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Jan 12
2 min

Ice and fire

It's been super cold outside recently. The beach looks VERY chilly Nobody swimming today! I've enjoyed crunching on icy puddles. Rachel h...

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

Our Christmas favourite

Our BeachHut is right on the beach so we get to see and hear lots of seagulls. We're very lucky to have a lovely wood as well, which come...

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Magic torches, glowing butterflies and light-up trails in the woods

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Nov 30, 2020
2 min

Magic torches, glowing butterflies and light-up trails in the woods

This has been one of our favourite weeks at SandyHands and CoppetKids. We spent the week looking at UV light. I know that sounds very sci...

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Nov 23, 2020
1 min

Shhhh, listen, what can you hear?

When you stand on the beach what can you hear? Wind. Yes. Waves. Yes. Seagulls, ooo, yes, good one. Anything else? Well this week you cou...

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Nov 15, 2020
1 min

Fishing about in the dark

Great to see you all again after the extra long half term. And, Hello! to our SandyHanders across the border hope our blog will keep in t...

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Nov 3, 2020
1 min

Yay! We can play.

Phew, we can play again on the beach. We will re-start all our sessions from the 10th November. We are starting two new sessions for this...

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Oct 28, 2020
1 min

Half-term fun.

Hello SandyHanders. Are you having a lovely half-term. The weather is a bit rubbish, I've got water in my wellies, how about you? Have yo...

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Oct 16, 2020
1 min

Surf's up!

We spent this week talking and splashing in the waves. There are lots of animals, fish and humans that like to play in waves. Look at the...

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Oct 13, 2020
1 min

A magical week on the beach...

Ssshhhh, this is a secret, but ... On Tuesday the SandyHanders were following a rainbow Autumn trail when they found a strange trail... S...

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Oct 3, 2020
1 min

Breaking news!!!!!

Last week an OCTOPUS, a real live octopus, was rescued from a rockpool, just along the beach from SandyHands at Monkston point! How amazi...

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Sep 19, 2020
2 min

We've all gone all wibbly-wobbly...

Weren't we lucky this week with the beautiful sunshine? It's been just like summer! Rachel had the WORST idea, the most wobbly, yucky, eewww...

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Aug 23, 2020
1 min

SandyHanders take first plaice!!!!!!

Here are the SandyHanders holding on tightly to their racing plaice. Ready...Get set...GO! Which fish looks the fastest? These plaice are...

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Aug 14, 2020
2 min

Ready...aim...FIRE!!!!

Snails away! This week at SandyHands we have been on the Trail of the Snail. Some of the snails were quite hard to find. Can you see all ...

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Aug 7, 2020
1 min

CoppetHall's very own art gallery.

The weather-man wasn't quite telling the truth about a heat wave this week, was he? But SandyHanders are made of tough stuff, we don't ca...

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Jul 30, 2020
1 min

Big, breaking news..

SandyHanders to the rescue! One clever SandyHander spied 3 rock-pools full of tiny fish stranded by the out going tide. Quick! Grab your ...

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It's all looking a bit tickly this morning

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Jul 24, 2020
1 min

It's all looking a bit tickly this morning

On Tuesday everyone got a little bit CRABBY! Using only 'pinchers' SandyHanders hunted out numbers 1 to 10, not an easy thing to do, well...

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Jul 17, 2020
1 min

Fishy floaty fun!

I have learnt so much this week at SandyHands. On Tuesday Rachel taught

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On the trail of the slippery, slimy, speedy snail...

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Jul 10, 2020
1 min

On the trail of the slippery, slimy, speedy snail...

What a beautiful morning! Sunshine at last! The beach looked like the cleaning fairies had popped in overnight. Everything ready for the Fri

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Jul 4, 2020
1 min

S is for starfish...

Well, that was a busy week SandyHanders! Two SandyHands sessions, Tuesday and now a new Friday 10am session! Everyone has their own Sandy...

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SandyHands

Jun 29, 2020
1 min

One more sleep!!!!!!

We have missed you SandyHanders and we can't wait to see you win the morning. 10am outside the BeachHut, Coppethall. See you soon!

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