Bushcraft!
Year 5 children recently visited the Oxfordshire Woods to complete a two-day camp at Bushcraft.Two tribes completed across the course of two days in a variety of outdoor survival challenges including building fires, shelters, and whittling. Little sleep was had overnight due to the excitement of staying with their friends all bundled together in tents. After many campfire games, singing and chants the chilre4n complete the final Bushcraft challenges: a marshmallow shelter, fire building to burn through a rope and leaving camp without a trace The tribe, Barney’s Brownies, emerged victorious through values of teamwork, determination and resilience!
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To the top of the Shard and across Tower Bridge
School trips are an important, powerful teaching tool. They are used to bring purpose to learning, put it in context and provide children with a valuable, memorable learning experience. This was certainly achieved in Year 3 with this term’s school trip. As part of a Design and Technology topic – ‘Structures’ – they took a […]
Year1 Visit Charterhouse
The children had such a fabulous day pretending to work for the lovely Queen. The children were given roles and had to pretend to serve the Queen – this meant lots of serving, and they even served some important ambassadors. Overall, it was an amazing day trip and helped bring our topic of Kings and […]
Year 5 visit Cornbury Park
At the beginning of Year 5 the children take part in an exciting trip to Bushcraft in Cornbury Park, Oxford. It is an ideal opportunity for the children to develop independence, team building and social skills, as well as learn new crafts such as fire building, first aid, survival techniques and shelter building. Over the […]