Author Archives: Shoscombe Primary School

Comenius news

Last week all the children participated in workshops run by visiting musician and researcher Vivien Ellis. Vivien taught the children playground songs and games linking to our current Comenius 100 Project. Vivien researched songs and …

The Willow Project Continues!

Phase two of the Willow project. Last Wednesday all of the KS2 children helped to construct a willow dome at the end of our fedge. The dome will be one of the entrances to our …

World Book Day

World book day has been a great success, children from KS2 shared books with KS1 children; Mrs Hampton’s Class made a lemon café inspired by a Mexican book; Mr Steven’s class made the most horrific …

Thai Day

Thai day was a huge success, a big thank you to the year 4 girls and Mrs Crook for all their hard work. The year 4 girls have been working on an equalities project; they …

Willow Workshop

Last week all the children at school worked on a willow project with visiting environmental artist Mary Cross. Children learnt how to weave an individual item such as a bird feeder, fish or star. They …

Comenius Visit to Barcelona

Last week as part of the Comenius 100 Project, Mrs Gascoigne, Mrs Downes, Mrs Hampton and Mrs Rorison travelled to visit one of our partner schools ‘Maristes Valldemia’. The school is situated in the town …

Swimming Gala

Well done to the Key Stage 2 children who represented our school at the local swimming gala this week. Lots of schools from the local area took part. We were proud of the effort and …

The Gruffalo comes to Key Stage 1!

As part of our topic Under the Ground, children in Reception / Year 1 have been focusing on The Gruffalo story. There are various creatures in the story who make their homes underground. We made Gruffalo …

Mapping the local area

Year 3 and 4 visited Wellow Brooke on Wednesday afternoon. We took photographs which we used as a stimulus for landscape picture in art and also to produce a map of Shoscombe.

Combe Down Tunnel Walk

As part of our KS1 topic Under the Ground, children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 walked about 3 miles along the former Somerset and Dorset Railway and through the Combe Down Tunnel to …