also found some man-made things which matched our colour charts.

Yesterday we went on a school visit to the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis.  There we saw lots of different animals and even got to stroke and hold some of them if we wanted to.  This term we have been learning about America and South America and finding out about different animals that live there.  On the trip we saw animals from Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil as well as others from all over the world.