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

• Reception- We love chocolate!

  Thu 10 Mar 2022 Reception

  It’s been all about chocolate this week in Reception!

   

  We have found out about cocoa pods and beans and how chocolate is made. 

   

  Tasting the chocolate was the best bit. We played the chocolate game which is so much fun...you could play this at home.

   

  We designed chocolate making machines and wrote about the chocolate we tasted. We created some lovely mugs of hot chocolate in the hope we could taste some at bedtime. Yummy 😋 

  

• Year 6 Algebra

  Thu 10 Mar 2022

  Year 6 having been working exceptionally hard in maths to form algebraic expressions and equations. This week, the children used skittles to from equations based on the different colours that they had in their packets. They then switched with a partner to see if they could work out how many of each colour their classmate had. The biggest highlight of course was not the algebra but the skittle eating afterwards!

  

• Year 2 Trip to Radipole Bird Reserve and Weymouth Seafront

  Wed 09 Mar 2022

  We’ve been on an adventure!

   

  We had a lovely trip around Radipole bird reserve using binoculars to spot all the different bird species. We also strolled along the seafront finding Georgian buildings and sketching.

  
  The children were beautifully behaved, and it was so great to get out of the classroom and enjoy the sun - while it was shining at least!

  

• Singing Assembly

  Wed 09 Mar 2022

  The children have all been really excited to be back in the hall for singing assembly. This week the children were treated to a wonderful singing performance of Mamma Mia by Year 4. What great singing from all of you (and the teachers too). 

  

• World Book Day

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  What a great World Book Day. We were so impressed with all the work the children produced and the amazing paper plates from home!

   

  We were very lucky to have talks from two authors (Eileen Brown and Dan Freedman) and reception, year 1 and year 2 also had a visit from an illustrator.

   

  All the children came dressed in pyjamas for their cosy story time in class.

   

  Well done to all those children who won prizes. It was such a hard choice!

  

• Year 5 - World Book Day and Trip to Shire Hall

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  Year 5 children have had a super week! They visited Shire Hall in Dorchester and found out about a Victorian boy, Elijah Upjohn, who was first imprisoned and punished at the age of 11 for stealing a pair of trousers. Later on in his life, he was transported to Australia. The children used sources to discover more about this young man and were astonished to learn his tragic true story. The children visited the tiny, cold cells, and then they performed a play in the courtroom. Oscars for everybody!

   

  The children had a fabulous time on World Book Day, designing and drawing time machines and writing instructions to operate them. They also started considering what life might be like for them in 50 years' time! At the end of the day, they snuggled up in their pyjamas to listen to a bedtime story. We hope they slept well that night!

  

• Year 1 Handa's surprise

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  Year 1 have had a fabulous week reading 'Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne.  We have tasted different fruits from the story.  Then we designed and made our own fruit kebabs.  They were yummy!

   

  On World Book Day we listened to Eileen Browne reading her books and joined in with some movement activities.  It was fun !

  We enjoyed wearing our pyjamas to school and having bedtime stories.  We created  amazing bookmarks to use at home.

  A  very busy week!

  

• Year 2 world book day

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  Wow, we have been spoilt this world book day! We had an amazing visit from illustrator Charles Fuge who created our very own class character. Meet Jeremy the Wolf-goat! 

  

• Year 4 World Book Day

  Fri 04 Mar 2022 Nick Hargreaves

  This Thursday was World Book Day.

  Along with the rest of the school, year 4 enjoyed looking at the range of ‘book character’ plates that people had entered into our school competition.

  In class, we revisited each of the books we have read (or are still reading) this year. We wrote descriptions of The Grand High Witch from Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’, created a drawing of a dragon’s eye from Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Beowulf’ and even staged our own photographic tributes to Brian Selznick’s ‘Hugo’. 

   

   

  

• Reception World Book Day Yay!

  Thu 03 Mar 2022 Reception

  World Book Day has really been World Book week to fit in all the amazing learning this week.

   

  We were visited by the Author and illustrator Charles Fuge. We created a new character with him! We also had a Zoom meeting with. Eileen Browne, who wrote and illustrated Handa’s Hen and Handa’s Surprise. We have created so much beautiful art work in response to her stories. Wearing our PJ’s was so cosy and exciting. We loved looking at all the plates designed by the whole school....so many to look at! It has been a brilliant week.