Seatown have been learning about what causes floods through mapwork, the effect of flooding on residents in Allerford in Somerset and the different types of flood defence that can be put in place (hard and soft engineering). As we worked through the unit, we explored...

  It was a very short week for Seatown's French unit this week due to our residential trip. But we have learnt phrases centered around where we live. We have learnt to say simple sentences such as which town or village we live in; different amenities and what we...

This week saw Seatown learn about the Jewish festival Yom Kippur, the most holy of their festival days.  As we learnt about the reasons behind the Day of Atonement and the traditions that are followed by Jews,...

Our first week of the new school year has been lovely as the class resets with a new combination of pupils. As we get to know each other and support each other, we have been writing diary entries based on our learning about...

This week, Seatown Class have been studying what light is and how it behaves. Our goal has been to create fact file style writing that specifically includes semi-colons written correctly. We played a jigsaw game to practise where...

This year, 9 pupils from Seatown, attended the 3rd poetry slam event held by the school's collaboration. Seven schools took part in sharing a variety of poems and performing them in a variety of ways.  Martin Maudsley, a local poet, led the session, sharing poems that...

Seatown enjoyed learning about a belief that we haven't looked at before - Humanism. Our learning journey looked like this: We began by thinking about what a worldview is and what influences each of us. [gallery...

Today, our Y6's took the train to Salisbury Cathedral where they took part in a service with around 300 other Year 6s.It marked the beginning of 'lasts' for the year group. The service focused on how the storms of life can be...

We began the week, focusing on ourselves and how unique we are. We had a go at writing down 3 things we liked about ourselves. However, we all found this quite hard so we switched tactics. Each person was given the opportunity to state something positive about each of...

We had so much fun learning different ways to prepare food including: bridge cut, claw cut, slicing, peeling, grating, zesting, dicing and shredding. Once we had made our salad, we tasted and adjusted the amount of ingredients in order to improve the taste, texture...

Seatown have spent a week looking at the lifecycle of animals but with a particular focus on humans. We studied the details of growth and change at all the different stages of life: prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young/mid/late adulthood. We had...

Seatown enjoyed a week of sewing using running stitch to make seams and create embellishments. Buttons and sequins were also sewn on. The resulting T - Shirts were then subject to a product description and a customer review. [gallery...

Seatown spent a week recapping the Easter story but learning about an aspect that is often not remembered - The Road to Emmaus story. Our English skills focused on summarising in caption form, timeline form (using fronted adverbials of time) as well as writing a brief...

We spent a week looking in more detail at the characteristics of all organisms, focusing first on observable characteristics. In the school grounds, we identified all living things in various micro habitats such as log piles, tree,...

We began by learning about the oceans, what they are called and how there are many ways of naming oceans. They could be sea, bays, gulfs and bights to name a few. Our writing reflected the beauty of the oceans but also revealed how they are damaged by human and...

Ekphrastic poems are poems inspired by works of art. Here are some examples that we wrote during our monotype unit of work.    

Seatown spent a week enjoying studying the science topic of evolution and inheritance. We found out about different theories held by people in the past and present. We discovered how we inherit some characteristics genetically but others are acquired due to...

There was a beautiful mist hanging over the valleys on our journey to Portland but by the time we had arrived and were putting on our wetsuits for a sailing lesson, the sun had broken through making it a perfect day to be on the water. [gallery...

On a very cold and windy April day, Seatown Class set off for their long awaited residential trip to PGL at Osmington Bay, Weymouth. Once we'd arrived, we began our activities - fencing and the zip wire. We played the...

Seatown thoroughly enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day this year. It was lovely to see children dress up in characters well-known as well as those less obvious. It shows how varied our reading material is. [gallery...

Seatown enjoyed the last day of term with a Christmas party like no other! The first game involved the 2 teams to 'move across the snow' in their sleigh. Which sleigh had the best tracks and could travel the fastest? The snow then needed 'shovelling' to clear a path...