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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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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”
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Monday 19 January 2026 Year 1 Traditional Tales - The Magic Porridge Pot Today, we started our Traditional Tales unit. We were introduced to ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’. We acted out the story and talked about what it would be like if the whole school was full of porridge! To help us remember the key quotes, we ate porridge saying, “Cook little pot, cook!” When our tummies were full we said, “Stop little pot, stop!”
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Friday 16 January 2026 Year 1 - An Unplanned Power Cut! Today we had an unplanned power cut at around 11am. This made it really tricky to carry on with our normal day because as we discussed – electricity powers lots of things! We took the opportunity to have a class chat about how we could resolve one of the really BIG issues, which was the Kitchen Staff not being able to cook us lunch! We came up with quite a lot of solutions as to how we could make sure everyone had a lunch. Mrs Carlock went to Tesco and bought some bread, cheese, ham and chocolate rolls! Typically at midday the power came back on, however we thoroughly enjoyed our class picnic!
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Tuesday 13 January 2026 Year 1 Toys Take Over! Today, we came into class after our toys had a sleepover in Year 1. When we arrived, we couldn’t believe our eyes… Our toys had been SO naughty and taken over! We looked at and discussed the clues left behind to work out what mischief they'd been up to in the night. We discovered that they'd played with the pom poms, helped themselves to a snack, scribbled on the white boards, read a story, and even took some selfies using the photocopier! We had to let Mrs Carlock know, so we wrote her a recount of the events that took place. We created some lovely pieces of writing, and created some amazing portraits of our toys in Art!
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Tuesday 13 January 2026 Year 5/6 Football - Somerset County Finals Having won the Yeovil Schools Games in November, Huish’s footballers arrived at the Somerset County Finals full of confidence and optimism. In extremely wet conditions, Huish got underway and it was a difficult start. A 1-1 draw was followed by a 1-0 defeat. With just three more group games to come, the team knew that only three wins would be enough to reach the semi-finals. As the conditions improved, so did our performances. Wins of 2-1, 3-0 and 4-0 meant a semi-final place was secured. Here we met familiar opposition in Milford and a close game in driving rain ended in a 1-0 Huish win. This meant a final against Bishop Henderson from Taunton, who the team had drawn with at the start of the day. It was Bishop Henderson who took the lead with an unstoppable strike and, despite Huish’s best efforts, the game ended in a 1-0 defeat. Once again, the team represented the school superbly. Every player demonstrated great skill, teamwork and resilience. The Huish players left f
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Thursday 8 January 2026 Year 4 Maths - Make Change This week, pupils had the chance to visit the ‘Class 9 Shop’. Here, they were able to buy a range of items by paying with either a £10, £20 or £50 note. It was then up to our shop keepers to give them the correct change. We were then given a list of items and worked with a partner to calculate the correct change that would be given for each of the items in the list to the left. We discussed different strategies for working this out and shared these with the class.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 Year 1 Science - Waterproof or Absorbent? Today we explored two new scientific words - ‘waterproof’ and ‘absorbent'. We conducted a fair test to discover the properties of four different types of material, and discussed which material we felt would make the best umbrella. We found that metal and plastic were waterproof, and following discussion, decided that plastic would make the best umbrella because it can be dyed or see-through (transparent). We thoroughly enjoyed experimenting!
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Monday 15 December 2025 Year 5 DT - Bridges This week was DT week- we learnt all about bridges! To begin with, we learnt about two types of bridges: an arch bridge and a beam bridge. We looked at the specialist subject vocabulary and a range of real bridges. We discussed the beams, arches, supports and walls. We then tested our bridge knowledge and made paper prototypes of bridges. Later on, we learnt about truss bridges. They are made up of lots of triangles. The triangles will help to take the pressure of the weight on a bridge. Finally, we learnt how to make our own wooden truss bridge. We had to measure our pieces of dowel very carefully to ensure our bridge parts were accurately assembled. We used Tenon saws to cut the dowel against a bench hook (being careful of our fingers!) then used sandpaper to smooth any rough edges. We then used a glue gun (which was very hot!) to glue our pieces of wood together. Next, we used card triangles as support. We assembled the bridge together which took a lot of team work but we did it
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Monday 15 December 2025 Year 4 DT - Torches This week, as part of our Design and Technology unit, we had a go at making our own torches. We began by analysing different torches that are already available on the market. We then chose one of two pupils to make a torch for and created a design to fit their personal specifications. We set about making our torches out of recycled materials. Using what we had learnt in science about electricity, we built working circuits with switches to fit inside our torch cases to make them light up. Once our torches were complete, we considered what went well and what we would change next time while writing some evaluations.
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Friday 12 December 2025 Year 5 Wessex Water Visit Today, we were visited by Sam from Wessex Water. She talked to us about our ‘Rivers’ topic and was impressed with our knowledge. Sam built on our learning by teaching about: water safety, the water cycle, how much water is used and wasted in our area, how water is extracted from rivers, flooding and the sewage systems. Her activities were really interesting and helped us to understand why rivers are such important resources to look after. Before she left Sam explained some career opportunities at Wessex Water and the skills needed to perform in these different roles.
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Friday 12 December 2025 Year 1 DT - Christmas Biscuits Today we made Christmas biscuits! First, we talked about how to be safe when cooking and we created a list of rules to follow. After that we got into our groups and began to bake. We carefully measured out the ingredients using scales. Then we put the ingredients altogether in the small bowl. Next we rubbed the ingredients together to make crumbs and balled the dough together. Then we had to roll the dough out gently using a rolling pin. We selected our cutter that we chose when designing and cut our biscuits. Finally, we put them on a tray ready to be put in the oven. They smelt delicious!
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Thursday 11 December 2025 Year 4 Science - Sounds (Pitch and Volume) To conclude our topic on sound, we had a go at designing and creating our very own musical instruments. As part of our planning process, we had to think about the materials we would use and how we would go about making them. We also had to consider how we could change the volume and pitch of the sounds created by our instruments. In today's lesson, we used recycled materials to create the instruments. Later in the lesson, we had the chance to share them with the rest of the class!
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Thursday 11 December 2025 Indoor Athletics Huish attended an indoor athletics event this term at Westfield. They took part in sprints, throws and jumps. For some of the students this was their first time attending this event. They all worked extremely hard and were an amazing credit to Huish!
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Monday 8 December 2025 Futsal Competition Huish played in their first ever Futsal competition this week. They played some outstanding football throughout every single game. They managed to score an incredible amount of goals which was the combination of some fantastic teamwork and collaboration between all the players on the pitch. They managed to finish in 2nd place despite being level on points and goal difference to the eventual winners who won on the amount of goals scored!
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Monday 8 December 2025 Reception Nativity 2025 A wonderful performance of 'It's a Baby' was performed in front of parents and family members this morning.
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Thursday 4 December 2025 Year 2 Careers Related Learning This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a visit from Mark who works at the NHS. He came to speak to us about the vital work that the NHS do to help people. We discussed some of the important jobs that people in the NHS do before thinking about what it is like to work in a hospital. We shared with him our knowledge of Florence Nightingale and he told us about how hospitals have changed since the Victorian era. These changes included cleanliness, uniforms and knowledge of medicines. Some of us even got to try on the uniforms!
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Wednesday 3 December 2025 Christmas Dinner and Jumper/Hat Day Today the pupils and staff of Huish were very excited for our Christmas Dinner and Jumper/Hat Day! Everyone looked amazing in their festive get-ups, and the Christmas dinner certainly did not disappoint!
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Tuesday 25 November 2025 Year 4 Art Week - Roman Pottery During Art Week, we have been looking at Roman pottery. We have looked at a range of Roman pottery and learnt about the difference between coarse and fine ware. We then analysed two Roman pots, looking at the size, shape, colour and designs. Next, we looked at some more pots in detail and discussed what was similar and different about them. This helped us to create explorative drawings of different features of the pots, such as the handle, base, design and shape. We spent a lesson experimenting with clay. This involved using different methods to shape it into a pot, as well as to create patterns and designs in the clay. We designed our Roman pots in our sketchbooks, thinking carefully about the shape, size and decoration. Finally, we used the skills we had developed so far to create our own Roman clay pots!
