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• year 4 23/6/23

  Thu 22 Jun 2023

  This week, in our English lessons, we wrote a first-person autobiographical recount of Philippe Petite (the French acrobat) walking on a wire between the Twin Towers.

  

• Year 6 - Cricket Coach

  Wed 21 Jun 2023

  This week, Year 6 were fortunate to have an external cricket coach come in for the morning. We participated in a range of warm-ups and skill development activities. Later in the week, we applied our skills in a game of Kwik Cricket. 

  

• Year 5 - STEM Day

  Fri 16 Jun 2023

  The Year 5 pupils had a wonderful day this week, taking part in a series of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) challenges set by the RAF.

   

  The first challenge involved designing and making a paper and card rocket to be launched using an air pressure pump. The children considered aspects of their design in order to make their rockets as streamlined as possible. The second challenge was to work in small teams to design and construct a variety of shapes and structures out of giant Meccano pieces. The final challenge was to launch the rockets and measure how far they travelled. Many of the rockets exceeded 50 metres in distance!

   

  Thank you to the RAF for organising such a fun and stimulating day!

  

• Year 2

  Fri 16 Jun 2023 FProbert

  A couple of weeks of fun!

  Disco, spelling lessons making fortune tellers, a GREEN day for Charity - Dorset Wildlife Fund as part of our Green school award and a Freeze Pop Friday to raise funds for the Year 2 trip!

  

• STEM week in Reception

  Fri 16 Jun 2023

  This week Reception took up the STEM challenges related to the story Tiddler.

  They had the challenge to make a new friend for Tiddler.

  They had the challenge to design a safe hiding place for Tiddler.

  They designed a map so Tiddler wouldn’t get lost.

  They had to make a scene from the story that had flaps added to hide the sea creatures .... and much more! 

   

  We are Tryosaurus’ In Reception so of course everyone rose to the challenge. 

   

  

• Year 6 - Geography

  Fri 16 Jun 2023

  As part of our geography topic on settlements and trade, Year 6 explored the fairness of trade between different countries by playing the Trading Game. Competitiveness ran high, bargaining peaked and outright robbery began! 

  

• Year One - Length, weight and Capacity

  Thu 15 Jun 2023 Mrs Ireland

  In maths, this week we have been working on length, weighing/mass and capacity. We have focused on using different types of language to compare lengths and amounts of liquids and mass.

  The children had great fun working outside and we think everyone got a bit wet but the weather has been so glorious that we soon dried off. 

  

• Year 3 STEM day, DT pneumatics and Nature Club!

  Thu 15 Jun 2023

  Year 3 enjoyed a super STEM day this week (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Having learnt about the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in English and History, we designed and built trains and tested them on a ramp to see which could smash through the most dried spaghetti rods. 

   

  In DT, we have been finding out about pneumatics and we created our own fun monsters with mouths that opened and closed.

   

  The Nature Club learnt about wild flowers around the school from Dr Nige, our visiting expert! They did some lovely outdoor art paintings of the flowers to finish.

   

  Well done everyone 😎 🚂 🎩 

  

• Year 5 and 6 Swimming Gala

  Fri 09 Jun 2023

  On Thursday 8^th June, some of the best Radipole Swimmers in years 5 and 6 took part in the Weymouth and Portland Schools’ Gala.  

   

  There was a great atmosphere and all the children were supportive of each other’s achievements – They all showed great traits of being brilliant ‘Collabadons’. 

   

  As the total points were added up, we found out that we had come second by just 13 points.  

   

  We had so many successes and everyone had a brilliant afternoon. 

  

• Year 5 - Rounders

  Thu 08 Jun 2023

  Throughout Year 5, we have been lucky enough to enjoy learning different sports with the council's PE coaches. This half term we're playing Rounders, last half term we enjoyed Cricket, and before that was Hockey! Thank you so much to our lovely coaches for teaching us new skills. Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed every second and we have been proud of the children for learning new rules, applying their best attitudes and generally taking every sport in their stride! Some fantastic PE skills here - well done, Year 5.