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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...

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

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...

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…

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...