This year’s School Council have been planting a range of trees around the school grounds, that were kindly donated by the Woodland Trust.
All the children have shown an interest in how we as a school can improve our environment. This is one of the many aims they hope to accomplish this year.
The children at Heathcoat Primary School have been learning all about the history of Remembrance Day lastweek.
At 11am on 11th November the children and staff held a 2-minute silence to remember the fallen and give thanks to the serving military, with the Last Post being played by Mrs Bard.
The children in 1D have really been enjoying their Forest School sessions. They have explored the pond area and have also used natural objects to make skeletons, linking to their human body topic.
On Friday 6th October, year 3 went to Kents Cavern to learn about the Stone Age. We handled skeletons and weapons and a hand axe which were all from the Stone Age. Later we went into the cave and we saw lots of stalagmites and stalactites! We were also shown a Stone Age light made from a shell, moss and vegetable oil. Our guide lit it to make a light! It was awesome! We had a fun day and we learnt a lot about the lives of cave people.
By James and Nathaniel
Year 4 had a fantastic day at Blundell’s School before half term. The children were taught some new and exciting things in Science all about the body, our digestive system and about the animals we might see around us!
The children got the opportunity to explore the science labs, test out some equipment and have a rather mucky Digestive experiment done right in front of them! They also had the chance to do some sporting activities with the older children; there was cricket, rounders and other fabulous active games.
Mr Olive was our host for the day, and it is safe to say every child thoroughly enjoyed their experience. We are grateful to Mr Olive for organising such a wonderful day for us all.
We look forward to more exciting and inspiring days at Blundell’s.
On Thursday 29th September Year 6 had the privilege to spend the day at Blundell’s School working closely with the Biology and PE department.
In the morning, the children rotated around a carousel of three science workshops, where they learnt how to use microscopes along with studying and classifying species of plants and animals. After a wonderful lunch, the children burnt it off with an engaging afternoon’s worth of tag rugby, developing specific skills throwing, catching, running with the ball, outwitting their opponents and working effectively as a team.
We look forward to returning to Blundell’s and building upon our partnership with them in the future.
Year 6 had a wonderful, yet challenging four days away at Grenville House, Brixham.
They overcome personal challenges, developing confidence and developing proficiency across specific skills of coasteering, indoor climbing, abseiling, canoeing, paddleboarding, high ropes and team challenges.
All the children thrived from all these new experiences, creating new relationships with one another and with the staff.
During the international democracy day, Y6 not only voted for their new class school councillors they also voted for two they wanted to represent our HPS house teams. Here are our successful representatives.
As part of the weekly celebration assembly, they will collect and celebrate their house teams achievements and dress the House cup with their house colours before celebrating together with the rest of the school.
Forest Schools began for our year 1 children in 1B on Friday and they had such a fabulous time. Session 1 focused on keeping ourselves safe around fire and water. Mr Newsome led the session, teaching the children about the flora and fauna and encouraging their investigative skills.
The children were amazed to find (and hold) some newts. They can’t wait until next week. Here is some feedback from some children:
“I loved being around the fire the best”.
“I liked playing hide and seek and the mud!”.
“My favourite part was finding acorns.”
“I liked it when we were holding the newts. I didn’t hold one but I touched it and it felt squidgy!”
DCC Public Health Nursing has launched a new website to provide school age children and their parents/carers with health and wellbeing advice. The websites developed with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, includes evidenced based national content which has been co-designed with parents, carers, children and young people as well as locally written content and information about Devon services.
Health for Kids provides information for primary school aged children and includes games, videos and quizzes. The site consists of four different worlds: Staying Healthy, Illness, Feelings and Getting Help. Each world is populated with different areas for children to learn about their health.
There is a separate area for grown-ups for in-depth guidance and localised information (www.healthforkids.co.uk/devon