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

• 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.

  

• Year 1 Decorating biscuits

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Ayles

  On Tuesday this week, we all had great fun decorating biscuits as part of our English lesson! We looked at all the ingredients that were needed and then followed the instructions very carefully, step by step to produce a wonderful smiley face biscuit. The children were extremely excited as they got to take their biscuits home at the end of the day, they tasted delicious!

   

  At the end of the week we thought about how we decorated the biscuits and then wrote our own instructions on the process. Great work Year One, well done! 

  

• Year Two - Measuring and Planning Stories

  Fri 28 Mar 2025

  This week the children have continued to work on their measuring during maths. They used the scales to weigh and compare mass of different objects. They loved using the scales and were fantastic working in groups. In our nature reserve time the children enjoyed using different measuring equipment to measure the length of sticks. They used a tape measure to find how far it was around the trunk of different trees.

   

  The children have all loved learning about Kenya and this week have learnt about urban Kenya. They looked back on their year one work on London to compare what life is like in London compared to Nairobi. They were really interested and keen to ask lots of questions. They were suprised to find how many schools there were in London compared to Nairobi and enjoyed looking at the football stadiums in both places. 

   

  In English, we planned our Just So Story to explain why an animal has a particular feature. Lots of children are writing about why the giraffe has a long neck. They will write their stories next week and I'm sure would love to tell you about their story plan over the weekend.

  

• Year 1 Pond Dipping

  Wed 26 Mar 2025 Mrs Ayles

  On Tuesday afternoon, Year 1 headed up to the school pond to do a spot of pond dipping as part of our science topic on animals. The children were all very keen to use the nets and magnifying glasses. Once we'd set up, we dipped the nets in and were ready to go. Lots of excitement and anticipation all around! We were very lucky and with the first dip of the nets we managed to catch lots of newts hiding amongst the pond weed! The children worked really well with each other and were able to spot a few other creatures pulled out from the pond using the identification charts. What a fantastic afternoon at the pond, especially with the sun shining on us too! 

  

• Year 6 - cooking

  Tue 25 Mar 2025

  This week, Year 6 have been making crumbles as part of their DT topic! The children tested crumbles and then designed and made their own! They had fantastic time stewing and making the recipe. Hopefully they enjoy them! Perhaps with a little bit of custard, or ice-cream. Yummy! 

  

• Year 3 - Preparing Our Fire Area

  Fri 21 Mar 2025

  This week, in our English lessons, year 3 began to look at writing an informative speech. In addition, as part of our maths work, we examined fractions and learned how to sequence them in ascending and descending order. Thursday afternoon was spent in the nature reserve, preparing an area for fire building. We also used the time as an opportunity to set up a forest art gallery, creating tree sketches using charcoal from our own camp fire.

  

• Year 4 - Sumdog Battle Royale, collages and fractions!

  Fri 21 Mar 2025

  Year 4 had a 1 vs all "Battle Royale" on Sumdog this week! Well done to all the children - it was incredibly tight at the top of the leaderboard with the positions changing right up to the end.

   

  Well done to our winner Ashton, and the other top scorers Bodie, Oscar and Nadeeja.

   

  We also enjoyed making some collages in art in the style of Maria Rivans, expressing hobbies and things that reflected our lives.

   

  In maths, we have been adding and subtracting fractions.

   

  Great effort everybody, keep it up :-)