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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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Monday 24 November 2025 Year 2 DT - Bread Tasting/Making In Year 2 we started our new DT topic, all about bread. We started by briefly looking at the process of making bread and mapped out where different breads came from all over the world. We then taste tested different breads such as brioche, wholemeal and pitta bread. We discussed their shapes, sizes, tastes and textures and looked at how each bread was used in the culture that it came from. Later on in the term, we were lucky enough to make some fresh bread rolls ourselves. We used design sheets to figure out which ingredients and equipment we would need, and then set to work creating our bread rolls! Once they had cooled down, we taste tested them. We completed an evaluation sheet which helped us identify what went well during our bread roll making and things we could improve on next time.
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Friday 21 November 2025 Year 4 Performance Poetry This half-term, Year 4 have been preparing for our Performance Poetry. We have learnt and performed ‘Bug Parade’ by Zaro Weil. We each took a line, and focused on performing it with accuracy, pace and expression. We then did a great job of performing our poem in assembly.
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Thursday 20 November 2025 Year 6 World War II Day During the Autumn term, Year 6 have been learning about what life in Britain was like during WWII. To round off this history unit, Year 6 were involved in a WWII day where they got to experience drill, dress up, discuss what food was rationed and learn about code breaking and morse code.
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Thursday 13 November 2025 South Somerset Schools Football Tournament Huish competed in the South Somerset Schools Football tournament with high hopes after a number of well contested friendly games. They began the group stage with a competitive game against a familiar opponent – Milford. Over the past few years, the two schools have played a number of times and the games have always been close. On this occasion, Huish went 1-0 down early but fought back to draw 1-1. The team went on to dominate the remainder of the group stage winning 5-0, 1-0 and 5-0 again. These results led the team into a semi-final against Holy Trinity which was a tough game, but a late winner from Poppy sealed a 1-0 win. In the final, Milford were the opponents once again and Huish were well up for the game. Despite attack after attack, the Milford goalkeeper made some excellent saves to keep the score at 0-0. It took a cool finish from Luca to put Huish ahead.
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Thursday 13 November 2025 Netball Our Netball team took part in a tournament at Westfield school. For some of the girls this was the first time they had represented Huish at Netball! The tournament was a great opportunity for some game experience learning. Everyone worked incredibly hard and did not stop smiling and encouraging their team mates.
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Wednesday 12 November 2025 Year 1 Cinema Trip Today we went to the cinema! We watched Smurfs and had the best time. This helped us in our English lessons to write a recount of our adventures.
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Monday 10 November 2025 Year 1 PSHE - Feelings (Sadness) Today we talked about the emotion sadness. We linked this to the well known film “Inside Out”. We first discussed what makes us sad (such as unkind hands, not sharing etc.) After that, we watched a clip of Inside Out where Bing-Bong was sad. Joy couldn’t cheer him up with her happiness, however Sadness cheered him up by listening and talking about his problems. She even gave him a hug. We then discussed ways to deal with our friends or others being sad.
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Friday 7 November 2025 Year 4 Roman Day For our Roman Day, we all came into school dressed in Roman outfits. During the day, we took part in lots of activities to begin to learn about what life as a Roman soldier might be like. In the morning, we recapped some of our previous learning about Roman Numerals. We then designed our own Roman mosaic shields based on traditional designs, considering the meaning of each of the elements of the crest. We later created them ready for our battle in the afternoon. After lunch, we went learnt how to march and move in a variety of different formations. Our favourites were The Tortoise, The Wedge and The Orb. Once we were confident with our formations, we had tag battles between the classes taking it in turns to act as the Romans and the unsuspecting Celts. We all thoroughly enjoyed our day and are looking forward to learning more about the Romans.
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Friday 7 November 2025 Year 6 Remembrance Assembly Year 6 delivered a brilliant Remembrance assembly to children in KS2. Each class performed a Remembrance poem, which they had rehearsed in class. Class 13: For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon. Class 14: The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. Some children also read their own beautifully written Remembrance poems. Well done, Year 6!
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Thursday 23 October 2025 Cheerleading Students from Year 5 enjoyed a cheerleading session led by Westfield Academy. They learnt some basic moves required to enable them to complete a routine, including the start of a small lift! Lots of fun was had!
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Tuesday 21 October 2025 Sports Tournament Huish hosted a Netball and Football tournament for Year 5 and 6. Football was a very closely fought match with lots of action in all areas of the pitch. Huish took the lead early on with a great goal from Dexter. We then continue to hassle hard with the final score a convincing 3-1 win for Huish. Netball was also a very well matched game. Everyone worked really hard to get some quick goals in the game and this soon saw Huish take a healthy lead. The final score was 7-0 to Huish!
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Monday 20 October 2025 Year 2 Art Week This week we created a beautiful Winter Scene. We started by exploring colour and how to make as many tones of one colour as possible using white. We then painted a winter sunset starting with white, progressing to dark purple. To improve our sketching and cutting skills we drew a winter tree using a template and very carefully cut it out. Next, we stuck the tree on to our winter sunset to create a silhouette and discussed the effect of light and dark. Finally, we sketched a fox, cut it out and stuck it on the foreground of our winter scene.
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Friday 17 October 2025 Year 1 Fashion Show Year 1 have been looking at clothes from different eras - pupils were asked to come to school dressed in either a 1900's, 1950's, or 1970's costume. We also enjoyed a fashion show in the afternoon where parents came to watch! Walking down the catwalk and showing off our amazing costumes was so much fun!
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Wednesday 15 October 2025 Year 3 RE - Church Visit Year 3 really enjoyed their visit to St. John’s Church in Yeovil. We were welcomed by Rev. Graham who explained the different areas of the church before we took part in a treasure hunt. We found five coins spelling the word ‘JESUS’. Rev. Graham shared why Jesus is so important to Christians. We identified the altar, pulpit, pews, font, stained glass windows, organ and ladies chapel. We had the opportunity to ask Rev. Graham lots of interesting questions about Christianity and also got to meet a very friendly dog called Poppy!
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Thursday 9 October 2025 Netball Tournament Year 5 and 6 pupils played their very first Netball tournament at Westfield Academy. All of the players are new to Netball and have been working hard at Netball Club and enjoyed practising their new skills against teams from other schools in the area. We won, drew and lost in our group. The team demonstrated great attitude, sportsmanship and teamwork! It was also lovely to see some ex-pupils and netballers umpiring and supporting the games - thank you, Westfield.
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Thursday 9 October 2025 KS2 Author Visit On Thursday 9th October, we were very lucky to have Becca Rogers, author of ‘The Girl With Gills’, visit our school and speak to our children in Key Stage Two. She captured their attention and inspired creativity through a mixture of storytelling and writing prompts, keeping all of the children excited, enthused and engaged throughout. Becca then took the time to speak individually to all of the children receiving a signed book, which absolutely made their day. An absolutely brilliant morning! The children are still sharing all of their wonderful ideas for writing, inspired by Becca, days later. Thank you to Yeovil Waterstones for arranging the visit.
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Tuesday 7 October 2025 Year 3 Bugman Visit We had a wonderful visit by the ‘Bugman’ as part of our Science topic on skeletons and animals. He showed us animals with the three main types of skeleton: exoskeleton, endoskeleton and hydrostatic. He taught us the different advantages of these, and why animals had adapted to use them. We were allowed to handle a variety of different not-so-minibeasts, including giant millipedes and land-snails, stick insects and even a tarantula!
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Tuesday 30 September 2025 Reception - Sunflowers and Harvest This week we have been learning about harvest. We have learned some harvest songs such as ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’ and have looked at how farmers gather crops in the Autumn to make sure we have plenty of food in the winter months. We have looked at some of the plants that we can grow and harvest for food in this country, including corn, wheat and sunflowers. We were lucky enough to have a huge sunflower head to explore and harvest the seeds from using tweezers and our fingers! We will keep the seeds safe over winter and plant them in Spring. We have also enjoyed painting beautiful sunflowers which can be seen displayed in our classroom.
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Tuesday 23 September 2025 Year 4 The Newt Roman Villa Trip On Tuesday, Year 4 had the opportunity to visit The Newt Roman Villa. During the morning, we looked around the museum which included the original foundations of the Roman Villa and parts of a Roman mosaic which were uncovered on the site. We also had the chance to look around a realistic replica of the Roman Villa which was originally built on the site. We explored the various rooms of the Villa, including the kitchen, study, dining room and bathhouse. We all really enjoyed the trip and are looking forward to writing recounts of our experiences later in the week.
