Year 4 - Lime Class - Our Computer Learning

Over the past week, Lime Class has been learning about how to use a variety of programs on the chromebooks.  First, they created a slides presentation about their trip to The Eden Project.  They had to insert text, insert images from the web, duplicate slides, change the background colour, include transitions, as well as crop and edit images.  Once their presentations were completed, they presented to the class! 

After that, they have been learning how to input data onto GoogleSheets (Excel) to create a range of graphs to present data.  So far, they have created dual line graphs, combo graphs, pie charts. 

Tomorrow sees them making a geo chart!

Year 6 - The Final Days!

Dear Parents and Carers, 

We may only have a few days left but these days are set to be very busy! We thought it best to send a reminder of the key information needed as the children bring their primary school journey to a close. 

Please read all of the dates, times and reminders below carefully and do let us know if you have any further questions or queries. 

Best wishes, 

The Year 6 Team 

• The children will be bringing their books home on Friday 18th. 

Please send your child to school with strong carrier bags! 

• If you have any library books at home, please return these to school by Friday 18th. 

Year 4 - Lime Class - We made poo!!

Today, Year 4 have been learning about the digestive system and what our bodies do to digest food.  To start, we made poo!  We used a plastic bag to represent the stomach with the food and orange juice (the stomach acid) inside and the children churned the food to break it down into molecules.  Next came pouring it into the small intestine (tights) where they squeezed all the nutrients out.  It was later taken by the large intestine (the cloth) which absorbed the remaining water before passing through the anus as faeces!!

There were mixed feelings about making it - some of excitement, some of intrigued and some of horror!  But all have loved being scientists this morning conducting a scientific enquiry!

Year 5’s Trip to the Eden Project

Last week, our Year 5 pupils embarked on an exciting educational adventure to the Eden Project in Cornwall. The highlight of the trip was a hands-on workshop called ‘Rainforest Uncovered’, where students became rainforest explorers for the day!

They were sent on a mission to investigate how people survive in the rainforest. Inside the Rainforest Biome, pupils explored the plants that could be used for health purposes, food, and shelter. They discovered how indigenous communities adapt to their surroundings and use natural resources in sustainable ways. From towering trees to tropical humidity, the experience brought their classroom learning about the Amazon Rainforest to life.

Well done, Year 5, for being such enthusiastic and thoughtful explorers!

Dear Parents and Carers,                                                Thursday 10th July 2025

Online Safety Message for parental attention: WhatsApp

We’ve been made aware of a WhatsApp group called “Add everybody you know” that is circulating inappropriate content, including explicit images, memes and videos. This group involves students from a number of schools in the local area. Whilst we hope they would not be, some children from our school or older siblings may be added or invited to join this group and hence this message. We are informed the police are aware of this and are investigating this group and those who are sharing this content.

There are many potential safeguarding risks associated with this WhatsApp group, including:

• Unmoderated content being shared, which may be inappropriate or harmful.
• Exposure of personal information of children and young people to unknown individuals.
• Potential grooming or exploitation risks due to the open and indiscriminate nature of the group.

 We strongly advise that you:

• If your child(ren) uses WhatsApp, check this today to ensure that they are not part of this group. If they are, remove them immediately.
• Speak to your child(ren) about the importance of online safety and not joining unknown or unmoderated groups.

We also take this opportunity to remind parents that the minimum age for WhatsApp in the UK is 13 years old due to associated risks. 

Thank you for your support in keeping all children safe online.

Mr Hasler

Assistant Head Teacher

HPS concert 

What an afternoon of joy, talent and hard work! Mr Nicholls and Mrs Judson were so proud of all of the performers on Wednesday. From guitar, to violin, piano and choir, we saw a huge array of musical skills performed with smiling faces. A huge well done to each and every child who performed - you were brilliant and gave the audience a fantastic time! 

The sun shone on a fantastic day for the Honiton cluster inter-school athletics competition.

Determined and focused, every member of our KS2 team put all their efforts into both individual and team performances. They were duly rewarded with an incredible haul of 57 medals by the end of the afternoon ... and have proudly retained the HLC Games Shield! Huge congratulations to everyone! 👏 🥇🥈🥉 🌟

Our summer term is almost over so it is time to announce our Doodle winners.

It has been a very close term with just one week being the difference in some cases! 

Well done to...

KS1 Maths: Y2 Birch 

KS2 Maths: Y4 Lime 

KS1 Spell: Y2 Elm 

KS2 Spell: Y4 Lime 

All of these classes have won a non-uniform day on Wednesday 9th July - congratulations! 

This week, we say well done to...

KS1 Maths: Y2 Birch 

KS2 Maths: Y3 Maple 

KS1 Spell: Y2 Elm

KS2 Spell: Y3 Maple

Year 2 had a lovely afternoon making slime with their Parents and Carers. The children used their own instructions to write about how to make slime and enjoyed adding glitter, food colouring and pom poms too!