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• Fabulous Forest Fun at Delamere Forest

  Thu 22 Sep 2016 Mr. Simpson

  We've just returned from a wonderful Autumnal trip to Delamere Forest with Y1 - Y6.

   

  The trip was based around Geography - bringing the curriculum alive by spending the day out in the great outdoors, improving skills such as map reading, environmental awareness, survival, and orienteering.

   

  The children in the juniors spent a session building dens for survival with our fantastic forest ranger, Ben.  He taught groups the four basics of survival out in the wild: warmth (fire and clothes), water, food and shelter.  Groups then had a den making competition using a variety of sticks and forest materials (see pictures below).  Children in the infants spent their ranger session learning about directions and helping each other to navigate in the wild.

   

  In glorious late summer sunshine, the children and staff had a wonderful day, with Geography suddenly rising up the popularity charts at Norman Pannell!  Thank you to Mrs. Size for organising the trip.

  

• New creative Sand Pit area for EYFS

  Fri 09 Sep 2016 Mr. Simpson

  During the last week of the summer holiday, a wonderful group of people from British Gas gave up 3 whole days of their time to come and create a brand new sand play area in the EYFS garden.

   

  This project was kindly led by Steve and Diane, dad and mum of two of our girls in Y2 and Reception, with the generous support of British Gas.

   

  In a 'DIY SOS' style invasion, the team created from scratch an area that will hugely benefit the children in Nursery and Reception for many years to come.  The new sand area will promote creativity, team work and communication skills as well as being lots of FUN!

   

  We are very grateful to Steve, Diane and the British Gas team for their vision, hard work and generosity.  Thank you!