Radipole Primary School
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Year Two - Kenya Day
Fri 14 Mar 2025This week we have been learning about Kenya. We have learnt an African tale about Anansi the spider and retold it to our friends. Anansi was a greedy spider, who wanted to eat everyone elses lunch but he learnt his lesson when his legs were pulled in all directions. That is how Anansi got his long legs! We will be reading Just So Stories and then writing our own tales about why animals look like they do, over the next few weeks.
In Geography, we looked a an area of Kenya, Chagoria and drew a map of the town. We talked about what a rural and an urban place is like. On Friday we all enjoyed taking part in a Kenya day along with the Receptions children, who are learning about Africa. We enjoyed African dancing, some drama about going on a journey, mask making and printing our own African fabric using repeated patterns.
During our Kenya day we had a visitor who brought us letters, pictures and photos of our link school, Munga Primary School. Our visitor had been to meet teachers and children at Munga Primary School during February half term, when she had delivered our floor book about Radipole School. It was lovely to see photos of the children receiving our book and we really enjoyed reading the letters they had sent us.
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Year 4 - volleyball, Sir David Hattenscarf & Sumdog
Fri 14 Mar 2025Year 4 have been playing volleyball in PE this week, using beach balls and real volleyballs! A tricky sport but we are getting better.
A Battle Royale is this week's Sumdog homework - 1 vs All! Who can get on the leaderboard of the top 20 scores? Sumdog automatically adjusts questions based on individual ability so everyone can join in fairly - the more you play, the more points you get!
Rehearsals for our show, Sir David Hattenscarf, are going well! Please do keep practising lines and lyrics at home.
Well done everyone :-)
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Year One - Solving Maths Problems
Thu 13 Mar 2025We have been working on subtraction and solving maths problems.
The children made up their own problems using counting apparatus and things in the classroom. They used the structure of First.., Then.... and now...........
It was a nice way to start our day!
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Year 5- Science experiment
Fri 07 Mar 2025This week, Year 5 have been exploring air resistance by creating their own parachutes. They learned about air resistance by using materials like plastic bags and string to build their designs.
After testing their parachutes outside, they enjoyed watching them float down, deepening their understanding of the concept while showing fantastic teamwork and creativity.
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Year 3 - Book Week and Printing.
Fri 07 Mar 2025This week was World Book Week, and on Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day with some incredible book-themed hats—WOW! They were all absolutely amazing, and it was fantastic to see everyone's creativity on display.
In art, we practised printing techniques, exploring different patterns and textures.
In PE, we had a great time playing lacrosse and volleyball, developing our teamwork and coordination skills.
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Fabulous Fables! Creative Hats and a Mastermind!
Fri 07 Mar 2025Book Week is always brilliant at Radipole, and this year was no exception! In fact, the 'Hat Walk' certainly was a fabulous first.
4B's chosen fable was 'The Farmer and his Sons', with the moral being work hard now and reap the rewards later.
4P's chosen fable was 'Mercury and the Woodman', with the moral being honesty is the best policy.
We were all super proud of our Year 4 mastermind contestant, Olivia - who got all of her 10 questions on her specialist book (TheThing) correct!
Thank you Year 4 - You really have shown that, 'Reading has gone to your head!'
Don't forget to spend your book voucher!
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Year Two - Smoothies and Book Week
Fri 07 Mar 2025What an exciting week we have had!
At the beginning of the week, the children designed and made their own smoothies. They learnt how to carefully use tools to peel and chop fruit, then blended the fruit with juice. The children enjoyed tasting what they had made.
During the week, the children have enjoyed lots of activities for book week. They made some amazing hats, which they wore on Thursday and some children praded them in assembly. It was lovely to see so many children involved in the reading cafe, enjoying books with their adults. In class we retold a fable, then designed a decorative door and bunting for the cafe.
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Book swap
Fri 07 Mar 2025Another successful book swap. So many children took part in our book swap. Children donated a book that they no longer read in exchange for a new-to-them book. A great use of retired books.
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Year 6 - World Book Week
Fri 07 Mar 2025This week, the school has been celebrating World Book Week! We have been reading a tale per class from Aesop's Fables. We have also been creating marvellous class doors based on our tale, and the children also wore some brilliant hats on Thursday. We love reading in Year 6, and we hope you do too.
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Year One - Remarkable Reading Hats
Thu 06 Mar 2025On Thursday, the children celebrated World Book Day by wearing some amazing book based hats. We were astounded to see the creativity and the range of stories on display. They talked bout their hats and some children were chosen to join in a whole school 'Hat Walk'.
We had a great day!
