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• Tag Rugby Festival

  Wed 18 Oct 2017

  Today we took part in a tag rugby festival at Dorchester Rugby club, we played 5 other schools from Charminster, Damers, POW, Winterbourne Valley and Manor park. We started off going around the 5 stations practising our skills and then we played against the other schools in mini games. We scored lots of tries, tagged well and came away very muddy with smiles on our faces.

   

  Jacob, Sam, Thomas, Charlie E, Will, Alex, Charlie S, Rosa, Martha and Summer were all our 7 C's and did us all proud.

  

• Cool School Weather Watchers on Radio Solent

  Fri 13 Oct 2017

  Yesterday Leo and Martha were confident radio stars on Solent and they each had to either give the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius, they were both fantastic and even spoke about our recent trip to Lulworth Cove!

   

  Link is below, will add just the podcast when it is available, please go to 2.03 minutes to hear broadcast.

   

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05gp6x3

• Macmillan Cake Sale

  Fri 13 Oct 2017

  We are supporting McMillian by having a Cake Sale on Friday 13^th October at 3.15 pm. Please can we ask that you help us support this worthy cause by baking cakes and /or buying them on the day.

• Pennies in a bottle!

  Fri 06 Oct 2017
  FOCAS:

  Pennies in a bottle fundraiser - 

  Every child has been sent home this week with a bottle of water to enjoy and we are asking them to collect pennies/loose change in the empty bottle, over the rest of the term. Please return your bottle to school at the end of the term. 

  Thank you for taking part in this FOCAS fundraiser. 

• Harvest Service

  Tue 03 Oct 2017
  Today we celebrated our Harvest Service in St. Mary's church. Each class performed and we all sang Harvest Songs. The Giant Class sang 'Big Red Combine Harvester', the Trendle Class performed a poem called 'Harvest Time' and The Abbey class performed a Harvest Rap. We especially loved singing our new school song 'Harvest Samba'.

  

• 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.

   

  Look out for the echo Wednesday!

  

• 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.

  

• School Council's Send My Friend to School Campaign

  Fri 30 Jun 2017 School Council

  Our Abbey Class School Councillors set off this morning on a big bus to St. Osmund's School in Dorchester. They joined the rest of the schools in DASP and got their banners ready to march to the town centre where they got people to sign a petition to support the campaign for all children, around the world to go to school and have an education. After that they went to the Corn Exchange where they met Oliver Letwin. All the schools presented a presentation/speech to Mr Letwin and then had the opportunity to ask him one question.

  Mrs Cain felt extremely proud of her school councillors, they were incredibly confident and passionate about their campaign! Well done Max, Amabelle, Ella and Sam!

  

• Forest School

  Thu 29 Jun 2017 Mrs Cain

  Year 4 had their first Forest School session today! They all enjoyed the session and feedback at the end was all very positive! In today's session we discussed suitable clothing for the forest, played a game around the fire circle to help us prepare for being safe around the fire, had hot chocolate around the fire circle, found leaves around the Forest School site and began to learn how to identify them as well as making rubbings of them with foil! It was a very busy session and felt like it went very quickly! We made a group agreement of how we all want to behave and be treated in the Forest School environment, identifying some risks and deciding how we can manage these risks. The Year 4s were brilliant at this and were very excited to agree to this group agreement as they got to sign it with a muddy fingerprint! It was a wonderful first session and we are all looking forward to our next session on Tuesday afternoon. Another huge thank you to FOCUS for raising the funds to enable us to do it!