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Tuesday 10 March 2026 Year 5 Netball Tournament Huish recently attended a netball tournament. For some of the players this was the first time they had represented Huish. It was a fast paced tournament with no rest for the team. They played against 4 other schools made up predominately of year 6 students! Huish showed great resilience and teamwork!
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Monday 9 March 2026 Year 2 World Book Day 2026 This year, Year 2 dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. They started the day by admiring each other's costumes and guessing which books they were from. After that, they did some work linked to our class reader ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', using our imaginations to come up with 4 new unique designs for rooms in a chocolate factory. They came up with lots of tasty ideas
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Monday 9 March 2026 World Book Day 2026 What an array of costumes the children dressed up in for World Book Day this year.
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Monday 23 February 2026 World Thinking Day 2026 Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to celebrate the Guiding and Scouting Movement. It celebrates the birthdays of Lord Baden-Powell and Lady Baden-Powell.
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Friday 13 February 2026 Year 2 - Children's Mental Health Week This year’s theme for Mental Health Week is ‘This is our place’. To celebrate this, we swapped classes and completed lots of activities about the places where we belong. We started by learning the song ‘This is me’ from The Greatest Showman. We discussed how the characters felt like they didn’t belong because they were different and people treated them differently. After singing the song, we realised that their uniqueness was what made them special. In the end, we could see that they had found ‘their place’ where they felt like they belonged. In the other classes, we had chance to practise some meditation strategies and draw our special places where we feel safe and where we belong.
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 3 - Rocks Year 3 have been learning about rocks! As part of this, they went on a rock hunt around the school, and found a variety of exciting specimens of various shapes, sizes, textures and hues. As they have started to discuss the 3 main types of rock (metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary as I'm sure we're all aware), the children could barely contain their excitement as we began to talk about which of these types our specimens could be. During their forthcoming quarry trip, the children will view experiments to determine which type of rock a specimen is, and they are looking forward to carrying out these tests on their own rock samples. Rock on!
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Year 2 Orienteering Year 2 have been developing their map skills. Children were given a map of the school grounds which included some obscure images. With a partner, they used the map to locate the landmarks and record what they actually were. They used terminology they had learnt, such as north, south, east and west as they undertook the challenge.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 2 Art Week - John Dyer This week we have been focusing on artist John Dyer. We started by learning about John Dyer and looking through some of his art work. In small groups we discussed what we thought of each of the pieces. We noticed that his paintings contained bright colours and many of them were set near the sea. We chose our favourite John Dyer painting and practised carefully sketching birds, boats and daffodils in our sketchbooks. Using our colour mixing skills we mixed a variety of bright and eye-catching colours to use on our own John Dyer inspired pieces. We chose our favourite 4 colours and evaluated them to say why we liked them the most. We then replicated our favourite creations onto cartridge paper and stuck them onto a blue wash background to create our own John Dyer painting.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 1 - Art Week Today for Art Week, we made milk bottles into Elmer the Elephant. We used tissue paper and glue to patchwork our elephants and then had some adult help to make ears and googly eyes!
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 4 - Art Week During Art Week, Year 4 have been exploring different textures within art. We have used a variety of different materials to form a multi-textural piece of art based on our Geography topic of ‘What Makes the Earth Rumble?’. To conclude our art topic this week, we applied all of the skills we have learnt so far to create our very own volcano pictures. We used different materials and techniques to portray two different moods throughout our artwork.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Year 4 Geography - Volcanic Eruption This week in Year 4, we have been learning all about volcanoes and the different types of eruptions. We explored explosive eruptions, effusive eruptions, Strombolian eruptions, Vulcanian eruptions, and Plinian eruptions. We discussed what makes each one different. To bring our learning to life, we worked together as a year group to create our own eruptions using Coca-Cola and Mentos. We watched the “volcanoes” explode and carefully observed what happened. Afterwards, we discussed which types of real volcanic eruptions our experiments were most similar to and explained why, using what we had learned. It was an exciting and memorable lesson that helped deepen our understanding of volcanoes.
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Thursday 29 January 2026 Hockey Sessions 2026 A group of 10 children from Huish enjoyed a 3 week session run by SASP and Yeovil and Sherborne Hockey Club to learn new skills from students from Yeovil College. The first week saw a downpour of rain but the children‘s spirits were not dampened and they returned to enjoy dribbling, hitting, shooting and tackling drills. The children are looking forward to using their new skills at a tournament in March.
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Tuesday 27 January 2026 Year 1 Grandparents Toy Workshop We had special visitors today at our Grandparents Toy Workshop! They visited our school to share with us their old toys. We got the chance to speak to them, ask questions we prepared and play with some of the toys. We had to use very gentle hands as not to break the old toys. We had so much fun!
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Monday 26 January 2026 Year 3/4 Futsal Year 3 and 4 played their first Futsal tournament and enjoyed every game. They showed some great individual skill and as the games progressed they really started to play some great football together. They were undefeated throughout the tournament and ended up as winners!
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Friday 23 January 2026 Year 4 Maths - Multiplying Using Counters Today, we used counters to help us multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number. We partitioned the two-digit number into tens and ones and shared the counters into equal groups. This helped us see the multiplication clearly and understand how the total was calculated.
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Thursday 22 January 2026 Basketball Year 6 students represented Huish at basketball. They had a very brief coaching session before playing 6 games of 5v5. They plays extremely well and remained undefeated across all their games!
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Wednesday 21 January 2026 International Day - Ireland This year, our International Day focused on Ireland. Children in all year groups spent the day doing a range of activities to help learn about the geography and culture of Ireland. The children enjoyed moving around the school to work with different teachers on a range of exciting activities!
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Wednesday 21 January 2026 Year 1 International Day - Ireland Today is international Day! We learnt all about the country Ireland. We started the day by answering the register in Gaelic. Then we looked at the map of Ireland and learnt some facts. After that some of our classmates shared their Irish magnets and keyrings. We then got to partner with someone from Class 1. We worked together to go on a lucky Irish treasure hunt. We had to find all the pictures along the balcony to get the lucky coin sticker at the end. After that we worked with our partner to do colouring or a puzzle. Finally, during PE, we learnt an Irish dance step by step. We had to count lots of times to 4 or 8. We performed our dance to Miss Julia and Mrs Young who loved it! We had so much fun on International Day!
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Tuesday 20 January 2026 Year 1 Problem Solving with RICE Today we spent time learning how to tackle word problems using RICE! We began by carefully reading the problem and identifying the important and helpful information. We learnt to recognise what ‘R’ stands for in a word problem. R = Read and Record. We then read through a selection of addition and subtraction problems together. We read, highlighted and identified what operation we needed to do to solve them. We worked like Maths Detectives…. What am I looking for? Numbers? Words? Which words are the important ones? We finished the lesson highlighting some problems and identifying whether we needed to write ‘add’ or ‘take away’ when we worked through the ‘R’ for RICE. We made a great start at tackling word problems today!
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Monday 19 January 2026 Year 1 PSHE - Being a Good Friend In PSHE today, we discussed how to be a good friend and how it made us feel when we had good friends. We thought of some ways of how to show a friend we cared and how to be a good friend: Theo - “Being kind and helping people” Tymon - “Share” Theodore - “Helping people when they’ve fallen down” Amyleah - “When somebody bumps their head you might tell the teacher” Henry - “Playing games and sharing” Sophia N - “Being generous… like saying you can go first” Hallie - “I listen to my friend when they want to tell me something” Lilly - “Being kind when someone is sad” Imran - “When someone doesn’t have anyone to play with, I play with them” Gabriella - “Saying thank you and please”
