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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.
Cogden’s ukulele concert 12.7.23
After 10 weeks learning the ukulele, Cogden Class put on a wonderful performance as a class (Green Green Grass) before some children played solos of the Harry Potter Theme, Pirates of the Caribbean and Happy Birthday! ...
Sports day 2023
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Salisbury Leavers’ Service 5.7.23
As time at Powerstock draws to a close, Y6 visited Salisbury Cathedral to mark this significant turning point in their lives. Some had never travelled by train before, so it was a day full of firsts. We enjoyed the cathedral...
KS2 Sports Day 30th June 2023
Despite the beautiful weather we had all June, Sports Day was the wet one!! Amidst occasional mizzle, we set out, determined to be the best that we could be. Individual races began with the 'Potato and Spoon' which proved to be trickier than we thought. [gallery...
Swimming Gala 27th June 2023
For the 1st time in over a decade, Powerstock decided to enter the local swimming gala organised by Primary Sports and Education. It involved a number of schools across a large area of West Dorset and we were nervous! But, one of our school values is perseverance and...
Counting to 100
Reception class and year one had fun counting and sorting their 100 objects- 10 sets of ten.
Move Up Morning 2023
It was that time of year when we started to think about our new year groups and classes for September. The Powerstock 'Move Up Morning' meant lots of excitement and anticipation. In Seatown we began with a team building activity - The Centipede Walk. [gallery...
Quadkids 13.6.23
It was a hot, hot day as the year 5s and 6s from local schools gathered together for an afternoon of competition. Quadkids involves pupils competing in 4 disciplines: sprint, long distance run, throwing and jumping. [gallery...
Phone box revamp!
The school council had a very messy afternoon today when they scrubbed and cleaned the village phone box. The Parish Council have given the school permission to use the box but it needed a serious clean up! Kyla provided the...
forest school and enjoying the sunny weather
Burton class all had great fun in the sun in the last week of...
Inspirational Assembly on Possiblities and Inclusion
We had a wonderful visit from Bart Gee who really showed us how to turn challenge and difficulty into possibility. He showed us how from the age of four, when he was told he would never...
Sailing 2023
It was perfect weather for a morning on the water. Some of Seatown had been before but it didn't stop the nerves and the excitement. We got ourselves kitted out and headed for the boats. [gallery...
Goodbye, Mrs Moss!
Yesterday we said a sad farewell to Mrs Moss who has worked as our governor, Chair of Governors and office staff member. She has so many skills that have benefitted our school. Jo, we will definitely miss you!
Great Coronation Bake Off 3/5/23
'We held our Great Coronation Bake Off this week where each class had their instructions to come up with cake designs fit for a King! We had so many fantastic entries with a royal theme and these were then enjoyed with a cup of tea in true "street party" style. ...
Ukuleles! 26.4.23
Cogden Class started their Ukulele lessons today - first of this term's lessons. All the children get issued with an instrument that they take home to practise in between lessons. The lessons are provided by the Dorset Music Service, whole class musicianship...
Lifeguards and Water Safety Assembly 25.4.23
This morning our assembly welcomed Harry and Christian, 2 lifeguards from West Bay into our school. They shared with us how we can stay safe when we are at the beach. Read the captions to find out what we learnt. [gallery...
Visit from the Bishop of Salisbury
We had a wonderful visit from the bishop of Salisbury: Bishop Stephen! He loved visiting the school and answering the questions from the children. This included what he has for breakfast (chocolate Weetabix!) and how he became a bishop. [gallery...
Greek Myths, iMovies and Greenscreens
Although it had been a term since we had studied the Ancient Greeks, Seatown were given the opportunity to experiment with their paper clay puppet heads that they had created and produce a scene using their own scripts, iMovie and greenscreens. They're not perfect but...
Easter at Powerstock 2023
Despite the weather, Easter was in evidence today at school as pupils arrived with eggs decorated in very creative ways. This...
Seatown’s recent assemblies
In Seatown class this week we all participated in 2 very interesting assemblies. This first assembly 'Oceans, Pollution and Us' was all about how we treat our world. This second assembly was all about Girls in Education.
RAF STEM Glider Challenge March 2023
Ks2 enjoyed a virtual STEM glider challenge. We watched a video showing the many different types of jobs engineers can be involved in and the skills that they need: teamwork, problem solving, creativity, innovation, communication skills. Did you know that engineers...
Creation in Collage
We have been studying how the Creation story can be interpreted in many different ways. Is the story literal, figurative or a poem? Did creation happen in 6 days or not? How do/can Christians, scientists, humanists and cosmologists interpret the text? We were lucky...
The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares came to visit again this week!
We had an inspiring morning creating characters in a very dramatic way...The children loved acting out their ideas which eventually turned into wonderful characterisations, using maps and "back stories". This all really helps when we are writing our narrative pieces...
World Book Day 2023
We had lots of fun dressing up or bringing in a clue or prop linked to our chosen book.
World book day 2023
We had fun with our props and our costumes for World Book Day 2023.
Seatown and World Book Day March 2nd 2023
Books and stories are fantastic! That's the message we want to share with you all. Although World Book Day was just one day, we have really enjoyed books and stories in many ways over the past week. We began by listening to an audio book during each daily mindfulness...
Year 1 and reception class classroom activities
Year 1 and reception children enjoy a range of activities each day including painting, making jigsaws, free writing sentence writing and reading.
Reception forest school 23-2-23
The reception boys had fun in forest school. First we we spotted signs of spring in Cogden garden, where we found lots of snowdrops and daffodils growing. We then...
Creation
In our 1st RE lesson on Creation, we drew as we listened to Genesis chapter 1-2 v 4 being read out to us with inspiring music in the background. We then wrote 7 words onto our 'creations' and gave an explanation of what we had drawn. [gallery order="DESC"...
Year 1 forest school 9-2-23
The year 1 children enjoyed learning how to use a potato peeler safely by sitting correctly and being aware of their blood bubble around them. Then they had fun using their imagination building a den and making birthday party food. They worked together as a team to...
The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
As part of our literacy work, we have recently been studying a wonderful book by Mordicai Gerstein called The Man Who Walked Between The Towers. It is based on a true story about a tightrope walker, Philippe Petit. Was he remarkable, reckless or responsible?...
Burton class children using a potato peeler in forest school
The children enjoyed using potato peelers and small blades to peel and get thin slices of carrot. We learnt about tool safety and the children all learnt to sit in the safety position, with arms braced on our knees. We learnt about our ‘blood bubble’ which is our 2...
Wonderstruck Science Day
On Friday 27th January 2023, the whole school were treated to a whole day of science. We had opportunities to explore forces and motion and gained a glimpse into the questioning minds of scientists. It began with a show that had us gripped as we discovered: how we...
Tree House Theatre came to school today to perform Jack and the Beanstalk!
Many children had never seen a pantomime so it was great fun to join in and really enjoy the revived story of Jack, his mother and the giant...a story of good triumphing over evil with songs to sing and lots of "it's behind you" and "boooooooo!" All great fun and a...
Christmas Party 2022
We had a lot of fun on the last day of term. KS2 enjoyed a party together. Pass the Parcel: Each layer had an activity to complete........here's a bit of air guitar!! The hat game was fun too.... [gallery...
Father Christmas at Powerstock
We had a special visitor this afternoon........
Moving Christmas cards
In Cogden Class, we finished the term with a DT project to use levers to create a moving Christmas card.
Carols and Christingles!
Seatown Class waited for the school to join them so that we could all make Christingles together. Mrs Cleden showed everyone how to make them first before we all set to task. We then lit our Christingle and...
Our Christmas Play 2022-The Big Little Nativity
Burton Class worked so hard learning the words to all of the songs and learning their lines in...
Seatown’s gymnastic finale!
After half a term of very hard work, learning elements of gymnastics, we produced routines in small groups. Have a look to see what we achieved. We're rather proud of ourselves! https://youtu.be/6UDvt6_4Dc8
Bridport Christmas Cheer!
On Wednesday 7th December, over half of the school (34 students) joined together in Bucky Doo Square to sing Christmas carols. We sang 3 songs: We 3 Kings - a traditional Christian song; The 12 Days of Christmas - a traditional secular song and Mary's Boy Child - a...
Sports For Champions
Today, Pierre Henry Fontaine a former team GB basketball player visited our school to encourage and inspire us - not just in sport but in our attitudes to the many aspects of life we all experience. He began by sharing some information about his training, diet and...
Paper Clay Greek Masks
Today, Seatown explored a new medium in art ... paper clay. Paul Cleden, a local artist, spent the day with us and helped us explore faces. We learnt the proportions and positions of features of a face. We also looked at masks that would have been used in Ancient...
Shire Hall Visit – The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Part of our Ancient Greece unit has looked at democracy and how states have been/are ruled. We made a link with our own country and how we are governed, particularly focusing on how the justice system works. Our visit to Shire Hall in Dorchester showed how the system...
Jabberwocky
Seatown had fun with the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll. We can recite it. Watch below to see our performance in the celebration assembly. We enjoyed exploring portmanteau in our guided reading session before we created our own poems in the Jabberwocky...
Gymnastics
We thought we'd show you a snippet of what we have been doing in gymnastics so far this half term. Our fitness and flexibility are being demonstrated in these pictures and we are working on our accuracy in our rolls making sure we keep our limbs strong and follow...
Marble Run DT project
Today we completed our constructions of our marble runs. We worked in our teams to try and apply our cardboard joining and bending techniques. At the same time, we needed to make the marble run as slowly as possible through the construction. What we found was...
Children in Need 2022
We all turned up to school in spotty attire as we got involved in Children in Need 2022. The theme was spots and during an assembly we had the opportunity to be 'spotacular' for 1 minute and take the spotlight, sharing our own talents. [gallery...
Bridport Museum Trip
Burton Class enjoyed their trip to Bridport Museum and Library on 9th November 2022. The children took part in three activities including rope making, a look around the museum and a discussion about the paintings in the Art gallery. We learnt all about the lives of...
Hobbies Day
We had lots of fun learning about each others' hobbies and interests as part of our Flourish 360º. We heard about a wide range of different hobbies that we all do. These ranged from building computer to caring for injured animals, to embroidery, gardening, running,...
Colmers Hill Fun Run November 2022
On a beautiful, bright November Saturday, 12 pupils from Seatown descended on Colmers Hill, Symondsbury for the annual fun run - the first scheduled at its normal time of the year after the pandemic disruption. The girls ran 1st. [gallery...
Dorchester Museum
Cogden class have just had a fantastic trip to Dorchester museum to enhance our learning on the prehistoric age. We were taught how to be archaeologists and excavate a bronze age skeleton. We loved seeing all the amazing artefacts in the museum and got to handle some....
Marble runs – our 1st attempts!
We began a DT project, exploring how to make different paper/card joins and to explore the physics of how to make a successful marble run. These were the result of our first...
Netball Tournament November 2022
On a very blustery day, the netball tournament took place at Colfox School. We were all very excited and some of us had never represented our school in a sports tournament before. We played a series of matches using the Hi5 netball rotation which meant we had to...
Careers Day
The children were delighted to welcome back in some parents for our Careers Day! As part of our Flourishing 360 approach where we consider the whole child, in and out of school, we wanted to show the children that they can do absolutely anything they want to when...
Marvelous Marble Jar
Cogden class enjoyed their marvellous marble jar reward with an afternoon clay session making pots as the neolithic people did with their own Autumn designs. We were so impressed at how they turned out. [gallery...
Our PE assembly
We wanted to share what we have been doing in PE this half term with our parents at our celebration assembly on Friday 14th October. KS1 were the first to show us what they had been doing…. https://youtu.be/oFp5VL_LjVs https://youtu.be/9Iy5M2wNA9c Then Seatown Class...
