Whole School News
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Monday 8 June 2026 🎨 Seeing Things Differently: Our Perspective Adventure!
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Sunday 7 June 2026 Y6: Bowling and Batting Under Pressure! Year 6 were out on the field this week continuing their cricket learning, with a particular focus on performing key skills under the pressured situations that players find themselves in during a real game.
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Friday 5 June 2026 Hulalaaa It's very simple. Turn up, grab a hoop and have fun!It was nice to see so many children this morning exercising before the school day had officially started. Thanks to the Bronze Ambassadors for preparing the hoops and tunes and thank you to Mr. Frampton for capturing the magic on camera.Have a GREAT weekend everybody! Hopefully the weather is as glorious as it was this morning...Tom
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Friday 5 June 2026 A Cracking Day of Cricket! Today, children from Year 6 travelled to Redlands to take part in the Year 6 Girls' Cricket Competition.Having first learned about cricket during the Autumn Term of Year 5, it was fantastic to see the girls putting their skills into practice. The morning session focused on skills, drills and learning the fundamentals of the game. With expert coaching from Weymouth Cricket Club, the children developed their batting, bowling and fielding skills. It was wonderful to see them quickly shake off the cobwebs, grow in confidence and begin to familiarise themselves with the game once again.After lunch, the competition got underway, with the children facing two teams in a series of matches to determine the overall winners. The girls batted in pairs: Avril and Eliza, Georgia and Eleanor, Ella and Bella, and Skyla and Mia.Each team started with 100 runs. Teams lost 5 runs whenever a batter was dismissed and gained runs through boundaries, sixes and runs scored between the wickets.Here are the resu
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Friday 5 June 2026 Light and Shadow This week the children have been learning about light and shadows. They have learnt that the sun in our solar system is static and that it is the Earth that orbits it while at the same time spinning on its axis. The children have learnt that the spinning causes night and day. On a particularly wet day when we couldn't get outside to measure our shadows, the children used a torch and objects in the class to get the shadows they created to change position.
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Friday 5 June 2026 A Wonderful Welcome Back It has been a real pleasure to be back at Southill Primary this week and to see the school buzzing with its usual energy, enthusiasm and sense of purpose.
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Friday 5 June 2026 🌻🕵️♀️ Year 4 Joins the Secret Gardeners Club! 🕵️♂️🌻 This week, Year 4 became official members of the Secret Gardeners Club! Our special mission is to help the Secret Gardener bring nature back after the naughty Varmints took over and caused chaos in the garden.
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Thursday 4 June 2026 Exploring boats and dogs!
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Thursday 4 June 2026 Reversible or Irreversible? That Is the Question! This term in Science, we have been exploring the fascinating world of materials – investigating their properties, learning about the three states of matter, and discovering how mixtures and solutions are formed.This week, our budding scientists tackled a brand-new challenge: reversible and irreversible changes. To deepen their understanding, the children became researchers, working collaboratively to investigate what these changes are and where we might see them in everyday life. Their mission was to create an informative, eye-catching project that showcased everything they had learned.What happened next was truly fantastic!The classroom buzzed with excitement as teams shared ideas, solved problems together and demonstrated excellent communication skills. I was incredibly impressed by the enthusiasm, teamwork and determination shown by everyone throughout the task. The children took real pride in their work, and the finished projects were packed with creativity, scientific kn
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Tuesday 2 June 2026 Learning Left and Right! To start off this half-term, Year 1 have been having lots of fun learning about position and direction in Maths!
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Tuesday 2 June 2026 Southill Show Swagger at the Weymouth Dodgeball Tournament
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Friday 22 May 2026 Maths on the Move The sunshine was scorching, but that did not stop us from putting our maths skills to the test! Today's maths orienteering lesson was the perfect mix of learning, teamwork and plenty of energy-burning fun.Children worked in pairs and were given a map along with a starting number. Their mission was to plan the best route around the school grounds to find hidden cards packed with geometry questions. From coordinates and 2D shapes to tessellation and rotation, every challenge tested the skills we have been learning over the past few weeks.The school grounds quickly became a hive of excitement as children sprinted from clue to clue, eager to solve as many questions as possible. There was fantastic teamwork, brilliant problem-solving and lots of determination on display.It was wonderful to see everyone so enthusiastic about maths while also enjoying fresh air and exercise. A lesson full of movement, smiles and learning? You really cannot ask for more than that!
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Friday 22 May 2026 Healthy Snacks… The Year 1 Way What a busy week Year 1 have had! A second blog of the week! 😂
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Friday 22 May 2026 Potato Wedges and stinky tzatziki We have had a super busy day in Y2 today. We started by harvesting our potatoes from the compost bucket and then thoroughly washed them.
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Friday 22 May 2026 Finding the time! Who has the time?! This week the children kicked off the time unit in maths by, well, finding the time!! The children worked in pairs to find the time to the o'clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past and even to five minutes past and to the hour. It is a challenge but the children stuck with it, helping each other when they made a mistake and working to clear their time bingo cards as quickly as they could.
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Friday 22 May 2026 Summer- Celebrating Our 2%ers! This week we've had the absolute pleasure of celebrating our 2%ers!
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Friday 22 May 2026 Headteacher's Blog - Week Ending 22nd May 2026 What an absolutely wonderful week it has been at Southill Primary! As we approach the half-term break, I wanted to share some of the fantastic learning experiences our children have enjoyed this week.
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Thursday 21 May 2026 Y6: A Visit from Mini Professors - All About Evolution! What a fantastic afternoon Year 6 had this week as we kicked off our new science unit on Evolution and Adaptation with a brilliant visit from Professor Lee at Mini Professors!
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Thursday 21 May 2026 Order in the Court! Learning About the Rule of Law This afternoon, we continued our recent focus on British Values by exploring the important theme of the Rule of Law. In previous assemblies, we have discussed mutual respect and democracy and this week's assembly encouraged children to think about why laws exist and why they matter.We began by discussing the purpose of laws and it was wonderful to hear the children's thoughtful responses. They explained that laws help to keep people happy, safe and ensure fairness for everyone.The school was then introduced to Judge Tom (not Judge Judy!) as the whole school became the jury in a fun and engaging courtroom roleplay. Some familiar faces were brought to trial for being ‘rule-breakers'. Laura was accused of stealing after stationery and Chromebooks were ‘discovered' in her car, Mrs Murray and Emily had apparently been caught fighting in the staffroom and Dan stood accused of criminal damage after dramatically flipping tables, throwing chairs and ‘smashing' his
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Thursday 21 May 2026 Anansi the spider - traditional African tale!