Today was our first Forest School session. We walked down the Lane from the Hall-it seemed very quiet! The leaves on the trees were mostly green, but we did talk about the leaves changing soon, becoming brown and falling off the trees…we all found it odd to think it was autumn time, especially as the […]

Despite the weather we decided to have a small camp fire at Forest School. Both groups were good at listening to all of the safety issues and took everything onboard so that they could be safe. We toasted marshmallows on a long stick and watched as they changed colour and became squidgy. We looked at […]

The children enjoyed a quick train ride from Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh… we played at the playground on the swings, slides & zip wire before having a picnic, icecream and return journey on the train. A short and sweet trip!

We were very lucky to have Kelsey, a work experience student with us this week, the children took to her straight away and she was so helpful to the staff and brilliant with the children – especially as it was such a busy week, with lots of activities going on.. the Wychwood School teacher visit […]

The teddy bears got a lift in Sally’s car but we all had to walk to the cricket pavilion at Ascott today to enjoy our Teddy bears picnic. It was a lovely, sunny walk and we had lots of time to look at interesting things along the way including slugs and snails on the pavement […]

We started the week with the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk where Jasper the cat decides to plant a bean on the Monday and by the end of the week when it hasn’t grown after all the care and attention he has given it, decides to dig it up again. Eventually after a long time it […]

Shapes, numbers, size, position it’s everywhere around us. And this week we enjoyed activities inside and out to stimulate the children’s curiosity and confidence about both their mathematical knowledge and language. Using a variety of our resources in order to appeal to all the children they explored counting and combining groups of objects, shapes of […]