Seatown Class
Seatown class is the home for Year 5 and 6 pupils and is led by Key Stage 2 teacher, Mrs Jo Cleden, supported by the highly experienced Mrs Merritt. The classroom is aptly located at the top of the school in a beautiful new classroom created as part of the school rebuild in 2011.
In Seatown class, pupils are encouraged to take even more responsibility for their own learning in readiness for secondary school.  Pupils in Years 5 and 6 often take on formal ‘Sports Leaders’ roles the the Bronze Sports Ambassador team, are Play Leaders at break times and mentors for the lower school. They balance preparation for end of year exams with a wide curriculum, including: sports competitions, curriculum-linked trips and the ever-popular annual sailing experience!
Recent Learning
Seatown’s Super Salads
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...
Animal Lifecycles focus on humans
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 Visit the Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum May 2025
To end our unit of work on The Battle of Britain we visited the museum where we enhanced our learning with a deeper understanding of how technology and the Royal Navy played a role. [gallery...
Battle of Britain
We spent 2 weeks looking at the events that led up to the Battle of Britain, how we won it and the affect it had on the Home Front. The subjunctive..... Journalling our knowledge ....... Historical narratives with...
DT – Sew Additions and Embellishments to a T Shirt
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 RE Unit: Christianity – Salvation
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...
Journey by Aaron Becker, Seatown’s narrative
This week we have been enjoying exploring a wordless book - Journey by Aaron Becker. Our focus across the school was writing dialogue but Seatown was also working on describing characters and settings and building tension. Lots of discussion, ideas and experimentation...
Living Things – Classification, Habitats and Food Chains
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,...
Oceans – our Geography unit of work
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...
Dressing up as a book charcter Assembly
We all enjoyed dressing up as a character from a book- we had Mary Poppins, Harry Potter, Little Red Riding Hood and a wolf, a boy in a dress, Goldilocks, Billionaire boy and Thing 1 and Thing 2 to name a few! Well done to everyone involved in organising such...
More World Book Day 2025!
We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters! And still on a book theme, our Book Nook is ready to use!
World Book Day 2025
We began this year's World Book Day with a book tournament - The Battle of the Books! Each key stage were read pairs of books. Pupils then voted for their favourite book which then went into round 2. Eventually one book emerged as the winner..... [gallery...
Visit from a printmaker
To round off our art printing unit, the school welcomed Paul Cleden, a local artist. He was able to share his printmaking work with us and explain the process from initial ideas to the finished artwork. Here are some of his prints... [gallery...
Ekphrastic poetry
Ekphrastic poems are poems inspired by works of art. Here are some examples that we wrote during our monotype unit of work.
Monotypes
Seatown have been creating monoprints in art this week. We explored mark making using different media before exploring 4 different ways of creating prints. The first was by placing paper onto an ink bed. This was followed by taking 'ghost prints'...
Evolution and Inheritance
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...
Seatown: The Buddhist Festival of Vesak
Week Beginning 27th January 2025 This week, our pupils in Seatown have delved into the fascinating world of Buddhism, with a special focus on the festival of Vesak. This cultural exploration has not only enriched...
Seatown sail on a glorious day!
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...
Forest School Challenge
As part of our outside learning over the past 2 weeks, we have been challenged to create a means of collecting and transporting water. We created a shadow, a method of collecting water that is still used today in places like Egypt. [gallery...
Guide dogs visit
This afternoon, we had a visit from the guide dog charity. We were introduced to 7 dogs and their trainers, as well as Geoff, who is visually impaired and who brought along his own guide dog, Pringle. We heard how important a guide dog is for someone who is unable to...
PGL, Osmington 2024
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...
Inflatable golf!
Having enjoyed a term of golf in the spring, we thought it would be fun to end the work with a bit of inflatable golf! On an unusually sunny afternoon, all of KS2 enjoyed playing the course in groups and as individuals. Various challenges were set and lots of fun was...
Pancake Races 2024
It may have been a bit later than Shrove Tuesday, but we like our traditions at Powerstock. You can eat a pancake at any time of the year and we did just that in the morning. And, why not have pancake races halfway through Lent?!! We had...
Seatown World Book Day 2024
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...
Last Day of term 2023 – Christmas continues
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...
Christmas continues at Powerstock
This morning we enjoyed making Christingles together. We learnt that the idea began in Germany over 300 years ago when the bishop felt that people were forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. If you don't know, ask one of the children! [gallery...
‘I Feel Like Dancing!’
Last week, we celebrated dance in our school. First we enjoyed KS1's after school dance club work....... And then we enjoyed the Seatown girls who had been working on a cheerleading dance at break times - initiated by themselves. ...
Carol Singing in Bucky Doo Square
Christmas is fast approaching so half the school gathered in Bucky Doo Square to entertain the crowds with some carol singing. And then we were on! Enjoy! And there's nothing quite like a hotdog after...
Christmas has begun!
It's the 1st December and Christmas is beginning to seep in round the edges of our school day!!! Seatown enjoyed making decorations organised and led by the PSA. Â
Climbing update! 28.11.23
After 4 weeks of climbing, we have all been able to improve and make progress. It may be that we are feeling more confident, more prepared to have a go, or that we can reach the top of a wall or even come first in a challenge (either traversing or climbing up)....
MyBnk
This week has started with a very different feel. We welcomed Debbie and Gerard to Seatown and worked with them on a series of lessons about money and finances. We began thinking about habits, what makes a good habit and how we can try to make good choices. We learnt...
Netball Tournament 7th November 2023
After another rescheduled tournament due to poor weather, Tuesday afternoon was calm and sunny. We took the largest cohort possible (a team of 9) and every single person played a match. We had worked hard in our class lessons and had some extra practice at break and...
Our local Railway – a History and Geography focus.
On the 3rd November 2023, Seatown Class visited Bridport to explore how the railway developed and the impact it had on the town and nearby West Bay. We began by recording and mapping the buildings in the main streets. This proved tricky to record without tables and...
Climbing – Pupil Voice in PE
At the beginning of the new school year, everyone completed a PE questionnaire that asked pupils what they thought of PE and what improvements could be made. Many voices suggested trying out climbing as a new sport to try. So, we listened and arranged some climbing...
A visit from the Benedetti Foundation
On the 11th October, KS2 hosted a visit from the Nicola Benedetti Foundation. This gave us all an opportunity to meet people who are so passionate about music, learn some skills from them and listen to their compositions on instruments we had never seen before being...
Seatown joins the Dorset Coding Day October 2023
For the first time, we decided to participate in the Dorset Coding Day. The aim was to enjoy learning about coding and how it plays such an important part of our everyday lives. We heard from Dorset employees who have coded robots to save people on the beach or create...
Dash Day September 2023
On a beautiful late summer's day, the school spent the day thinking about our dash - the symbol found between birth and death dates but represents a whole lifetime. We were reminded by Mrs Moss, one of our governors about our school vision, ethos and values and how...
Year 6 Leavers’ Service 21.7.23
Friday was a sad day for us all as we said goodbye to 12 Year 6s. We had a service in the church where we listened to their final speeches reflecting on their time in school. https://youtu.be/eMrDbmEUeBg We thought about our Salisbury Service remembering how we...
Goodbye, Mrs Greenham, Goodbye, Mrs Seal!
Today we held our Leavers' assembly for 2 very special ladies - Mrs Greenham and Mrs Seal, who have been a part of our special Powerstock family for 8 and 20 years respectively. Each class had fun contributing in their own individual ways. And of course the personal...
Here are some photos of our dress rehearsal today. The children were all fantastic and everyone is so excited to show you our 2023 play Peter Pan.
Seatown’s Super Salads
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...
Animal Lifecycles focus on humans
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 Visit the Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum May 2025
To end our unit of work on The Battle of Britain we visited the museum where we enhanced our learning with a deeper understanding of how technology and the Royal Navy played a role. [gallery...
Battle of Britain
We spent 2 weeks looking at the events that led up to the Battle of Britain, how we won it and the affect it had on the Home Front. The subjunctive..... Journalling our knowledge ....... Historical narratives with...
DT – Sew Additions and Embellishments to a T Shirt
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 RE Unit: Christianity – Salvation
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...
Journey by Aaron Becker, Seatown’s narrative
This week we have been enjoying exploring a wordless book - Journey by Aaron Becker. Our focus across the school was writing dialogue but Seatown was also working on describing characters and settings and building tension. Lots of discussion, ideas and experimentation...
Living Things – Classification, Habitats and Food Chains
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,...
Oceans – our Geography unit of work
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...
Dressing up as a book charcter Assembly
We all enjoyed dressing up as a character from a book- we had Mary Poppins, Harry Potter, Little Red Riding Hood and a wolf, a boy in a dress, Goldilocks, Billionaire boy and Thing 1 and Thing 2 to name a few! Well done to everyone involved in organising such...
More World Book Day 2025!
We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters! And still on a book theme, our Book Nook is ready to use!
World Book Day 2025
We began this year's World Book Day with a book tournament - The Battle of the Books! Each key stage were read pairs of books. Pupils then voted for their favourite book which then went into round 2. Eventually one book emerged as the winner..... [gallery...
Visit from a printmaker
To round off our art printing unit, the school welcomed Paul Cleden, a local artist. He was able to share his printmaking work with us and explain the process from initial ideas to the finished artwork. Here are some of his prints... [gallery...
Ekphrastic poetry
Ekphrastic poems are poems inspired by works of art. Here are some examples that we wrote during our monotype unit of work.
Monotypes
Seatown have been creating monoprints in art this week. We explored mark making using different media before exploring 4 different ways of creating prints. The first was by placing paper onto an ink bed. This was followed by taking 'ghost prints'...
Evolution and Inheritance
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...
Seatown: The Buddhist Festival of Vesak
Week Beginning 27th January 2025 This week, our pupils in Seatown have delved into the fascinating world of Buddhism, with a special focus on the festival of Vesak. This cultural exploration has not only enriched...
Seatown sail on a glorious day!
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...
Forest School Challenge
As part of our outside learning over the past 2 weeks, we have been challenged to create a means of collecting and transporting water. We created a shadow, a method of collecting water that is still used today in places like Egypt. [gallery...
Guide dogs visit
This afternoon, we had a visit from the guide dog charity. We were introduced to 7 dogs and their trainers, as well as Geoff, who is visually impaired and who brought along his own guide dog, Pringle. We heard how important a guide dog is for someone who is unable to...
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