12 February 2012
- We feed the birds at the bird table and we feed the voles on the field. The children learn kindness and care from their relationship with the living world and the first signs of spring, halted by the cold weather and snow, only made their efforts more valuable. To see these young learners really concentrate on discriminating a blue tit from its great cousin and to try to predict which of the nest boxes with different size entry holes they will use is to see them develop (hopefully) a lifelong empathy.
- Our new free fruit trees ("Planting free trees - but there's more than free, there's eight of them Mr Storey!") needed to be planted through a crust of snow but were none the worse for that. We thank the UK Tree Council for their generous grant. Similarly we thank the woodland trust for a pack of saplings to enlarge 'Percy's Wood'. This included a Jubilee Oak raised from an acorn collected from the Royal Estates.
- Work inside our classrooms continued with equal fervour as Key Stage 1 said goodbye to Miss Edmonds who successfully completed her teaching practice with us. The topic of 'Toys old and new' was given a boost with some precious older teddies brought to school for study. Our Reception group made friends with our mini programmable toys; the 'Bee-bots'. They planned and programmed routes for the bots to follow, counted and learned to turn left or right and then programmed each other in the playground to follow the same. Much fun and learning.
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