Our coffee morning was a great success with the NHS Community Team joining us to give key information about the services available. In connection with Healthy Eating Week, this month's session focus on children’s relationship with food with support and advice being offered.

Water is good for all... In Forest School this week, the children have been intrigued to discover the use of some new resources. They operated the new water butt to fill their watering cans and watered the very thirsty plants in our new edible garden.

We were delighted to host our Big Outcome for Nursery this week with the children confidently recalling their knowledge over time as they taught everyone about the life cycle of a duck and shared their experiences of looking after the ducks when they came to visit us 😀

The children were very keen to share their learning about planting seeds and what seeds need to grow: light, water and the right temperature.

The children were all very proud to share their learning journey books as they reflected on the knowledge and skills they have developed across the year.

It was a joyous occasion and we would like to thank everyone for sharing this with us.

In Forest School, the children were in awe of the colours they could see within their environment. They observed many flowers and plants of all shapes, sizes and colours and counted the petals. Some children collected different coloured petals to create a rainbow design 🌈

During our Sports Day, the nursery children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a range of activities, including obstacle courses, running races, cycling tracks and games, all designed to include skills and collaboration. We were delighted that our families were able to join us 😀

In this week's Big Outcome for Year 1, the children confidently recalled their knowledge over time. They taught everyone what Tudor life was like for Henry VIII and Elizabeth I in Kent, the power of the monarchs and the chronological order of the Tudor monarchs on a timeline👑

In Forest School, the children found a tiny snail. They showed an interest in how to look after it and even made a small bath to place in the Bug Hotel. The children reflected and used their prior knowledge to communicate their explanations about looking after living things 🐌

During our Sports Day for Reception, the children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a range of activities, including parachute games, relay races, running games and obstacle courses, all designed to include skills, collaboration and lots of cheering from all of the adults👏📣

KS1 & KS2 enjoyed taking part in a range of activities, including tug of war, speed jump, shot put, obstacle courses, relay races and parachute games. We were extremely grateful that there were lots of adults who were willing to join in, especially when it came to tug of war!

In Forest School, the children used sticks and string to create rafts for the mini-beasts in their Bug Hotel to travel on. They practised how to tie knots to make sure they had a firm structure before their mini-beasts set sail in the water tray.

Y3 developed their culinary skills by cooking Roman dishes using a range of cooking techniques. They developed their understanding of seasonality, knowing where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed, and discussed the changes since Roman times.

Our Year 3 children became fully immersed in history as they took part in a Roman banquet, an educational experience based on cooking and nutrition. Their banquet included spelt bread, Pecorino Romano (Roman cheese) and Libum, a Roman sacrificial cake - all handmade by them 😋

In our Big Outcome for Reception, the children recalled their learning about life cycles and taught everyone about the life cycle of a butterfly and a seed. They demonstrated how to make life cycle wheels and shared their interactive e-books about caterpillars and sunflowers.

The children took part in a fieldwork event using the eight points of a compass, six-figure grid references, symbols and keys to build their knowledge of the local school environment. Working in collaborative teams, they shared their maps and completed the challenges set 🧭 📋

In Forest School, the children experienced a team building game in which they had to listen very carefully to a friend who explained the way in which they needed to travel to get to the end of the course. They all exhibited togetherness, confidence, resilience and perseverance 👏

Reception took part in a visit to Dover Transport Museum, giving them an opportunity to enjoy a ‘first-hand’ experience of exploring various modes of transport from the past whilst discovering what life would have been like when these forms of transport were used🚃🚋