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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

Daisi Creative Writing Project

On Tuesday, Tanya and Ruby from Daisi, worked with a group of children making animations.  The children discussed what their stories would be about and made a storyboard.  The children used plasticine to make their characters come to life.  They created a back drop...

Devon Library Service Reading Roundabout

On Monday year 2 and 3 took part in a reading roundabout with Belinda from the Devon Library Service.  We have great fun reading books from lots of different genres.  We discussed these books and reviewed them in our personal reading booklets.  Some of our favourite...

Lucas Jet Circus Visit

The children of years 3 and 4 enjoyed a circus workshop where they learned to juggle, spin plates, use diablos and flower sticks. Great patience was required and the children thoroughly enjoyed mastering the skills needed. In the afternoon the children joined the rest...

Year 3 Science

Year 3 are learning about  Animals including Humans  in Science.  This week they have been working to answer the question “What would happen if we didn’t have a skeleton?”   The children have made hands using rubber gloves and straws and constructed...

Striking and Fielding Festival at Newton Abbot College

On Tuesday, year 3 went to Newton Abbot College and took part in a Striking and Fielding festival.  They were joined by other schools in our Newton Abbot learning community.  They spent time practising the skills of Dartmoor 3 Ball before playing mini games in mixed...

Rekenrek

This week, Mr Hankin introduced year 3 to Rekenrek.  We have continued using this throughout the week and you may have also seen it making an appearance during T2T. We are using Rekenrek to build our confidence and fluency of number sense.  It is supporting us in...