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

• Year 4 Trip to St. Aldhelm's Church

  Thu 23 Nov 2023

  On Thursday afternoon, the Year 4 children (along with our helping parents) walked to our local church to discover more about Christian symbols. 

   

  As part of our RE work this half term we have been studying the different Christian symbols, and especially those related to Christmas. 

  Reverend Nick shared lots of items and photos of the different symbols found in the church, and explained what they all meant. It was a very informative afternoon. 

   

  They also had an unexpected opportunity to have a sneaky peek at the Radipole Year 5 & 6 girls playing in the football tournament!

   

  We have enjoyed starting our lovely new class reading book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret - ask the children what they can remember so far and what they think might happen next!

   

  

• Year 5/6 Girls Football Tornament

  Thu 23 Nov 2023

  Well, what an afternoon! A mixture of Year 5 and 6 girls took part (and played their socks off) in a mini football tournament; however, the game length was not mini at 30 minutes each game! 

   

  The first game against Bridport ended in a 2-2 draw. Following a brief rest, Radipole went straight into another match against Blandford St Mary. Despite a valiant effort, Blandford won 6-3. 

   

  Well done girls. You should feel incredibly proud of yourselves! 

  

• Year One 3D Shape

  Wed 22 Nov 2023 Mrs Ayles

  This week in Maths we have been exploring 3D shape. The children have learnt the names for the most common 3D shapes such as sphere, cube, cylinder, cuboid, pyramid and cone. They then explored the shapes practically and created some beautiful 3D shape models. There were rockets, houses, butterflies, space ships and many more exciting things, well done children! 

  

• Children in Need

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  We had a great day, all dressed up and raising money for Children In Need day today. Lots of spots and Pudsey ears. So far we have raised over £170 for Children in Need!

  

• Year 1 - Autumn Wreaths

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  This term Year One have enjoyed finding out about the changing seasons and talking about the months of the year. This week the children used the leaves we found in the nature reserve to make beautiful autumn wreaths.  They used autumnal colours to decorate their wreaths and then they chose a selection of different shaped leaves to stick on to their wreaths.

  

• Year 6 - PSHE Visitor

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  This week, Year 6 were fortunate to have a visit by Jane who works for SCARF. She led an action packed, fact filled session. The theme was decisions, which included health, mental health and friendships. We loved the 5 steps to mental health. 

  

• Year 4 - SCARF visitor, dragons and geography!

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  This week, Year 4 had a lovely visitor from the SCARF charity - SCARF stands for Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship. SCARF supports our teaching of PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education). Children enjoyed meeting Harold, seeing inside a body using a fabulous iPad video app, talking about safe and unsafe drugs and medicines, and the importance of healthy friendships. Well done to the children for their wonderful contributions and thoughtful questions.

   

  In computing, we typed up some of our wonderful dragon writing ready to make a display. The children showed some great computer skills using Word.

   

  In geography, children have been using an atlas to locate mountain ranges and placing them on a map. 

   

  We made the most of a wet weather PE lesson by doing some fun dinosaur yoga in the classroom.

   

  Monday was a 'crazy sock day' in support of our Anti-bullying week. 

   

  Well done everyone 👍 

  

• Harold came to visit Reception as part of SCARF.

  Thu 16 Nov 2023 H Mullins

  Today something very exciting happened. Jane from SCARF and Harold the Giraffe visited us to talk about healthy bodies, healthy friendships and happiness. 

  We talked about what healthy foods to put in our bodies, that sleep and relaxing are important too. We talked about brushing teeth, keeping clean and if we need medicine, then only grown ups touch medication. 

  We all had a cuddle with Harold and look forward to seeing him and Jane next year. Thank you Jane and Harold. 

  

• Year 5 - Viking diary entries

  Thu 16 Nov 2023

  As part of our history topic on ‘Anglo-Saxons and Vikings’, Year 5 have written diary entries from the point of view of a Viking invader or settler.

   

  The children described their journeys from Scandinavia to England and then outlined their experiences on these shores. Some described their experiences trading with the Anglo-Saxons, while others described battling the indigenous population and taking prisoners to use as slaves.

   

  All the children produced excellent writing.

  

• Year 3- Story writing and Science

  Thu 16 Nov 2023

  This week, year 3 planned their own story based on the book ‘Animal Magic’. We tried to include all the new writing skills we’ve been working on this half term, such as including expanded noun phrases and direct speech. In our science lesson we conducted an experiment with magnets to find out which materials are magnetic.