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• Basketball Festival

  Wed 26 Nov 2014

  We arrived for our much anticipated Basketball Festival at St Osmunds Middle School where we met our Year 7 team leader, Matt. He warmed us up before we had a pre-festival talk given by organiser Mr Fisk. Then we made our way to our first game against St Mary’s Catholic and with some excellent supply from Angus,Toby powered through and scored a hat trick with no reply, a superb start, 3-0. Next up was our own federated School, Winterbourne Abbas, we dominated the early stages and with some lovely skills from a light footed George, we deservedly went ahead, then they scored to make it 1-1, Freya then released George down the wing with a quick throw and he celebrated with style after getting his second in the game, but in the dying seconds Winterbourne broke free and scored their second to make it a draw, 2-2. Milborne Port were our next opponents, we started slowly and fell behind but with our determined spirit we fought back when Lily confidently scored to draw level and after George was taken off with an injury, Toby arrived right on cue to score the winner, 2-1. Then we played Damers, these were the 2 strongest teams and proved to be a cracker of a game with many chances but Damers could not score against our resolute defence of Rhys and Eden, Freya then came into her own and shot a quick double putting us in charge with Toby finishing it off to make it 3-0. Our rest game came after this and we took in fluids and our snacks to replenish our energy. Our last game was against Charminster, with everyone a little nervous we played the game with the same energy and with Connor supplying the balls upto George for his 3^rd and Toby for 2 more we finished winning in style 3-0. Everyone thanked the Year 7 students for the fantastic leadership skills and after all the certificates were handed out we were told the results. In 3^rd place was Winterbourne, 2^nd was Damers and 1^st was Cerne Abbas!

   

  WE HAD WON!!

   

  Our children showed us once again how they worked together as a team, co-operatively, communicated well with each other and how confident they were to show everyone the skills they had learnt in PE. Mrs Price and Miss Nottley were so proud of them, Miss Nottley had waited over 13 years to have a winning team and it was worth the wait!!

  

• Royal British Legion.

  Tue 11 Nov 2014

  The whole school will be commemorating Remembrance Day on Tuesday by joining the British Legion and members of the Community for the 2 minute silence at the War Memorial at 11 am.   Thank you for your donations for the wrist bands – we have a few left.

• Abbey Class visit to Maiden Castle

  Mon 10 Nov 2014

  On Monday as the capture for their ‘Romans’ topic Abbey Class will be visiting Maiden Castle and then going into Dorchester to recreate Roman Dorchester and visiting the Roman Villa. They will be learning about Roman weapons and shooting catapults. We will be exploring the differences between Iron Age and Roman Technology.

   

  Please can children wear their own clothes on Monday – we suggest warm clothes, sensible shoes and waterproofs.  Please provide a substantial packed lunch in a ruck sack.

   

  We are asking for a contribution of £7 towards the cost of the trip – please complete the permission slip at the end of the letter.

• Fun on Fridays

  Fri 07 Nov 2014

  We welcome parents coming into help with Fun on Fridays.  If you would like to volunteer please could you speak to Miss Cook ideally the week before you would like to help so we can plan the activities accordingly.

• Tag Rugby Tournament

  Fri 07 Nov 2014

  Our Tag Rugby Team arrived at Dorchester Rugby Club with loads of enthusiasm and optimism, they ran to meet Mr Treble who called over an ex pupil Alex with his friend Lloyd who then put them through their paces in a little warm up, they then were welcomed by Mr Dailey and Mr Treble together with the other 4 teams. Next they set off to have a go at 5 activities which included mini games, a tag game, a dodging sprint and their best one the tackle bag run, this is where they had to run at the tackle bag and smash into it with their shoulder and landing on it, this they all enjoyed and all the adults including us wanted to have a go!
  
  Then the games started, our first game we came up against arguably the strongest team there, Damers, we started slowly and found ourselves 3 nil down before we could think until Toby started our fight back with 2 wonderful runs to peg them back to 3-2, but unfortunately we couldn’t get the 3^rd and they scored a breakaway fourth to seal the win 4-2. Then we played Charminster and having had a pep talk from Mrs Price and Miss Nottley we played some lovely attacking rugby with Jack scoring first, Angus then took over with some great dodging and scored 2 tries and Toby finished off for a convincing win 4-0, Freya and Rhys shone in this game too with some excellent tag work to keep Charminster from scoring any tries. It was then our rest game and we all tried to stay warm with a game of tag as by then the rain had begun. Having won our last game they went into the next against Manor Park on a high but just couldn’t get going and with the ball now wet our handling let us down and Manor Park were able to scoop the ball up from loose balls to score their 3 tries, however the highlight of that game was George collecting the ball from near the half way line and bombing down the line to score his try, making it 3-1. Our final game was against St Mary’s Catholic and this was by far our best with our most convincing win 7-0, Toby and Angus added 2 apiece to add to their tallies before Lily stole the show with a sprint down the line to score her first try, she turned with the biggest smile on her face, then Dan finished things off with a fine run himself and just short of the line he was tagged but looked back and played the perfect pass to Eden who got our last try.
  
  We then joined the other schools in thanking the Year 4 Sports leaders who were fantastic and Mr Dailey as always, also a special shouted out “thank you” to Mr Treble for his superbly run first competition.
  
  Lastly we would like to thank all the parents who came to watch, again your support is always hugely appreciated and lastly Mrs Price and Miss Nottley would like to say how proud we were of the children, once again they showed us how confident and co-operative they all were throughout the afternoon!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

• Charity School in a Bag

  Tue 04 Nov 2014
  We had a visit from the charity ‘School in a Bag’ on Wednesday. They are a local charity whose mission is to ensure that as many children in the world have access to education as possible. Every child has the right to an education as we have learnt this week in our rights week.  As a school we will be doing some fundraising to support this fantastic charity. For every £15 we raise the children get to make up a rucksack filled with all the things a child needs to go to school and learn. Once we have packed our bags up we then find out which country our bags are going to and are given the number of the bags. When our bags reach their destination the children will be sent a photo of the children who have received their bag so they get to be a part of the whole process of improving someone’s education. We do hope you will support us in our fundraising for this great cause.