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Friday 27 March 2026 Year 4 - DT Week As part of our Design and Technology topic, we have been developing our sewing skills. We began by practising a range of stitches using felt and threat, including running stitch, cross stitch, and applique. We were then given a design brief to create a cushion for the gift shop of either the London Aquarium or the Iceland Volcano Museum. After choosing our theme, we selected suitable fabric colours and decorations to match our design. Finally, we put our sewing skills into practice by carefully stitching our cushions together, applying the techniques we had learned.
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Thursday 26 March 2026 Handball Competition Year 6 students attended a Handball competition at Westfield School. Despite never having played the game before, the boys were quick to learn the rules. After some very quick coaching the boys went on to draw their first game. After this they managed to win all of their games leaving the competition undefeated!
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Friday 13 March 2026 Year 1 - Science Week This year’s theme for science week is about being curious. We discussed so many things we were curious about. To recap our knowledge of seasons, we looked at what happens in each season and some signs of Spring that we were starting to notice. After discussion, we created a seasons grid to show our understanding of each season. We thought about the changes that happen to trees, animals, weather and people. We learnt about our 5 senses: smell, taste, touch, sight and hear. We completed some investigations to see if we could use our senses, such as a taste test for different flavoured crisps, a touch test for items hidden in a bag, a hearing test where we tried to listen to things close and far away, and a smell test where we tried to guess different items just by smelling them! Later on in the week, we had a discussion about baby animals and what we call them. We were lucky to have a visitor from Longleat who taught us all about the 5 animal groups. We conducted an investi
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Friday 13 March 2026 Year 2 - Science Week To begin science week, we logged in to watch the BBC live lesson all about space and light. We helped the crew put together a production of the moon to explain the part he plays in the solar system. We then had a think about this year’s theme of ‘Curiosity’. We talked about some STEM jobs and about the kind of questions they would ask and how their curiosity helps them to complete their jobs. On Tuesday, we started by thinking about boats and how they float. We noted down any questions we had about how boats float and set them aside to come back to later on. Using a single sheet of paper in pairs, we had a go at creating our own boat designs. We had to think carefully about how we folded the paper and the shapes we made. We thought about what had worked well and what we would change when we make our final boat. The next day, we tested out if our boats could float by placing them in a tuff tray full of water. We even added some marbles to the ones that were success
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Friday 13 March 2026 Year 4 - Science Week We started Science Week by exploring the Knowledge Organisers for our new topic on ‘Animals Including Humans’. Here are some of the questions we want to answer this term: Do vertebrates have a backbone? What does 'Life Processes' mean? What is deforestation? How are animals becoming extinct? We enjoyed a visit from Jack from ‘Building Energy Experts’, who brought in his thermal imaging camera and helped us to think about ways that buildings can be more energy efficient. We also enjoyed meeting Danielle from ‘MCS Construction’, who set us a fun challenge involving making a structure from straws and connectors within a certain budget. Later in the week, we started learning about food chains. We had lots of fun making our own food chains using Lego! We finished Science Week by organising our own ‘Invertebrate Hunt’ investigations. We got into groups and thought of our own big questions about the types of invertebrates that we
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Tuesday 10 March 2026 Year 5 Netball Tournament Huish recently attended a netball tournament. For some of the players this was the first time they had represented Huish. It was a fast paced tournament with no rest for the team. They played against 4 other schools made up predominately of year 6 students! Huish showed great resilience and teamwork!
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Monday 9 March 2026 Year 2 World Book Day 2026 This year, Year 2 dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. They started the day by admiring each other's costumes and guessing which books they were from. After that, they did some work linked to our class reader ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', using our imaginations to come up with 4 new unique designs for rooms in a chocolate factory. They came up with lots of tasty ideas
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Monday 9 March 2026 World Book Day 2026 What an array of costumes the children dressed up in for World Book Day this year.
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Monday 23 February 2026 World Thinking Day 2026 Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to celebrate the Guiding and Scouting Movement. It celebrates the birthdays of Lord Baden-Powell and Lady Baden-Powell.
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Friday 13 February 2026 Year 2 - Children's Mental Health Week This year’s theme for Mental Health Week is ‘This is our place’. To celebrate this, we swapped classes and completed lots of activities about the places where we belong. We started by learning the song ‘This is me’ from The Greatest Showman. We discussed how the characters felt like they didn’t belong because they were different and people treated them differently. After singing the song, we realised that their uniqueness was what made them special. In the end, we could see that they had found ‘their place’ where they felt like they belonged. In the other classes, we had chance to practise some meditation strategies and draw our special places where we feel safe and where we belong.
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 3 - Rocks Year 3 have been learning about rocks! As part of this, they went on a rock hunt around the school, and found a variety of exciting specimens of various shapes, sizes, textures and hues. As they have started to discuss the 3 main types of rock (metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary as I'm sure we're all aware), the children could barely contain their excitement as we began to talk about which of these types our specimens could be. During their forthcoming quarry trip, the children will view experiments to determine which type of rock a specimen is, and they are looking forward to carrying out these tests on their own rock samples. Rock on!
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 2 Orienteering Year 2 have been developing their map skills. Children were given a map of the school grounds which included some obscure images. With a partner, they used the map to locate the landmarks and record what they actually were. They used terminology they had learnt, such as north, south, east and west as they undertook the challenge.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 2 Art Week - John Dyer This week we have been focusing on artist John Dyer. We started by learning about John Dyer and looking through some of his art work. In small groups we discussed what we thought of each of the pieces. We noticed that his paintings contained bright colours and many of them were set near the sea. We chose our favourite John Dyer painting and practised carefully sketching birds, boats and daffodils in our sketchbooks. Using our colour mixing skills we mixed a variety of bright and eye-catching colours to use on our own John Dyer inspired pieces. We chose our favourite 4 colours and evaluated them to say why we liked them the most. We then replicated our favourite creations onto cartridge paper and stuck them onto a blue wash background to create our own John Dyer painting.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 1 - Art Week Today for Art Week, we made milk bottles into Elmer the Elephant. We used tissue paper and glue to patchwork our elephants and then had some adult help to make ears and googly eyes!
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 4 - Art Week During Art Week, Year 4 have been exploring different textures within art. We have used a variety of different materials to form a multi-textural piece of art based on our Geography topic of ‘What Makes the Earth Rumble?’. To conclude our art topic this week, we applied all of the skills we have learnt so far to create our very own volcano pictures. We used different materials and techniques to portray two different moods throughout our artwork.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 4 Geography - Volcanic Eruption This week in Year 4, we have been learning all about volcanoes and the different types of eruptions. We explored explosive eruptions, effusive eruptions, Strombolian eruptions, Vulcanian eruptions, and Plinian eruptions. We discussed what makes each one different. To bring our learning to life, we worked together as a year group to create our own eruptions using Coca-Cola and Mentos. We watched the “volcanoes” explode and carefully observed what happened. Afterwards, we discussed which types of real volcanic eruptions our experiments were most similar to and explained why, using what we had learned. It was an exciting and memorable lesson that helped deepen our understanding of volcanoes.
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Thursday 29 January 2026 Hockey Sessions 2026 A group of 10 children from Huish enjoyed a 3 week session run by SASP and Yeovil and Sherborne Hockey Club to learn new skills from students from Yeovil College. The first week saw a downpour of rain but the children‘s spirits were not dampened and they returned to enjoy dribbling, hitting, shooting and tackling drills. The children are looking forward to using their new skills at a tournament in March.
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Tuesday 27 January 2026 Year 1 Grandparents Toy Workshop We had special visitors today at our Grandparents Toy Workshop! They visited our school to share with us their old toys. We got the chance to speak to them, ask questions we prepared and play with some of the toys. We had to use very gentle hands as not to break the old toys. We had so much fun!
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Monday 26 January 2026 Year 3/4 Futsal Year 3 and 4 played their first Futsal tournament and enjoyed every game. They showed some great individual skill and as the games progressed they really started to play some great football together. They were undefeated throughout the tournament and ended up as winners!
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Friday 23 January 2026 Year 4 Maths - Multiplying Using Counters Today, we used counters to help us multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number. We partitioned the two-digit number into tens and ones and shared the counters into equal groups. This helped us see the multiplication clearly and understand how the total was calculated.
