We remain open today.

Having undertaken a further risk assessment this morning, we have made some changes.

All children including preschool children should come through the main car park gates.

The walkway from Braunton Academy Car Park to our playground will be closed as a precaution due to the trees.  

Staff will guide children and adults around our site.

If the winds continue, children will remain inside for break time and lunchtime - like we do for wet playtimes/lunches.

We will continue to review our risk assessments throughout the day.

All after school sports clubs have been cancelled.  Southmead+ remains open.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

An early morning start for the girls football team on Thursday morning. After a good warm up walk to Kingsacre the girls were ready…we had 8 girls in the line up for the 6 aside tournament. The first team out saw Southmead up against Caen 1st team. This did not phase them. Lana in the net, Z and Florence holding the back line, Maggie and Martha in at midfield and B, lonesome, up front. The whistle blew and off they went…. 1 goal, 2, 3 and 4……..4-0! Yeeeeyyyyy. This boosted them into the next game, with super subs Freya and Piper making many appearances in the games that followed. Another 4-0 win against Kingsacre 2nd, 1-0 against Marwood and 0-0 draw against Kingsacre 1st. This propelled the girls into 1st place at the end of the first round. The girls then had to prepare for the finals. 1st game saw Southmead against Kingsacre 2nd’s once again….3-0! “We are in the top 2 ladies…!” The final was upon us….Southmead V Kingsacre 1st and the final score 1-0! SOUTHMEAD ROCKS!
You are all fantastic, supportive, hardworking and driven athletes! Next stop Kingsley…in the bag girls!  We could not be prouder of you all 

Here's a link to the official photos: https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/a25a8edc3d87412290aca9abdec077f8

Tuesday 26^th September

Southmead had a wonderful time stand-up paddle boarding with CEET on Tuesday. For those unable to swim 25m unaided, we had lots of nature activities happening which they also loved. This involved individual and collaborative work.

Leo said “this has been the best day ever.” He had never seen a conker before and loved making the conker art.

Tuesday 10^th October Lower KS2

What a fantastic group and afternoon we had. Firstly, we must comment on the wonderful manners and behaviour of your students. They were brilliant. They were very happy to walk to the allotment and had such a great time, the time flew and they didn’t want to stop the activities.

Today the children took part in the following:

• Planting daffodils in a Southmead planter box (this will be their box to always see).
• Weeding and composting
• Finding caterpillars and bugs
• Nature art – autumn leaf rubbing
• Litter picking
• Vegetable hunting and picking

The students learnt that the allotment is used for the community – we give free vegetables out   on a weekly basis and including the Brussel sprouts for the Braunton Xmas lunch. The children learn that Southmead receive the Brussel sprouts too so they loved weeding them!

The children got to pick a marrow to take back to school for Harvest festival – well done Martha for carrying this!

Thank you to the Southmead staff and parent helper, we are very grateful 😊

Wednesday 11^th October 2023 – Upper Key Stage 2

Our allotment activities continued from yesterday. However, this group took part in a large vegetable scavenger hunt as on Wednesdays we donate vegetables to South Street Church who cook a meal for locals who are on their own or struggle to cook. The students loved learning that their help on the allotment is helping our community.

They were so engaged and an extra mention to Jacob who was fabulous 😊 Your students are brilliant!

Year 3 were lucky enough to be invited to Braunton Academy to hear Sheku Kanneh Mason play cello and Tom Featherstonhaugh play piano. They played extracts from the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 and talked about what inspired them to play. Both are playing with the Bournemouth Philharmonic Orchestra. It was such a treat.

Some of our children have attended a Workshop with Emmylou Shine. The children were fantastic with their use of media and application! We love the variety of colours and proportion of each object in all artworks. We hope you enjoy looking at them too.