Pirate Activities

Our last morning of adventure - lots of great team work and personal challenge!

A great time was had by all. Thank you to Aylmerton Field Study Centre and the terrific children of Oak Class. 

Mud, mud, glorious (?) mud!

Why is it children like splashing in water and squelching in mud?

The sun shines on Blakeney Point!

A glorious day out on and around Blakeney Point!

Feeling good and eating well!

Meal times were a social event, with the children acting as Table Managers, taking and collecting orders, and clearing up afterwards. Good training! 

Aylmerton residential trip May 2018

A damp start, but the children were too excited to notice! To avoid some of the downpours, we took to the Lifeboat Museum and current lifeboat station.

We are weaving woollen fabric to make into pencil cases for some children in Sri Lanka who have to buy all their equipment inorder to attend school. The school is in an area severely affected by the Boxing Day tsunami. We are writing to the children to share information about our school lives. A big thank you to children in class who did jobs for pocket money to raise the money to put a pencil, pen, rubber and pencil sharpener in each pencil case.

We took advantage of the recent glorious weather to appreciate the flower garden plot and paint our 'impression' of the colours and shapes....

You can hardly tell the difference between the real and the painted tulips!

Actors in the making with Wind in the Willows theatre company this afternoon.

South Asian Fusion concert

South Asian Fusion and the Norfolk Music Hub - What an amazing spectacle and fantastic performance Oak Class were involved in last night! After two long rehearsal days at the Theatre Royal and the Open in Norwich, topped up by school based practise, the children of Oak Class enthusiastically experienced the cultural delights of music, singing, dance and food of South Asia, run and organised by the Norfolk Music Service. Over 3 evenings, 750 Norfolk primary school children performed to an audience of 1500 adults! We LOVED it and it certainly been a brilliant lead into our next Geography focus, expanding out from Europe into other areas of the world (the climate and features of Equatorial regions) Thank you to all our lovely families who supported their children and came along to enjoy the performance. 

Oak class Local history part 3

Our first task when we got to the church, was to search for dates  - how far back could we go? Amazingly, the earliest dates were in the 1200s then many more followed in the 1400s. We asked our guide, Mrs Dolling, to tell us more. Did she know anything about the significance of the lamb on the village sign and our school logo? It turns out there was an important connection with the church and the family of Robert 'de Herling and his daughter Anne, who was Lady of the manors in East Harling, owned lots of land, farming sheep, married three times to rich and important men who died in battle as knights to the King, leaving her with the wealth from sheep fleeces (a very valuable commodity during the medieval ages in the Norfolk textile industry era) As Anne had no children, she gave much of her wealth to rebuild and extend the church, and to set up Education and priesthood colleges in the area. She was the benefactor of poor children, providing education in the village and surrounding area!Wow! What a great connection to our enquiry about the Harling Lamb! She had also been significant in securing the Fair Charter from the King in 1474 enabling Harling to hold weekly markets and twice yearly Sheep Sales! 

Lady Anne and her husbands are buried in the church in elaborate tombs. The Lady Anne Chapel within the church was used as a school in the late 1600s. 

Two of her husbands are depicted on either side of the great East window.

We had discovered a major clue to answer our history enquiry question!

Now to see how the sheeps' fleece were so important ....

Oak class local history topic

Oak class got off to a fine start to our local history topic investigating ' Why is there a lamb on our school logo and on the village sign?' Local farmer Mr Richard Evans, invited us to Stonehouse Farm to watch some sheep shearing and try our hand at herding the sheep so we could consider what produce comes from sheep and how they might have been moved to East Harling in the past. It started our topic off thinking about what we know about sheep now.

Aylmerton day 3

A very wet morning didn't affect full involvement in the Pirate Activities - great team work challenges highlighted our class 'Oak Ethos' to support and encourage each other.

There will be many more photos on the display outside Oak Classroom, so please pop in and see them sometime.

The children were a delight to take away, full of enthusiasm and fortitude, helpful and kind to each other. Thank you very much to Mrs Mariner, Mrs Sait and Mr Hills who were a superb team for a happy and successful trip. And thank you for letting me take your children away, they were a credit to you and to EHPS.

Aylmerton trip

We have had a brilliant start to our residential trip to Aylmerton Field study centre, despite the cold and wet forecast. The children all settled in quickly responding to their new 'home' environment. We dodged the showers with fortuitous timing in Cromer museum, and even saw some sunshine during our walk at West Runton, looking in the rock pools and searching for fossils. 

Table Managers quickly learned how to take orders and clear the tables. Everybody tucked in well to a bangers and mash dinner, followed by apple crumble and custard. The twilight walk was too cold to reveal any creatures unfortunately. Glad of hot chocolate, but too excited for bed! All asleep by 10pm

Aylmerton Day 2

Amazing show of our East Harling Primary School motto 'Endeavour, Enjoy and Achieve Together' We are all so proud of the way the children showed such continuous interest in the rocks and shells, collecting and asking questions for the full (nearly) 6 miles, waddling in 5 or 6 layers plus a life jacket and ruck sack! Don't ever let them get away with 'Can you carry my school bag....'?!

The weather didn't detract from the enjoyment. Strangely, the tired walkers soon bounced back to full power with the thought of roast dinner!

Several 'first time' sailors- loved it!

Seals! Lots!

Asked 'Are you having a good time?.The reply was instant.....

Aylmerton Follow up Activities

Since our residential trip to Aylmerton and the North Norfolk coast, we have taken up role play jobs to recruit crew members for the RNLI, research and write a history report on the life and work of Henry Blogg, become scientists to discover and identify the creatures that live in the seashore habitat and work as a member of the tourist board or Wildlife Trust to create a poster about Cromer or Blakeney Point.

Please come to see the photo display of our trip in the corridor outside Oak classroom.