We have had a fabulous few sessions at Forest School with Jules Jackdaw. The children have explored all the signs of autumn. They created some wonderful craft treasures such as crowns and necklaces using a range of hand tools and techniques. They explored the mud kitchen and showed fantastic teamwork in den building. We can’t wait for our next turn in Spring!

Today was European Languages Day. The children in school had a fantastic afternoon of activities planned. We made our own passports to take with us. We started with an assembly looking at different flags, countries and why we might learn another language. Then we ‘boarded a flight’ to our destinations. Each Key Stage 2 teacher had activities designed around different countries and the children visited each one, learning about the country, the language and taking part in activities. We stamped the passports as we went along. Mrs Barber represented the Netherlands, and the children learned the greeting ‘Tag’ and to count to 5. We looked at Dutch food and art, then created gorgeous origami tulips!

Miss Wild represented Iceland with Volcanoes, Mrs Purvis represented Greece with Olympic activities and Mr Bamford represented Austria with a lovely yodelling tune! A fun time was had by all.