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Operating as usual
20/09/2022
We are delighted to have been chosen by the Oxford University Press to participate in their Diversifying Reading Project, and today we received a free set of 60 KS2 books by brilliant authors of colour! We can’t wait to get stuck in. 📖 📕 📚
07/09/2022
Year 1 and Year 2 had a visitor this afternoon - Kate from Tiverton Museum. We learned about John Heathcoat and his factory in the past, as well as the factory today. Did you know that John Heathcoat is significant both for his use of machines to create fabrics such as lace, but also because he provided homes for his workers, trips to the seaside and a school for the children? His school was opened at around the same time as Halberton! Kate brought lots of dressing up for us to explore...
Thank you also to Mrs Harvie for the modern day Heathcoat's Factory 'merch'! 💫
22/07/2022
Look at the amazing fun time our preschool children had at Bear Town earlier this week! It looks like they (and the grown ups) had a blast!
22/07/2022
So today we bid farewell to our amazing Year 6 children. We shared a Leavers’ Service with a theme of being thankful - thank you to Robin and Rev Glyn for leading this - and we celebrated as we found out the recipient of the Rotary Club’s Unsung Hero Award. This was followed by a Leavers’ BBQ in the wildlife area. We wish so much luck to these 10 superstars! We will miss you but we wish you all the best. 🌟
21/07/2022
What a wonderful day at Backswood Farm! We discovered wild flowers and trees, and learned much about how plants and wild animals are connected. Thank you to Farmer Andrew (who owns and built the garden), Farmer Emma and Farmlink for helping us to explore the natural world. Thank you so much to our parents who taxi-ed, the parents who supported us, and HSPPA for funding us. We look forward to visiting again! 🌸🌼🌺
20/07/2022
Some more super snaps from Shakespeare Rocks! 📸
20/07/2022
And what an superb show we enjoyed by Willow Class! They performed ‘Shakespeare Rocks’ to the whole school and to parents today, showing off their amazing acting, singing and dancing skills. 🎭 💃 🕺🏻 🎤 🎶 💫
20/07/2022
What a treat it was to watch our Acorns present their musical showcase this afternoon! They performed with such confidence! 🦆 🐖 🐴 🐄 🐐 🐈 🐶 👨🌾 🐓
20/07/2022
We enjoyed an epic day of performances at school today. Here are some snaps from the Rocksteady concert we enjoyed this afternoon! 🎸🥁🎤🎼 🎶 🌟
19/07/2022
Check out these lovely onions! Grown and harvested by our Halby gardeners. 🧅 😋
19/07/2022
Our Brambles have been arty today, using layering techniques to create cityscapes in the style of James Rizzi. Aren’t they super? 🏙 🌃 🌆 🌟
18/07/2022
So… it’s definitely not the weather for jumpers 🥵 but here are our Year 6s (who leave on Friday) sporting their leavers’ hoodies, kindly gifted from the HPPSA. Don’t they look smart? 💫
15/07/2022
Sometimes it’s good to find time to reflect, to be still and to be quiet and we have some nice spots around the school to find some peace.
Thank you to our community for all of the love and support this week.
15/07/2022
It was an exciting day for the children as the chicks we incubated and hatched a few weeks ago came back for a visit.
The whole school had the opportunity to visit them and our Acorn ‘chicken farmers’ were allowed to handle and stoke them.
Thank you Mr Diggle for letting us see the next part of their life cycle. 🐣🐥 🐓
We are so saddened to share the devastating news that sadly our beloved Mr Lough died this morning. He died peacefully at home as he hoped.
We had learned a few days ago that his cancer had spread but even though we knew this, his passing this morning has still shocked us all and left everyone reeling.
Our thoughts of course are with Richard’s family: his partner Sarah, and their children Lauren and Alexander of whom him he always spoke with such love and pride.
Richard was a wonderful man; he was a brilliant teacher and he truly loved the children he taught and they loved him equally in return. He took such joy in their achievements and even though he stopped working in the Autumn Term, he still was so pleased to hear about how well the children were doing afterwards. His face would light up whenever he spoke about them. He was so animated, so full of joy and fun and made every lesson an adventure for the children he cherished and worked so hard for.
He was such an integral part of Halberton School and there will be reminders of him everywhere. His Tiverton Town FC sticker remains and will remain in his classroom. He was always positive, fun and up for a laugh and so enthusiastic and such a lovely big character that it just is so hard to imagine he is no longer with us. We will always miss him and never forget him.
07/07/2022
In case you missed it… 🐣🐥
Egg-citement in Halberton as pupils become proud parents of cute chicks Pupils have been seeing how things grow and where chickens and eggs come from
07/07/2022
Today our Year 6 took part in a transition workshop led by Rev Glyn and Robin Budgel. The children talked about their feelings about finishing primary school and their next steps! 💫
05/07/2022
And the winners of Sports Day are… the Moorhens! 🟥
In second place it was the Swans 🟨
In third place came the Kingfishers 🟦
And following the Kingfishers it was the Herons 🟩
Well done, everyone!
05/07/2022
Another healthy haul from our green-fingered gardeners! 🥬 💚 🌱
05/07/2022
Acorn class have had a fantastic day at Tiverton museum. We got the experience to be really hands on with lots of toys - some of them were over 100 years old!! And the highlight for lots of us - going inside the Tivvy Bumper. The children had a fantastic day and were really well behaved.
Tomorrow you will getting a leaflet showing you some exciting activities taking place at the museum over the summer holidays. As well as this, each child will get a voucher to allow accompanying adults to go to the museum for half price (accompanied children go free!)
04/07/2022
Sports Day - part 2! 🏀 🧽 💦 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
What a super sporty afternoon we enjoyed today! It was wonderful to see so many parents and friends enjoying this special event with us. We saw so many brilliant examples of sportsmanship and determination. House points will be added and the winning team will be announced tomorrow, so watch this space! 🥇🥈🥉🟥🟨🟩🟦
04/07/2022
Sports Day- part 1 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
What a super sporty afternoon we enjoyed today! It was wonderful to see so many parents and friends enjoying this special event with us. We saw so many brilliant examples of sportsmanship and determination. House points will be added and the winning team will be announced tomorrow, so watch this space! 🥇🥈🥉🟥🟨🟩🟦
01/07/2022
Good morning! It’s breakfast time here after a cosy night out camping. Remember to wear your pyjamas today to support Bramble’s efforts to raise money for CHAT. 🍌 🍊 🍞 🧈
Enjoying a bedtime book! 📖 📕 📚 😴
It’s lullaby time in the library with some of our Bramble Class children as they lull all the teddies to sleep as part of their Teddy Bear Sleepover. 😴 💤 🛌
Don't forget the Teddy Bear Sleepover tomorrow!
23/06/2022
Bramble Class had fire week at forest school; we have waited for this since the storm day! We also explored fire through art, using pastels and what is left after a fire - charcoal! Mrs Sirtese kindly offered us s'mores, which might just be the best thing that we've ever eaten! 🔥 😋
22/06/2022
Willow and Conker children took part in a science session that was out of this world today! They entered the mobile planetarium and enjoyed learning all about space travel, constellations, the solar system and the phases of the moon. 🌌🌍🌞🪐🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔
20/06/2022
Photos from Primary Sports & Education Ltd's post
17/06/2022
Ted came to visit Bramble class today. He is being cared for by CHAT (chatmid.org), who are helping him to help himself. We know that he needs a home, food, drink and love, just like his hero... Paddington Bear! We will be raising money for CHAT, so that they can continue to help people to help themselves. Your teddy bear (or another creature!) is welcome to sleep over at school on the 30th June and you are welcome to wear your pyjamas to school on the 1st July! ☺️❤️
16/06/2022
Bramble Class Forest School fun today:
Have you ever met a stickosaurus? We listened to the story of Stanley's Stick (by John Hegley) and tried to work as a whole class team to make a stickosaurus. It was hard! We had to communicate. We also made some sticky objects using craft resources. 🪵 🌳
15/06/2022
Bramble Class watched Michael Rosen live today; we really enjoyed the performance poetry - can you make a finger TV to look through? For those who would like to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRcGSuFJnA
15/06/2022
We may be small, but we are mighty! 🏆 With a team of just 5 swimmers 🏊♀️ , Halberton pitched themselves against all the Tiverton schools at the swimming gala and won the year six relay, even with two year fives in the team and one child swimming two legs. A brilliant performance by all five children in all their races… and we were definitely the loudest team there, too 😉 💫
14/06/2022
We are so proud of these boys and their sporting achievements for their football teams. What glowing feedback! Well done, boys! ⚽️ 🏆 💫🤩
07/06/2022
Check out this healthy haul from our green-fingered gardeners! 🥬 💚
27/05/2022
A belated ‘Well Done!’ goes to these super athletes! These children took part in the Wilcombe Wobbler last week and did themselves- and us- so proud with their fantastic effort! 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 🌟
27/05/2022
What a lovely day we had today celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Thank you to the HPPSA for presenting our children with commemorative pin badges and to the Parish Council for their kind gifts of water bottles for each child. We also enjoyed a lovely picnic in the park. ☀️ 👑 🇬🇧💫
27/05/2022
Here we have Acorn Class learning all about composting today. They enjoyed learning about all the minibeasts and bugs that help speed up the composting process. 🪱🐌🪰
27/05/2022
Conker Class got cooking today, making and decorating jubilee biscuits with blueberries, strawberries and white chocolate. They also did some fabulous jubilee artwork. 😋 🎨
27/05/2022
Today Conker Class learned about which foods we can compost and which minibeasts help the composting process. The workshop was led by Sally Jackson from Recycle Devon
26/05/2022
Willow Class worked as a team to create this artwork of the Queen. They are looking forward to our jubilee celebrations tomorrow! 👑 🇬🇧🥳
22/05/2022
Pupils, parents and staff participated in the Great West Run today to raise money for the school - a great effort on a hilly course and a pretty hot day!
Thank you for the sponsorship we’ve received so far.
If you would like to, you can still sponsor by following the link below:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/claudine-savage?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20220512_
20/05/2022
This afternoon our Y5/6 girls had a sporty time at Blundell’s. They learnt lots of different netball passes and the rules of netball, then took part in a netball tournament against other local primary schools. 💫
20/05/2022
The Children's Bookshow was incredibly lucky to have recently received funding from the Unwin Trust to purchase books for school children. As our school recently took part in our World Book Day digital event, we were selected to receive one free class set of a Big Book of Bad Things by Michael Rosen. Willow Class have enjoyed reading and sharing poetry today. 📖 📕 📚 💫
20/05/2022
Willow Class enjoyed some time with the chicks today! 🤩🥚🐣🐥
From egg to chick, Acorn's journey as 'Chicken Farmers'. 21 days we have counted down and this week it finally happened.
Our chicks hatched!
A huge thank you to 'Farmer Diggle' who let us incubate his eggs. These lovely chicks are returning to him next week to start their new life. 🥚 🐣 🐥
19/05/2022
Forest School fun today included invasion games, craft activities and hot chocolate! Such fun!! 🌳 🍃 🤩
13/05/2022
Bramble children have been learning about reading scales today, measuring in ml and g. Take a look at the delicious healthy smoothies they made! 🍇🍓🍊🍒🍌🫐🍏 😋
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