Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Devon Public Health Advice

  Fri 28 Feb 2020

  Devon Public Health have put together a website which brings together all the relevant information about Coronavirus - please use the link below:

  https://www.devonnewscentre.info/coronavirus-advice-from-public-health-england/

   

   

  

• Book Week Fundraising Events

  Thu 27 Feb 2020
  Next week will be our Book Week fundraising events.  Each class will be collecting small change throughout the week, bring and buy book sale where children can buy a book for 50p, £1 donation on Thursday for Book Character non-uniform and all finished off on Friday with the cook book cake sale - we would be grateful for donations of 🧁 for the sale. Any cakes and books left over will be on sale at the end of the day on Friday. Thank you for your support 😃

  

• Fair Trade Event

  Wed 26 Feb 2020
  Six children from year 5 joined children from Gatehouse, Cockwood and Kenton schools for a fair trade conference at the strand Centre in Dawlish. They met two cocoa farmers from Ghana, who told them how climate change is affecting their industry and how the fair trade organisation is helping to combat this. They gave us a tree to plant in our school grounds.

  

• Free reading app

  Fri 21 Feb 2020

  Teach Your Monster to Read has been approved by the Department for Education! The app is free until Friday February 28th! 
   

  The Hungry Little Minds campaign is part of the UK government’s drive to help parents make informed decisions about the use of technology in creating a positive learning environment.

  Following a competition to find the best quality educational apps for young children, a panel of experts has approved Teach Your Monster to Read, describing it as:

  “Genuinely fun and brilliantly constructed phonics game for young learners”

  Please share the news with anyone who might be interested in trying Teach Your Monster to Read! 

  Are you ready to go on a reading adventure? Then download the game today!

  Apple: apple.co/2V92VL5
  Google Android: bit.ly/2cohkeR

  PS: There are no subscriptions or in-app purchases. The Amazon app store should start listing it as free this weekend.

  Tag: Department for Education

  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/teach-your-monster-to-read/id828392046

  

• EYFS Stay and Play

  Wed 12 Feb 2020
  Thank you for coming to our stay and play session. We hope you enjoyed playing with us and joining in with our learning.

  

• Governance Vacancy

  Mon 10 Feb 2020
  

• Ethos day- Flourish

  Fri 07 Feb 2020

  On Thursday 6th February our Ethos team were invited to  Chudleigh Knighton to take part in their Ethos day , the theme for the day was Flourish.  During the day we thought about what we need to flourish as well as what the world needs. We took part in a quiz about the brain which we had the most correct answers out of the school attending. we looked at the story Your Fantastic Elastic Brain and learnt how our brains are always changing and learning.

  Thank you CK for inviting us.

  

• Shaldon Zoo visit EYFS

  Fri 07 Feb 2020

  As part of our Roars,Jaws and claws topic we have had Shaldon Zoo visit us with some of their animals. we were able to hold a cockroach, and African land snail and a stick insect. We also saw meal worms. We learnt about the different habitats that the animals live in and what they like to eat. we were very good at describing how the animals felt!

  "The snake skin is spiky." "The snail feels slimy." 
  Thank you Shaldon Zoo for coming to visit us, we really enjoyed it.

  

• Outdoor Explorers

  Wed 05 Feb 2020

  The outdoor explorers went on a nature hunt this week. They were amazed when they found a bone! Could it be a dinosaur? We know foundation have had sightings of dinosaurs last week!