Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

It’s not rocket science… well actually…

As part of their learning around Space and the Planets, year 2 spent the week running rocket tests on the school field. The week started with us just firing rockets to see what happened, explaining and exploring how they worked, developing our questions and deciding...

Safer Internet Day 2020

The Children in KS 1 had a fantastic afternoon on Tuesday 11th February as they shared and applied their learning around what we all need to do to stay safe on line. The children had explored the issues relevant to them in the morning and then came together in mixed...

Any excuse for a party!

We love to celebrate all of the fantastic things that being a member of the human species gives us all and so Chinese New Year was a great opportunity to not only develop our understanding of China, its georgaphy, people and culture, but also to let our hair down with...

What is Money?

What a great question! This is a tricky one to answer and so when I got asked this by one of the children the other day, I thought it best to bring in an expert! We were really lucky Mr McFarlane, one of our parents (who also happens to work for a bank!) was able to...

Our new traversing wall.

Year 1 and 2 were very excited to go out at break time today and find the new traversing wall was finished and ready to go. This is a brilliant addition to our outdoor environment and will be great in supporting children to further develop their team work, confidence...

The best laid plans…

Our learning on Friday after break did not follow the plan, because we took a detour to explore more of the children’s questions in the moment they arose. It takes a lot of confidence to do this and a bit of skill and knowledge to do it well. As part of our focus on...