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

• NASH cup semi-finalists!

  Tue 29 Apr 2025

  After qualifying for the semi-finals, the team narrowly missed the finals on penalties!  

  

• NASH cup WINNERS!!!

  Tue 29 Apr 2025

  After finishing first in the group stages, winning the semi final 1-0 and then winning the final 2-0, Radipole boys are the official NASH cup winners of 2025!!! 

  

• Year 3 - Measuring and a Mysterious Creature

  Fri 25 Apr 2025 Mr Taylor

  Wow, what a start to the new term!
  This week, the children began learning about measuring capacity and volume in millilitres, which led to a fun, if slightly messy, lesson involving water and containers from around the classroom! The children loved getting hands-on with their learning and testing out their estimation skills.
  In art, we explored different shading techniques, experimenting with pencils to create light, shadow, and texture. The children really got stuck in and produced some fantastic results!
  But the most extraordinary moment of the week came on Wednesday morning...
  Mr Hargreaves arrived at school with incredible news, he had spotted a mysterious creature on his way to work! It had enormous, scaly wings, a long tail that shimmered in the morning light, and it let out a deep, echoing roar as it soared high through the sky. Although it was far in the air, it cast a huge shadow over the road below. Mr Hargreaves couldn’t believe his eyes, and even managed to capture video evidence to show the children. Gasps filled the classroom as the footage played.
  Just when we thought it couldn’t get any more dramatic, Mr Hathaway and Mrs McCann rushed in to share what they had seen too. Both were shaken and amazed by the sighting of the soaring creature overhead.
  The children were absolutely hooked. This unbelievable encounter launched our new English unit on newspaper reports, because of course, a mysterious sighting like this deserves to make the front page!
   

  

• Year 6 - Science

  Fri 25 Apr 2025

  This half term, Year 6 are learning about Animals and Living Things in Science. We began classifying living things this week! We're looking forward to exploring this topic this half term. 

  

• Year 5 - gym lesson

  Fri 25 Apr 2025

  For indoor P.E. this week, the children in year 5 got to experience the school’s gym equipment.

   

  From climbing to jumping and from vaulting to balancing, the children demonstrated a range of gymnastics skills. As well as showing their abilities on a range of different equipment, they also worked together really well to support each other.

   

  They all did a fantastic job.

  

• Year 4 - coasts, decimals and possessive apostrophes!

  Fri 25 Apr 2025

  Year 4 made a super start to the summer term after their Easter break. In geography, we have started our topic on Coasts by looking at lots of pictures of different coastal features, asking questions and labelling pictures with our new vocabulary. 

   

  In maths, we have been working on tenths and hundredths in our decimal work, and recognising the equivalence with our fractions knowledge:  1/10 = 0.1 = 0.10 = 1 out of 10 = 10 out of 100. We have been multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 using the place value sliders to help us.  

   

  In English, we have been working on our neat, joined up handwriting and spelling contractions. We have also been tackling the tricky subject of apostrophes for possession using singular and plural nouns: Dave's coat (singular), all the birds' nests (plural).

   

  Well done for a great start back :-) 

  

• Year One - The Biscuit Thief

  Wed 23 Apr 2025 Mrs Ireland

  On Wednesday, Mrs McCann was shocked to find out that someone had eaten all the biscuits and sweets she had left in the staffroom.

  Mrs McCann asked the children to search and find out what had happened. The children followed clues and crumbs around the school. We went into the library and found more crumbs! The music hut was full of wrappers and more crumbs! Even the scrap store had wrappers and crumbs. Eventually, the children followed clues to the School Office. Mrs Miller was hiding under her desks surrounded by crumbs and wrappers! She was the culprit! the 'Radipole Biscuit Thief'.

   

   

  

• Year 3- Making soup

  Thu 03 Apr 2025

  This week in year 3, we took it in turns to make a delicious tomato soup. This involved using knives to carefully chop the ingredients and cooking and mixing in a saucepan. We really enjoyed the whole process, and the end product was delicious.  In our maths lessons, we also worked hard on understanding measurements of mass and how to read scales successfully. As part of this week’s English, we pretended to be queen Boudicca and wrote an informative speech to our tribe members urging them to rise up and drive the Romans out of Britain.

  

• Year 5/6 swimming gala winners!!!

  Thu 03 Apr 2025

  This week, 16 children took part in a swimming gala at Weymouth swimming pool. They competed against 9 other local schools. 

   

  Many members of the team were new to competitive swimming and gave it their all. They cheered each other on in all of the 26 events! 

   

  Well done Radipole. Great swimming. Amazing achievement. Second year running. 

   

   

  

• Year 2 - Visit from St Aldhems, Easter Quiz, Easter cards

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Mutch

  This week we have been looking at what Easter means to Christians. We have looked at symbols of Easter, had a lovely visit from St Aldhems church, where we were told about what Christians believe and how they prepare for Easter. We enjoyed making a colourful wheel with our guests, to retell the key parts of the Easter story. 

   

  On Friday, we had great fun doing an Easter egg hunt, where we had to find and answer questions on paper eggs. This helped us to reflect on everything we have learnt this term. It was lovely to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. Lets hope it stays sunny for the holiday. 

   

  We wish you all a lovely Easter break.