Devon Hospitals Short Stay School

News Stories

• Train trip to Dawlish Warren!
  On the train to Dawlish Warren, we looked out for wild birds and saw geese, swans and egrets. We strolled along the beach and found many interesting shells, including crab shells. It was quite windy!
• Healthy smoothies!
  Ruiqiu was keen to make smoothies with the strawberries. She also showed us how to make a mint drink, as taught to her by her grandparents. The drinks were delicious!
• Culinary Delights!
  We are developing the different skills needed to cook a meal: – choosing and planning what to cook, buying the ingredients, chopping, grating, frying, stirring, kneading, proving, baking, tasting, evaluating and adapting recipes. Delicious!
• Local Outings
  We walked down to the Quay and visited the Custom House. The interactive activities were fun!
• Marble Run Fun!
  Heidi used her DT skills to make a marble run. It worked!
• Building bridges
  Phoebe and Heidi worked together to investigate who could build the strongest bridge with straws.
• Science bottles
  Experiments at the Outreach Centre
• Spooky mobile
  Students at the RD&E made a mobile from willow sticks and learned about the history of Halloween.
• Haikus
  Students have been practising writing 'haikus' working towards achieving AQA units
• September mood boards
  Looking at autumnal colours and taking inspiration from the season.