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Online Safety Newsletter July 2023
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Torbay SEND Family Voice
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Stay Safe Online - Social Media and Gaming
Ten Top Tips for Reading Stories with your Child
Tip Top Tip for Thriving Children (short video)
SEN - Weekly Parent Support Group
Free Parenting Workshops at S Devon College - Jan and Feb 23
Should I keep my child off school (NHS advice)?
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Torbay Family Health Advice 0 to 19
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Worrying about War - a guide for talking to children
Free Mental Health Support for Adults
Toolkit for Preventing Harmful Sexual Behaviour
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A 5 Minute Guide to Being a Calmer Parent
Understanding Anger (March 2020)
Understanding Attention Seeking
Christmas Stresses
Dyslexia Support for Parents
NSPCC Pants Webinar
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Parent Controls for the Internet
Understanding Emotional Development - Parent Presentation
Family Opportunities and Activities
Free Yoga (May to September 2024)
Fair Play Day - free event for families with SEND children on 17.8.23
Free Yoga (May to September 2023)
Torbay Youth Drum Ensemble Information
Free Family Carnivals in February 2023
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Free Mindfulness and Nature Walks (May and June 2022)
Kids Eat Free Cafes & Restaurants over Easter 2022
Easter Holiday Clubs Information - April 2022
Cheap Movies and Food over October Half Term
Free Summer 2021 Holiday Clubs
Free Yoga May to August 2021
Advice from Torbay Children's Services (Feb 2021)
Support for Domestic Abuse (Jan 2021)
Free Yoga in October 2020
RNLI Beach Safety and Resources - Summer 2020
Free Virtual Yoga / Mindfulness
Online Safety Guide
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Free Summer Holidays Yoga
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Parent Survey for Childcare in Torbay
Early Help in Torbay - Supporting Families
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Schools Festival of Performing Arts
New Family Support Worker - January 2019
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Our Amazing PTA for Sept 2024
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Free Christmas Fun Activities for December 2022
New Starters Book Bag Goodies 12.7.22
The Fabulous PTA Summer Fayre 9.7.22
Welcome to the New PTA October 2021 (including Who's Who)
PTA Wreath Making 2.12.21
Christmas Events in Nov and Dec 2021
Amazon Smile Fund Raiser
Cinderella Panto Christmas 2021
Pumpkins in the Rain October 2019
June to September 2019 Fund Raising News
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LOCKDOWN SMILES!
A Message from Staff to Families
Mr Thomas's Selection Box
Purple Rules
May Day!
Garden Ps
Happy Historical Easter!
Jamie's Carry On Flap Jacks
In full bloom
Garage Rainbow Upgrade
Souper Soup!
A different type of class photo...
LEFT RIGHT, LEFT RIGHT....
Myla the Smiler!
April Fools
Smiles in Autumn 2021
Year 2 Animal Fun!
Smiles in March 2021
Year 3 Smiles indoors and out 5.3.21
World Book Day
KS1 Newsletter 8 March 2021
Smiles in February 2021
The Year 5 Bake Off Challenge 26.2.21
Home learning in Cherry class
Year 1 Stretchy Hands!
The photo that made Mrs Pike's day!
Year 6 Task Master Challenge 4.2.21
Making a unicorn in Year 3 5.2.21
Home Learning Fun!
Year 4 Smiles
Lockdown Newsletters
Nate's Chocolate Brownies
Year 4 Stars
Smiles in January 2021
Year 4 Smiles
Lockdown Newsletters
Henry's Proud Box
Vincent's Bird Spotting
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Friendship Coins in Y1
Ava's house for her cat Peaches
Lily's Magic Tree
Year 1 Making Music!
Year 1 in action!
Year 2 Home Learning
Evelyn's running challenge!
Y2 in the Orchard
Smiles in December 2020
Smiles in October 2020
The New Year 1 Outdoor Area!!! (2.10.20)
Smiles in September 2020
Y2 Art
Beech Class Relaxation
Y2 Exploring the Environment
Year 1 Parachute Fun!
Worry Dolls
Exciting new project!
Smiles in August 2020
Mr Thomas has been busy painting!
Outdoor Learning
Look what is growing in the orchard.
The trees in the orchard are full of fruit.
From plums to jam!
Smiles in July 2020
Year 1 make windchimes
Year 1 make watches
Move over Mrs Turner, Arlo is the photographer!
Noah and his thistle
Wind chimes in Year 1
Smiles in June 2020
Y3 Sign and Say Goodbye to the 2019-20 School Year
Dunelm Competition Winners! 10th July 2020
Rufus says thank you to the NHS
Year 2 Lighthouse Art
Beautiful flowers and many things growing in the orchard
Year 1 Kite Making
Look what was in the orchard...
Lily the butterfly
I'm forever blowing bubbles
Art Colour
Frisbee Flying
Butterfly Feeders
Making mini beasts with things from the orchard
Edith Paddle Boarding
Maisie and Seren explore with science
Maisie and Seren make a worry doll
Ines riding her bike!
Emilia having some family time fun
Garlic 'Scapes'
Maddison Learns to Tell the Time
Smiles in May 2020
Rounders and Kite Flying in the Sun
Anton's Painting the new Bird Coop
Maddison's Lava Lamp Science Experiment
Our Wonderful School Grounds
Home Learning with James and Family
Noah's Lockdown!
Beach Art by Ines
A fun scavenger hunt and making wind streamers
Dillon's Cheesecakes
Jacob is being creative again
Creative writing from Jacob
Hand print Art
Poppy's Page!
PE with Mr Woods
Fun in the sun
Thank You to HSC from Anton
Amazing Video from the Hearing Support Team
Smiles in April 2020
Sign Language over Zoom
Lunchtime smiles!
Dawn Chorus
Orchard Flowering
Amazing writing from Edith!
Bread Making with Ines
Art from Sophia, inspired by Sir Terry Frost
Non Chronological Report by Charlie
Martial Arts Action!
Music in school
Outdoor Bubbles!
Ines the gardener
Myo is on a mission!
Year 1 Maths in school.
Dinosaur Skeleton
Edith and her amazing work!
Phonics match and sort in school
Art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy
Playing with the chickens
Evening sunshine!
Frankie enjoys dancing with Monty Mole!
Andy Goldsworthy NHS Art in School
Jacob's Dinosaur Swamp
Ava has been working hard
Life 'grows' on
Punk Pantry - Miley
Dylan's act of kindness!
Myo is 'roaring' to go with his Dinosaur Home Learning
Baking bread
Easter fun for Ines and family!
Science Experiments with Jacob
A Special Box for Friends and Neighbours
The Prentice Woodland Garden
Hunting for Easter Eggs 9.4.20
Caterpillars, Chicks and Bunnies 8.4.20
Outdoor Maths
Chicken prints
Mrs Turner and Barney enjoying the sun!
PJ Bedtime Stories
Easter Bunnies, Boating & Scavenger Hunt 2.4.20
School Fun 1st April
Smiles in March 2020
Smiles from Frazer!
Snow in March?! Snow Way!
Art-tastic!
Little Ones Yoga
A Blue Lamb??
KS2 School Fun
Mr Thomas's Sausages
Mr Thomas's Exercise Bike Comes out of Isolation
Home Learning PE Lesson with Mr Hughes
Wall Art Round School
Year 5 and 6 Hand Art, Origami and Dance
Mrs Morgan's Cat Sunbathing
Packs for Free School Meals
Lighting up the days in Year 3 and Year 4
A Gift of Flowers from Barton Coop
Rainbows and Bears in Windows
NHS Rainbows from Mr Thomas
Bulgar Wheat beats Roast Potatoes
Curriculum
Curriculum Overview
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Looking After our Mental Health
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Relationships, Sex and Health Education Information
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Reading at Home
Read Write Inc (phonics)
Maths at Home
Support for IT
Feedback to Parents on Lockdown Home Learning
Reception Physical Development Resources
Homework
How to Create a Homework Haven
Spring 2020 Science Homework Project
Autumn 2019 History Homework Project
Acorns Reception (Foundation Stage) 2024-2025
Reception Year Curriculum Overview 2023 2024
Reception Planning Rationale
Foundations for the National Curriculum
Reception Baseline Assessment Parent Information 2024
Acorns Parent Handbook 2023
Autumn 2024
Year 1 2024-2025
Y1 whole year curriculum, child view
Autumn 2024
What is a 'Collectable'?
Year 2 2024-2025
What is a 'Collectable'?
Year 2 whole year, child view
Autumn 2024
Year 3 2024-2025
Y3 - whole year - child's view
What is a 'Collectable'?
Autumn 2024
Year 4 2024-2025
Y4 - whole year - child's view
What is a 'Collectable'?
Autumn 2024
Year 5 2024-2025
Y5 - whole year - child's view
What is a 'Collectable'?
Autumn 2024
Year 6 2024-2025
Y6 - whole year - child's view
What is a 'Collectable'?
Autumn 2024
Subject Specific Information
All Subjects Overview in Reception
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PSHE
RE
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Subject Blogs & Reception News
Arts Blog
Y1 Botanical Art 18.6.24
Y2 Apple Drawing Skills 7.6.24
Y2 Quentin Blake Masterpieces 22.3.24
Y2 Watercolour Traditional Tales 15.3.24
Y2 Quentin Blake Drawings 12.3.24
Y1 Matisse Collage 23.2.24
Y1 Watercolours with Parents 11.1.24
Y2 Scientific Colour Wheel 16.10.23
Self-Portrait Winners visit Dunboyne 17.7.23
Y2 Zentangle Mindfulness Sketching Skills 12.6.23
Y4 William Morris inspired Batik May 2023
Y6 Greek Masks with Parents 23.5.23
Dunboyne Art Competition Launch 21.4.23
Year 1 Collage 2023
Y6 Hundertwasser Inspired Art 7.2.23
Y1 Parent Child Collage Workshop 3.2.23
Y4 Hazel's Lily of the Valley - in memory of Queen Elizabeth 16.9.22
The Secret Garden - from audience to behind scenes 21.7.22
Year 4 Canopic Sculptures 12.7.22
Year 5 Peter Thorpe Inspired Space Art February 2022
Henri Matisse Talented Artists Day 16.11.21
Year 2 Colour Mixing Inspired by Quentin Blake 6.10.21
Year 1's Natural paint brushes 23.9.21
Year 1's Chinese New Year Art
Y3 and Y4 Launch their Art-Based Topic, 'Picture This' 10.1.20
Community Arts Project 6.12.19
Y3 Birch Class Artwork Summer Holiday Competition at Paignton Zoo
Y3 (Birch) and Y4 (Maple) Perform 'Kookaburra' with hand-made Didgeridoos (July 2019)
Y3 Art & Design 11.7.19
Year 1 Art with Local Artist, Richard Thorn 4.7.19
Aboriginal Art in Year 3 and Year 4 - 14.6.19
Year 3 Ukekele - 4.4.19
Choir Performance at Torbay Festival of Performing Arts 2.4.19
Computing Blog
Y5 Programming 6.6.24
Y3 Stop Frame Animation 26.4.24
Y2 Editing Photos 19.4.24
Y6 Variable Programming 27.2.24
Y6 3D Modelling 27.2.24
Y5 Birch Vector Drawing 26.2.24
Y3 Coding 10.11.23
Y4 Photo Editing June 2023
Y3 Rowan Animation 27.4.23
Digital Leaders - ICT Club March 2023
Y1 Animation 22.3.23
Y4 - Programming - Repetition in Games 8.3.23
Y6 - Creating Media - 3D Modelling 22.2.23
Digital leaders create their own Scratch tutorial 1.3.23
Digital Leader's Safer Internet Day Video 1.2.23
Year 3 - Programming sequences in Music December 2022
Year 6 - Programming Variables in Games December 2022
Dunboyne Friends Homework Project 16.11.22
Teachers being Students - Computational Thinking 18.10.22
Digital Leader's Computing Blog post #1 - 18.10.22
Year 4 - Photo Editing July 2022
Year 6 - Spreadsheets July 2022
Year 4 - Audio Editing June 2022
Year 5 - Programming Crumbles April 22
Year 4 - Programming a Game March 2022
Year 1 Bee-Bots Programming March 2022
Year 4 - Programming Creating 'forever' loops Jan 2022
Year 3 Animation March 2021
Year 3 Branching Data Bases March 2021
Continuous Provision in KS1 Blog
What is Continuous Provision and how does it work?
How does it look in a classroom?
Architect and Construction area
Workshop
Role Play
Area plans
How can children learn through play? Case studies.
Shop keepers
Laptops
Water flume and swimming pool
Rocket building
Continuous provision through the year.
September
October
November
March
April
Continuous Provision Across the Curriculum
Maths
Design and Technololgy
Science
Art
Creative Learning Blog
Y3 Pebble Art 16.9.24
Year 3 Birch Class Enquiry-based Learning 21.10.20
Torquay Fire Station Surprise Reception 15.11.19
Year 1 Get Busy with Stick Man 20.9.19
Year 5 and 6 Beach Day Sept 2019
Year 3 and 4 Survival Day Sept 2019
Y3/4 Australia Day 17.7.19
Year 5 at Cuthbert Mayne - June 2019
Year 5 at Torquay Academy - June 2019
Year 1 Riddles 1.5.19
Y3/4 Animal Interaction 3.4.19
Learning Outdoors in Rowan Class
Year 3 and 4 Fairtrade Café (March 2018)
Design Technology Blog
Y3 Levers and Linkages 14.6.24
Y1 Healthy Fruit Kebabs 13.6.24
Y5 Healthy Quiches 13.6.24
Y2 Healthy Eating Picnic 12.6.24
Y3 Healthy Eating Week 11.6.24
Y5 Researching Mechanisms 6.6.24
Y4 Researching Fabrics 5.6.24
Y6 Frame Structure 27.2.24
Y2 Egg Cosies 26.2.24
Y1 aprons 22.2.24
Y1 freestanding structures 12.12.23
Y2 Bread for Charles II 13.11.23
Healthy Eating Week 12-16.6.23
Y3 Birch Teach Parents Moving Mechanisms 25.5.23
Y2 Sewing with Parents 23.5.23
Y3 Rowan Leavers and Linkages 18.5.23
Y2 Egg Cosy Sewing 16.5.23
Dunboyne DT Homework Challenge 15.3.23
Y2 - the Jolly Postman visits 10.2.23
Y2 Trolleys 10.2.23
Y4 Light up cards 10.2.23
Year 5 Sustainable bags 10.2.23
Y5 Sustainable Bag Making Parent Child Workshops 8.2.23
Y3 Birch 3D shell structures 8.2.23
DT Homework Project Launch 13.1.23
Y6 Christmas decorations - Structures 14.12.22
Y1 Park Equipment Design, Make, Evaluate 12.12.22
Y1 Park Equipment Research 29.11.22
Y1 Autumn Vegetable Soup 4.11.22
Y3 Healthy Smoothies 18.7.22
Y4 Strengthening Structures - Egyptian Shaduf 13.7.22
Y6 Chocolate Boxes - Yum 26.5.22
Year 2 Finger Puppets - May 2022
Year 1 Slider and Levers 25.3.22
Year 4 Viking Purses Nov 2021
Year 5 Cams in action
Year 3 Healthy Eating Week 17.6.21
Y4 Strengthening Structures - Egyptian Shaduf 13.7.22
Year 1 Healthy Eating 14.6.21
Year 5 Moving Duck Mechanism 25.5.21
Year 3 Roman Catapults March 2021
Year 1 mechanisms
Year 1 pizza muffin making 26/2/21
21.01.21 Hedgehog Houses
17.12.20 Year 4 Light up Christmas Cards
17.12.20 Year 5 Lavender bags
17.12.20 Year 2 Trolleys
17/12/2020 Year 1 Christmas stockings 2020
Year 1 and 2 Join Recycle Devon 29.1.20
Year 1 Moving Pictures - July 2019
Y4 Maple's Boomerang Technology 4.7.19
Year 1 Kite Making
Year 1 Live Internet Cook-Along 11.6.19
Year 4 and 5 Technology at Cuthbert Mayne
Computing in Year 5 (21.3.19)
Y3 Art & Design 11.7.19
Year 1 Christmas Stockings 12.12.19
Speech and Language Blog
Eco Blog
Devon Wildlife Trust Recognition 15.9.23
Torbay Waste Education in Y2 3.5.23
Big Orchard News (South West Water) 28.4.23
Student Council Beach Clean 25.4.23
Parent and Child Gardening Hour 4.11.22
Thank You to The Outdoor Guide Foundation 19.5.22
Beautiful Orchard Provision 6.5.22
Oscar makes Daily Express Headlines with Prime Minister Feb 2022
WWF-UK Thanks to St Margaret's for COP26 Promises 18.11.21
COP26 at St Margaret's - Looking after our Home, Planet Earth 5.11.21
Shorts Farm Halloween 14.10.21
Shorts Farm Bird Boxes 7.10.21
Shorts Farm Club 16.7.21 - Fruit Harvest and Tasting
Shorts Farm Club - First Day 21.5.21
Outdoor Learning with Devon Waste Management Y1 and Y2 11.5.21
Planning for Bronze and Planting for Spring 29.1.20
Rock Art Eco Warriors 14.1.20
Eco Warriors find Treasure 29.10.19
Strawberry Picking in our Orchard 27.6.19
Eco Bricks - Saving our Oceans
Outdoor Learning
Forest School Blog
Y3 Holly Mudtacular! 3.5.24
Y2 Oak Digging for Treasure 12.1.24
Y2 Oak - Muddy Dinners and Fallen Apple Tree 5.1.24
Y2 Apple - Potions and Litter 5.1.24
Y1 Spiders, Worms and Mud 10.11.23
Y1 Obstacles in the Mud 3.11.23
Y1 Mud, Puddles and Slides 20.10.23
Year 1 in the Mud 13.10.23
Year 5 Forest School News - Summer 2022
Year 4 Learning about Survival and Teamwork Jan 2022
Year 4 Identifying Trees and Making Shelters 6.10.21
Year 3 Enjoying Forest School March 2021
Year 4 Hazel Cooking Eggs 16.11.20
Willow's Dens and Knots 4.2.20
Wet and Windy under the Wolf Moon 29.1.20
Wind, Rain, Spiders and Halloween 31.10.19
Citizen Science Project - What's Under Your Feet? 18.10.19
An introduction to Forest School Oct 2019
French Blog
Year 4 Café français 12.7.23
Y3 Using Cognates to Translate 20.1.23
Geography Blog
Y6 Dartmoor Fieldwork 27.2.24
Y5 Birch Map Skills 26.2.24
Y1 Woodland Inspiration Walk 21.2.24
Y3 Rowan Explore the Sunshine State 14.7.23
Y3 report into the quality of our local environment 10.2.23
Y5 Persuasive speeches to reduce plastic 8.2.23
Y3 Rowan enquire further into local changes 26.1.23
Y5 Fieldwork - quadrant pollution beach survey 24.1.23
Y1 Fieldwork - how the weather affects us 19.1.23
Y3 Fieldwork - Investigating Changes to the Locality 18.1.23
Dunboyne Friends Judge the Geography Homework Competition 22.6.22
Year 3 investigate our local area: St Marychurch and Babbacombe May 2022
Year 4s' Jungle Map Explorations Feb 2022
Why don't penguins need to fly? Year 1 investigates 8.12.21
Year 3s' Geographical Enquiry into the Sunshine State (Florida) 9.6.21
Maddi's Exploding Volcano 5.5.21
Year 3 Hook into Florida - Beyond the Magic Kingdom 19.4.21
More Lockdown Rivers 4.2.21
Rivers in Lockdown 28.1.21
History Blog
Y5 Catching Criminals 15.5.24
Y1 Edith Cavell Detectives 10.5.24
Y5 Hero or Villain? Sources 9.5.24
Y5 Explore Tudor Crimes 2.5.24
Y4 Egyptians at Torquay Museum 1.12.23
Y3 Stone Henge Biscuit Models 17.11.23
Y4 Enquiry into Ancient Egyptians 16.11.23
Y3 at Kents Cavern 14.11.23
Y1 Grandparent Toys 14.11.23
Y3 get Stuck in Stone Age Poo 9.11.23
Y2 Fawkes v Catesby 3.11.23
Y3 Roman Day 4.5.23
Uni Medical Students Enrich Y1s' History Enquiry 26.4.23
Y1s' 100 Year Old Toys 2.12.22
Y3 Rowan Stone Age Artefact Enquiry 18.11.22
Y1 Grandparents share their Childhood Toys 17.11.22
Y4s' Toilet Roll Timelines 9.11.22
Y4 Stone Age to Ancient Egyptians at Torquay Museum 3.11.22
Y4 Visit Royal Albert Memorial Museum 7.7.22
Y4 Hazel enquire into why pharaohs were so important 25.5.22
Year 1 History Detectives look into Edith Cavell 30.3.22
Year 5 Evacuees arrive in Torquay 3.11.21
Shorts Farm Sign Restoration 25.6.21
Y3 Romans in Lockdown 29.1.21
Year 3 Stone Age Survival Skills Dec 2020
Year 6 Local Victorians Nov 2020
Year 5 WW2 Evacuees Arrive at School Nov 2020
Year 3 Stonehenge Enquiry Nov 2020
Year 3 Visit to Kents Cavern October 2020
Vile Villainous Victorious Victorians in Y6 Maple 15.9.20
A Tudor Murder Mystery in Year 3 and Year 4 6.3.20
A Year 6 Interview with a Local Holocaust Survivor 4.2.20
Year 5 and 6 Holocaust Reflections at School and Home 30.1.20
Y5 and Y6 Prepare for a Gas Attack 15.1.20 (1939)
Y3 and Y4 Stone Age Projects 6.12.19
Y3 and Y4 Return to the Stone Age 30.10.19
Year 3 Egyptian Pottery 24.5.19
Egyptian Tomb Paintings in Maple Class 24.5.19
Y3 and Y4 Mummification! 17.5.19
Torquay Museum Events in May 2019
Y3 and Y4 Walk with the Egyptians 26.4.19
Maths Blog
Y2 Graffiti Maths 11.7.24
Y1 Division Tea Party 4.6.24
Y5 Decimal Challenge 24.5.24
Y2 Smashing Times Tables 17.5.24
Y5 Translating Shapes 2.5.24
Y1 Exploring Capacity 26.4.24
Y5 Angles 19.4.24
Y2 Mentimetre Measure 27.3.24
Y3 Exploring Area and Perimeter 22.3.24
Y1 Exploring Measure 20.3.24
Y2 Money Exploration 12.3.24
Y2 Dance to Times Tables 26.2.24
Y2 Pictograms 26.2.23
Y2 Calculations & Parent Workshop 26.2.24
Y2 Learning about Money 26.2.24
Y2 Symmetry 12.1.24
Y2 2D Shape Fun 29.11.23
Y6 Careering to National Numeracy Day 17.5.23
Y3 Dancing to National Numeracy Day 17.5.23
Y2 Photographers on National Numeracy Day 17.5.23
Y1 Explorers on National Numeracy Day 17.5.23
Y2 Getting Active with Position & Direction 3.5.5
Y2 Maths workshops addition and subtraction 10.2.23
Boys' High Flying Maths Day 17.1.23
Y2 Pictograms 26.2.24
Rockstars and Robots Maths Day 28.4.22
Able Maths Day 22.3.22
Beech Class ordinal numbers 14.10.21
Year 4 Outdoor Maths on National Numeracy Day 19.5.21
Year 2 Celebrate World Pi Day 15.3.21
Year 4 Practical Perimeters 22.2.21
Year 5 Willow Modelling with Cuisenaire 5.11.20
Year 2 Get Stuck into Place Value 2.11.20
9x Table Trick! 13.3.20
Year 3 Birch Explore Money 4.2.20
Recall and Retention of Key Maths Facts and Skills 5.2.20
Year 6 'Death Starfish' Percentages 30.1.20
Maths Workshop for Year 2 Parents 27.1.20
Y3 Birch Class Skittles Fractions 23.1.20
Home Activities January 2020
Home Activities Dec 2019
Maths Tips for Parents & Home Activities Nov 2019
Half Term Sudoku Challenge 18.10.19
Year 1 Learning Time 17.10.19
Maths Tips for Parents and Home Activities Oct 2019
Maths Tips for Parents & Home Activities Sept 2019
Year 3 Shape and Space - 14.6.19
Year 1 Fractions 20.5.19
Manipulatives in Year 3 (March 2019)
Using Manipulatives in Year 5 (Feb 19) - Mr Rogers reports...
Memory Blog
11 Ways to Improve Memory 27.2.20
Music Blog
Y5 Fifes 26.4.24
Y3 Ukulele and Guitar Performance 28.3.24
Y2 Chrome Music Lab 28.2.24
Y6 Guitar Lesson 27.2.24
Rock Steady! 24.3.23
Carols at Dunboyne 15.12.22
St Margaret's Achieves the 'Music Mark' for 2022-2023
Y2 Hands Feet and Heart Boom Whackers! 12.10.22
Y5 get Xylophone-tastic with the Fresh Prince 10.10.22
Taiko Drumming Experience 13.7.22
Lower KS2 Christmas Songs Dec 2022
Upper KS2 Christmas Songs Dec 2022
Cello and Violin Lessons Advert - Nov 2021
Livin' on a Prayer by Y5 Holly Class 15.10.21
Saturday Morning Music (free) from September 2021 Onwards
Year 4 Learning the Ukulele 18.5.21
Year 3 Learning the Ukulele Nov 2020
Virtual Guitar 18.11.20
Autumn term 2019 events for families
Didgeridoo and Rainsticks In Year 4 Maple Class 13.6.19
PSHE Blog
Mason's Bagpipe Aspiration 17.7.24
Y6 PTA Business Winners 14.7.24
Y1 Prepare for Summer 12.7.24
Easter Yoga 27.3.24
Y5 Rowan Body Image 14.3.24
Y4 Anti-bullying Poetry 20.11.23
Y5 Celebrate Differences 16.11.23
Halloween Yoga 18.10.23
Y6 Theatre - Treasure Island 13.7.23
"Somebody to Lean On" Y4 singalong 22.6.23
Talking about Mental Health 19.5.23
Playtime Fun 17.5.23
Y6 Citizenship with the Police Community Team 16.5.23
After School Club Decorate for Mother's Day and Spring 17.3.23
Y1 Pine Christmas Making Treat 15.12.22
KS1 Nativity 8.12.22
In Memory of Frazer - Batten's Fund Raiser 17.11.22
Anti-bullying Week 14-18.11.22
Remembrance Commemoration 11.11.22
Anti-bullying Workshops 14.10.22
3 Week Old Chicks 1.7.22
Magic Potion Friday 1.7.22
Magic Potions in the Orchard 17.6.22
New Feathered Arrivals! 17.6.22
Bikeability for the Year 5s 15.6.22
Water Safety with the RNLI for Reception 24.5.22
Year 6 Adventure at Skern Lodge 6.4.22
Year 4 Bikeability 30.3.22
Learning First Aid from Reception to Year 6 - a Look at Y1 (17.3.22)
Year 1 Loving the Orchard 10.2.22
Internet Safety Day 8.2.22
Fun at Playtimes February 2022
Year 4 Kindness Calendar 22.11.21
Year 1 Odd Socks Art for Anti-bullying Week 17.11.21
Year 5 Anti-bullying Poems 17.11.21
Y5 Sponsored Swim for the RNLI 8.11.21
Y6 Anti-bullying Theatre Trip 2.11.21
Year 4 Ice Cream Transition Fun 19.7.21
Blue Peter Badge Award 15.7.21
Year 6 Activity Week 1.7.21
Caring for other Species in Year 4 18.5.21
How we learn in Year 4 22.4.21
Shaving Foam Return for Year 4 8.3.21
Year 4s' Pouches of Kindness (23.2.21)
Year 3 Celebrate 'Being Me' October 2020
Harvesting Apples 16.10.20
Care, Compassion and Tolerance in Year 1 13.2.20
Year 1's 'Lion Inside' 5.2.20
Year 1 Stretch out to their Goals 29.1.20
Fire Safety in Y2 and Y5 21.1.20
KS1 Keeping Safe Around Dogs 8.1.20
Throwing Year 3 Worries Away (Transition) 4.7.19
Pupil Voice Blogs
School Council
School Council Information
Student Council Blog
Digital Leaders
Meet the Digital Leaders
What is a Digital Leader?
Digital Leaders share their Esafety tips! #1
Digital Leaders share their Esafety tips #2
Digital Leaders in action - May 2022
Sports Leaders
Sports Leaders in 2022-2023
Sports Leaders in 2021-2022
Play Leaders
Play Leaders 2022-2023
Play Leaders 2021-2022
Reading Blog
Quality Mark for Reading 2024
PTA Library Extends Outdoors 26.4.24
Y5 Inferences from Illustrations 28.2.24
Y2 Magic Libraries 26.2.24
Magic Library Opening 13.9.23
May's Poet of the Month - Spike Milligan
Y3 Birch Class visit Fables Bookshop 7.3.23
Open University Recognition for Reading for Pleasure 26.1.23
January's Poet - Michael Rosen 9.1.23
November's Poet - Ted Hughes - 4.11.22
Visiting Author Rob Holmes Inspires our Authors 10.10.22
Roald and Dahl take a break in the Sun 4.5.22
Year 1 Reading for Pleasure March 2022
The Reading Guinea Pigs
Roald the Guinea Pig
Dahl the Guinea Pig
Welcome to Roald and Dahl
World Book Day 2022
Year 4 Masks and Books
Pictures sent in of from the day
Beech Class Sharing a Book
Beech Class Booknic
Year 5 Holly Masks and Books
Patrick the Pony visits Year 3
Live with Julia Donaldson - Year 3
The Masked Reader - starting on 28th February 2022
Reading Recommendations in the Entrance Hall 21.1.22
Reading for Pleasure Advent Calendar Dec 2021
Day 16 - Listen to an author read a book
Day 10 - Facts about Christmas
Day 12 - Make a book mark
Day 14 - Create a booklet and write a story
Day 18 - Read under the bedcovers with a torch
Day 6 - Read a Christmas Poem
Day 5 - Read a story in a different voice
Day 3 - Read to someone in your house
Day 2 - Traditions Around the World
Day 7 - Christmas words for each letter of the alphabet
Day 1- Reading Den
Beech Class Reading Advent Calendar
Day 4 - A Christmas treat following a recipe
Day 9 - Go on an alphabet Christmas word hunt
Reading for Pleasure in Year 4 Hazel Class with Trustees 13.10.21
Accelerated Reader - Information for Parents - 1.10.21
Reading for Pleasure - Project Update 1.10.21
Summer Holiday Reading Challenge
Year 1 Performing and Signing 'Today is Monday' by Eric Carle 27.5.21
World Book Day - March 2021
Y6 Relaxed Lockdown Reading (cat style) January 2021
World Book Day - March 2020
Reading with Corbett, Palfrey and Pritchard! 6.2.20
Reading Videos
Traditional Tales in Year 2
Y6 Hazel read 'Letters from a Lighthouse' - Devon in WW2 31.1.20
Year 1 at the Book Fair 26.9.19
Tom Gates / Princess Theatre / St Margaret's Collaboration May 2019
Talk for Reading Teacher Training 22.5.19
Miss Palfrey's Reading Group - Letter from an Author
Story Telling Week
World Book Day (March 2019) - Miss Palfrey reports...
Stay and Read (Feb 2019)
Reading Book Recommendations
The Scholastic Book Fair
Reading Ambassadors' Book Choices
Reception Learning Prompts Blog
A Year in Reception 2021-2022 - Magical Memories
Washing my hands
Careful counting
The life-cycle of a butterfly
Rekenrek: push a number and reset
Holding a pencil
Using a sand timer to wait for a turn
Using Fred Talk to write a word
Parts of a whole number
A good sentence needs a full stop
A good sentence starts with a capital letter
A good sentence needs finger spaces
Number Bonds to 5
Our Fire Drill
Sharing is Caring
Reception News Blog
Summer 2024 News and Pictures
Spring 2024 News and Pictures
Autumn 2023 News and Pictures
Religion Blog
Y1 Write about their trip to Church 26.3.24
Y5 Jewish Mezuzah Prayer Boxes 7.3.24
Y1 Jewish Mezuzah Prayer Boxes 7.3.24
Y6 Wonders of the World 27.2.24
Y1 Role Play Baptism 1.12.22
Year 1 celebrate Shabbat 22.6.22
Y4 Hazel Creatively Learning about the Christian Pentacost 20.5.22
The Rev Nathan & Holy Communion in Y4 23.3.22
Year 1 make Mezuzahs 5/5/21
'The Blessing' - a Christian celebration with other schools April 2021
Year 1 Virtual assembly with Reverend Nathan 4.12.20
Y3 Birch Class's Jewish festival - Rosh Hashanah
Science Blog
Y3 Holly Class Rock Study 13.9.24
Y1 Woodland Re-Visit 5.7.24
Y3 Cool Shadow Puppets 16.5.24
Y5 Animal Encounter 26.4.24
Y3 Exploring Sound 26.4.24
Y2 Animal Encounter 26.4.24
Y2 Habitat Sorting 19.4.24
Y4 Digestive Fun 19.4.24
Y2 The Emperor's New Clothes 14.3.24
Y2 Animal Life Cycles 28.2.24
Y6 Exploring Light 27.2.24
Y1 Woodland Inspiration Walk 21.2.24
Y5 in the Space Dome 29.1.24
Y2 Habitat Study at Dawlish Warren 30.6.23
Y1 Beech Flashback to Materials 17.5.23
Y5 Holly Puzzle Out Separating Materials 11.10.22
Y5 Willow Explore Properties of Materials 11.10.22
Y1 Beech Test Tent Materials for Lego Man 10.10.22
Y2 Body Parts, Senses and Super Hero Healthy Muffins - Enjoy 10.10.22
Y3 Rowan's Edible Rocks!!! 7.10.22
Y6 Examine a Sheep's Heart and get Active 6.10.22
Y4 Cherry get Creative with Circuits, Materials and Light-up Pictures 6.10.22
Y4 Hazel Experiment with Electrical Circuits and Conductivity 5.10.22
Y3 Explore the Permeability of Rocks at Kent's Cavern 30.9.22
Y3 Rowan Explore the Properties of Rocks 22.9.22
Explosive Predictions in Y4 Hazel Class 15.6.22
Animal Encounters in Reception 25.5.22
Year 1 Plant Exploration 11.5.22
Y3 Explore Rocks and Soil on Dartmoor 1.4.22
Top Scientists take their Projects to Dunboyne Court 21.3.22
Science Homework Fair with Dunboyne Court 18.3.22
Year 1 Invertebrate Detectives 16.3.22
Year 6 Fair Test Darwin's Bird Beaks 15.3.22
Origami Virus Growth Time Lapse Year 4 15.3.22
Year 5 Lift Off with the UK Space Agency 11.3.22
Year 6 Explore the Universe with Charles Darwin 9.3.22
Y2, 5 and 6 Travel to Space 3.3.22
Year 4 Plant Dissection 2.2.22
Year 1 Pine Class Investigate Materials 23.11.21
Bug Hotels for Y2 Apple Class 12.10.21
Prince Python and Friends Visit Year 2 5.10.21
Year 3 Animal Visit 28.5.21
Year 3 Sound March 2021
We like to talk about science in Year 2
Year 2 Bread Making 24.2.21
Seasonal Spring Science in Y1 (with IT and Art) 23.2.21
Newton Meters in Year 5 4.2.21
It's FREEZING in Year 2 (12.1.21)
Year 3 Fossil Investigation Nov 2020
Y4 Cherry Electricity 10.11.20
Y1 Bug Hunt 11.9.20
Science and Engineering Week 9-13.3.20
Year 1 Plants in Science Week 11.3.20
Plant Observations in Year 1 Beech Class 2.3.20
Materials, Adjectives and iPads in Year 1 Science 13.1.20
Giant Snails Take Over Year 1 - 6.11.19
Explosions in Year 4 Maple Class - June 2019
Year 1's Snail Investigation 24.5.19
KS1 British Science Week (11.3.19)
Social, Spiritual, Moral and Cultural (SMSC)
Dunboyne Culture Project 18.3.24
Choir in the Community 13.12.23
KS2 Carol Service with Signing and the BBC 11.12.23
Y1 Wreath Making 10.11.23
Councillors at the Cenotaph 10.11.23
Y5 Beautiful Remembrance Poetry 10.11.23
Pompomtastic After School Club in the Community 13.7.23
Rev. Nathan and Cuthbert's Jump Band 15.5.23
KCIII Celebration Assembly 5.5.23
Y1's KCIII Coronation Celebrations 5.5.23
Reception's KCIII Coronation Celebrations 5.5.23
Y4's KCIII Coronation Celebrations 5.5.23
Poppies for Remembrance in Year 6 6.11.20
DT Winners Visit Dunboyne 24.4.23
Student Council Soup for the Homeless 14.12.22
Rudolf Run for Rowcroft 9.12.22
Bella's Christmas Win with the PM and MP 6.12.22
Year 1 Celebrate European Languages Day 26.9.22
Paddington Bear and Queen Elizabeth in Year 1 16.9.22
Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II and reflecting on King Charles III 15.9.22
Winning Geographers visit Dunboyne to share their Projects 27.6.22
Celebrating Diversity with the Windrush Story 21.6.22
Queen Elizabeth's 70th Jubilee Celebrations 27.5.22
PTA Dunboyne House Easter Winners 8.4.22
Easter Baskets in After School Club 6.4.22
Our Easter Orchard 4.4.22
Local MP Kevin Foster Visits 10.11.21
Retirement Farewell to 3 St Margaret's Legends 22.10.21
Harvest Festival Returns with the Cuthbert Jump Team 18.10.21
Celebrating Our World Summer Festival July 2021
Year 4 England Football Team Celebrations 7.7.21
Red Nose Day in Year 2 19.3.21
Poppies for Remembrance in Year 1 11.11.20
Harvest in Y1 20.10.20
Year 6 Activity Week in Torbay 6.3.20
Year 6 Residential at Skern Lodge 6.3.20
Celebrating the Chinese New Year in Reception 24.1.20
Sleeping Beauty Production 23.1.20
KS2 Christmas Carol Concert 17.12.19
Community Homework Project 27.11.19
Questions for Prospective MP, Kevin Foster 8.11.19
Harvest Festival 14.10.19
Sports Blog
Y6 Rounders Competition 3.7.24
KS2 Athletics Competition 27.6.24
KS2 Sports Day Results 20.6.24
KS1 Sports Day Results 17.6.24
Y4 Hazel Tennis 11.6.24
Y3 Kwik Cricket 10.6.24
Y5 Kayaking and Beach Sports 21.5.24
Top 10 in Devon Gymnasts!! 17.5.24
Y2 Multi-skills Winners 7.5.24
Lionesses Semi-final at Plainmoor 2.5.24
Y5/6 Boys Football end of Season Round Up 2.5.24
Lionesses 7 Goal Thriller 25.4.24
Lionesses Roar On 18.4.24
Lionesses Cup Match Win 25.3.24
The Lionesses Score in the Top League 22.3.24
Y5 Birch Archery & Climbing 5.3.24
Y5/6 Football League Update 27.2.24
Y6 Volleyball Smash 27.2.24
Lionesses Promoted! 19.2.24
Lionesses Top the League 30.1.24
Unbeaten Lionesses 27.11.23
The Lionesses Roar to the Top 21.11.23
Y3 Climbing 7.11.23
Lionesses back in action 8.11.23
Y6 Parkour Workshops 19.10.23
Y6 Coasteering 10.10.23
Y6 Tag Rugby Competition Win Oct 23
Platinum Sports Award 14.9.23
End of 22/23 Season Football Standings 30.6.23
Y5/6 Rounds Competition Success 18.5.23
Y2 Multi-skills Competition Success 4.5.23
Cup Match Report by Alfie in Y6 27.4.23
Y2 'A' Games 20.4.23
Y2 Dance Festival -23.3.23
Lionesses - League Champions! 20.3.23
Skipping Workshops 15.3.23
Lionesses' draw to keep them on track 6.3.23
The Lionesses eye the top spot 28.2.23
The Lionesses March On! 24.2.23
Lionesses' Winning Ways! 7.2.23
Y3-4 Positive Values Ball Games 3.2.23
Lionesses show off their skills again 2.2.23
Sports Leader Ambassadors 30.1.23
Lionesses 100% Winning Run Continues 26.1.23
Y4 Problem Solving Competition 19.1.23
Y3/4 Bikeability 5.1.23
Y5/6 Boys Football Update 9.12.22
Lionesses League Win 6.12.22
Lionesses League Win 29.11.22
Y6 Quicksticks 23.11.22
Skiing Champion! 20.11.22
Swimming Gala Success 18.11.22
St Margaret's Lionesses Compete in the Bay 15.11.22
Y5/6 Gifted Sports Workshops Nov 2022
Y5/6 Boys Football Win 11.11.22
Y5/6 'A' Games 3.11.22
Y4 Dodgeball Competition with Local Schools 13.10.22
Y4 Dodgeball Intra-competition 12.10.22
Y6 Intra-school Football Competition 11.10.22
Y5/6 Commonwealth Games 6.7.22
Torbay Football Finals Night 4.7.22
National Schools Sports Week 20-26.6.22
Year 6 Rounders Competition - June 2022
Schools' One Mile Closed Road Run 26.6.22
Sports Days 20-24.6.22
Athletics Competition 23.6.22
Boys' Football News Summer 2022 - 25.5.22
Girls' Football News 23.5.22
Year 2 Multi-skills Festival 19.5.22
Year 1 A Game - New Sports 5.5.22
Year 4 Football Match Report 28.4.22
Boys' Y5/6 Footballing News (3 match reports) 8.4.22
Y4 Bikeability 7.4.22
Y6 Competitive Volleyball Success 30.3.22
Y4 Competitive Dodgeball Success 24.3.22
Y6 Quicksticks Tournament 18.11.21
Y5 & Y6 Intra-school Football Tournament Oct 2021
Year 5 Cricket Festival 23.9.21
KS2 Sports Day June 2021
Cricket Day! 27.5.21
Exeter City Football Success 26.5.21
Year 5 Bikeability 19.5.21
Year 5 Sports Leadership Training 6.5.21
Winners in the Devon Gymnastics Final 10.12.20
Gymnastic Success in the Devon Virtual Games Nov 2020
Autumn 2020 Sports Update 11.11.20
#DevonVirtualGames - November 2020 Results
County Level Swimming Success 7.3.20
Torbay Quicksticks Final March 2020
Sports Hall Athletics Devon County Final – Level 3 March 2020
Y3/4 Boys' Football Team Progress to the Semi-Finals 7.2.20
Y5/6 Quicksticks Winners 30.1.20
Bikeability Level 1 6.12.19
Sports Hall Athletics Torbay Champions 6.12.19
Boys' Y5/6 Footballing Success in the Autumn Term 2019
Sports Hall Athletics Champions 14.11.19
Year 4 Tag Rugby Team Best in the Bay 10.10.19
Boys Kick Off Football Season with Wins 11.10.19
Girls Kick off the Football Season with a Win 9.10.19
Year 1 on National Fitness Day 25.9.19
St Margaret's Achieves the Gold Mark! - Again! (July 2019)
KS2 Sports Day Record Holders (June 2019)
KS1 Sports Day June 2019
Girls Football News 28.6.19 (topical with the World Cup running)
KS2 Sports Day June 2019
Year 6 Tug of War Champions 12.6.19
Y3/4 Quadkids Athletics Competition 9.5.19
Football Finals Night - Winners!! (May 2019)
Torbay Football Finals Night 2.5.19
Friendly Football Tournament 5.4.19
Netball Club News (29.3.19)
BEST IN THE BAY! Y4 Tag Rugby Competition - Mr Mayling reports...
Y5/6 Boys' Football Update (March 2019) from Mr Robinson
Y5/6 Futsal Success - January 2019
Writing Blog
Y3 Poem by Evelyn: 'The Sound Collector' 3.5.24
Y2 Poetry 3.5.24
Writing Group's Latest Publication 1.5.24
Y2 Collecting Singapore Facts 20.3.24
Y1 Woodland Adventure Recounts 15.3.24
Y2 Traditional Tales 13.3.24
Writing Group's Latest Publication 13.3.24
Y2 Conjunctions 26.2.24
Y1 Woodland Inspiration Walk 21.2.24
Writing Winners visit Dunboyne 15.1.24
Y2 Bird Feeder Writing Launch 3.1.24
Y4s' Poetry goes Nationwide 24.11.23
Y6s' Fiction goes Viral 14.11.23
Y2s' fiction nation wide on Twitter (X) 5.11.23
Y2 Bakery Writing 21.9.23
Writing Group's Latest Publication 16.3.23
Y2 Traditional Tales Mash Up 8.3.23
Y4 Writing for Pleasure 3.2.23
Y2 Great Fire of London Diaries 12.12.22
Y1 Thinking about Characters 12.12.22
Writing Group's Latest Published Article 5.12.22
Talented Y6 Writer Day 17.10.22
Writing Group's Latest Publication 14.10.22
Year 4 Hazel Stroodle Experience Day 6.4.22
Year 1 Sentence Stacking in Beech Class 2.2.22
Year 4 Zoom with Animal Expert for Balanced Arguments 2.2.22
Local author shares his work with Year 5 12.1.22
Year 4 Poetry - Anti Bullying 2.11.21
Lockdown Adventure Story (Year 4) March 2021
BIG WRITE Replies 20.1.21
BIG WRITE! Autumn 2020