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• Year 4 - Hands on!

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  This week the children have started their tennis lessons in outdoor PE revising how to hold the racquet correctly, and practising their forearm and backhand techniques. 

  The children used a range of manipulatives to help them to understand their 8 x tables. 

  The nature reserve was a very artistic session where we used the fallen leaves to create some unusual creatures. 

  We also enjoyed a session learning about music and experiencing the joys of playing the samba drums!. 

  

• Year 3- Bank of Dreams and Nightmares

  Fri 03 Oct 2025

  This week in year 3, we were visited by ‘The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares’.  Ed and his helpers worked with us to develop character descriptions of a bank robber. We each wrote our own in our special journals and are looking forward to seeing how they are turned into a set of ‘character cards’. In English, we used our new-found skills to write descriptions of prehistoric animals. Finally, during our time in the nature reserve, we attempted to create found-item collages of our chosen prehistoric creatures.

  

• Year 3 - Bank of Dreams & Nightmares visit

  Fri 03 Oct 2025

  Year 3 had a fantastic visit from the Bank of Dreams & Nightmares this week - with their props, swag bag and magic red telephone we were inspired to discuss and create our own character descriptions which was great fun.

   

  In the nature reserve, we created pre-historic creatures using natural materials, and in English we wrote used expanded noun phrases and varied nouns for effect to create super animal descriptions.

   

  Well done to the children for their hard work :-) 

  

• Year 4 - History at its best!

  Thu 02 Oct 2025

   

  What a brilliant day Year 4 children had on Monday with the visitor historian. From the moment he arrived, the children knew it was going to be an exciting day!

  The costumes of the children were just amazing! The children played the Anglo-Saxon game of Fox and Geese. They made bookmarks using runes and writing with a quill!

  The children learned about the different punishments for certain crimes and some children played different criminal characters! They were able to hold a wide range of artefacts from that era – trying on chainmail and different helmets.

  In the afternoon, the children learned more about the chronology of the kings during the Anglo-Saxon times. The best part of the day, for many, was the battle at the end. The children had to form a barricade of shields to ward off the spears that were hurled towards them. 

  Happy to share that all the warriors returned safely!

  Congratulations to the children who worked hard with their Summer Reading! We are super proud of you!

  

• Year 3 - clay, gymnastics and washing a woolly mammoth!

  Fri 26 Sep 2025

  Year 3 have had a super week! In art, we looked at the work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, experimented with texture in clay and then recreated one of her pieces.

   

  In English, we enjoyed a book called How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth then acted it out by giving our own mammoth a relaxing bubble bath and scrub. We wrote instructions using time adverbials, imperative verbs and subheadings. 

   

  We explored jumping for height and distance off low apparatus in PE, including landing in the "magic toilet seat" position!

   

  Well done to the children for their hard work this week :-) 

   

  

• This week in Year 2!

  Fri 26 Sep 2025 Miss Hardy

  This week in Year 2, we have had a great time being creative! We painted sections of Henri Rousseau's famous art work by mixing colours to match the real piece and carefully copied the details. In English, we wrote our own stories based on the book 'Laura's Star'. We spent time planning how our story could be different and came up with some exciting pieces of writing! The children used their imagination to come up with some amusing and enchanting ideas of how the star fell and how it could be fixed again.  
  We are looking forward to another great week! 

  

• Year 5- 5R at WOEC

  Fri 26 Sep 2025

  What an incredible day 5R had at WOEC! From the moment we arrived, the children threw themselves into every challenge with enthusiasm, courage and a fantastic team spirit.

   

  Whether it was the focus and steady hand needed in archery, the coordination and communication during giant paddle boarding, or the bravery shown climbing high and tunneling — every activity was met with determination. In bushcraft, the children learned key survival skills and even mastered the art of fire lighting, showing resilience and patience along the way.

   

  Throughout the day, 5R demonstrated excellent teamwork and a "never give up" attitude. It was wonderful to see everyone supporting and encouraging one another.

   

  You should all be incredibly proud of yourselves — we certainly are. Well done, 5R! 🌟🔥🏹🧗‍♂️

  

• Year 4 - Writers, investigators and fighters!

  Fri 26 Sep 2025

  This week, we had a very exciting visit from The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares. We did a workshop looking at speech writing and persuading people that our animal would be the most suitable to defend against Grendel (the monster in our focus story, Beowulf). We also created our own campaign badges for this. In English we had a fight! We used powerful verbs to create a fight scene. Furthermore, we explored and investigated making circuits whilst testing different materials to determine if they were conductors or insulators. We also explored and discussed different punishments found in Anglo-Saxon times. Some were quite brutal! We are really looking forward to our Anglo-Saxon day on Monday.

  

• Year 1 - Capital Letters in the Nature Reserve

  Wed 24 Sep 2025 Mrs I

  On Wednesday, we had a wonderful time at the nature reserve. The sun was shining, and we made the most of the beautiful weather! Our task for the day was to create capital letters using natural materials. We gathered sticks, grasses, and leaves to shape each letter — it was so much fun.

  As we explored, we noticed the first signs of autumn all around us. The ground was covered in colourful leaves, and we loved trudging through them. 

   

  

• Year 5 - 5T at WOEC

  Fri 19 Sep 2025

  On September 18th, 5T visited Weymouth Outdoor Education Centre (WOEC) for a fun-filled day of rock hopping, climbing, tunnelling, archery and bushcraft. The intrepid adventurers sported super smiles all day, and they all worked together sensibly and collaboratively.

   

  The children impressed everyone with their positive attitude and sense of adventure; they were a credit to themselves and the school.

   

  Radipole is very proud of them.