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Butterfly Class, 18th October

Posted on October 18, 2022

This afternoon, the first thing my gardening group had to do was to look for signs of autumn colour, which was all around us a lot of the leaves were under our feet, the sky was bright blue with the warm sunshine upon our backs.

Ava, Chloe, Isobel, Jude and Brooklyn, came with me to the eco house, the crops in there had finished and now needed to be removed.

 

As the string on the garden canes which had been supporting the tomato and cucumber plants was cut off, all of the children then pulled each spent plant away from the grow bags  what fun! , the material was then put into the wheel barrow and taken over to the ever growing compost heap.

What are we going to do next? Asked Chloe, planting more spring bulbs was the answer, the group potted up the last of the daffodil bulbs into individual flower pots covered these with organic compost and watered well, we popped a label in and these will sit in the learning lodge over winter.

 

 

The next group of children were just as keen to do some gardening jobs this afternoon we talked about what they would like to do “Digging” was the most popular vote! Ana, Oliver, Sebi, Archie and Oscar, collected spades and forks from the shed put on gloves and then came and found a patch of the vegetable plot which needed the weeds to be removed, lots of digging.

Sebi dug up potatoes, Oliver artichokes and the rest of the group lots of weeds, this group of children talked to each other about what they had found,.

We were now running out of time , so the children removed all of the weeds from the raised beds, then we all dug these over and found yet more potatoes, of course all of this group wanted to take the produce home , which they did as they were very proud of what they had dug up!

Dojo points were given to Miss Cochran and wellies and tools were all put away.

 

Next term we will be pruning, clearing away decaying material putting fallen leaves into bags which will turn into leaf mould, and preparing the garden for winter.

Ladybird Class, 11th October

Posted on October 11, 2022

The Children from Ladybird class had an important job to do this afternoon, as the sun was shining and it was a warm pleasant afternoon, just right for planting. Grace, Scarlett, George, Alfie and Jake, put on wellies and gardening gloves, then collected spades and trowels from the shed along with a can full of water and a bucket of compost, I collected a special rose bush, then we gathered up Mrs Hopson and the rest of the class.

Team Ladybird made their way to the front of the school, then gathered around the small flower bed next to the school front door, I dug a hole in the middle of the border and George finished it off, Scarlett added some compost then Jake filled the hole with water, we were now ready to plant out a special pink rose named “Sandringham” one of our late queen Elizabeth’s Royal Palaces.

The rose bush was firmed in more compost added, it was watered well and then all of the children had the chance to smell its sweet perfume, this was a Peter Beales rose and he along with David Austin were one of the queens suppliers of roses to her many estates!

 

Now back in the learning garden, the group now had the task of planting up the two re-cycled wheel barrows with spring bulbs, vivid orange tulips and mixed daffodils along with a two toned blue grape hyacinth, these should look lovely in the spring.

 

The next group had put on their wellies and gloves, they also had to work on the wheel barrows, Amy , Lucas, Oliver, Toby and Summer, very soon planted the last of the violas, to give the barrows some colour, these were topped off with compost and garden soil, and of course watered well.

There was just time for one more job, this was to empty the potato sacks, we have been keeping these growing throughout the summer, they were a trial for the NFU. The bags didn’t seem too heavy so we thought that there were not going to be many potatoes! Lucas, Summer, Amy Oliver and Toby were quite excited, upside down went the bags and as the children scrabbled around in the soil they all found potatoes, some white, some red and even some which were purple in colour, there was a good harvest from the grow bags.

Lucas put the crop into the shed to keep out of the light and we will find a good use for these later on.

Time to pack everything back into the shed, was hands and take the dojo points into Mrs Hopson.

What a really super afternoon out at the front of the school and in the garden with the warm autumn sunshine on our backs.

 

Harvest, earlier last week I collected sweet corn, tomatoes, gourds, and apples along with small sunflowers to put into an arrangement for the church, it looked bright and cheerful with the lovely autumn colours, found in our learning garden.

Hedgehog Class, 4th October

Posted on October 4, 2022

Fine drizzle blew about in the wind but it didn’t stop two groups of volunteers wanting to come out into the learning garden to do some jobs.

Wellies and gloves on, spades, forks, a mixture of pruning equipment sourced the first group of children were now ready and willing to get started. Josie, Amy, Maddie, Michael and Cali wanted to do some digging but before they could the ground had to be cleared in the vegetable area.

Michael worked with Jacob their job was to removes the old runner beans from the garden canes, cut off the string so it could be re-used, then tie the canes in bundles. The girls had to cut back all the dead material from half of the vegetable plot, this consisted of dried globe artichokes, the long green stems from our Jerusalem artichokes, sunflower heads which we needed to save for the birds.

All three wheel barrows were now full so these now needed to be emptied onto the compost heap, I had to climb onto to try and flatten it as it is now quite high!

Time to dig, all of the group either chose a spade or fork to turn over the ground the soil looks surprisingly good.

This team had the chance to take home some poppy seed, a potato and a small onion from the garden.

Out came Noah, Amelia, Becky and Amelia they were also very keen to get digging, they chose spades to do their digging, a few more potatoes were found.

This group then cleared the remainder of the vegetable garden, being careful to leave in any produce which was still ok (I am hoping to use some in the church for the harvest display), again there was a huge piles of dried material to put on the compost heap.

The children collected garden rakes to level the ground which had been dug, cut down the dead spikes from the hollyhocks, and then put the tools away.

Finally we potted up the summer geraniums into large pots, these were now put into the learning lodge to hopefully overwinter. From little plug plants they had now grown huge, deep red and bright cerise pink in colour.

All of the children were awarded dojo points today as they worked well in their groups, helping one another and having fun.

Next week we will be planting out more spring bulbs,

Dragonfly Class, 27th September

Posted on September 27, 2022

The weather was dry this afternoon for dragonfly class, this was to be the first time this term that the children had come out to do” Green Fingers garden club”, the children were very excited.

Marley, Jack, Fi and Myleigh put on their wellie boots and we then went into the learning garden to find the box of gloves, the children had fun putting these on, and managed it well.

I talked to this group about how to hold and use the gardening tools safely, this afternoon we were going to be using trowels. I had made some holes in the old water trough from their decking, (we like to re-cycle items), and so this was going to make a super planter, which was at the correct height for the dragonfly children to use.

They had to mix garden soil, compost and sand in the wheel barrow, then the trough was half filled with the mixture, now for the planting firstly the group planted mixed daffodil bulbs, making a deep hole to pop these in the right way up, then some orange tulip bulbs went in not quite so deep and the children covered these over.

Finally the children planted out some beautiful frilled snap dragons to give some autumn colour, the group had time to explore the learning garden before joining P.E, this group all received a dojo point as for first time gardeners they did very well!

 

Oli, Amelia and a few more of their friends, put on their wellies and came to join me out in the learning garden, they too, had a safety talk about using different tools out in the garden. Very quickly these children put on gloves and helped me carry some trays of plants over to their planting trough, we just had to add a few more bulbs and some more colour.

Amelia and Oli and Dominic planted purple crocus called “firefly”, whilst the other children planted up violas called” magic”, these little pansy flowers were bright and cheerful, then the large trough was filled with the rest of the compost mixture and the plants were watered, Amelia was in charge of this!

 

Moving onto perennial plants which are good for bees and hoverflies, the children planted some new flowering plants into two of the raised wooden beds, .one of the plants being a large yellow daisy type flower then a yellow potentilla, a blue campanula and a pink hardy geranium, all of these will be filled with pollen in the spring to attract the bees, the group watered these well. I showed this group how to clean of and put away the trowels and their gloves, we had a lovely time out in the learning garden, and there are certainly a few green fingered gardeners in the making.

Butterfly Class, 20th September

Posted on September 20, 2022

Today a group of mainly butterfly class children came out onto the playing field to plant a special grape vine (Mrs Woods are new class teacher had made this suggestion). The vine ties in with the beautiful vine we have on our R.E display in the hall.

The children dug a large hole added compost and lifted the vine plant from its pot, it was carefully put in the hole, then a wooden sectioned box was placed around it to protect the roots and stem from the weather. Children filled the box with more compost and feed, then we carefully tied in its grape laden branches with twine, we hope that it will wind its self along the fence in front of explorers, and give us lots of grapes in the future. The grape variety is Muscat with black glossy grapes.

 

The children later in the week added some daffodil bulbs to the wooden box to give some spring colour when the grape vine had no foliage on its branches.

Ladybird Class, 13th September

Posted on September 13, 2022

I would like to say that it has been another dry afternoon for gardening club but, we all found ourselves working in drizzle, although it didn’t stop the first team of gardeners wanting to do some digging.

Once we had found all the wellies, gloves and forks, Archie, Amy, Ronny, Freddie, Demmi and Logan each chose a position in which to dig for potatoes, this was so exciting.

Archie was amazing at this job finding more and more potatoes, then Demmi and Logan joined in it became a bit of a competition.

With all the potatoes now harvested, we looked at the varieties and colours, there were pink, purple and white in various sizes.

This group had some time to now go pond dipping, we talked about the pond plants and how they needed to be cut back, a job for another day.

 

Kieron, Maddie, Isaac, Grace and Jake waded through another mountain of wellington boots and all came out with a pair each.

Most years the children get to harvest our lavender bushes, we still have quite a few, they were planted around ten years ago so they are doing well.

Using scissors the group worked in pairs cutting long stems of lavender flowers which had now formed seed (this is what will be harvested to make new plants, essential oil and medical use). The children made all of the cut lavender into bundles and we put these in a dry place, until I am able to take this to” Fiddleford lavender farm” where it’s get put to good use.

All of the group had fun doing this, they also loved the relaxing aroma which came from the lavender, Isaac and Maddie just kept smelling it, Grace loved the purple flowers.

Time to pack away, explore the garden and hang the wellies back up on the racks,

Lots of dojos today for great care being taken when using sharp tools, going the extra mile when things needed doing. And amazingly we did see the sun shine! Another few jobs ticked off of our autumn schedule.

Father Christmas arrives by helicopter 2021

Posted on December 15, 2021

Welcome to Butterfly Class

Posted on April 22, 2021

Spring Term 2023

As part of our Topic learning, we have been studying the Native Americans. We designed and made a ‘talking stick’ using a range of different materials, including: sticks, wool, sequins, beads and feathers. Everyone was very proud of their final products!

In PE this term, our focus is Gymnastics and Dance. During our PE sessions with Mrs Lane, we have been using the gym apparatus to improve our balance and strength. We have some very brave Butterflies!

To support wellbeing and healthy bodies, we have been enjoying some yoga. We love learning the different yoga poses! Here are some of our favourites from this week’s session.

           

Nov’22

Antarctica Day!

Butterfly Class had a fantastic time for our Antarctica day. They took part in a variety of themed activities over the day, including: cold places reading comprehension, ice play and designing an Antarctic flag. The highlight of the day was enjoying some special snow on the school field!

Nov’22

Today in English, we took a trip to our beautiful Learning Garden to spot the signs of Autumn, in preparation for our poetry writing. We used our senses to discover what we could see, hear, feel and smell. The children described the crunchy leaves under their feet, the red apples hanging on the trees and the birds chirping.

Nov’22

Happy 150 years! We had an exciting day celebrating our wonderful school being open for 150 years. To mark this special occasion, we all dressed up and enjoyed a day full of table top games, a special collective worship, school quiz and a delicious cake!

Oct’22

In Maths, we have been exploring different coins and notes. Year 1 worked together in small groups to sort the coins based on shape and colour.

 

In English this week, Butterfly Class created a new character for their version of the story, ‘Biscuit Bear’. We read through the instructions and identified the verbs. We then followed the recipe to make a delicious shortbread animal.

Oct’22

To celebrate ‘World Mental Health Day’ we did some mindful colouring and enjoyed some mindfulness breathing. Our favourites were the ‘Bubble Bounce’ and ‘Rainbow Relaxation’.

Oct’22

In English this week, the children became investigators to predict and make inferences based on the evidence left in the classroom. After much deliberation, we came to the conclusion it was ‘Biscuit Bear’ from our new class story.

The children have enjoyed using their senses to write super adjectives to describe the pastry and practised role playing the story to their peers. Butterfly have some amazing actors/actresses!

 

Autumn Term

Sept’22

The children of Butterfly Class have enjoyed exploring their new decking area. It is so wonderful to have this space as an extension of our classroom. The children love to spend their free time working and playing together here, using the brilliant resources. The class castle has been the favourite so far!

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Summer Term 2022

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We went on a trip to Longleat to support our work on koalas! We thought they were much bigger in real life, very lazy and a bit smelly!

And of course, we enjoyed looking at some other animals while we were there and we went through the drive through to see the lions and tigers!

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On Monday 27th June, our Year 2 Football Team headed over to Templecombe on tenterhooks! We’d had our fingers crossed all day for dry weather and it had seemed to work!

Within the 1st 5 minutes, Templecombe had managed to skillfully slip the ball past our Captain and Goalie, Lucas. But once Toby had entered the pitch we knew we’d be fine – he managed to score us 4 goals! Templecombe managed another great goal, but St Nicholas just weren’t giving up and thanks to Samuel and Lucas, we scored another 2 goals. 6-2 to St Nicholas! Hurrah!

It goes without saying that we are incredibly proud of the team for winning, but what we are most proud of is the way they worked as a team, they kept each other’s spirits up, they supported each other (lots of dancing and celebrating after goals!!) and they had impeccable manners. Well done Year 2 🙂

 

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This morning in Collective Worship, Reverend Kevin taught us how to say ‘thank you’ in different languages! Can you spot the one he popped in to make us laugh?!

Our Year 2 Football Team are ready for our match against Templecombe on Monday!

June 2022

Here are some examples of the FABULOUS projects Butterfly Children worked on over the half term holiday!

The brief: Find out as much information as possible about Captain James Cook. You are allowed to present your work in any form you’d like (the more creative, the better!!).

We presented our work to Ladybird and Hedgehog Class! They were so impressed!

‘Jubilee, Jeanes and Jolly Well Done!’

We celebrated The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style with an extra celebration too – Mrs Jeanes has been a Governor at our school for 36 years and we wanted to make it special for her.

 

Year 2 Football Team!

Lots of our Year 2 children have shown a huge interest in football, so we have decided to start up our own team! Yesterday, we were delighted to welcome in Jacob Crabb (an ex pupil) who plays in the Junior Premier League. Jacob will be coaching us for our first match against Templecombe in June.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 12th May

This afternoon, we made Australian hats using marshmallows! Miss Hall said we could eat the marshmallows BUT we weren’t allowed to use our hands!!

Monday 9th May 

We are learning the Queen’s Jubilee Song – to practise this song at home use this link 🙂

https://video.link/w/Hbnrd

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We have learnt some new vocabulary including mezuzah, Torah and kippah. A kippah is a cap worn by Jewish men. We tried some on!

In art, we are learning about Aboriginal Art. Today, we used templates to have a go. It was very tricky and took us a long time, but we were very patient and they looked great!

In maths, we are learning to tell the time to the hour, half hour, quarter to and past. We went out onto the playground to show times using sticks as the minute hand and hour hand!

Congratulations to Ronny, who passed his Level 4 Swimming – thank you for bringing in your certificate to share the good news! 🙂

 

Monday 25th April

We started the summer term with a great afternoon!! We had a visit from professional high jumper, Robert Mitchell. He told us great stories about his childhood and how his teachers challenged him to jump higher and higher! Robert also set up a big fitness challenge for us, we had so much fun and learnt some new exercise including Spotty Dogs and Mountain Climbers.

Welcome to the Spring Term!

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We have been learning about how seeds grow in Science. We planted some beans! We can’t wait to see them grow!

 

Thursday 7th April 

Today, the Easter Bunny hid some eggs for us in the Learning Garden! We had great fun trying to find them before spending the afternoon at the church for a lovely Easter service.

Wednesday 23rd March 

We had such a great afternoon listening to visiting author, Claire Barker talk about how she became a writer, and things that inspired her to write stories. Children in Butterfly Class asked some really sensible questions such as ‘Who is your favourite character?’, ‘How long does it take you to write a book?’ and ‘How many books have you written?’.

Monday 7th March 2022

Today, we started a new text called ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ in English. We found some magic paintbrushes when we arrived in the morning, so we went outside to paint with them! Some of the children are SURE their pictures came to life!!

Tuesday 1st March 2022

St. David’s Day!

We learnt that the daffodil is the national flower of Wales. We made a card for our loved ones using daffodils as a focus!

WB 31st Jan 2022

Creative Writing Week

We had a visit from the lovely Millie (Mrs Crabb’s Cocker Spaniel). We had such a lovely morning learning all about Millie, some of us were even able to throw her ball, or race her! She was SO fast!

We later discovered that after she’d left Butterfly Class, she had gone on an adventure! Have a look below to see where she went!

 

   

                           By Ana, Year 1

RE

This term in RE, we have learnt that Christians believe God created the world. We re-enacted the 6 days where God created the world, and everything in it.

We also know that Christians believe God created humans to look after our animals and planet! We made our own little Garden’s of Eden on the school field 🙂

Friday 28th January

Today, we learnt all about the food people eat in Asia! They eat some really strange (gross!!) stuff including fermented eggs, fish eyes, wasp cookies and worms. Miss Hall couldn’t find any of the above in Morrisons, so the children had to pretend!!

Friday 21st January

For our Golden Time this week, we joined Dragonfly Class for a play in the new park in Henstridge!

Then we came back and did gymnastics for PE, using the equipment in the hall.

Thursday 20th January

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PC William Mortimer came into our class today to tell us a little bit about how he keeps the people of Henstridge safe. Next time you see him, be sure to say hello!

Friday 14th January 

Well done to George, Amy and Lucas who were awarded a certificate from Mrs Shearer for improved writing!

Thursday 13th January

One frosty morning… Butterfly Class had lots of chilly, icy fun!

Tuesday 11th January

We thought that a section of ‘The Visible Sounds’ sounded like a poem, so we made our own poem about a different sense!

Mrs Payne’s group poem 

 

Miss Hall’s group poem

Thursday 6th January

We started a new text called ‘The Visible Sounds’ by Yin Jianling and Yu Rong. So far we have discovered that it is about a little girl called Mili and she has lost her sounds. We made some giant listening ears and went on a sound walk! These are some of the things we heard:

  • Cars
  • Lorries
  • Children shouting
  • Birds tweeting
  • Footsteps on the gravel and decking
  • Laughing

      

Autumn Term

 

Friday 12th November

STEM Challenge!!

To end our ‘Maths Week’ we were given a challenge. The rules were: Using 5 sheets of newspaper and some tape, make a free-standing tower strong enough to hold a pear 6 inches off the table.

We worked very hard in our groups to make our towers, then test them!!

 

Wednesday 10th November 

We have been learning about Remembrance Day and why it is important to us. Here in Henstridge, we have some local heroes, so we went to see the War Memorial, and some of the grave stones of men who fought in the war. We learnt so much from Mrs Jeanes, who was kind enough to come along for the walk with us.

Tuesday 2nd November 

In English, we looked at some sparklers and created a word bank full of fantastic adjectives to describe them, including sparkly, crackling and scorching!

We also used this opportunity to talk about fire safety and how we need to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night.

 

Monday 1st November 

Our first day back after half term and Miss Hall had us working hard – we learnt all about the value of different coins!

To get into the Autumn vibe, we created some fantastic observational drawings of pumpkins! We had to follow some really tricky step-by-step instructions, but we were so great at listening and we were so proud of ourselves at the end.

Thursday 21st October 

We spent some time in the garden this afternoon, and found the BIGGEST apples ever!!! We had a little taste, and they were so juicy!

Smartie Maths!

Monday 18th October 

Today in art, we lit some candles and looked at the way fire moves. Then we did some observational drawings. Using sketching pencils, we experimented with the pressure so that we could shade our drawings. We know exactly how dangerous fire can be, as we’ve learnt so much about the Great Fire of London, so we were very careful to stay away from the candles.

Monday 11th October 

In PSHE we have been learning how to listen to our bodies and notice the feelings we have when we exercise. Today, we explored some yoga positions. It was so lovely and relaxing outside in the sunshine!

 

Monday 4th October 

Today, we discussed how Tudor houses were different to the houses we live in now. The main differences we suggested were:

  • Made of wood
  • Straw roof
  • Wooden doors
  • All joined together with no gaps
  • Painted black and white

Then we found out that they used a method called ‘wattle and daub’ to make the walls. We decided to give it a go ourselves! It’s much harder than it looks!

 

Tuesday 28th September

We are learning about the Great Fire of London. We wanted to see how Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary so we had a go at quill writing! It was so much fun, but we think it must have taken him ages as it’s quite tricky!

Welcome to Butterfly Class September 2021!

Welcome to Ladybird Class

Posted on April 22, 2021

Autumn Term A 2025

Today in our Place Value learning we learnt about Roman Numerals. The children did so well with this. Take a look at some of our work. October 2025

Our Picasso Portraits. September 2025

Our amazing Picasso fact files. September 2025

This week in Maths we have continued to learn about Place Value, this is our Number line work. September 2025

We have been learning about Place Value in Maths and learning about the continent of Europe in Topic. We have also drawn our self portraits and practised our pencil techniques.

 

Summer Term B

This afternoon, we had a Baby Shower Tea Party. We played lots of games, had some yummy treats and celebrated Baby Hopson. Thank you so much to you all for your kindness and generosity. July 2024

Well done to all my lovely ladybird’s on another fantastic term of learning but a particular well done to my Summer B certificate winners. July 2024

This afternoon, we reused some books that would have otherwise been thrown out and made book hedgehogs. We hope you like our creations. July 2024

Well done to my lovely Ladybird’s for a super sports day, I am so proud of you. A special well done to those children in my class in Oak House as you were the official winners this year.  July 2024

Today in computing the Ladybird’s have created online safety comic strips and discussed Pegi ratings and then decided if games were appropriate or inappropriate for their age. We had excellent discussions July 2024

Today we created Aboriginal handprints in art. The children practiced their pointillism once again and did an amazing job. Well done to Leo and Kenny for being my artists of the week. July 2024

This afternoon, the children shared their stories with Dragonfly Class. July 2024

Over the last couple of week we have been reading the Australian book – One Woolly Wombat. We have researched the animals in the book and then written a non-chronological report on our chosen animal and this week we have written and illustrated our own versions of the book. The Ladybird’s have created some amazing creations, take a look 🙂 July 2024

Well done to April for an amazing Great Barrier Reef model. Thank you for all your efforts and for presenting this to the class. July 2024

Well done to my lovely ladybird’s for their wonderful Great Barrier Reef stories on how to save the Great Barrier Reef. July 2024

In Science, we are learning about Light and today we have investigated shadows at different times of the day to see what happened. We also explored using different opaque objects and a light sources and then measured the width of a shadow and the distance the object was from the light source. June 2024

We collected data on favourite colours, animals, fruit and vegetables. We created pictograms, tally charts and bar graphs. June 2024

This afternoon, we had a very inspirational visitor; Ben Whitney (Ronny’s dad). He engaged all the children and staff. The children asked excellent questions and some children got to have a go on the hand bike. Thank you for visiting us, we loved it! 🙂 June 2024

We have been creating Aboriginal dot art. Take a look at the children’s designs. Well done Alyssa and April for being my artist’s of the week. June 2024

Well done to my wonderful Year 4s who had great success in the MTC this year. 8 of them got 100% on the test and every child achieved 50% or more. Well done Year 4!! I am so proud of you. Treats were enjoyed to celebrate their successes. June 2024

Well done to Y3/4 for having another successful writing competition-Once Upon a Dream. Their work is going to be published in a book! June 2024

This morning, we had two lovely visitors in our class. Mrs Kingdon and Mr Morgan who were sharing with the class all about their careers. The children asked excellent questions. Thank you for giving up your time to come in and speak with the children. June 2024

So proud of the teamwork and sportsmanship my Ladybird’s showed this afternoon at the Dodgeball Tournament, well done Team Ladybird. June 2024

Summer Term A

Well done to ALL my certificate winners for Summer B, you have been AMAZING! 🙂 May 2024

A huge well done to ALL that went to KA yesterday to represent our school in the Cross Country Competition. Your behaviour and sportsmanship was outstanding. A special well done to Samuel who came 2nd in his age category and Ana who came 3rd in her age category. Also, well done to Year 3/4 girls who came 2nd overall and the Y3/4 boys came 3rd overall! I am very proud of you all! 🙂  May 2024

What an excellent morning we have had. We had a visit from YTFC to show us the trophy and to have a question and answer session. Thank you so much for visiting us 🙂 May 2024

ALL my lovely ladybird’s dressed up for Pyjamarama day. May 2024

Our AMAZING Aboriginal Art work. Well done to Jimmy and Ronny for being my artists of the week. May 2024

It was lovely to have Ladybird Parents join us for celebration assembly this afternoon. May 2024

 

Today we started our time learning, we were telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes and minute. The children were so brilliant at this, Miss Sims and I were very impressed 🙂 In Topic this afternoon, we presented our Australian fact files to the class. May 2024

Today in Science, we learnt about plant dissection, we cut the plant into four parts (the flower, stem, leaves and roots). Thank you to Freddie and Lucas for their help with this, you were both brilliant. May 2024

We have started our research project about the major Australian cities, the children have found out geographical and historical information on the places.

The children have also been thinking about our planet as recently we celebrated Earth Day in school and they wrote things down that they wish to do to support our planet. April 2024

Today in Maths, we worked with money. We added and subtracted amounts and converted money. April 2024

We painted our own versions of Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Art. Well done to Summer and Jude who were my artists of the week. April 2024

Yesterday, we continued our Plant topic and planted our own sunflower plant as we are learning all about what plants need to grow, we cannot wait to see how our plants grow. April 2024

During our Thrive session this week we designed our ideal classroom. April 2024

We have had a great first week back, we started our learning about Australia; the children have shared some fantastic facts and created some brilliant maps. We have also started our learning about Plants and created our self-portraits in Art. April 2024

Spring Term A

Today we finished our Roman learning this term in the best way 🙂 we went to the Dorset County Museum; we got to look at and find Roman artefacts whilst doing an archaeological dig, we explored the museum, we saw Roman Mosaics and we dressed up as different Roman figures and did some acting. March 2024

Well done to KS2 for making the National Finals of the Emile Spelling Cup and then coming 8th in the whole of the UK and a special well done to my Ladybird boys who did incredibly well in the Emile Spelling Cup. James came in the Top 20 children in the UK. March 2024

Red Nose Day 2024

Well done to George, Toby and Summer for designing fantastic Red Noses for Red Nose Day. march 2024

Fractions Carousel, the children have done brilliantly with their Fraction learning and so on Friday they participated in a carousel. They made Fraction wheels, walls, played fraction games and created posters. March 2024

World Book Day 2024

Well done to all the children for their fantastic costumes! 🙂 We have shared books, watched a Michael Morpurgo live event, where he read some of the Butterfly Lion and we wrote book reviews and recommendations. March 2024

This afternoon, we investigated ice. We measured how long it took for the ice to melt and the temperature of the water. March 2024

Well done to the Ladybird’s and in particular to Lucas and Ronny for their magnificent mosaics they created. March 2024

On Friday, I announced my Art Competition winners. Well done to George for winning and Jimmy for being a runner up. Excellent pieces of art from all my Ladybird’s. March 2024

In Music, the children have been using the Pentatonic Scale. February 2024

Today for World Thinking Day, the Brownies in my class dressed up in their uniform. They shared with the other Ladybird’s the purpose behind the day 🙂 February 2024

Today in Thrive we created a Feelings Drawing. February 2024

Well done to the Ladybird children on their wonderful learning this term. These are my chosen certificate winners for Spring A. February 2024

Thank you to Brooklyn and Mikey for bringing their dogs into school. We also got to spend sometime with Joy, the children loved this! 🙂 Thank you Mrs Shearer and Izabella for this. February 2024

Ladybird Class had a wonderful day for our Lunar Chinese New Year Day. The children made so much effort with their costumes to represent the different animals of the zodiac. We tasted different Asian foods, made clay dragon eyes, read books about Asia and Dragons, learnt about Lunar New Year and created Asian flags in different mediums. A good day was had by all. February 2024

We had a super day for Number Day. February 2024

Ladybird’s amazing dragon eye designs. Next, we are going to make these out of clay! Come back to see our super clay dragon eyes. February 2024

This week we have continued our poetry learning and we learnt the poem the Dragon who came to school. January 2024

Today, we drew Dragon’s eyes, the children did an amazing job. January 2024

Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning and writing poetry. Today we wrote a class acrostic poem about Dragons, here is our creation:

Our wonderful Dragon sketches. January 2024

We went to watch the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Exeter today, the children got to sing, dance and listen to lots of different instruments. A good day was had by all. January 2024

Today, we had an excellent day in class. We learnt Dragon poems and then performed them to our classmates. We also created and made a paper aeroplane and wrote our worries on them and then flew them on the field, to let our worries fly away. January 2024

This afternoon, we had a Computing and Topic lesson, we researched the capital city of China – Beijing. We then used Padlet to record our facts to create a shared fact file. January 2024

In RE, we continued our learning about Judaism. We created our own Ten Commandments for a happy life and the children did some independent work creating commandments for our classroom. January 2024

The children have written some wonderful writing about their own dragons. Mrs Shearer came to see their writing, she was very impressed. January 2024

This afternoon, we drew our self-portraits. Well done to Jude and Ronny for being our artists of the week, this week. January 2024

This afternoon, we went on an invertebrate hunt in our Learning Garden to consolidate our learning of Invertebrates and Vertebrates. January 2024

In our Thrive session this afternoon, we made bookmarks of our favourite books. January 2024

Friday afternoon, we had art, we followed a tutorial for shading and pencil techniques. The children did an amazing job, but a big well done to Ava and Scarlett who were the artists of the week this week. January 2024

This afternoon, we started our NEW PSHE topic, ‘Give to others’. The children made Appreciation cards for adults who help them. January 2024

Today we used our holiday homework – Dragon facts and shared them with our peers. We then created a whole class collaborative fact file. The children did an excellent job of working together and then sharing their facts. January 2024

The children had an excellent first day back writing about their hopes for the year and a recount of their Christmas holidays. They also had a fantastic science lesson on our new topic; Living things and their habitats. Here is a photo of the children enjoying their non-fiction science books. January 2024

Autumn Term B

To end the term we had a celebration assembly to celebrate all the children’s achievements. Well done to ALL my certificate winners this term. A huge well done to Oscar for being my Star of the Term. December 2023

Today we had our Whole School Nativity. Well done to my Ladybird’s for their fantastic reading, singing and acting today. I am so proud of you all! December 2023

Well done to my Ladybird PSHE stars for all your hard work this term. (Autumn 23) October/December 2023

Today we had a very special visit from Santa’s Helpers. They visited us in a helicopter and brought us each a gift. Thank you Father Christmas. December 2023

Thank you to Toby and Leo for bringing in their lovely dogs and sharing lots of super facts about them. It was lovely to meet both of them 🙂 December 2023

This week for our Thrive activity we adopted Pet Rocks. They are now living in the children’s drawers, some have even made beds for them and are getting them out daily to give them hugs to warm them up! December 2023

On Wednesday, we enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch thanks to Sandra, Mrs Elliott and Mrs Lickiss. December 2023

To end our week we visited Longleat to see the Festival of Lights. A good time was had by all! My Ladybird’s were beautifully behaved but had the best day :). We started our day on the Jungle Cruise, we looked at all the animals, we went on safari and rounded up the day by visiting all 3 of the light trails. The children got to step into the wonderful world of Narnia. Thank you to all our class helpers for making our day extra special!  November 2023

On Friday, we had April and Summer’s pets visit our school. They taught us lots of interesting facts. November 2023

Today we had our Ancient Greek Day. We made laurel wreaths, danced the Zorba, wrote our names in Greek, we baked Greek Flat Bread and tasted Greek food such as; olives, tzatziki, the bread we made and feta. We also designed Greek Vases. What a super day had by all! November 2023

 

Today in PE, we started our Gymnastics lessons. We were travelling in different ways, the pupils loved this, laughter filled the hall. November 2023

This afternoon, we started our learning about Salvador Dali. The children created a fact file all about his life. They also drew portraits of him. Well done to Jude and Grace who were the artists of the week. November 2023

Today we had a Maths carousel for our learning about Arrays for Multiplication and Division. The children loved this and did a brilliant job of showing their learning. October 2023

On our first day back of term we ventured to St Nicholas Church as part of our RE learning. We were looking at the features of a church. We created our own stained glassed window designs too. Thank you to all the adults that supported our walk to the church and a big thank you to Mrs Jeanes who let us climb to the Bell Tower, it was a super experience for all. October 2023

Autumn Term A

This week’s Thrive activity was doodling. The children had some mindful music on, doodled and created their own pictures out of that doodle. October 2023

As a treat this week for all their hard work this term, we did some Just Dance. The children really enjoyed it 🙂 October 2023

This afternoon, we made Picasso style Guitar collages. All of the Ladybird’s did such an amazing job. Well done to Alyssa and April for being my artists of the week. October 2023

Today we all went into the Learning Garden to watch Butterfly Class burn their Great Fire of London replica, it was amazing, the children loved it, it was the talk of the school, well done Mrs Crabb. October 2023

This afternoon in Science, we made our own Magnetic Game. The children really enjoyed making and playing their games that they made. October 2023

Today we wrote collaboratively to write a diary account as James, to speak about how his Aunt’s make him do all the chores and how he has such a poor life. The quality of work produced by the children was exceptionally high, well done Ladybird’s.

We also had a brilliant PE session, where we practiced our football skills, thank you to Lucas and Ronny for being our great goalkeepers, they only let in 3 goals between them out of over 60 goals! October 2023

Today we have created our own Three Musician pieces. Well done to April and Summer for being our artists of the week. October 2023

I am delighted to say that the wonderful Year 4 children made it through to the National Finals of the MTC Cup (Times table competition). We enjoyed some treats today to celebrate the children’s successes so far! September 2023

The children came 5th in the whole of the UK for the times table championship. October 2023

 

This afternoon, we created our own versions of ‘the Three Musicians’ by Picasso. September 2023

Today we continued our Science learning; we learnt about different types of Magnets and tested their strength.

We (Y4) also continued our participation in the MTC Cup. Well done to Toby who is currently in 1st place, Lucas in 2nd and James in 3rd. We are also the No.1 school in our league currently, something that ALL the children are so proud of and so they should be 🙂 September 2023

This afternoon, Ladybird Class and I made the most of the beautiful weather and we went out into the garden and went on an Autumn Outdoor Hunt. This was a super Thrive activity. September 2023

This afternoon, we created Picasso style art. We made roll a Picasso art and a fact file. Well done to Lucas, Kenny and Ronny for excellent work. September 2023

This week we have been learning about Roman Numerals and Magnets. The children made roman numerals out of lolly sticks- Lucas even wrote our date in roman numerals!  The children created their own magnets to be displayed in class, take a look at our work! 🙂 September 2023

On Friday, we started our learning about Picasso. The children also created colour wheels. Well done to Grace and Tommy for being the artist’s of the week. September 2023

Today we learnt some new words that are key themes in our book ‘The Invisible’ the children used dictionaries to define the words and created freeze frames to show the words. In Science, we investigated friction. We tested cars on different surfaces. September 2023

This Friday we made number lines to 100 and 1,000 in maths and we created our own pencil self-portraits and practiced our pencil techniques. Well done to Ronny and Toby for being our artist’s of the week. September 2023

Summer Term B

This afternoon, we made Egyptian Landscapes. Well done to Maddie and Toby for being chosen as the artists of the week. July 2023

Well done to my lovely Ladybird’s for their super art work for the Art Exhibition. July 2023

On Friday we had our Sports Day. ALL the children did such a super job and participated in many events such as; Space Hopper, Welly Wang, Tennis Racket Balance and many others. June 2023

On Tuesday, we had our Ancient Egyptian Day. We made pyramids, baked some Egyptian bread (Saboob), we tried some Egyptian food, wrote our names in hieroglyphics, we decorated sarcophaguses and created some art pieces. June 2023

This afternoon in Art we continued with our African Art. We finished our African masks, created our African necklaces and did some weaving. Well done to Alfie and Lucas for being our artist’s of the week. June 2023

In Science, we learnt about how our muscles work. We created our own arm models and learnt how our muscles relax and contract. June 2023

Today we celebrated Africa Day. The Ladybird children looked at African books, completed a Mo Salah comprehension task and this afternoon we got into our houses and designed and created masks and listened to African music. It was lovely to see all the wonderful effort the children had gone to, to dress up.  June 2023

In Art this week we continued with our pattern work and created, designed and evaluated our African masks. Well done to the Ladybird’s for their super work and a big well done to my Artist’s of the week- Demmi, Samuel and Summer. June 2023

In Maths this week we have continued our Geometry learning. We have made 2D and 3D shapes. We have learnt about the different types of triangles and quadrilaterals. We have also created polygons. June 2023

Today I also presented our incredible Dodgeball team with their certificates. Well done again to Team 1 who were the overall winners for the competition. June 2023

This Friday, we continued our African Art. The children completed their African landscapes and began their African pattern work in preparation for making their African masks. Well done to Grace and Ronny for being our Artist’s of the week for their superb art! 🙂 June 2023

Today we continued our Animals including Humans learning and we carried out an investigation how the human skeleton supports movement. We measured the length of our femurs and then measured the length of our jumps. June 2023

 

Today my lovely Ladybirds and I went on a trip to the Tutankhamun Museum in Dorchester. It was an excellent way to begin our new topic – Ancient Egypt. We saw mummies, ankh’s aplenty and saw many other ancient Egyptian objects such as; sarcophaguses, the Rosetta Stone, hieroglyphs and canopic jars. Thank you to Mrs Jeanes, Mrs Morgan and Miss Edwards for accompanying us. June 2023

Today we started our new ‘Geometry’ topic in maths. We turned clockwise and anti-clockwise, found right angles in the classroom and wrote our names in capital letters and identified the angles in the letters. June 2023

Summer Term A

What a super afternoon we have had! Team St Nicholas did our school proud, they played so well and exhibited their skills exceptionally well and worked as a wonderful team. Due to that excellent team work they did incredibly well. Team 1 won the whole competition and Team 2 did very well too. A special well done to those in Team 1: Isaac, Logan, Maddie, Lucas, Ronny and Samuel, our champions!! May 2023

Our Summer A winners. Well done to Ronny who was our star of the term this term and well done to all our Ladybird’s for another wonderful term. May 2023

Today we completed our NEW Times Table puzzle. Thank you Mrs Bendoraitis for organising the Readathon and ordering all our new books and puzzles for the classroom. 🙂 May 2023

On Wednesday, we participated in National Numeracy day. We took part in a live maths quiz and a competition. May 2023

Today we were Bertie and Millie from our class book the Butterfly Lion, we read instructions about how to make a kite and then made our own and flew them on the field. We had such a brilliant lesson. May 2023

Today we had a wonderful visit from Liz. She told the children lots of facts about South Africa and we did some gumboot dancing and sang the National Anthem. The children were also stunned and wowed to hear that she had met Nelson Mandela. Thank you for coming to see us and sharing all of your knowledge and stories. May 2023

Well done to our attendance winners. A big congratulations goes out to Jimmy, who since being with us has had 100% attendance! May 2023

We started our learning about the African artist Gakonga in Art. We created fact files about him and recreated some of his most famous pieces. Next week, we are going to create our own pieces in his style. The children absolutely loved his art. May 2023

 

Today we were joined by Reverend Kevin for our class Collective worship. We had an excellent time. The children retold a bible story and we sang a song which the children thoroughly enjoyed. May 2023

Today in class we have celebrated the King’s Coronation. The children have completed a King Charles III comprehension, they have designed and created their own crowns and dressed up in their finest clothes. The children have also had the opportunity to complete word searches, mindful colourings, bookmarks and Union Jacks. This afternoon, we will celebrate by having our own Coronation in the church. May 2023

The children have had a lovely day in class today. We completed various activities in a Maths Carousel this morning, we went shopping for toys and fruit and we worked out change. The children also got to buy a treat from me for an amount that I asked them to make.

In English, we read chapter four of ‘The Butterfly Lion’ we reordered the text and up-levelled the sentences by adding adjectives, alliteration and similes. They are really enjoying the book 🙂

In Science, we completed various experiments. We did small group investigations about electricity and materials and a class one on oxygen.

It has been a lovely day in Ladybird Class :). May 2023

The children have spent the last two week’s researching and presenting facts about Africa. The children have found out about the Geography and History of Africa, what food they eat, animals that are native to there and many other things about Africa. April/May 2023

This week in Art we focused on drawing. We completed our own self-portraits and then drew them again and created them in an African style. We also did our own portraits of King Charles, to celebrate his upcoming Coronation. April 2023

Today we started our reading of our class book The Butterfly Lion and we created Michael’s Escape Route. April 2023

In Art we completed our self-portraits and started our African style portraits. We also had a Road Safety Officer visit us. The children were excellent listeners and answered lots of questions about safety. April 2023

This week in English, Topic and Science we have based all our learning on Africa. We have created Africa maps, written and shared facts and today in Science we learnt about living things from Madagascar and deforestation. We set up an experiment and will continue to watch the results throughout the week and we sorted living things into categories such as; plants, birds, reptiles and mammals. April 2023

Today the children shared their facts about South Africa and then they created fact files and presented them to the class. April 2023

Spring Term B

Well done to my Spring B certificate winners and a huge well done to Maddie who was my star of the term. March 2023

To end the Spring Term we had an Easter Egg Hunt in classes and in houses, great fun was had by all. March 2023

What a way to end our Stone Age topic….today we had our Stone Age! What a fun filled day it was! 🙂 The children looked incredible, thank you for all the effort you all put in with their costumes. The children baked some Bronze Age Cookies, made Biscuit Henges and created fact files on Bronze Age life-comparing life back then to now. March 2023

  

Today we had our America Day. The children had a super day. Here are some lovely pictures to share what the children have dressed up as. March 2023

This afternoon, we created Latin American Art pieces. Look at the lovely examples by my Ladybird’s.  March 2023

Today we finished our Electricity topic by having excellent discussions and consolidating our learning. We also did some baking to begin our instructional writing, the Ladybird’s loved sampling their flapjacks 🙂 March 2023

Today we had a super PE lesson, we completed an orienteering activity. We searched the school grounds looking for intricate details to then be able to solve a puzzle. The Ladybird’s worked wonderfully in their teams. March 2023

Well done to my PSHE stars this term for super learning for the topic ‘Connect with others’. March 2023

We had a wonderful science lesson on ‘Switches’. The children worked together brilliantly and created four different types of switch and then tested them. March 2023

Today in RE, we retold the Easter story in our own words. In PE, we also did some orienteering activities. The children were super at both of these activities and had a brilliant afternoon 🙂 March 2023

Today we completed our Fraction learning so the children participated in a variety of activities. In PSHE, we learnt about Relationships and in Art we created Stonehenge art. March 2023

We had another super science lesson today. We investigated whether different objects were insulators or conductors. Some of the objects we tested were: paper, coins, a ruler and a rubber. March 2023

Ladybird Class had the best day exploring Stonehenge and as always they behaved brilliantly. We participated in a Myths and Legend workshop where we created our own stories using Lego pieces. We walked around the monument and went into the Neolithic Houses and visited the exhibition. March 2023

Today in RE, we spoke about Lent. We created our own Lent Tree. We discussed what a sacrifice was and decided what we were going to give up for 40 days and nights. We had children giving up sweets, chocolate, gaming and pizza just to name a few. We also thought about how Jesus rescued us and created freeze frames to enact the word ‘rescuing’. We had children enacting Trust Falls, carrying out CPR and saving animals who were stuck. Well done Ladybird’s. March 2023

Today we finished making our Stone Age Homes. The children planned and designed these from start to finish. We have a Skara Brae House, some huts, a cave and a Stone Age village. I think the children have done a wonderful job, I am so impressed with not only their art skills but their team work 🙂 well done Team Ladybird! 🙂 March 2023

We have had a lovely World Book Day, well done to the children and their parents for their fantastic effort with the costumes. We created our own books and bookmarks and we also completed word searches and mindful colouring activities and we also read and shared our books with the Dragonfly children. March 2023

Yesterday, we had a really fun and busy day. The children acted out verbs and adverbs and created sentences using them. The children investigated circuits, to find out if they were complete or incomplete. We also got our swimming certificates, well done Ladybird’s on another super day! 🙂 March 2023

Today we completed multiple activities to help us with our equivalent fraction learning. We also created Stone Age Animal Fact Files and read our new class book ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’, we retold the story in our own words, the children were brilliant story tellers and used an excellent amount of imperative verbs and fronted adverbials. February 2023

 

Today in Science, we created circuits. The children had to problem solve and work out how to get the light bulb to light up. The children also had to make predictions and decide which circuits they thought were complete and incomplete on the challenge cards and then tested their theories. February 2023

Today we celebrated Pancake Day by making Pancake Fractions. Also, this afternoon we started our History topic of learning about the Stone Age. We created our own timelines and wrote questions to ask a Stone Age woman or man. February 2023

What a super first day back after Half Term! 🙂 I have had some excellent models and paintings of Landmarks in America. Well done Ladybird’s. A special well done to Oliver for an excellent replica of the Hollywood sign, to Grace who created multiple structures and to Eddie who visited the landmarks of America on his trip to Legoland. February 2023

We have received our certificates for the Young Writers Competition, well done Ladybird’s, I hope to see all your published work in the book 🙂 February 2023

This afternoon in RE, we had the most beautiful discussion, the children discussed what they believed was important to Christian’s. The most common response was God, Love and Family. February 2023

Spring Term A

Well done to all my Ladybird’s this Half Term, but a big well done to my Spring Term stars for their excellent work in class and at home. February 2023

This afternoon, the children created their own cave paintings and then we worked collaboratively to make whole class pieces. February 2023

The children completed their second Mental Health Activity today. We created ‘My Important People’ puzzle. Here are some of the children’s lovely examples 🙂 February 2023

Today the children shared their American Landmarks homework with the rest of the class. I have had some amazing pieces from the children and I am so impressed 🙂 we then created collaborative fact files on a number of Landmarks and had to decide whether they were a physical or human feature. February 2023

Today we started our Mental Health week work. The children created a connection web, the children loved this activity. We did this activity to show how we are all connected and have similar likes.  February 2023

Look at our super Stone Age symbols. February 2023

This term we are also studying the famous artist Jackson Pollock. Below are some examples of the children’s work. January 2023

Today the children took part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch. January 2023

This afternoon, we created pop art inspired pieces. The children drew their favourite foods in this style. January 2023

This afternoon, we started to look at our artist of the term – Andy Warhol. We created pop art hands. January 2023

This morning was exciting and very interesting as we had a Fireman visit us. He told us how to be safe in a fire, spoke about fire plans and shared some stories of rescues that he had done. January 2023

Today we had Om (Esme) join us in class for a question and answer session as the children have been writing open and closed questions. Om is a character from our book: Stone Age Boy. January 2023

Today in Art we created our self-portraits. Amy & Grace were my artists of the week for showing amazing drawing skills, well done :). January 2023

Today we had another very exciting visit from Marie the Animals2uSouthwest Animal Education Officer. She was brilliant! 🙂 The children asked and answered multiple questions and got to handle Guinea Pigs, Snakes, Geckos and Leaf Insects. January 2023

 

Autumn Term

Autumn B

Well done to all my certificate winners for Autumn B in Ladybird Class. A special congratulations to Isaac for being our star of the term! 🙂 December 2022

We have had a brilliant time celebrating Christmas in Ladybird Class. We have written Christmas poems, decorated our class Christmas tree, had a daily advent treat, made Christmas decorations and wore our Christmas Jumpers for Christmas Jumper Day. December 2022

In Science, we have designed, created and evaluated our own instruments. Take a look at the children’s fantastic designs. December 2022

Today we enjoyed our Antarctic Day. The children got to make snow (Science), they also designed their own Antarctic flag and toboggan (Geography/Art/DT). We had hot chocolates to warm up after being out in the snow and having a wind chill experience. Additionally, we completed reading comprehension work about this amazing continent (English). November 2022

Today we made Lanterns. Thank you Mrs Howell and Mrs Lickiss for all your help. We also did some dramatic dancing to match scenes from our class book ‘Ice Palace’. The children were amazing. We also judged our Pudsey competition. Well done to Jake, Mckenzie and Grace who were our winners.  November 2022

Well done to the Ladybird’s who showed some excellent printing skills. They did excellent snowflake pictures. November 2022

Well done to Mrs Howell for winning silver guild for the wonderful learning garden. Thank you for all your work. November 2022

On Friday, we had an AMAZING time visiting Longleat. The children got to go through the Safari. Lucas particularly loved seeing the Camels and Jake was very excited to tell us any facts he knew about the animals. The children also got to walk around the Roald Dahl themed Festival of Lights. November 2022

This week we have participated in Anti-Bullying Week. We have taken part in a live lesson; where we completed 3 activities they were: how to be kind, trusted adult hands and helping a friend in need. We also did some mindful colouring.

This week we have also celebrated Children in Need and the children designed their own Pudsey’s.

November 2022

In Art and Science this week we have studied the artist Nerys Levy and completed works in her style and in Science we continued to explore pitch and the children made Pan Pipes. November 2022

Today we celebrated Remembrance; we had a service, completed a reading comprehension, made a bookmark, wrote a remembrance poem and did some poppy art. November 2022

This week we’ve continued our learning of Sound for our science topic. We heard sounds and conducted an experiment by placing rice on a drum and thinking about the relationship between the amount of force and the vibration. We also played different instruments to learn about pitch. The children loved this cross-curricular lesson. November 2022

Today we celebrated 150 years of our wonderful school.

We all dressed up to mark the special occasion. The children looked AMAZING 🙂

We had a special whole school assembly, a delicious cake, took part in a 150 years House Quiz, we completed a reading comprehension all about our school, played some table top games and we had a Q&A session with Mrs Jeanes. November 2022

 

This week has been another busy but exciting week in class. We have started our new maths topic – Multiplication and Division; the children completed a carousel of activities on Arrays. In English, we continued our work on the book Ice Palace; the children wrote setting descriptions of the Ice Palace. In Music we continued our learning on the History of Music by listening to different music from each period. The children’s favourite type of music was Contemporary.

Also, thank you to Lucas who decided he would like to read to the class, which was lovely, all the children listened beautifully to him. It was a great moment in class. November 2022

Today we visited our local church. The children had the best time searching for the different features of a church. October 2022

Autumn A

I have been really impressed this term with the children’s excitement towards their homework. Thank you for all the hard work you have been putting in with them at home. The children showcased and shared their favourite homework piece they have created this term. October 2022

This afternoon, we carried out a sound survey to help us out with our science learning and specifically our understanding of the word vibration. October 2022

Today we went on a woodland walk to inform our descriptive writing. The children used all of their senses. October 2022

Take a look at this incredible art created by the Ladybird Children. Shackleton’s Ship ‘Endurance’ created in the medium – charcoal. Well done to Grace and Samuel for being my artist’s of the week. October 2022

This afternoon, we tested different types of soil for their permeability. We found out that the compost was most permeable and that clay soil was least as it didn’t allow the water through as easily. October 2022

Today we have had a really good day in class. We wrote a character description for Ivan, our main character in our class book – Ice Palace. We also did some drama in Topic to re-enact scenes from Shackleton’s life exploring. Finally this afternoon, we planted a Sandringham Rose to commemorate our beloved Queen. October 2022

Well done Jake and Archie for excellent art on Shackleton’s Journey and cave art based on Starjik. Amazing drawing skills from both of you 🙂 October 2022

This week to celebrate International Dyslexia Day, we have designed T-Shirts to celebrate dyslexia and talked about why we are special and we also learnt about celebrities who have dyslexia. We also had a wonderful collective worship with Mrs Shearer. October 2022

 

Today we have had another great day in class. This morning, we used macaroni to represent inverted commas, we had conversations in the role of Ivan. This afternoon, we created our own mini compost bins; the children really enjoyed doing this. It helped them to understand the different layers to soil. Lots of the children took resources home because they wanted to make their own at home, I cannot wait to hear/see their work. October 2022

 

Today we have continued our learning on Ice Palace; we created freeze frames to represent how the villagers were feeling. Next, we wrote kennings on Starjik. October 2022

Today we have been continuing our learning on Rounding, the children have worked so hard on this so we played a game to end that learning. We were rounding 3 and 4 digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000. We also had our first class assembly, the children recalled facts about Antarctic Animals and Ernest Shackleton and they also sang the Roman Numerals song. September 2022

The children described Ivan’s land. First they identified nouns in the picture and then used adjectives to describe them before putting them into expanded noun phrases. It was such an excellent English Lesson. Then, this afternoon we continued our learning about Ernest Shackleton, we created timelines of his life and shared them. September 2022

Today we had a really exciting day, we had Daniel England visit us. We were so excited to see him in real life. He sang some songs and read us a bible story. September 2022

 In English we started our new book ‘Ice Palace’.

On Friday, we all sang the ‘Roman Numeral Song’ and made our Roman Numerals using lollipop sticks. We had so much fun doing this and learnt lots 🙂 September 2022

This afternoon, we also fixed the eco boards on the field. Thank you to the Ladybird Children who helped me do this. September 2022

This afternoon in Art, we created portraits of the Queen, I was so impressed with the detail the children included. I think the Queen would have been so proud of your work, well done Ladybirds. September 2022

This afternoon, we conducted an experiment on different types of Rocks. We tested their durability, density and whether they were permeable or impermeable. The children loved this and we had excellent discussions. Thank you to George, Maddie & Ronnie for bringing in some items to share. September 2022

We had a terrific Topic Lesson this afternoon, we looked at photographs (primary sources). We pretended we were Frank Hurley, a photographer who was on Shackleton’s expedition and described what we could see in the pictures. In music, we sang the National Anthem in honour of our new king. September 2022

On Friday, we created number lines in groups in maths and we did our self-portraits. Well done to Alyssa, Eddie & Ronnie for being my art stars of the week. You worked so hard and added lots of detail. September 2022

 Summer Term

The children researched an animal of their choice and created a poster about them and presented it to the class. July 2022

We had a fantastic time at the cricket, watching Somerset vs Yorkshire. Thank you Mrs Shearer for arranging this experience for KS2 🙂 July 2022

 

The children have worked so hard this term, so we hosted our own Ladybird’s Got Talent show. We had a variety of acts; comedian’s, singers, dancers, sporting stars and impressionists. Well done Amy for being our winner with a beautiful version of Shallow by Lady Gaga. July 2022

This afternoon we finished our learning about Hinduism. The children recapped their learning and they we made diva lamps. July 2022

Today we had 5 of the lovely Hedgehogs join us, so we decided to create some collaborative aboriginal art and we wrote stories to accompany them, these are the wonderful designs from the children. July 2022

Today we created our own aboriginal boomerangs; the children created stories using the symbols and retold them to their friends. July 2022

Today it was Mrs Shearer’s birthday, so to celebrate her we had a special assembly where we shared memories and wrote poetry. Mrs Shearer also got us a special treat. July 2022

Today we got to try some homegrown jam from our Learning Garden, thank you Mrs Howell for arranging this for us 🙂 July 2022

Well done to all our Eco Council Members and Ladybird’s for helping me achieve our Green Flag with Merit for all the hard work we have done to support Eco Schools this year. July 2022

Well done to the Ladybird’s for their excellent Sydney Opera House creations. July 2022

 

This week we have been writing our own stories based on the book One Woolly Wombat and today the children shared their books with the children in Dragonfly Class. July 2022

On Wednesday, we investigated shadows in science and tested different materials to find out which would be the best material to use for a pair of curtains. July 2022

Today we had a very exciting visitor, Daniel England. He usually does our mini mix virtually but today he came in and did his assembly. We sang lots of songs and spoke about our talents. Thank you Daniel for coming in, Ladybird’s loved this. July 2022

The children have been doing some fun activities in Science and Topic. They were learning about mirrors and reflections in science; they wrote messages to each other and reflected them and then they played the mirror walking game. In Topic, they were re-enacting some scenes from James Cook’s life. June 2022

We have been learning about James Cook. Logan kindly brought in the book: ‘The Adventures of Nanny Twice’ so we decided to make our own copy of this story in our Art and Topic sessions. Photos to follow 🙂 June 2022

Ladybird’s have created some wonderful art inspired by the Australian artist Sally Gobari. June 2022

Ladybird’s amazing aboriginal dot art. Well done to Jake and Logan who are the artists of the week. June 2022

 

Well done Ladybird’s on playing some fantastic Cricket in our matches this afternoon. A big well done to Oak who were our winners. June 2022

Well done to the Ladybird’s for a day of super learning. This morning we were learning about Statistics in Maths – Bar Charts and Line Graphs, in English we wrote poems and then performed them to the class and in Science we were learning about Light and Dark; we found out what was in the bag and the children were asking fantastic scientific questions. June 2022

Well done to our runners up and overall winners of the Somerset Flag competition; Amelia and Jake. June 2022

What a super day was had by all! Well done to my Ladybird’s who came to the Top Link Sports Festival, you did us proud 🙂 It was my absolute pleasure to take you. You should be proud of yourselves as I am. June 2022

 

On Friday, the children used their knowledge of aboriginal symbols to create their own art work featuring Australian animals. Well done to Finn and Grace for being my artists of the week.  June 2022

We have been continuing our learning of time in class and in our science lesson today we learnt about the Water Cycle. The children drew some beautiful diagrams to represent this and made their own water cycle. June 2022

We have had a very busy and exciting last week at school before half term. We celebrated the Platinum Jubilee by making crafts, doing jubilee English and Maths tasks, singing the platinum jubilee song, dressing up and having a celebratory service. Well done to all the children on a great last week at school. May 2022

The children made their own Aboriginal Art today. Here are some of their AMAZING examples. Well done to Inina & Mckenzie for being our artists of the week. May 2022

Today we had an amazing day. The children had so many excellent experiences. In Maths we set up different shops and the children were given a budget and allowed to buy from different shops working out the amount needed and how much change they would get. They even got to buy a treat at the end by using the correct coins to make the amounts.

We also got to watch a symphony orchestra play a live concert; the highlight being hearing them play the Harry Potter theme.

In Science we set up an experiment to investigate how long it would take chocolate to melt in different temperatures of water.

Finally, the children have been able to plant sunflower seeds. May 2022

Today we had a wonderful music lesson. The children sang ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and then we used the Boom whackers to explore crescendo, rhythm and timbre. The class loved this experience and it was lovely to see how they enjoyed using the instruments. May 2022

 

Thank you to Eddie for bringing in an Australian puppet theatre that he had designed and created over the weekend. He invented a show with a Koala and Possum. They asked the children for facts and also shared some super information with the class. Thank you for your visit. May 2022

On Friday, the children took part in a Money carousel. They were adding and subtracting money, giving change and creating posters all about their learning so far. They have also converted pounds and pence and worked out how many 1ps, 2ps, 5ps, 10ps, 20ps and 50ps go into a pound.

In the afternoon, we had another excellent cricket session and after for our art session we drew Aboriginal symbols; the children did such a fantastic job, I had a really hard job to choose artist of the week. But, well done to Isaac, Grace and Finn for being my artists of the week. May 2022

We have begun our Jubilee celebrations, the children have created their own Queen pictures and we are singing the Platinum Jubilee song on a daily basis. The children are also really enjoying our Australia learning they have been sharing stories and books. May 2022

On Friday, we had Mrs Basson in to teach us cricket and we had another wonderful session, thank you for your time. We also investigated gases in science; the children had to weigh bottles of fizzy drink (coke, diet coke, lemonade and sparkling water). Then, we shook the drinks and weighed them again to be able to compare the weights and to be able to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide in the drinks. May 2022

Today we measured different amounts of water and took the temperature of the water and then compared them. Well done on super maths Ladybird class. May 2022

 

Yesterday, the Y4s measured their height using our school chart, ordered the decimal equivalent and then rounded them up. Additionally, all of the Ladybird’s painted a picture of Ayers Rock (Uluru) I think you’ll agree they did a super job. Well done to Esme and Oliver for being my artists of the week. May 2022

On Tuesday, we created our own songs to make aboriginal inspired music. May 2022

Thank you to everyone that entered my Easter Art Competition this year.

In 3rd place we had Maddie with a beautiful Easter Chick picture.

In 2nd place we had Izabella with an excellent representation of the Easter Story and our winner…

In 1st PLACE AMELIA 🙂 well done on an eggcellent Easter Basket. April 2022

We have had a great first week at school. To round off the week we have made self-portraits. Well done to Finn and Mckenzie for being artist’s of the week. We also had a super cricket session with Mrs Basson. In Maths we measured different amounts of water and we celebrated 10 years of the Golden Mile.      April 2022

 

Today we started our new science topic ‘States of Matter’ and the children shared their superb knowledge of solids, liquids and gases. They acted out how to be solid, liquid and gas particles. They had some excellent ideas; well done to Amy for being a great group leader and also to Jake, Logan & Grace for a terrific performance of being liquid particles. April 2022

Today we started our topic learning on Australia and we got into the role of Aboriginal people and created our own music without instruments. We could use our bodies and natural objects. The children did an excellent job and performed for their peers. Well done Ladybirds. April 2022

Today we had a very exciting first day back at school. We were visited by an athlete called Robert Mitchell. The children got to take part in a Q&A and circuit session with him. Well done to Esme and Zach who were congratulated by the athlete for their skills shown in the session :).

We also weighed various objects in Maths as part of our Mass & Capacity learning. April 2022

Spring Term 2022

On our last day we had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny and found an egg each. We also celebrated Easter with an Easter service in the church. April 2022

On Wednesday we worked in groups to complete a maths Easter investigation. Well done to Amelia, Zach, Eddie & Grace who worked terrifically as a team and solved the various maths mysteries. We also had our end of term celebration and lots of the children were given certificates for all of their excellent work this term. A big well done to Finn for being my star of the term for being an excellent role model to others and for having a superb work ethic. April 2022

On Friday, we designed Roman shields. The children came up with super designs. A particular well done to Inina, Lily and Maddie who were artist of the week. April 2022

On Wednesday, we revamped the Eco boards. Well done to the Ladybird’s for making the boards look super again! 🙂 March 2022

This week in English we have been learning about the book ‘The Egg’. The children have created guides to look after and care for a dragon. They have also made freeze frames to represent the lessons that George taught the dragon. These lessons were: Fire breathing, flying, saving a damsel in distress and battling a knight. A particular well done to Finn and Eddie who acted phenomenally and organised their groups superbly. March 2022

Today we had an author visit us. The children came up with some super questions to ask her. Well done to Grace, Esme & Courtney-Mae whose questions were selected and answered. March 2022

Today to celebrate Red Nose Day the children came in wearing mufti (bright coloured clothes), we also did a quiz, created our own red noses and did some mindful colouring.

We also celebrated ‘Global Recycling Day’ today and the children created their own version of an art installation that I had recently seen in a museum. I think they did a fantastic job 🙂 we also did a litter pick at break and lunch to ensure we covered the whole of our school site. March 2022

Today something incredibly exciting happened to the children in Ladybird Class! A dragon visited the school and he left a trail of destruction behind him. The children acted as reporters, photographers and scientists. They collected evidence, recorded notes and took photographs of what was left behind. The children had to solve clues left by the dragon which led them to an egg. Well done to Demmi & Inina who were the first to find the dragon’s egg! 🙂 March 2022

Today we set up an investigation about water transportation; we are looking to see if the food colouring will dye the petals of the flowers. We have set the plants up in different places; under the sink, window sill and on top of the cupboard. The flowers we used are carnations and daffodils. We also worked in groups to create freeze frames to represent the process. March 2022

Today we took part in a stem Science week event, the 3 engineers read us their new book, which we love as it was all about looking after our environment. We also had a special visit from a charity – School in a Bag, we learnt lots from this visit and cannot wait to help other children in their learning. March 2022

Today the children participated in a maths carousel on Tenths and Hundredths. They compared and ordered them, represented them, placed them on place value grids and created posters collaboratively. March 2022

On Friday, we finished the mosaic we started on our class trip to Dorset County Museum; the children worked as a team just as the Romans would have done to complete the work and here is the finished piece. I could not be more proud of their excellent art work 🙂 March 2022

Today we had a class trip to Dorset County Museum where the children took part in Roman workshops. They were architects and excavated Roman artefacts, they handled and looked at artefacts, walked to the Roman Townhouse and made mosaics. We had the best day and the children didn’t want to leave as we had such a lovely time :). Their behaviour was exemplary, which was commented on by many members of the public. March 2022

    

 

Today we found fractions in sets of objects; the children were super at this as they used their times tables to help them and then in RE they learnt about lent. The children spoke about what they would give up, how they could help others and discussed what is important in the Christian faith. March 2022

Today was mufti day and it was lovely to see Kaydee-Leigh dressed in yellow and blue to show support for the families in Ukraine, lovely thought Kaydee-Leigh, well done 🙂 Also in PSHE we started our new topic ‘Connecting with others’ the children were given a game and a set of instructions and they had to work as a group to set up and play the game. The children worked so well together and I was so proud of them 🙂 well done Ladybird’s. March 2022

I would just like to congratulate all of my Ladybird’s whose work will be published in a book. Your ‘I am’ poems were superb 🙂 March 2022

Today we celebrated World Book Day, the children looked amazing in their fancy dress. Thank you for all your efforts 🙂 March 2022

 

Today we continued our learning about plants and we set up an investigation. We wrote our own questions, made predictions and we also wrote a method. The children were very knowledgeable about what plants need to survive and confidently set up the experiment. March 2022

 

Today at school we have been celebrating St. David’s Day and Shrove Tuesday. The children have written a poem about St. David’s Day for handwriting, created a card, did some mindful colouring and made fractions out of pancakes. March 2022

For Half-Term Homework the children were set the challenge of making a piece of the Great Wall of China in any medium of their choice. We have had some excellent pieces of the wall. They have been made out of pasta, salt dough, Lego, cardboard, clay and even natural clay from beneath our feet!)      Well done Ladybird’s on a fantastic effort 🙂  February 2022

Today we have been learning about equivalent fractions. We made fraction walls, plates and strips. February 2022

After last week’s research project ‘Comparing China to the UK’ we presented our findings this afternoon in our topic lesson, the children shared all of their fantastic facts with their peers. We have also been learning about Volcanoes; so Oliver kindly got the class a kit and today we made it erupt! February 2022

To celebrate Mental Health Week we have done different activities daily. We have thought about who supports us, what our goals are, what we have learned and achieved this year. Additionally, we created some art to show kindness. February 2022

  

Today it was Internet Safety Day, so we created posters to teach people how to stay safe online, we also listened to an internet safety story and had a discussion about how to stay safe online; the children were very clued up on how to stay safe. In Topic, we used our chrome books safely to research facts for comparing the UK to China. February 2022

Today we started our Mental Health Week learning; we had a discussion about something that we are proud that we learned this year and our achievements. Then, to start our National Football Week learning we used footballs in our maths lesson to go around the perimeter of the playground and times table square. The children then accurately measured the perimeter of our times table square and playground using metre rules. I was so impressed by their excellent team work and column additions that they completed, to work out that the perimeter of our playground was 7,952 cms. Well done in particular to Danny and Shane for marvellous maths for working out our grand totals. February 2022

Today we completed our Give to Others topic in PSHE and these were our winners for excellent work all term; they confidently showed the skills of our DNA-V model. This afternoon we also completed our clay dragon eyes and evaluated them; well done to Izabella and Logan for excellent evaluations.  February 2022

Today in Maths, we measured each other’s heights in centimetres and metres and in English we got to question different members of staff about the dragon who ate our school! February 2022

 

Today in English, we learned and performed the poem ‘The Dragon Who Ate Our School.’

In RE, we learned about what is important and valued by Christians. We had a lively debate and each one of the children designed and produced a poster. We also made Christian clay symbols. January 2022

Today we had a visit from Marie. She brought in different types of animals for us to look at and discuss. We saw a snake, bearded dragon, mice and stick insects. The children asked excellent questions and were engaged in the workshop. January 2022

 

This Friday, we created Climate Change posters in our PSHE lesson and in Art we drew detailed pencil sketches of dragons and designed and made clay dragon eyes. January 2022

Today we chose a Dragon poem to learn and performed it to the rest of the class. January 2022

Yesterday, we went on an Invertebrate Hunt….

The children did a fantastic job of exploring to find different types of invertebrates. They then sketched the creatures they found in great detail and labelled them. January 2022

For our art lesson we finished our drawings of our dragon eyes and we also sketched our self-portraits. The attention to detail from the children was impeccable, I am so pleased with their efforts. January 2022

Today in our science lesson we learnt about what the words ‘vertebrate’ and ‘invertebrate’ meant. We then worked in groups to group the vertebrates. The children have also wrote and then edited a piece of writing about a dragon in English. January 2022

Today as part of our Topic & Computing learning we used the chrome books to research the city of Beijing and then shared our best facts on Padlet so that we could share what we had learned with our friends. January 2022

We have been learning all about dragons and in groups we have described different dragons and then presented our descriptions to our class mates. This is all in preparation for next week when we are creating our own dragons! January 2022

Autumn Term 2021

On the last day of term, we had another visit from Father Christmas, played task master, concluded our Roald Dahl learning and completed some Christmas activities. December 2021

We have had a rather exciting day today as we had a visit from Father Christmas, he visited us in a helicopter. December 2021

On Friday, we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day. The children completed a comprehension about this and designed a Christmas jumper. December 2021

 

This week we also had a ‘Science Day’ where we investigated which material would be the best for Father Christmas’s boots to ensure that he was quiet when delivering presents. The children made predictions and measured the sound of each material using a sound app and measuring the noise in decibels. December 2021

Today we celebrated Elf Day, the children looked amazing in all of their fancy dress! We designed an elf’s hat and made paper chains. We also decorated our class Christmas tree and started our advent calendars. December 2021

Today we found out the results of our Decaying Teeth experiment; the children were very shocked by some of the outcomes. The children also played their recorders for myself and Mrs Crabb so we could hear about what the children have been doing in their sessions with Mrs Gosney. November 2021

Today we got to see a film premiere because Mrs Hopson won a competition. We watched a brand new film called Robin, Robin! We had popcorn and really enjoyed ourselves. We also talked about what film premiere’s are. November 2021

Today we posted our letters to Father Christmas, the children were so excited. We cannot wait to hear back from him! November 2021

This week we have had so much fun. We set up an experiment on ‘Tooth Decay’, celebrated Children in Need day, were visited by the Dorset Air Ambulance and took part in ‘Anti Bullying Week’. The children have also made cloud men as part of our English learning and they have made a superb start to our multiplication and division learning.  November 2021

Today we celebrated Remembrance Day. We took part in a lovely service, wrote poems and watched some videos. November 2021

Today we made our own toothpaste and the children loved doing this and trying it! We had such a fun afternoon 🙂 November 2021

Today we started our Remembrance learning and set up our schools display. November 2021

On Friday, we learnt about risks, hazards and dangers in PSHE. We defined what those words meant and discussed where the different scenarios fit. Then, in Art we learnt about Salvador Dali, our artist for this term. We created fact files and then created portraits of him by using pencil and oil pastels. November 2021

We have had the best day today. We dressed up for Ancient Greek Day. We danced the Zorba, made and tasted Greek food, designed Greek vases, made wreaths, we looked at atlases and found Greece on a map and the countries, seas and mountains surrounding it, we wrote our names in Greek letters and shared facts about Ancient Greece. November 2021

 

This week we have been busy, we rehearsed and presented our Harvest pieces to our families. We also ran a mile each to help complete 100 miles to raise money for charity. We also created some wonderful Picasso fact files. October 2021

This week we have been learning about Roman Numerals, the children really enjoyed this learning.

The children also sketched their self-portraits, I was very impressed with the skills and the attention to detail that they showed.

This week we have conducted a science experiment to test friction and we have been continuing to learn about place value; we made number lines on the playground we created them by including: times tables, counting in 25s, 50s, 100s and 1,000s. The children also made Picasso style portraits.