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• Badgers Trip to Osmington Bay

  Tue 18 Oct 2016 The Dream Team

  The Badgers Class went on a fabulous multi activity week in sunny Weymouth. The week was a fantastic opportunity to build friendships, support each other and have a lot of fun!

  The many activities that they participated in included: giant swing, trapeze, zip wire, raft building and orienteering. Take a look at the photographs to see how much fun they had.....

  

• Sports Day 2016

  Mon 04 Jul 2016 Lucy Macey
  The rain didn't dampen spirits too much as we finally managed to hold our sports day on Friday 24th June. The pictures tell the story of the afternoon that led to Fripp being awarded the cup by Mrs Dawkins. All the hard work was rewarded with the customary ice cream!

  

• Timestriders visit

  Fri 10 Jun 2016 Mr. Fountain
  On Friday 10th June 2016, we were visited by Timestraiders Historian, Richard, who took us on a whistle stop tour of Britain's History. Beginning with 'A' and  finishing with 'Z', we visited all the letters in between with the invaders and settlers, kings and queens, mapping it all out on a giant UK outline on the floor. Children acted out all the roles and were engaged throughout - well done to Richard for taking us from ancient Britain to the modern day in under an hour!

  

• Badgers' volcanoes go with a bang!

  Mon 23 May 2016 Mr. Fountain
  On Monday 23rd May, Badgers class presented their model volcanoes to an eager audience of parents and fellow pupils. The children had researched the different ways household materials could be combined to make an eruption effect and then designed and constructed their own models. With a live audience, and the models captured on camera and projected onto the big screen, the volcanoes were introduced and then set off to gasps, cries and whoops from the audience. The children had worked extremely hard on their models and it was great to have the opportunity to share them with parents and friends.

  

• Tag Rugby

  Fri 22 Apr 2016 Kate Kelly

  On Friday we went to the annual Andover Area tag rugby tournament with two teams, year 3/4 and year 5-6. We were split into three pools and the top two teams went into the cup, the middle two groups went into the plate and the bottom two went into the bowl.

  The year 5/6 went into the cup having done really well in the pool stage. In our last match in the pool we were 1-2 down but Dom brought it back to 5-3 with a couple of amazing tries. We won three of our pool matches, drew one and lost one, this got us through to the cup. One of the best moments was an amazing team try; George was running down the wing but he got tagged and managed to offload to Archie who then also got tagged but Will got himself into a good position for Archie to pass to him and scored a fantastic try. We won the quarter finals but lost in the semi-finals. It was a fantastic day for Badgers and we all had great fun.

  The year 3/4 team went into the plate having won three and lost three of the pool stage matches. Against Roman Way we scored a brilliant team try; Luke had the ball and got tagged but managed to pass to Aaron who also got tagged, Aaron managed to pass to Jake who could see he was about to be tagged so quickly passed to Sam W who scored a try!  In the pool stage we beat Wherwell 6-0, Jake P scored four tries, Mackie scored one and Sam W scored one. The year 4 girls kept them from scoring anything with their super-fast tagging! We won the quarter finals and semi-finals of the plate but lost by one try in the final against Vigo. The day was brilliant and we really enjoyed supporting our teams when we weren’t playing.

  A comment from Mrs Macey on behalf of the accompanying staff and parents:

  We had a fantastic day on Friday and played some excellent rugby. The children’s attitude was exemplary, they displayed superb sportsmanship and supported each other throughout the tournament. It is a significant achievement for a smaller school like ourselves to have progressed as far as we did in a tournament against large town schools of 300+ pupils. We were all very proud of the children on the day.

• Ali Sparkes Author Visit

  Fri 15 Apr 2016 Mr. Fountain

  Foxes (Year 3/4) and Badgers (Year 5/6) were invited to Lockerly CE Primary School to attend a presentation by successful Hampshire children's author Ali Sparkes. Ali entertained and engaged the children (and adults!) with the story of her road to success and communicated her absolute enthusiasm for writing - at one point Ali started creating a whole knew story from nothing but a cat, a rock and a balloon! - especially the ups and downs of rejection and eventual publication. The children's behaviour was excellent and they asked some really well thought out questions to find out even more from Ali. There are lots of Ali's books available to borrow in our school library, and for for further information on her work, please see her website at http://www.alisparkes.com.

   

  

• Thandi charity boxes

  Thu 24 Mar 2016 Kate Kelly

  Thank you so much to all the children who have bought and decorated a rhino box, they were all brilliant and I was very glad the judging task fell to Mrs Julie Smith. 

  The winners were, Maddie and Robert - Well done.

  

• Scooting for Sports Relief

  Thu 24 Mar 2016 Kate Kelly

  Well done everyone - altogether we have raised an amazing £1121.50!! What a fantastic result for a really good cause. 

  Class winners for the most sponsor money raised are:

  Squirrels - Jemima

  Otters - Eva

  Foxes - Megan

  Badgers - Joseph

  

• Egg Hunt and Egg Roll

  Thu 24 Mar 2016 Kate Kelly

  Today we enjoyed out annual egg hunt, which is organised by FOBS. The children had great fun hunting for their name tags around the play ground and then collecting their chocolate eggs. We would like to thank George and Poppy's mum for organising the hunt and FOBS for donating the eggs.

   

  Egg rolling today surpassed all previous years in terms of excitement, competitive spirit and sneaky teacher tactics!

  Ks1 winner - Mr Harry Wick

  Ks2 winner - Mr Jake Payne

  Staff winner - Miss N. Lake (also Champion of Champions 2016)

   

   

  

• Spring Clean and Tea Party

  Fri 11 Mar 2016
  We are always trying to offer different activities that will motivate the children to work hard during the week and last we hit a jackpot with this golden time activity! The spring clean, ball hunt followed by a nice cup of tea was a phenomenal success. Not only did we recover a great deal of lost equipment from the hedgerows but we also had time for a social ten minutes over a cup of tea. Have a look at the photographs to see us enjoying this activity.