Radipole Primary School
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Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 6 - Crumble making
Thu 26 Mar 2026Year 6 have had a fantastic time this week making delicious crumbles.
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Year 5 - Gaudi Mosaics
Mon 23 Mar 2026Year 5 have been channelling their inner Antoni Gaudí this week by designing and making their own colourful mosaics. Using 1cm x 1cm coloured paper squares, pupils carefully arranged patterns and images inspired by Gaudí’s vibrant, nature‑influenced style. The children showed fantastic patience and creativity as they pieced together their designs, gradually watching their artworks come to life. The finished mosaics look amazing!
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Year 3 - soup making, cookery and gardening!
Fri 20 Mar 2026Year 3 have enjoyed making some delicious tomato soup this week! They chopped onions and celery, weighed and measured, stirred and blended brilliantly. Well done to all our budding chefs.
Outside, we planted sunflowers and look forward to planting tomatoes soon. We have enjoyed volleyball and netball in PE, and have been practising our persuasive language in planning a speech by Boudicca to rally the British tribes against the Roman invasion! Well done, Year 3 :-)
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Year 4 - Play Performance and English
Fri 20 Mar 2026This week, we have been super busy finalising our production. We have had lots of rehearsals and the children have worked so hard. Our first performance in front of an audience went very well and we are so excited to show you what we have achieved. No sneak peak pictures, just yet! In addition, our writing in English has been focused on our descriptive writing of character, setting and including dialogue. Our focus in Maths has continued to be fractions including adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. Finally, we have finished our PSHE Rights and Respect topic and our RE topic regarding Christianity and Forgiveness.
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Year 5- Oracy Project and Kenya letters
Thu 19 Mar 2026It has been a wonderful week in Year 5! The children enjoyed a visit from a special guest who helped them develop their oracy skills, building on their work for The Highwayman performance. They have shown incredible effort as they prepare for their pavilion performance and should feel very proud of themselves.
Both Classes were really interested in the photos Miss Roberts shared from her trip to Kenya and asked lots of thoughtful, insightful questions. A real highlight was reading the letters from the Kenyan children – the excitement in the room was brilliant to see!
Well done, Year 5, for your curiosity, hard work, and enthusiasm!
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Netball Tournament Superstars!
Thu 19 Mar 2026Well done to our amazing netball team who visited Budmouth Academy to take part on the Area Netball Bee Tournament yesterday.
The team were phenomenal and played the most brilliant netball. They were calm, strategic and speedy, and accurate in super goal scoring; the results speak for themselves!
Radipole 4 - 0 St. Mary's
Radipole 3 - 0 Wyke Regis
Radipole 2 - 1 Dorchester Middle School
Radipole 2 - 3 St. Osmunds
Radipole 4 - 0 Conifers
Radipole 4 - 0 St. George's
Radipole 6 - 1 Chickerell
6 wins and only 1 loss in the Large School pool earned us a runner-up place in the semi-finals to face the winner of the small schools pool - Southill!
It was a superbly well-matched game with determination and incredible team spirit from our players. The final score of Radipole 3 - 4 Southill shows how close it was.
I am beyond proud of the team as they were playing with such amazing skill and confidence and it was fantastic to see their progress and how well they held themselves under pressure.
Well done everyone!
Mrs Hill.
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Year 5/6 girls' football tournament
Fri 13 Mar 2026A group of girls from years 4 and 6 took part in a local area football tournament. Throughout the day, they played 12 matches. With over half of the team new to football, they played brilliantly. They played with their heads held high and with positivity, and it was lovely to watch their confidence grow with each game. Well done to everyone who took part; you should feel really proud of yourselves.
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Year 3 - volleyball, netball and fractions!
Fri 13 Mar 2026Year 3 have had another busy week - netball, volleyball, fractions in maths, persuasive writing in English, nutrition and food groups in science, Romans in history - phew! Well done to the children for their super effort and ideas.
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Year 4 - Play Practice and Maths
Fri 13 Mar 2026This week, we have spent time practising our play. We are really looking forward to performing it! In English, we have been focusing on narrative writing where the children have explored different descriptive features based on their Reading Spine text 'The Firework Makers Daughter'. In Maths, the children have been exploring fractions and looking at mixed numbers and improper fractions.
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Year Two - compass directions
Fri 13 Mar 2026This week, we have been listening to a range of African tales. The children loved discovering animals with missing features and using their imaginations to think about how those features might have appeared.
We talked about animals such as giraffes, zebras and elephants, and came up with our own creative ideas. This has inspired us to start planning our very own “How the…?” tales. Some children are already excited to write stories like:
- How the Giraffe Got His Long Neck
- How the Zebra Got His Stripes
- How the Elephant Got His Trunk
In geography, we have continued our learning about the country of Kenya. A highlight of the week was hearing all about the teacher’s recent trip to our link school, Munga Primary School.
The children were especially excited to learn about the child our year group is sponsoring. We will be finding out even more about her school and daily life next week, which everyone is really looking forward to.
In Nature Time, we have been practising using geographical vocabulary to give clear directions. The children enjoyed using words such as:
- North, South, East, West
- Forwards, backwards, left, right
We also used a compass. The children loved exploring how it worked and using it to help guide their directions.
