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• Year One - Decorating Biscuits

  Fri 15 May 2026 Mrs I

  This week, we have been looking at instructions. We followed a set of instructions to decorate a biscuit. We used Smarties and strawberry laces to create eyes and a mouth.

  Our biscuits looked amazing and tasted even more delicious!

  

• Year 3 - Videogame reviews and river research

  Thu 14 May 2026

  This week, in our English lessons , we finally wrote our videogame reviews using all our skills from the previous week. We included subheadings to organise our work, different sentence types, powerful adjectives and even screen-shots from the games themselves. In our Geography lessons, we continued our topic on Rivers by working in pairs to research a world river using fact sheets, atlases and the internet. We created a poster to share our findings with the rest of the class.

  

• Amazing Year 3&4 boys football team!

  Thu 14 May 2026

  The Year 3 & 4 boys football team did BRILLIANTLY at the recent tournament at St George's School on Portland. They showed great skill, determination and team spirit throughout the group and knock-out stages. Well done to them all for their great teamwork :-) 

  

• Year 5 - Printing

  Mon 11 May 2026

  Year 5 have been exploring the vibrant work of Cornish print artist Lou Tonkin. They carefully studied her use of colour, shape and pattern, discussing what makes her style so distinctive. The children then recreated an example of her artwork. This activity has helped them develop ideas and gather inspiration for their own original designs, which they will be creating later this term. We were very impressed with their focus, creativity and attention to detail, and we look forward to seeing how they apply these skills in their independent artwork.

  

• Year One - Growing Bean Seeds

  Fri 08 May 2026 Mrs I

  We have been waiting patiently for our runner bean seeds to grow, and this week we were excited to see them finally begin to germinate. The children have enjoyed watching the small shoots appear and talking about the changes they can see.

  We have started a seed diary to record how much the plants are growing and to help us track their progress over time.

  

• Year 2 - Moving Vehicles

  Fri 08 May 2026 Mrs Mutch

  This week in Year Two, we have been busy making our own moving vehicles. We started by looking carefully at our designs and thinking about how our vehicles would move.

  The children made an important choice about their wheels. Some decided to use a fixed wheel, while others chose a fixed axle. We talked about how each one works and tested them to see how they moved.

  Once our vehicles were built, it was time for the best part — painting and decorating! The classroom was full of colour and creativity as everyone worked hard on their designs.

  We had great fun making our vehicles and were very proud to see them move. The children showed excellent teamwork, creativity and perseverance throughout the activity. Well done, Year Two! 🌟

• Year 3 flower experiments

  Thu 07 May 2026

  As part of our science topic on ‘plants’, both year 3 classes have been involved in experiments with flowers. Our favourite experiment so far, is to add two different food colourings to the water in the pots of two white flowers. We predicted, that the xylems in the flowers would suck up the coloured water and distribute it to the flowers’ white petals, changing their colour. As you can see- we were right!

  

• Year 4 - The fabulous outdoors

  Thu 07 May 2026

  Year 4 have had a fabulous week having had their first swimming lesson and an exciting Nature Reserve lesson. 

  The pool was looking perfect (thanks to Mr Hathaway's careful attention and cleaning). The water was perfect, as the children got themselves reacquainted with the rules and expectations of pool safety.

  In the Nature Reserve, the children explored the new resources (thanks to Mrs Hunter for her Forest School input), had a go at a team-building problem-solving activity and also built their own dens (big and small)!

  The children have now designed their pencils cases, so that they can then start making them over the next two weeks!

   

  

• Year 6 Art David Hockney

  Wed 06 May 2026

  Year 6 have been busy this week creating beautiful artist studies on David Hockney. 

  

• Years 3 & 4 Multi-Sports Festival

  Tue 05 May 2026 F Probert

  On Friday 1st May selected children from Years 3 and 4 were fortunate to join in a Multi-Sports Festival at Radipole Park Drive. They were introduced to Petanque, Pickleball and Quik Cricket. They also managed to sneak in a fabulous playtime and lunch too! It was a day full of fun, collaboration and exploring!