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• Year 4 - Love Where You Live Week

  Fri 26 Jun 2026

  What a fantastic week we've had in Year 4 celebrating our Love Where You Live theme!

   

  The children have been busy getting creative with lots of different art activities, producing some wonderful pieces inspired by our local area. They also enjoyed a very special visit from Rossi's Ice Cream, where they learned all about the history of the company and, of course, had the opportunity to have some delicious ice cream!

   

  Our learning continued with some fun ice cream-themed maths challenges, where the children used their problem-solving skills in a variety of practical activities. They also showed great patience and perseverance while sewing their own felt ice creams, developing their sewing skills and creating some fantastic handmade treats.

   

  Despite the soaring temperatures this week, the children have been absolutely brilliant. They have remained positive, worked incredibly hard and shown great resilience throughout all of our activities. To help us keep cool in the exceptionally hot weather, everyone enjoyed a refreshing ice lolly, which was certainly appreciated by all. We are very proud of how well they have coped in such challenging weather.

   

• Year Two - Love Where You Live Week

  Thu 25 Jun 2026 Mrs Mutch

  This week, Year Two have been celebrating Love Where You Live Week, and what a wonderful time we’ve had exploring our local environment and getting creative!

  We began our week in the nature reserve, where we enjoyed the fresh air and beautiful surroundings. The children worked together to create bread twists, which were baked and enjoyed as a special treat. While we were there, we also took inspiration from nature to create some lovely leaf pattern paintings.

  Back in the classroom, our creativity continued. We explored fossils by creating oil pastel ammonites. We also painted beautiful seaside scenes using watercolours, producing some fantastic seagull artwork.

  Linking to our English work, the children wrote a postcard from a crayon, inspired by the story The Day the Crayons Quit!

  We have also made elegant paper plate swans, and finished the week by building junk model lighthouses inspired by Portland Bill. The children showed great creativity as they designed and constructed their models.

  Although our planned walk had to be cancelled, it certainly didn’t stop us from having a fantastic week. We have loved spending our breaktimes in the cool nature reserve, making the most of the space and enjoying being outdoors together.

  It’s been a brilliant week full of creativity, teamwork and appreciation for the place we live. Well done, Year Two!

  

• 'Love where You Live Week' Year 1

  Wed 24 Jun 2026 Mrs Ireland

  This week has been incredibly busy and lots of fun! We have been exploring the theme of the sea and thinking about how lucky we are to live in Weymouth.

  The children have enjoyed a range of creative activities, including making willow fish and clay sea snails. They also had the opportunity to use tools to carefully drill a hole through a piece of wood.

  We were very lucky to take part in a special dance session with a professional dance teacher. The children loved creating movements inspired by sea creatures.

  The hot weather made things a little challenging at times, but we kept cool by spraying each other with a hose – which was definitely a highlight of the week!

  What a fantastic week of learning and creativity!

  

• Year 3 - Pneumatics

  Fri 19 Jun 2026

  This week, we began our DT topic on pneumatics.  We started by learning how to use two syringes and a tube to make different mechanisms. We used them to push an object across the table, to lift different items, and even to open the lid of a box. We will use what we have learned to plan and build our own moving pneumatic models in the last few weeks of term.

  

• Year 2 - Clay Clocks

  Fri 19 Jun 2026 Mrs Mutch

  This week in Year 2, we have been very busy exploring position and direction in our Maths lessons. We have been learning to use directional vocabulary such as left, right, clockwise and anticlockwise. The children worked hard to understand how to describe movement and turns. The children loved exploring direction in the nature reserve, giving and following instructions using their new vocabulary. It was wonderful to see such enthusiasm as they guided each other around and practised their understanding in a fun and active way. Back in the classroom, we also investigated shape patterns by turning shapes. The children enjoyed experimenting with rotations and discovering how shapes can be turned to create repeating patterns. We saw some excellent creativity and careful thinking during this activity.

   

  In Art, we began preparing for next week by making our clay clocks. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the clay, shaping it carefully and using clay tools to add detail. They showed great creativity and focus, and we are looking forward to painting them once they have fully dried.

   

  The best news this week was our fantastic reading achievement—both 2AH and 2MH earned the class reading worms! This is a brilliant accomplishment. A huge well done to everyone for reading five times this week. It was lovely to see how excited and proud the children were of their success.

  What a wonderful week, Year 2—keep up the great work!

  

• Year 1 - Our Esplanade Trip

  Thu 18 Jun 2026 Mrs I

  We had a lovely walk along the Esplanade, even though the weather wasn’t as sunny as we would have liked. We followed a map and spotted different historical buildings along the way.

  We enjoyed sketching some of the buildings, including the Jubilee Clock, and we also saw King George III’s bathing machine. We learned about how he used it, which we found very interesting!

   

  We all had a fantastic trip out, and some of us said that the best part was getting back to school on the coach!

  

• Year 5 - Nature Reserve

  Wed 17 Jun 2026

  This week, our two Year 5 classes enjoyed an exciting afternoon in the school’s nature reserve. Working in teams, the children designed and built impressive dens using natural materials. We were delighted to see such fantastic teamwork, creativity and problem-solving on display. The teachers were especially impressed by the children’s hard work and imaginative ideas, making it a memorable outdoor learning experience for everyone involved.

  

• Year 3 -reading

  Fri 12 Jun 2026

  As our final class reading spine book in year 3, we have been enjoying Michael Morpurgo's 'The Butterfly Lion'. The book is the story of a South African boy called Bertie, who befriends a young, white Lion cub. The mystery at the heart of the book is how this relates to the carving of a lion on a hillside in England- a carving that the locals call-'the Butterfly Lion'. We can't wait to find out what happens next. Why not ask your child about the story so far? 

  

• Year 4 - Leeson House Day 3

  Fri 12 Jun 2026

  Our final day! We were all absolutely shattered after our busy day yesterday so we fell asleep very quickly! 
   

  We woke up and started backing our bags, stripping our beds and tidying our rooms. Breakfast was next which was very tasty. After breakfast, we cleaned our teeth and hoovered our rooms before carrying our suitcases downstairs. 
   

  After saying thank you to our Leeson House leaders, we loaded up the coach ready for the journey to Lulworth Cove. 
   

  After a sing song on the coach, we split into our classes at Lulworth Cove ready for several activities. One class started by completing a visitor survey where they asked questions to members of the public and counted traffic for a traffic survey before visiting the visitor centre to look at different fossils and other interesting local things. 
   

  The other class walked up to Stair Hole and looked at the Cove. We discussed the different geographical things we could see from our learning in geography and had a go at sketching them. 
   

  Lunch was next. We all met by the Cove to enjoy our packed lunches together. After lunch, we swapped activities. The public was very complimentary of the children’s manners. 
   

  After all our activities were finished, the teachers surprised us with a final treat before the end of our school trip, ice pops! We then got back on the coach and headed back to school. What an amazing trip; we have had the best time! 

  

• Year 4 - Leeson House Day 2

  Thu 11 Jun 2026

  After a busy evening, it took us a while to settle down last night. However, we were up bright eyed and bushy tailed very early.
   

  We started our day with a very yummy breakfast. Once breakfast was finished, we brushed our teeth ready for the busy day ahead.

   

  The rain didn’t stop us! Even thought it was very soggy, half of the year group started their day with a minibus trip to Corfe Castle where they explored the ruins, listened to stories and even dressed up in costumes! Whilst the other half, explored the village of Langton Matravers reading maps, finding answers to questions, listening to stories and seeing a very cute calf that was born last night. This was followed by some sensory activities back at the house. We all reconvened for lunch and then swapped over to complete the other half of the activities.

   

  Once we had all finished, we met back at the house for a run around before dinner. After dinner, we sorted our rooms out ready for the morning and then spent some pennies in the Leeson House Shop and enjoyed our sweets and snacks. Then we all gathered around the campfire and sang some songs before toasting marshmallows and making smores. We finished our evening with a sing and a dance to Miss Cartwright’s music including Cha Cha Slide, Macarena and Beat It along with some of our play songs.

   

  Finally, after a long, busy day, we showered and got into our pyjamas before our hot chocolate and going to bed.