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Year 6 Leavers’ Service 21.7.23

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...

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Cogden’s ukulele concert 12.7.23

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! ...

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Salisbury Leavers’ Service 5.7.23

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...

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KS2 Sports Day 30th June 2023

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...

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Swimming Gala 27th June 2023

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...

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Move Up Morning 2023

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...

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Quadkids 13.6.23

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...

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Sailing 2023

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...

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Ukuleles!  26.4.23

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...

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Visit from the Bishop of Salisbury

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...

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Greek Myths, iMovies and Greenscreens

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...

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Seatown’s recent assemblies

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.  

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Creation in Collage

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...

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Seatown and World Book Day March 2nd 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...

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Creation

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"...

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Year 1 forest school 9-2-23

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...

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The Man Who Walked Between The Towers

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?...

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Christmas Party 2022

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...

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Sports For Champions

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...

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Paper Clay Greek Masks

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...

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Jabberwocky

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...

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Gymnastics

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...

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Marble Run DT project

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...

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Children in Need 2022

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...

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Bridport Museum Trip

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...

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Hobbies Day

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,...

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Colmers Hill Fun Run November 2022

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...

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Dorchester Museum

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....

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Netball Tournament November 2022

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...

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Marvelous Marble Jar

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...

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Our PE assembly

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...

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