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• Dorchester Town FC Initiative Launch

  Wed 19 Jul 2017

  Today Mia and Max represented the school at Dorchester Town FC Initiative launch, we have joined this scheme with several other first and middle schools and had a lovely time this afternoon meeting the manager, board members and sponsors Palmers. Mia received our framed certificate and Max was able to take to the turf to have a kick around. Benefits of joining are going to a family game, being mascots and an annual festival at the Avenue Stadium among other things.

   

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• Forest School Session 3

  Wed 12 Jul 2017 Mrs Cain

  We had another great Forest School session yesterday - even in the pouring rain! The Year Fours were all very positive and enjoyed learning about food chains and mini beasts. We were going to have our first fire but the weather unfortunately prevented us from doing this! We were joined by Mrs Seymour this week who also took the opportunity to find out how Transfer Day went at DMS.

   

  

• Forest School Session 2

  Tue 04 Jul 2017 Mrs Cain
  In today's Forest School session the Year 4s listened to the story 'The Great Kapok Tree' a story about a Kapok tree in the rainforest which is going to be chopped down until all the creatures which live in/on the tree and a local child come along and tell the man what the tree does for their survival. It is a wonderful story with lovely illustrations and a very special message. This story led to many great discussions about food chains, deforestation and facts about animals. The Year 4s had some great contributions and we spent a long time on this one activity! After the story the children could choose from many activities including leaf identification, bug hunting, leaf and tree rubbings and a few children were able to try 'Hapazone' a Japanese craft where you print leaves using their natural dye onto cotton by squeezing it through using a mallet! They found this tiring but worth it! We also played a fun game to help teach us about fire circle safety ready for next week's session where we hope to light our first fire! We ended the session by reflecting on our Forest School session by 'snowballing' our thoughts - we wrote our reflections on paper, scrunched them up and threw them across our circle for our friends to read aloud. Lots of lovely reflections again - we are all looking forward to next week's session on Tuesday.