Hidden Herefordshire Workshop
Hidden Herefordshire Workshop Birch and Cherry class had a lovely visitor this week from Hidden Herefordshire. Tim is an expert in all things bugs and insects. The children went on a big hunt in our forest school area to help find the hidden creatures of Herefordshire
Bromyard Scarecrow Festival
Bromyard Scarecrow Festival Congratulations and thank you to everyone who was involved in the Bromyard Scarecrow competition! Our school community had the best time, parading our entry – Goldilocks and the Three Bears, around the streets of Bromyard!Well done everyone! It looked amazing!
Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art Cherry Class also had a whole afternoon of Art. They looked at different types of Aboriginal Art including “Land Art” which is a very important tradition containing much symbolism. They all had a go at drawing designs outside on the ground and painting”dot” pictures of animals inspired by what they saw. Everyone worked […]
Ascension
Ascension Every year to celebrate Ascension Day, the whole school invite their friends and families to walk up Durstone Hill for a service led by Reverend Sidwell – this year was no exception!Willow class acted out the story of when Jesus ascended into Heaven and everyone sang.The children blew bubbles and flew kites as it […]
King’s Coronation Party
King’s Coronation Party Yesterday, the whole school invited friends and families in for an afternoon of celebration to commemorate our King’s Coronation. Our wonderful PTA decorated the playground, arranged an ice-cream van and organised coronation bookmarks for each of the children to keep.The children were invited to create crowns with a winning design for both […]
Time to plant
Time to plant It’s planting time in Cherry Class! On Friday, some of the children worked hard at weeding the vegetable patch and so that our Reception children could plant potatoes and everyone planted sunflower seeds. The children will look after their plants and hopefully get a great harvest!
Lambs in Cherry Class
Lambs in Cherry Class Yesterday, Cherry Class had some special visitors in as part of their science study on animal groups, they were able to learn more about mammals through meeting some young lambs. Before feeding the lambs the children helped mix up the milk formula. Even though they are different sizes, both lambs are one […]
Our Easter Service
Our Easter Service This week, the whole school celebrated Easter by re-enacting parts of The Easter Story. Cherry class waved palms for the palm procession, Oak class acted out The Last Supper, Willow class reminded us of Jesus’ crucifixion and Birch class performed Jesus’ resurrection.As always, the children were fantastic, both at recreating the story […]
Forest School
Forest School Forest School Part 1: the children began at school with some frog spawn and a bit of tree planting, then went to the coppice to build nests with their beaks, like the birds do… Forest school part 2: when the busy birds had finished building their nests, the had time for a bit of […]
African and Canon Dancing in Cherry Class
African and Canon Dancing in Cherry Class In PE, Reception were creating a type of African dance using movements from African animals. Can you guess what animals they were creating?Year 1 were creating canon dances. They talked about the Wheels on the Bus song and how they could create this in their dance. They then […]
