03.6.20 Bridging the Gap

Good morning everyone. The sunshine may have disappeared but it seems there's hope yet for the summer holidays with the fantastic new discovery of air bridges to Portugal! It seems this week is turning in to a DT bonanza here at the School of Daddy as we've decided to investigate this mysterious new phenomenon by testing out the load carrying capacity of our own home made air bridge. Unfortunately we don't have the facilities to see whether or not it allows the passage of virus and other microorganisms so we'll just have to trust the government is following the science on that one.

1.06.20 We All Had a Lovely Summer Half Term Holiday Vicariously

Well good morning everybody and welcome back to the School of Daddy - we do hope you've had a restful and stress free half term holiday and are raring to go! Congratulations to all those Primary schools who have reopened their doors to Reception, Y1 and Y6 completely risk free - but remember, always keep those windows open and always stay alert! Harry and Katie are luckily and understandably overjoyed to be able to continue their wonderful home schooling journey with me as they are too young, too old, too young but not too old.... erm, not in the right year groups to go back. 

As always, we like to start the new half term with a nice ice-breaker activity but again lockdown precluded us from enjoying our favourite activity of sharing what we did over the holidays. Instead we thought we'd look at what other people who were allowed out have done in their holidays and my, my - they have been busy! So busy in fact that we have been able to include the following cross-curricular links: History and Norman castle design; Maths and the various formulae to work out speed, distance and time - fuel consumption as an extension activity; PHSCE - Government and Planning Laws and finally Biology and the structure of the eye. The children just so happen to be due their next eye test too.

25.3.20 There and Back Again

This morning the children will be studying the art and science of cartography. As the country is fast transforming in to a sparsely populated and barbaric wilderness haunted by trolls and worse, we will be drawing a map of our surrounding area in the stile of J. R. R. Tolkien and taking inspiration from his accounts of Middle Earth. Aspects of PSHE and Citizenship will also be covered by noting the whereabouts of such important community facilities such as super markets, food warehouses, sources of good drinking water, natural defensive points and potential locations where a system of warning beacons might be built. My thanks to Mathew Street for the inspiration for today's lesson and I cordially extend the offer of Chair of School Governors to him in thanks.

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