News & Events
World Book Day 2020
It’s World Book Day and we are so impressed with the children today who are dressed up as their favourite book characters!
Netball v Trinity
Prep 5 & 6 girls played really well in our fixture against Trinity. With limited training recently due to weather they really impressed me with the skills shown, determination, and communication between teammates.
Electrical Safety
Prep 2 have been learning about electrical safety and used the interactive game from www.switchedonkids.org.uk to consider electrical dangers in the home.
Learning about Judaism
Today we were very lucky to have Elaine from the Totnes Jewish community join us to teach the children about Judaism. During the morning Preps 4, 5 & 6 had sessions with Elaine enacting a Shabbat celebration, learning some Hebrew and asking lots of questions.
Measuring Masses
Today we have been having a go at measuring the masses of different classroom objects using non-standard units and the balances. Lots of concentration!
Prep 6 Handicraft
Prep 6 have completed their handicraft challenge – to sew their first name initial in buttons. They can now all thread a needle and successfully sew on a button. A task many of them could not manage at the beginning of the challenge. Well done!
Duckling Eggs
Prep 5 have been incubating Indian runner duck eggs this term. Today they were checking on their development!
Pancake Day
Pancake races were postponed yesterday due to the poor weather, but today the children found a few minutes to get outdoors and have their races! St. David were the overall winners!
‘The Nutcracker’ by Tchaikovsky.
This half term Prep 2 have been studying ‘The Nutcracker’ by Tchaikovsky. They finished the topic by composing their own ‘battle scene’. What a fabulous end to this half term. Well done Prep 2!
More Fractions…
Prep 2 have enjoyed a super-fun last maths lesson before half term – we started off by working out different fractions of 9 – the number of cakes in the packet! Then we used cubes to help us find a quarter, half and third of an amount up to 50. What a lovely way to…
