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

• Year 4 - another busy week!

  Fri 26 Apr 2024

  Year 4 have been working hard as always - we have been exploring decimal numbers in maths, non-chronological reports in English, -gue and -que endings in spellings (such as argue and technique), and playing football rounders in PE.

   

  In nature club, children have potted the sunflower seedlings that they planted before Easter, and look forward to putting them in the ground in a few weeks - look out for the lovely sunflowers growing near the KS2 playground soon! 

  

• Year 1 - All about Bats!

  Thu 25 Apr 2024 Mrs Ireland

  We are spending the next couple of weeks learning all about bats and a roost of bats hanging from our classroom met us all on Monday morning. We have read bat stories, made bats and read lots information all about bats!!

  In fact, Year 1 are all bat experts now!!

  

• Year 5 - Chesil Poetry Festival

  Thu 25 Apr 2024

  Part of Year 5 visited the Pavilion this week to perform our poem to parents and carers! We have worked so hard to memorise the poem and perform it with confidence! Thank you to everyone who came to support us. We are very proud of the children for their hard work! Well done. 

  

• Year 6 - Mayan Hook and MHST

  Thu 25 Apr 2024

  To launch on new history topic about the Mayans, we had a hook afternoon. During the session we immersed ourselves in their inventions: masks, a number system, writing and of course drinking chocolate with chilli. We even played pitz, but we did not sacrifice the loosing captain! 

   

  James from MHST taught us about managing anxieties as well as different strategies that we could use to reduce them. 

  

• Year 4 - RNLI visit

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  Year 3 & 4 were lucky enough to have a fabulous visit from the RNLI beach lifeguards this week, just in time for swimming season at school and some lovely beach weather!

   

  We learned about the coloured flags and how we should swim between the red and yellow ones, how to float in a star shape if we fall in and about how to call 999 and ask for the coastguard if anyone needs help at sea. 

   

  Thank you to the RNLI lifeguards for a super and informative visit. 

  

• Year 3- Writing direct speech

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  This week, in our English sessions, we revised how to include direct speech in our fiction writing. To do this we looked at the graphic novel, ‘Barb the Brave’, and used the grammar we had learnt to turn its comic book panels and speech bubbles into direct speech.

  

• Reception visited Maiden Castle Farm

  Thu 18 Apr 2024 Mullins

  On Tuesday we visited Maiden Castle Farm. We learned all about crops that grow such as wheat and barley. We learned about cows, bulls and calves. We saw all the farm machinery and the safe places where the animals are cared for. Our favourite part of the visit was meeting and feeding the lambs. It was a wonderful day. The children loved the picnic and the bus trip too!

  

• Year One - Watch them grow!!

  Thu 18 Apr 2024 Mrs Ireland

  This week, we have started our science topic 'All about Plants'. We planted some pea seeds on Wednesday and hope we see them grow soon. We are having a little competition to see which ones germinate first and which ones grow the tallest!!

  We will soon see, hopefully, which class has the most 'green fingers'.

  

• Year 5 - Chesil Oracy Preparation

  Thu 18 Apr 2024

  We have been busy prepping for the Chesil Oracy Partnership Project which is happening next week at the Pavilion! Toby a coach from the LAMDA Coaching school has been in to help us prepare our poem "Monsters in the Closet" and we cannot wait to perform to select parents next week! Wish us luck! Year 5 

  

• Year 6 - Visitors

  Thu 18 Apr 2024

  What a week we've had! We have been so fortunate to have 2 visitors. Our week started with a visit from Budmouth. A science lesson was delivered where we completed a variety of activities: microscopes to explore items; dusting, cardboard and seloptape to investigate finger prints and felt tips, card and water to investigate chromatography. 

   

  Later in the week, Chris and Courtney from the RNLI came to visit. They taught us about the different flags that we might see on the beach, what to do in a rip tide, who to call and what to do in an emergency.