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Welcome to Term 6 Forest School. 

Year 3 learned a little bit about making soil - they added vegetables, cardboard and water and mixed it up. Some children chose to make a butterfly from string, sticks and wool whereas others used secateurs and tent pegs to make craft items from Elder…

Welcome to Term 6 of Forest School. These are some of the things that we have been up to. 

Year 2 learned a little bit about habitats, building on their classroom knowledge. We found ants nests, mouse holes, bumble bee and wasps nests in our Forest School area. We remembered some of the bird…

Look what we have been up to in Forest School this term: 

Reception children went on a Bear hunt around the area- we found tall grass, mud, a river, forest, some fur, footprints and a cave with a bear! They learned about den building rules and enjoyed makes homes for the bears. On our hunt we…

Look what we have been up to in Forest School this term. Children learned about deciduous and evergreen trees, they made music with natural materials and performed with their bands that they formed. Some children chose to create musical instruments like Emersyn and Felix. Children used tapping and…

The Folkestone Triennial is an arts festival held every three years in Folkestone and is taking place this summer/autumn from Saturday 19th July - Sunday 19th October 2025. We are part of it this year!

Yes! We are exhibiting our work at the Folkestone Triennial! A group of pupils from Years 3,…

A massive thank you to Kasana (Felix’s dad) for coming into school last week and running a Graphics Workshop for our Year one students. Kasana is a Graphic Designer and works on campaigns and projects by well-known brands.

He began the morning by explaining to the children what a Graphic…

Welcome back to the woods Year 2. 

Children listened to sounds and they found different trees in the area after solving riddles, learning about which features they can look at for tree identification (like bark, needles, leaves, catkins, smell etc.). 

Year 2 was challenged to build a tall…

This week, each Year 5 class have visited Canterbury Mosque as part of their RE unit on Islam. We were greeted by the Muslim volunteers who talked about the rules and expectations of the Mosque. These included removing our shoes and keeping a calm quiet as we moved around the building. We were…

Year 4 Fashion and Textiles club are pleased to announce that their butterfly dress is finished and now displayed at Canterbury Christchurch Bookshop!

Our club is being led by one of our Year 6 Art Leaders, Tamsin; we have been designing a butterfly dress inspired by our ‘whole school project’…

Last week there was a definite buzz about Science around the school! A whole school investigation was set called ‘Table Top Glaciers’ where children had to investigate what happened to an ice cube when it came into contact with water of different temperatures. This linked well to a discussion with…

A huge thank you to the lovely students from Simon Langton Girls School who visited Years 2 and 3 this week to run amazing work shop sessions as part of their own development and work towards their Art Award. All the children really enjoyed working with the students who were so kind, patient and…

On Tuesday, some year 5s and year 6s went to Polo Farm to play in a cricket tournament. First, Bridge 2 played Sheldwich 2. We started off with fielding and managed to get some wickets. We won and then faced Canterbury Primary School. We played well, we got 5 wickets and won again.

Our third…