Radipole Primary School
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Reception - Party Day
Mon 23 Sep 2024We had an absolute blast celebrating our class pets' 5th birthdays!
Ezra the Elephant and Luca the Lion both turned 5, and what better way to celebrate than with some good old fashioned party games, singing and dancing. And what wonderful dance moves you all had!
Sadly, there was a bit of a mix up with the cakes, but luckily the children were there to help us make sure that there were 5 candles on each cake. Good counting Reception!
We were so impressed with how well the children joined in with the fun. They are sure to be exhausted after all their dancing!
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Year One - Beebots
Fri 20 Sep 2024The children have had fun learning how to program beebots. They had time to experiment and then we set them the challenge of trying to make their beebot travel in a square and a rectangle. It did take some of us a little time to work out how to do this but eventually we all were successful.
Well done Year 1.
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Year 3 - place value and soil
Fri 20 Sep 2024This week in our maths sessions, we continued with our work on place value, partitioning numbers up to 1,000. The children enjoyed representing numbers in different ways, using base 10 and counters.
Within our science lessons, we studied rocks, fossils, and soils. We collected soil samples from our outdoor area and investigated them using magnifying glasses. Afterwards, we set up a week long experiment using water and a dirt sample where we will investigate what happens throughout the week to the mixture.
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Year 6 - PE
Wed 18 Sep 2024This term in PE, Year 6 are doing tennis outside and gymnastics inside.
During our tennis sessions we have been practising our back-hand.
During gymnastics we have been developing our hurdle step and our partner balances.
Take a look...
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Year 3 - Spears and Battle Descriptions
Fri 13 Sep 2024Wow! What a busy first full week we’ve had in year 3!
In our English sessions, we used role-play to plan a battle description between some children and a cave bear (based on our book –‘Stone Age Boy’). We focussed on including as many exciting compound sentences when we wrote it up.
During our nature reserve time, we continued our Stone Age topic through searching for appropriate rocks in order to make spear-heads. We had a great time.
Finally, in our gymnastics sessions, we worked hard on learning how to perform a shoulder stand.
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Year 4 - Buzzing first week!
Fri 13 Sep 2024What a wonderful first full week in Year 4. It has been so busy starting new topics, new routines and using new resources!
We have discussed democracy this week in assemblies and the children showed this through their voting of class mates for the roes of Meet and Greet, Eco monitors, Nature Reserve Rangers, School Councilors and Mindfulness monitors
The sun shone for us on Monday, for our first outdoor PE session where we played worked on our tennis skills.
In Science , we were bussing - literally, for we had investigated circuits and made light bulbs- light,and then them brighter. We made and buzzers - buzz, and then buzz louder!
In PSHE, we have been looking at our new topic on Me and My Relationships. We had fun trying to work as Collabadons!
We are looking forward to next week and our first visit to the nature reserve. Maybe this weekend you could go for a walk, and see if you can identify the different trees around you.
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Year One - Mr Wolf's Pancakes
Tue 10 Sep 2024This week we looked at the book Mr Wolf's Pancakes. We drew Mr wolf and some of the other characters from the story. Mr Wolf was interviewed by the children and they asked him questions about his shady behaviour! The children made pancakes and tasted them in the classroom, they were delicious! We've had a really lovely whole first week.
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Year 6 First Trip
Fri 06 Sep 2024We've only been back for two days, but what a busy few days we've had!
On Thursday, we worked collaboratively to make a free standing bridge that could span 30cm.
On Friday, we walked to St Ann's graveyard to explore the RAF graves and inspire our curiosity to ask questions about the past.
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Reception - Sports Day
Fri 12 Jul 2024What a fantastic sports day we had. The children were wonderful - weren't they! They all tried so hard, the atmosphere and the have-a-go attitude was just superb!
Thank you to all the children who jumped, crawled, balanced, ran, bounced and cheered!
A BIG thank you to the very enthusiastic parents and spectators too! It was great to see so many toddlers and adults get involved with the races.
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Year 4 -Local Visitors
Thu 11 Jul 2024This week the children have been fortunate to have had two visitors.
We welcomed back an ex-Radipole pupil to undertake some work experience. Emily helped out in both classes, but also took charge of one of the PE activities, along with Tom, during our regular Games lesson on Thursday.
On Wednesday, we were overjoyed to welcome Mike Jeffries to our classes. Mike Jeffries is a local watercolour artist. In the Autumn term, the children studied lots of Mike's work as part of our art curriculum. On Wednesday, Mike talked through, and demonstrated, how he went about creating his masterpieces. He took the children through a step by step approach, and the children worked alongside him to produce their own masterpieces, and developing their mixing colours and creating effects in a painting. He thoroughly enjoyed working and inspiring the children.
"It was so nice to see all the smiling faces and the intense concentration of many. The next generation of artists, musicians, sports men and women and captains of industry!" Mike Jeffries.
How wonderful to think that our children truly are that!
Perhaps the current year 4 classes will return to school in the future and inspire future generations too!
