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Year 2 have had another super working week both inside and out of the classroom. We have had some fun outside where we had our first games session. We learned that we need good hand-eye coordination to catch and throw the balls, bean-bags and quoits. We also had a wonderful time in the Nature Reserve – we cannot wait to go again next week.
In class, we started our Science topic on Habitats and have already looked at how animals are suited to their habitat. We know that all habitats need to provide 3 things: food, shelter, and a safe place to raise their young. We will continue to investigate these habitats over the next few weeks. Maybe over the weekend the children can explore local habitats. We are excited to be learning songs ready for Harvest time – we are rather good at singing!
This week, as part of our science topic on electricity, we made our own working circuits with components such as lights and buzzers. It was great fun! In our maths sessions, we continued to develop our knowledge of place value, and in our English lessons, we wrote a character description of the monster, Grendel (from our class reading book, ‘Beowulf’).
This week, we have been reading and writing about some of Julia Donaldson's books. We explored role playing the character of the old lady from the 'A Squash and a Squeeze', made stick man from play dough and labelled pictures using the sounds they know.
We have been writing some tricky words in chalk and have had some fun reading a range of books to the children.
Do you have any Julia Donaldson books at home?
The children in Year 5 were incredibly lucky to have a stimulating session with 'Art of Brilliance' on Wednesday morning.
The team at 'Art of Brilliance' supports schools in developing positive psychology amongst the children and staff. Their focus is on having a positive attitude, developing resilience and an awareness of the impact of our attitudes on others.
The children reflected maturely on these issues, and they are looking forward to further sessions in the coming weeks and months.
We've had an amazing second day at PGL - loads of fun doing brilliant activities and awesome food as well. The rain hasn't spoiled a thing. We're very proud of the children and having a brilliant time!
We're having a brilliant time at PGL! We've just finished a lovely dinner and everyone's playing on the playground now.
We've already conquered some fears - much bravery and encouragement from the children cheering each other on. Some of the archery skills got to be pretty formidable by the time the sessions finished too...
Lots to look forward to tomorrow - canoeing, the GIANT swing, and breakfast and lunch and dinner!
The first night away from home can sometimes be daunting but everyone loves their rooms and fingers crossed everyone will be so tired they'll just fall asleep as soon as it's lights out tonight... We can live in hope!
We are so lucky at Radipole to have such fantastic play equipment for lunchtimes. The Year 5 Radipole News Club went to investigate what the children at Radipole enjoy doing at breaktimes.
RADIPOLE NEWS CLUB REPORT
This play time at Radipole Primary School some of the students here used the spectacular Scrap Store to make daring dens and superb obstacle courses. Some children enjoyed playing on the magnificent climbing frame with a bridge and climbing wall.
Year 4 have had a fantastic first week, and what a busy first week it has been!
The children were introduced to their History topic for this half term - The Anglo Saxons. We looked at a timeline of events and when the Anglo Saxons were around. Ask your child what chronology means and they should be able to tell you! Our class book is Beowulf which is a legend set in the Anglo Saxon times.
We also enjoyed our first outdoor (and slightly rainy) hockey lesson. The children were great collabadons and really impressed us with their hockey skills.
Year 3 made a wonderful start to the new school year this week! The children have been polite, enthusiastic and hard-working and have enjoyed beginning some of their new topics such as rocks and soils in science, and Stone Age to Iron Age in history.
Children wrote some English about the Stone Age Boy story, began using our new White Rose workbooks, enjoyed creating some lovely cave art, and started our PE topic on travelling.
Well done to the children for a super start to the year!
All the children have had an exciting time coming back to school. They have already learnt so much and this afternoon had fun exploring the nature reserve on a pirate hunt. The pirate had lost all all of this special things and the children had to search and find them all for him.
We are looking forward to another fabulous week.