Y6 Residential Visit

The Year 6 Residential to Brownsea Island was a great success for the second year running. This applied to our VI pupils as well. Last Year all three pupils attended for the entire week. They experienced a brilliant range of activities provided through the week, raising confidence cooperation and independence.  This year one pupil had the same experience and rose to all challenges fantastically.

Our second  pupil did not attend the whole week, but was taken from school, midweek to meet up with the class when they made landfall in Poole.

After meeting up on the quay...

We headed off to Scaplen's Court...

Where after a brief reminder about the Tudors....

The whole class travelled back in time to meet Ned, a Tudor Steward.

The pupils were then taken to meet Goodie, the Good Wife and introduced to some Courtly Tudor dancing.

Then to the kitchen to make tasty Tudor dishes.

In the 'compact' court yard the children were taught the 'Snail', a common dance. 

Then Ned and Goodie came out of role and de-briefed the children.

Then fish 'n' chip lunch...yum!

In the afternoon we went to the RNLI lifeboat station in Poole Harbour.

All the children enjoyed this hands on tour of the boats and kit of this fully operational station. 

The day ended with saying goodbye to Year 6 on the quayside and headed back home.

We all had a great day, thanks to all at Scaplen's and RNLI, the children learnt so much, while really enjoying themselves. 

 

Braille club begins.

This week saw the first Braille club of the year. This term children in year 1 and year 6 have been offered the opportunity to start learning Stage 1 Braille on a Thursday lunchtime. 

The children started by using 'sleep shades' to get an understanding of how Braille works if you are sight impaired. The cohort also includes one of our VI pupils who uses Braille as her main medium. This provides brilliant inclusion for all pupils. 

Bursledon Update

This weekend was the re-opening of the Bursledon Brickworks, which included the unveiling of the brick sculpture that our pupils contributed to. 

You will need to hunt, but within the structures built are the tactile bricks that we made.