Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 5 - Natural Mosaics

  Fri 28 Feb 2025

  Inspired by our art lessons on Antoni Gaudi, Year 5 created some natural mosaics during our nature reserve session.

   

  The children came up with some truly inspirational ideas, using leaves, bark and other natural materials in their designs.

   

  We think even Gaudi himself would be proud!

  

• Year 3- Measuring Fun!

  Fri 28 Feb 2025 Mr Hargreaves

  This week, year 3 started a new maths topic on measuring length. Over a sequence of lessons, we have learned to use rulers to measure accurately in millimetres, centimetres and metres. We have developed these skills practically measuring objects in the classroom, windows and doorways and even each other! This week in our English lessons, we completed our classroom displays of our ‘Wizard of Oz’ character and setting descriptions. We also started learning how to write a persuasive letter. So far we have worked on including adverbials of time, imperative verbs and rhetorical questions.

  

• Year 1 - Hibernating Hedgehogs

  Fri 28 Feb 2025 Mrs Ireland

  On Friday afternoon, we learnt all about hibernating animals. We went down to the nature reserve. All the children were given a piece of clay to make a hedgehog and they had to decide where would be a good place for their hedgehog to rest of the winter.

  They created some amazing hedgehogs and built places for them to hibernate.

  What fun in the sunshine!!

  

• Year 6 - SPaG and Maths Trail

  Fri 28 Feb 2025

  Most weeks, Year 6 venture out to practise SPaG and Maths questions on the playground. The children love doing this and getting fresh air, exercise and collaborating with their classmates while exploring a variety of questions! Today the sunshine shone for us, and we thoroughly enjoyed it! Well done, Year 6. You were fab! 

  

• Year Two - Sandwiches and Smoothies

  Thu 27 Feb 2025 Mrs Mutch

  We have had an exciting start to this half term, tasting smoothies and making jam sandwiches. In English, we have been following and writing command sentences, in preparation for writing recipes. The children worked in pairs, following instructions to make a jam sandwich.

   

  In Design and Technology, the children have been tasting smoothies. The children really enjoyed tasting the interesting flavours. The green matcha tea, kiwi and cucumber was popular. They are looking forward to making their own smoothies next week.

  

• Year 1 Art - L.S. Lowry

  Wed 12 Feb 2025 Mrs Ayles

  This half term we have been looking at the artist L.S. Lowry. We started by looking closely at his paintings, including the way the buildings and people were drawn. The people were facing in different ways, some even facing backwards! The children had a go at drawing their own figures on a whiteboard first, and then in their sketchbooks. Some children tried to include prams and dogs within their drawings, just as Lowry did. Next, we focused on re creating the buildings. The children drew different sized buildings, with chimneys and windows. 

  We created a final piece of art work in the style of Lowry, first by painting the background in a blue and grey wash. Next we created our buildings on black paper, stuck them on the background and then finally added our ‘matchstick figures’ in the foreground. The children did an amazing job with their Art work. They really looked carefully and worked creatively to produce a fabulous end piece. Well done Year 1! 

  

• Year 4 - Wonderful writers

  Tue 11 Feb 2025

  What a fabulous week it has been for writing!

  The children have finished writing their own newspaper reports about the invasion of the flying frogs in Weymouth, and they have published them too! We hope you enjoy reading about them at home. 

   

  It was also Year 4's time to spend a morning with the amazing team from 'The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares'. The children spent the morning bringing their poetic skills to the fore, starting with their own poet names! They then went on to produce their own poems, in their new poetry journals. The gifted pencils certainly aided their skills!

  We are looking forward to the published book later in the year. 

   

  

• Year 5/6 football friendly

  Mon 10 Feb 2025

  On Monday, a Year 5/6 team played against Southill Primary School. Although it was a very close game and had our chances, we narrowly lost 2 - 1. Well played everyone. 

   

  Check out our new kits with the few players that were left once I remembered that I hadn't taken a team photo! 

   

  

• Year 5 - Decimals

  Mon 10 Feb 2025

  In our maths lessons this week, the children have been looking at decimals.

   

  As well as revising decimal place value, children have been learning how to convert from a fraction to a decimal (and vice versa) and how to compare and order decimals.

   

  The magnificent mathematicians of Year 5 have excelled in these lessons.

  

• Reception - Doubling

  Mon 10 Feb 2025

  We have been exploring what is means to double something this week in our maths lessons.

   

  We had great fun using our magic doubling pot - we put things in and double the amount came out. We also explored doubling dots on dice and rolling doubles, doubling counters and doubling items from around the classroom.

   

  Great doubling Reception!