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In Year 2, we recently stepped back into the times of the Victorian era to kick off our Florence Nightingale big question. We all got dressed up into all sorts of Victorian outfits. We had a whole range... from chimney sweeps, maids, poor boys, rich school girls and even a policeman! We started…

Anti-Bullying Week - A Time to Stand up for our Rights!

Our Rights Respecting Class Ambassadors discussed how raising awareness of bullying - and standing up against bullying - helps us to preserve the right to feel safe, the right to to play and relax and the right to an education.

The…

For our cooking this week we decided to make poppy inspired cupcakes. We followed a simple recipe then added red food colouring and poppy seeds. 

We started our session by feeling the poppy seeds and eating a few (just to check we wanted them in our cupcakes). Once we had explored the seeds, we…

Year 1 have had a special visitor this week! Mrs Green, from Newton Abbot museum visited us to kick start our topic on Toys. She brought with her a collection of toys that were older than our grown ups! Some were 200 years old! They were a special collection of toys called a ‘handling’ collection.…

Today in Dandelions, as part of our new Friday cooking sessions we made Halloween biscuits following the BBC good food recipe https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easiest-ever-biscuits.  We made it our own by adding in 'witching hour' and 'vampire bats' sprinkles! After the children had rolled out…

This week in Dandelions we have explored Diwali.

We started the day by reading the story of Rama and Sita, the children were very engrossed and loved the 10 headed King. We then learnt about Diva lamps and how they were used to light the way home for Rama and Sita.

The children spent the day…

We are focusing on one or two historical black figures to celebrate and recognise the important people that helped change and influence our lives!

We have learnt about Ella Fitzgerald, we read her story, listened to her music and talked about how it made us feel then tried to make our own…

Last year we were lucky enough to receive a public access  defibrillator supplied by the charity Jay’s AIM. The team from the charity also came into school and carried out training for the year 5/6 children, staff and members of the local community.

The children decided that they would…

Following the announcement from Buckingham Palace on the death of our sovereign, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the children at KS Buds breakfast club created this beautiful floral tribute. Mrs Vanstechleman and her son Mason, took the arrangement to London and placed it at the gates of…