Note: Endurance and Equality photos to be added on Friday.  

What a glorious week it's been so far in TB - engaged children and wonderful weather...what more could one hope for?

So...Lower School children started their session as Stone-Age Hunting-Scouts (SAHS) - they explored the wood in search of Stone Age Animals and once found, they had to write two descriptive sentences about each creature...they then reported their findings back to the tribal elders who would later decide if there was anything worth hunting out and about (this sneakily supported English work with a focus on capital letters and full-stops).  

Following their HC and story, we then carouseled round axe making, tree-spirit face crafting and round house construction.  

With the round house, we have the walls of two structures built in hazel and willow (wattle), and have today begun applying the daub mix - clay, water, sand, horse hair and chopped straw...the children have loved doing this as it is very messy work!

Thanks to Lilly Rogers for the horse hair and Ady Spencer for the clay!

Upper School have started their session with a collage challenge - with a partner, they had to precisely follow 13 written instructions to make a collage.  The construction required knowledge of specific natural resources and accurate ruler useage as well as many of the YOU22 attributes including Problem Solving, Precision and Collaboration.  Once made, children scored each other's efforts out of 20 and gave feed back.  

Following HC and story, we then undertook the Odyssey Cooking Challenge (OCC), mod-rocked our Odyssey puppets or undertook a mapping and modelling activity to show Odysseus' journey around the Mediterranean (lots of atlas work and map interpretation needed here).  

A wonderful afternoon was had by 10 KJS girls at the AVSSP Tag Rugby festival at Amber Valley Rugby Club.  

The girls played in a few un-scored, friendly games and undertook a few drills to hone their skills.  

Thanks to AVSSP for organising another great event and to parents for supporting and picking up!

Well done to the children receiving certificates in today's Achievement Assembly and well done to everyone for making this week such a positive start to the Summer Term.

The cheeky goblins have been at it again…laying their eggs in our beautiful wildlife area – did you know that they lay their eggs at the base of sapling trees and that as the embryo develops, it draws energy from the tree?  Sadly, this often leads to the death of the tree, particularly if its spirit hasn’t matured fully. 

So, Lower School children decided to check every sapling and collect in any eggs that they found (gloved hands of course as no one wants to turn into a goblin!).  They then put the eggs in a protected nest and covered them in flowers in the hopes that they may transform into munchkin eggs – I’ll keep you posted. 

As LS are studying the stone-age, we then interactively read the story Cave Baby – this book has lovely illustrations that we will re-create in our own cave later in the term. 

Following this, we made stone-age axes (lopper, knife and lashing skills needed here), began construction of a round house (lopper, knife and weaving skills here, in addition to a recap on properties of a circle) or made representations of tree spirits to ward off the goblin-leaf-cutters (the goblins collect leaves at this time of year to make leaf-milk to feed to the goblets (baby goblins) when they hatch (often, the collection process leads to the death of a tree – not on our watch!!). 

Upper School children began their session with a sculpture challenge linked to their topic, The Ancient Greeks.  We looked at images of 13 literary monsters, and the children made one and tried to guess the ones their peers had made – we had to be Precise, Inquisitive and Problem Solving here. 

Following this, some finished Maya swords, others made a banquet of the food Odysseus sampled on his voyage around the Mediterranean, with a final group beginning construction of hand puppets linked to the Odessey. 

The boys and girls in Year 3 and 4 stepped back 50,000 years during their visit to Creswell Crags to explore what life was like in for their early ancestors.
They studied the bones found in the caves of animals such as the woolly mammoths, hyenas, and cave bears, used bow drills to make fire and practised their hunting skills using ancient spears.
Please click here to see the photographs of their day.