Bishopsteignton Primary School

News Stories

• Maths - 3D shapes
  Today Year 3 had a lot of fun building their own 3-D shapes from a range of construction materials including straws, match sticks, and plasticine.
• Setting up plant investigations
  The children were fantastic scientists when setting up their investigation to see what a marigold plant needs to survive and grow.
• Fieldwork around our local area
  The children conducted fieldwork on Luxton's Step and around the village.
• Cricket skills
  This week, the children have been developing their overarm throwing techniques.
• Reading reward
  Discoverers spent some time exploring new, exciting books in the school library and reading with Explorers.
• Literacy - freeze framing our story
  The children took part in role play and posed to show snapshots from different parts of the story.
• Science - Botanical artists
  We created lifelike paintings of flowers by observing their features closely like real botanists.
• Fantastic recount writing
  Voyagers and Discoverers have created two amazing pieces of writing about the searching for specific creatures in our woodland.
• Forest and Beach Residential
  Year 4 have just returned from our residential trip to Forest and Beach Outdoor Education Centre.
• Super classification keys
  Voyagers and Discoverers used all their knowledge of vertebrates to help them classify their choice of creatures from the islands of the UK or New Zealand.