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

• 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. 

  

• Year 1 - What is a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?

  Wed 27 Mar 2024 Mrs Ireland

  This week in science, Year One have been introduced to the scientific terms herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. We have talked about what animals eat, including humans and what a 'diet' means.

  We had fun talking and grouping the animals.

  

• Year 2 - Smoothies

  Fri 22 Mar 2024 Mrs Mutch

  This week in Year Two has been all about smoothies. We started the week with a visit from Sustran where we had a go at creating energy using a bike. This powered the smoothie maker. We made a banana and strawberry smoothie. It was delicious!

   

  Today we have been making our own smoothies. We created our own design and tried out lots of different friuts. The smoothies were all lovely colours and we enjoyed seeing what they tasted like. It was great fun!

  

• Year 3 - Boudicca Persuasive Speeches

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  In our English sessions this week, we pretended to be warrior queen Boudicca. We wrote a persuasive speech encouraging our fellow Britons to rise up and attack the Roman rulers of Britain. We had great fun reading out our speeches to see how effective they were.

  

• Year 5 - Pulleys Investigation

  Thu 21 Mar 2024

  In a bustling classroom filled with eager minds, Year 5 scientists embarked on a thrilling journey into the world of forces. Armed with curiosity and determination, they delved into the realm of physics by creating their very own pulleys.

  With simple materials like string, cotton reels and paper cups, they constructed their miniature mechanical marvels. Through trial and error, they discovered the principles of force multiplication and how pulleys can make lifting heavy objects easier.

  With each tug of the string and each adjustment of the pulley, the young scientists witnessed firsthand the magic of mechanical advantage. These budding scientists not only learned about forces but also honed their problem-solving skills and nurtured their passion for discovery.