Monthly Archive: July 2015

From Plymouth School of Creative Arts

11

Jul

Ceramic Treasures

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Christina Peters has visited PSCA this term to inspire the children in Reception to create an art installation of clay treasures.  Christina works as a ceramicist at Flameworks in Devonport, specializing in Raku ceramics and some domestic stoneware like teapots, bowls etc. She runs pottery classes and workshops at Flameworks, as well as offers workshops […]

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10

Jul

Plymouth Fish Market

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Year 7s visit Plymouth Fish market to understand more about the origins of where their food is from, and to learn about sustainability. The day started at 6.30 am when The Plymouth Fisheries Manager and Harbour Master Peter Bromley took the students on a tour of the fish market and they were also allowed to watch a real […]

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9

Jul

First Visit To The Bees

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Today we were lucky enough to visit the bees for the first time, with Simon Platton from Tamar Grow Local. The purpose of the visit was to inspect the health of our new bee hives, the good news is both hives have heathy queens and one of the hives looks like it will produce a […]

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9

Jul

Festival of Sport

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Students at our school participated in the 1st Annual Sports Day hosted at our school. Phase 1 students were entered in to a Pentathlon lead by our Year 7 Sport Leaders followed by 25m sprints. Our Year 7’s were given the opportunity to make baseline scores in a variety of events and then having an […]

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7

Jul

The Space Dragon

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They made their puppets, they made their set, they wrote their story, they wrote their script, they chose their parts, they practicsed their performance and they performed it…in just 3 days.  It started with an interest of 4 children and by day 3 such was the excitement 25 year 1 children were involved…we even had a […]

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3

Jul

Positive Relationships:

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Year 7 spent a tenth day developing awareness and understanding around issues relating to health and relationships. Establishing everyone’s individual starting points helped us to build a day that was sensitive and connected to need. Following some group work in the morning, we journeyed to Mount Edgcumbe in order to support everyone to make sense […]

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3

Jul

Skype with National Archive:

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Children from Studio 3 have enjoyed being historians over the last two weeks, exploring the important skills needed to find out about the past, how it influences us now and how it may impact on our future. As part of this, the children joined in with a Skype call to the national archives in London. […]

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2

Jul

Bee’s bag brilliant roof top residence!

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Late last night, by the cover of quiet and darkness, when all the Bee’s were asleep in their hives, Plymouth School of Creative Arts accepted a very special and exciting delivery of two Bee colony’s to create our very own roof top apiary. This has been the culmination of many months of planning and collaboration […]

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