Class 4 were transported to the past with a day of history workshops in school on Thursday. Led by the Shropshire Museum Service the children investigated artefacts to learn more about the periods in history.

Anglo-Saxon Workshop

The children sketched Anglo-Saxon artefacts, made a wattle and daub fence (minus the daub!), placed Anglo-Saxon names on a map and dressed up as an Anglo-Saxon family.

Viking Workshop

The children dressed as Viking warriors and a Viking family, ground some barley using a rotary hand quern or ‘grinding stone’ and made small clay plaques by writing our names using runes.

On Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st November Class 3 & 4 both visited The Hurst. The were warmly welcomed by their tutors then they embarked on a wonderful afternoon full of creative writing. Class 4’s session was all about magical doors, the story telling of the tutors captivated the children’s imaginations, which led to an inspiring afternoon.

On Monday 23rd October we welcomed families to our harvest festival in Church.

Frank Nicholls, Church warden, opened our service.

Class One then performed the Apple Song.

Class Two sang the Big Red Combine Song.

Class Three read a harvest poem.

Class Four gave harvest thanks.

Then Class Three and Four performed a Harvest piece which contained ostinato.

The children then brought their harvest donations to the front of church while Luke played What a Wonderful world on the piano.

All the schools’ donations were given to Bishop’s castle Food bank.

The school sang and signed, using Makaton signs, The Harvest Samba.

Our service closed with words and a prayer from Frank Nicholls.

Last night, we had a lovely relaxing evening at the centre. We gathered around a firepit and made smores before heading to bed.

Today, we started off with gorge walking which the children absolutely loved! The water was flowing very fast and the children were being incredibly helpful and supportive to each other. They had to work together to get up the gorge and push through the water that was trying to drag them back down. The slide at the top was incredibly fast and the children had a great time racing down.

This afternoon, we went for a hill walk but not just any hill walk, a hill scramble that required helmets and a lot of nerve! The children had to walk up Llynnodd Coegennan. They scrambled up boulders, enjoyed stunning views and listened to another brilliant story from our instructor, Jay.

Tonight, we are about to enjoy a roast and then we have the night line!

Last night, we all got wrapped up in our waterproofs and braved the night time walk across the embankment to Fairbourne. All the children were in very good spirits, considering it was absolutely chucking it down the whole way! We all enjoyed a well-deserved hot chocolate before bed time.

Today, we all started our day with a TrailQuest. Our groups went off in separate directions and had to complete different challenges in order to win puzzle pieces. These challenges encouraged the children to work together as a team. They had to 3 main attributes in order to work successfully. Communication, kindness and an all for one and one for all attitude!

Once the children completed all the challenges, the puzzle pieces created a map to the treasure, which was a huge bag of marshmallows!

After TrailQuest, we all went and did raft building. The children learnt different knots to secure the barrels and planks together to create fantastic rafts! They all got thoroughly soaked and lots of laughs were had!