Welcome to Axminster Community Primary Academy

Nov 17, 2025

Would you like to come and join our lovely team? We are looking for a new nursery practitioner (Level 3 qualification essential) and a Reception teacher maternity cover. If you (or someone you know) is interested, please see the vacancies and apply here: https://recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Vacancy/Search?TrustId=196&establishmentIds=1441&Distance=100

Nov 14, 2025

Let's get ready to rock 'n' roll! For 3 days next week, years 3-6 have enrolled in the 'England Rocks' tournament. The competition is open on Tuesday 18th November and closes at 7.30pm on Thursday 20th November. Get those mathematical brains and quick fingers ready!

Nov 13, 2025

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Nov 13, 2025

Science has been really practical this week for Year 5 and 6. In Year 5, the children have been learning about the relative distance of the planets from the sun. Using a trundle wheel, the children measured the distance and were extremely surprised about how far away the sun really is. In Year 6, the children were experimenting with torches to observe how light travels in straight lines. They were tasked with creating a maze to redirect the light rays to hit their target. Some found it tricky getting the angles right but many hit the target!

Nov 13, 2025

Little Green Change are holding a FREE Christmas Give and Take event at Woodmead Halls in Lyme Regis on Sunday 30th November 2025 from 12:30pm-3:30pm.

Nov 13, 2025

Today we have sent home individual class photos. Most children have brought these home - but a few left them in their classroom. Please email the office if your child has not brought it home by the end of tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who came for a sibling photo this morning - it was lovely to see you and great to have so much positive feedback about it.

Nov 13, 2025

We are looking forward to Children in Need tomorrow. Children can come in non school uniform. If you have any spotty clothes or accessories, it would be lovely to see these. If you are able to donate, please give donations to your child to give to their teacher and these will be sent to Children in Need.

Nov 13, 2025

🔬✨ Science Sparks in Foxes, Badgers and Otters! ⚡💡 This half-term, our budding scientists have been busy exploring the world of Electricity and Light! ⚡ One class have been learning how to spot whether a circuit will work – just by looking at it! They’ve also been making clever predictions about what happens when one battery cell powers more than one item, like a light bulb, buzzer or motor. 💡 The other have been investigating light and reflection, testing different materials to see which reflect the most light. They made predictions, carried out fair tests, and drew some brilliant conclusions! We’re so proud of their curiosity, teamwork and super scientific thinking! 🌟🔍 #ScienceInAction #CuriousMinds #PrimaryScience

Nov 12, 2025

This week in Y1/2 we have been learning about about using our 'power for good' as part of this year's anti-bullying week. On Monday, some of us wore odd socks to school and then we designed our own odd socks. In Art, we have been monoprinting and in English we have used exciting verbs and adverbs to write poetry about fireworks.

Nov 11, 2025

This week in our Reception/Year 1 classes we are incredibly busy! We are learning about Bonfire Night this week as part of our celebrations topic. The children have been enjoying some bonfire night role play, they’ve been creating their own fireworks using the loose parts, and they’ve been creating some beautiful chalk firework pictures. 🎆 This week is anti-bullying week and the children have been busy designing their own odd socks! Today the children had a 2 minute silence to commemorate Remembrance Day, we’ve been participating in various remembrance activities, and even made some delicious biscuits! #EYFS #YearOne #learnthroughplay #enrichment #understandingtheworld

Nov 11, 2025

It was our honour for Year 6 to attend the Remembrance Service at the Minster today with the other schools and members of our community. Our youngest children in Little Acorns and Reception made our beautiful wreath this year. 'At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.'

Nov 11, 2025

🌟 Nursery Rhyme Week at Little Acorns! 🌟 What a wonderful week we’re having at Little Acorns as we celebrate Nursery Rhyme Week! The children have been singing their hearts out with lots of their favourite rhymes – one of the top hits being Humpty Dumpty! The staff even set up a special activity so the children could help “put Humpty together again” – great teamwork, everyone! We’ve also been singing I Hear Thunder, listening carefully to the sounds of the weather, and creating our very own weather pictures to go with the song. In maths, we’ve started exploring shapes – circles, squares, and stars galore! And of course, we couldn’t talk about stars without singing one of our all-time favourites, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. 🎄 Nativity Practice Has Begun! The children have started practising for our Christmas Nativity, and we’re already feeling the festive spirit! The songs we’re learning are: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Clip, Clip We Wish You a Merry Christmas You can find all of these songs on YouTube if you’d like to sing along at home.

Nov 10, 2025

We are looking forward to seeing everyone in their odd socks today to think about anti-bullying day!

Nov 7, 2025

🌋 Explosive Start to Autumn 2! 🎨 Our Foxes, Badgers and Otters class artists have kicked off the new half-term by learning about the vibrant work of artist Nick Rowland. Inspired by his bold colours and dramatic landscapes, the children created their own exploding volcano masterpieces using oil pastels. They explored blending, shading and adding strong definition to bring their fiery scenes to life — and they were incredibly proud of their results! 👏✨ A fantastic start to the half-term… we can’t wait to see what creative adventures come next! 🍂🖍️

Nov 6, 2025

Year 6 finished last term's topic of 'Living Things and their Habitats' by observing the results of their micro-organism investigation. We found that cold, dry and dark conditions were the best to prevent mould whereas light, warm and damp conditions were the worst. There are no pictures of the children as they were too disgusted by the extent of one of the pieces of 'bread'. On a much nicer note, the children in Years 5 and 6 began their historic journey of warfare with an introduction lesson on the year 1066. They investigated the various weapons and strategies used, deciding which side had the advantage and why. The Bayeaux Tapestry was also discussed as a useful historical resource or not - what do you think?

Nov 6, 2025

We have been totally blown away by the children in Year 1/2 this week. We have had some incredible writing, with expanded noun phrases and commas. In Maths we have been using part whole models to understand the place value of 2 digit numbers.

Nov 5, 2025

Welcome back to the first week of Autumn 2! 🍁 This week in Robins and Starlings we are reading ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and the celebration we have been learning about this week is Halloween! The children have been enjoying making their own spooky pumpkin soup in the story tuff tray, creating observational drawings of pumpkins, creating their own spooky skeletons using loose parts (developing their fine motor skills), and counting out pumpkin seeds to match the numerals on the pumpkins. We have all started learning about the Nativity Story in RE today - both our receptions and Year 1s were brilliant and retelling the story! In phonics this half term we are now starting to learn to blend to help us learn to read words - we’ve been using magnetic letters to spell out CVC words and we’ve been blown away by how fantastic the children are progressing already! Well done on a great start to this half term, we can’t wait to see everything you achieve in the upcoming weeks! #EYFS #YearOne #learnthroughplay #continuousprovision 🎃👻

Nov 5, 2025

We have such incredible talented children! Tommy wrote this wonderful book in half term with amazing description and speech! Well done Tommy!

Nov 4, 2025

This week, we began our exciting new topic, “Once Upon a Rhyme.” We started the week by creating a mind map to explore our ideas — the children shared some fantastic suggestions, which we’ll be reflecting in our tuff trays. The Gingerbread Man Bakery in our home corner has been a big hit with the nursery children, who have loved exploring Mrs. Featherstone’s baked goodies. We’ve also started our firework artwork, adding bright splashes of colour to create vibrant and eye-catching pictures.

Nov 3, 2025

We are looking forward to seeing everyone back this morning. This afternoon, we are holding our celebration of learning. Feel free to pop in at 3pm to come and have a look at what your child learnt last half term.

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