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

• Year 4- amazing MTC progress!

  Fri 03 May 2024

  Well done to Year 4 for their super progress in learning their times tables! Scores in their Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) practises have gone up from the Autumn and the Spring term, and we continue to aim for best possible results in June.

   

  See the attached photos for details and how we compare to last year's Dorset and National results. 

   

  Well done for all your hard work in lessons and in home learning, keep it up! 

  

• May 3rd - Year 3 investigates a strange sighting!

  Thu 02 May 2024

  This week, we spent our English lessons investigating a strange event. On Monday morning, Mr Hargreaves witnessed an unusual sight on the way into school. He managed to capture some video footage on his phone of a strange winged creature flying over the Radipole area. We discovered that both Mr Hathaway and Mrs McCann had seen the dragon-like beast too and spent some time discussing what it might be. We decided that we would write our own newspaper reports on the incident and have been working on our journalist skills in preparation.  We will share some of our finished newspaper reports with you next week.

  

• Super worm is in Reception

  Thu 02 May 2024 Mullins

  This week has been all about Superworm, the story by Julia Donaldson. We have learned about real worms, made super sock worms, painted worms in capes and made tasty cereal worms to eat!

  We have used pink wool to practice wrapping around a worm to create texture. We have learned to use runny glue so we can join materials together. We have had stories and sang songs....it’s been wormtastic! 

  

• Reception at The Pavilion

  Thu 02 May 2024 Mullins

  Reception went to see ‘Charlie Cook and his favourite book’, at Weymouth Pavilion this week. 

  We jumped on the coach and excitedly waited for the show to start.

  Everyone agreed that they loved the show, the green aliens, book crocodile and the dragon were some of the highlights. 

  The children behaved beautifully and the staff agreed that we would all like to go again one day! 

  

• Year 1 - Pavillion Show

  Wed 01 May 2024 Mrs I

  On Wednesday, we went to Weymouth Pavillion to see a production of Charlie Cook's Favourite Book. We rode down on a coach and this was a really exciting part of the afternoon.  There were just three actors who played the parts and sang the songs. We really enjoyed watching the story come alive in front of our eyes!

  

• Year Two - Cars and Planes!

  Fri 26 Apr 2024 Mrs Mutch

   This week the children have enjoyed learning about flight through the ages. We watched some clips of how people in the past have tried to fly. There were some very interesting and crazy inventions. Some children shared their experience of flying or seeing hot air balloons. 

   

  During our English and Reading we have continued to read our book The Day The Crayons Quit. The children have explored the use of conjunctions to write longer sentences and enjoyed writing as if they were a glue stick or pencil.

   

  In Design and Technology, the children learnt about wheels and axles. They explored different ways to fix wheels and axles to a chassis. They are very excited about making their own vehicles. Keep saving the car shaped boxes and anything that might be useful for their vehicle please.

  

• 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.