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Chestnut Class go to Amberley

Chestnut Class go to Amberley

Chestnuts enjoyed their adventure to Amberley Museum. The children were treated to a ride on a narrow-gauge train and a vintage bus. Sitting on the top deck was a highlight, although it was a bumpy ride! They learnt the main parts of a wheel,...

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Exploring old toys in Brighton

Exploring old toys in Brighton

Sycamore Class had a wonderful time when they visited Brighton Toy Museum. The children went on a treasure hunt to find different toys around the museum, they found ‘George’ the Steiff bear who was 120 years old and ‘Crazy Alice’ the doll whose...

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Filming in Oz

Filming in Oz

The first week of filming of our version of the Wizard of Oz has gone really well. We have had three cameras running most of the time with two parents who are professional filmmakers and some of the Elder children operating each of them. The way...

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Bluebell Woods

Bluebell Woods

The wondrous sight of bluebells in the school woods is spectacular at this time of year. Kindergarten and Sycamores have been in School Wood admiring and painting the bluebells this week. The children peacefully sat amongst the flowers as they...

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PGL Trip

PGL Trip

The children in Elder Class went to PGL for a full day camp to make up for missing out on a school residential. Elders were treated to a raft building challenge, a giant swing and  an obstacle course. They were so excited having not been out much...

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Munchkinland

Munchkinland

Willow Class have been busy creating Munchkinland for the show. They have turned giant cardboard boxes into a Munchkin village with brightly coloured houses, a Town Hall and even a church.  

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Maypole Dancing

Maypole Dancing

May is Maypole Dancing time! Every class preformed a dance at our weekly gathering – even managing to weave the ribbons round the Maypole.

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Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow

The making of the Wizard of Oz “The Movie” has now moved into full swing. Children throughout the school are rehearsing their songs and dances, there are prop making teams and the filming has just started. The shoot is planned to take two weeks....

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Beltane Celebrations

Beltane Celebrations

Beltane Celebrations Sycamore Class have had a wonderful time in nature this week. At Forest School, they celebrated ‘Beltane’ and the coming of summer by creating their own Green Man tree sculptures. The children used clay as a base and then...

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Spring Traditions

Spring Traditions

This week in forest school we celebrated the spring equinox with
songs and poems. Groups talked about the Spring Equinox,
made clay birds and looked…

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Forest School

Forest School

Sycamore Class worked together to create an enormous nest at Forest School this week. They discussed the different materials that creatures use when making their nests and then tried to recreate one of their own. They used leaves and branches to...

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Egyptian Mural

Egyptian Mural

This week Willow Class have thoroughly enjoyed the end of the Egyptian topic they studied over lockdown. They have created a fabulous wall mural…

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World Book Day

World Book Day

This year World Book Day happened during lockdown but some classes were keen to come to school dressed up the following week. Elder Class (yr 5-6) ran a fantastic gathering with a game of guess the character, a book quiz and a song they had written...

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Spring Term 2021

Spring Term 2021

We are pleased that our nursery is open as normal and the rest of the school is open to vulnerable children and children whose parents are critical workers. Teachers are in school offering live teaching and work online with to the children working...

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Nativity 2020

Nativity 2020

This year’s Nativity was filmed due to Covid restrictions. One of the parents who is a filmmaker by profession offered to film each class in a separate location and put the videos together with a background of the children singing carols and...

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Wind Science

Wind Science

Oscar led another magnificent science lesson this week. He demonstrated and prepared investigations for the children to try, which showed them that warm air takes up more space than cold air. Using a Power Point he had made, Oscar explained how...

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Advent at Annan

Advent at Annan

We all know how special this time of year is for children. The weeks leading up to Christmas can be magical and filled with joy. This is no different in school this year. One parent emailed with words which I hope will resonate with everyone.“Thank...

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Fire Lighting Skills

Fire Lighting Skills

At forest school, Elder class children perfected one of the most important survival skills – fire lighting. They had to collect tinder and different sized, dry twigs; prepare the fire; and light it with strikers. They found that collection and...

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Room on the Broom

Room on the Broom

Sycamore Class had a wonderful time re-enacting story favourite ‘Room on a Broom’ by Julia Donaldson at Forest School on Tuesday. After finding an enormous branch in the forest the children helped Helen to wrap a bundle of smaller branches to it to...

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Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival

The annual Lantern festival held at Advent is a very special date in the Annan Calendar. Advent is a time of moving through the darkness towards the yearly rebirth of the light, when the days begin to grow longer. Our traditional Advent Festival is...

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Hedgehogs

Hedgehogs

Sycamore Class have been thinking about hibernation at Forest School this week. They took inspiration from a book which Helen shared, ‘Hodge the Hedgehog’ by Amy Sparkes. They then created their own hedgehogs from clay and spent time considering...

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Up, up and away

Up, up and away

The Kindergarten children started their week by thinking about what might be up, up and away that we don’t always see? This was followed by this week’s Black Line activity - a rocket. During Candle Time, some of the group shared the story of their...

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Beautiful Birds

Beautiful Birds

This week Willows had a fantastic art session, painting pictures of the birds that the children had researched for their homework over the half term. The children had also brought in pictures and models, information sheets, poems and even a...

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Amazing Mushrooms

Amazing Mushrooms

Inspired by some Fly Agaric mushrooms Sycamore Class found on their way to Forest School this week, some of the children decided to create their own models made from clay. The focus they gave and the detail they captured was truly amazing!

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Apple pressing

Apple pressing

We started the autumn term with lots of apple pressing in the Annan orchard. The children enjoyed picking, chopping and then squeezing the apples in the apple press. The juice tasted amazing too!

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Mount Caburn trip

Mount Caburn trip

Children from Elder and Willow Class walked up Mount Caburn in the second week of the autumn term to try out the kites they had made and float fabrics in the wind as an inspiration for the term’s topic of “Up, up and away!” They walked up from...

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Leavers 2020

Leavers 2020

We managed a wonderful Year 6 leavers event in July despite lockdown restrictions. The Year 6 children wrote music, sang a beautiful song and choreographed their own dance display. The Annan tradition of coloured paint throwing to symbolise moving...

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Back to school in June

Back to school in June

As soon as schools were given permission for a ‘phased’ return to school in June we offered Forest School sessions to Year 6 and Reception/Sycamore and kindergarten children. Soon after we invited back almost all year groups for full time school...

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Lockdown camp-out

Lockdown camp-out

Not deterred by not being in school we decided to take part in the Great British Camp Out in May. Annan families were invited to take part and share photos of them camping out in their garden. Some people used campervans, others tents, and some...

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Passion Projects

Passion Projects

During the lockdown the older children chose a “passion project” to work on at home. They had weekly one to one check-ins with their class teacher to discuss how it was going and get ideas for development. The projects covered a huge range of...

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Lock Down Learning

Lock Down Learning

During lock down we operated a fully interactive online portal called “Blick!” Children had work set every day and had interactive sessions with their teachers and their friends. Children could upload their work to show their teacher and younger...

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