In the week before half term some of our Year 6 students went to Okehampton on a residential trip. We stayed at Bracken Tor House which is part of the Adventure Okehampton set up. The house is situated in beautiful woods above the town and offers access to the moor...
The weather wasn’t all it could have been when some Year 4 children went on a residential trip to Slapton recently. Soggy but enjoyable best summed it up. We stayed at Start Bay Centre, a converted old school situated above the village which is part of the...
As part of our learning about forces, we have been exploring water resistance. To understand what water resistance is, we each created our own boats out of paper to test and discover which design was the best for travelling across a distance of water when...
Kings Ash Academy Storytelling Year 6 have been busy partaking in the Houses of Parliament Speaker’s Awards We planned the project by exploring a variety of literature – we then focused on our likes and dislikes. From there we created our own stories using...
We have begun participating in the Daily Mile at Kings Ash Academy! Every day, we start the school day by travelling around the school – four laps of the school is one mile. We track how far we travel and receive a certificate in assembly when we have travelled...
This week in Reception some magic beans were delivered to our classes! We discussed how we thought they got there and what we thought might happen to them. The children decided that it was Jack who brought them to our school and that the beans were going to grow into...
