I am delighted to welcome you to the website of the Our School Federation.  Our federation comprises of three vibrant, creative and supportive schools where adults and children learn together. They are:

• Blackawton Community Primary School
• East Allington Community Primary School
• Stoke Fleming Community Primary School

Our schools are all situated within a six mile radius of each other on the beautiful South Devon coast - an enviable environment within which to learn.

The schools within our federation have long and proud histories of serving their three rural communities and each has its own unique identity.  Now working together as one organisation, with one Governing Body and a Leadership Team, we are best placed to offer our children the highest possible standard of 21st Century teaching and learning. 

Our federation prides itself on providing a friendly, caring, family environment within which children can flourish.  We seek to stimulate the love of learning in our children so that they want to learn for themselves and achieve to the very best of their abilities.   Every child is valued as an individual and encouraged to find their best-selves within a setting where they are happy, well cared for and, most importantly, where they care for each other.

I look forward to welcoming you to our federation.  Our children are our best ambassadors.  Come and meet them!

Michael Rolls

(Executive Headteacher - Our School Federation)

We were very excited to welcome Amy Hooker back from the Royal Institution of Great Britain to lead another maths workshop for children across our Federation.  This time we examined the beauty of parabolic curves.  After looking at a variety of examples within nature, science and architecture the children soon got to work in creating their own parabolic designs on both paper and then with a needle and thread.  Who would have thought that all of our beautiful curved designs were all made using just straight lines?   

In the same way that Pythagoras met with fellow mathematicians to discuss topics concerning number and shape in Ancient Greece, pupils from Blackawton, East Allington and Stoke Fleming are coming together to work on joint projects as part of the new Our-School Federation Gifted and Talented Maths Programme for pupils in Year 2 and 3.

Children from all four schools in the Our-School Federation have enjoyed their second ’Gifted and Talented’ maths session of the year under the direction of Jacky Walker from Kingsbridge Community College.

Following on from our previous code-cracking session involving the ISBN system, the group were introduced to Transposition, Scramble and Numerical codes.  The children worked diligently in teams to decode a series of secret messages including the following: 

How can you make a raisin dance? How can you make an egg bounce?  Can you make your own lava lamp? These were just three of the questions that Class One answered during their science week in November.  We had lots of fun predicting, observing and experimenting and now we understand all sorts of scientific words such as: floating, sinking, solid, liquid, gas, acid, dissolving and momentum!

Children from all four schools in the Our-School Federation have completed their first ’Gifted and Talented’ maths session of the year under the direction of Jacky Walker from Kingsbridge Community College.

As the children in Class One have decided to study what life was like for the Cavemen or Neanderthals, we have been taking part in lots of activities in our very own woodland area.  For example, we have been:

• ‘bug’ hunting
• leaf detecting
• making spider’s webs
• rainbow gathering (investigating how many different colours we can find in the natural environment)
• making Caveman jewellery.

We have had lots of fun and hope you enjoy looking at our photographs.

 

A big thumbs up for the children that were this weeks 'Top Table Diners.'  Our children are really rising to the challenge of brilliant table manners and a sharing, caring environment.  Can it be you next week?!

Check out the tasty looking food our 'Top Table' children are tucking into this week -  Well Done Everyone!

On Tuesday 25th September a squad of 10 children from East Allington Primary School went to compete in the Kingsbridge Football Festival. The squad were in a tough group against teams such as Stokenham and Kingsbridge B. The team won their group by winning all 3 games and with goals from Scott, Ben, Aidan and Tom.

The Semi Finals…

This week we have been getting to grips with the local weather and investigating how we can monitor the weather at Blackawton. We have