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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!

Sports Day

Thu 22 Jun 2017

Today we had our sports day, the weather was perfect for us after 3 very hot days and all the children excelled in their races and made us very proud of them, they all showed all our 7 C's throughout the afternoon making this another enjoyable day.

Thank you to Mr Treble for bringing out the Year 8 sports leaders from DMS and to all the staff for their support and especially to all the parents/grandparents/friends who all came to cheer everyone on.

Miss Nottley and Mrs Price

Rockley Watersports Festival

Mon 19 Jun 2017

Today we travelled to Poole Park to participate in Rockley Watersports Festival, we arrived in glorious sunshine and set up camp underneath a Gazebo ready to start activities, we changed into our wetsuits and life jackets and first up we were shown how to control our paddle's before being launched into the water on Kayak's in 2's, we then spent 20 minutes paddling around and sometimes falling off (may have been intentional due to weather!) before a short food/water break. After this we were shown how to control our Piccolo yacht's, at this moment myself and Mrs Macey looked at each other with nervous faces and wondered how many we would be taking back! We needn't have worried as they were taken off on tiny speed boats and all 4 of our pairs controlled their boats with expertise and none had capsized, although there was one close shave! After they were safely back on dry land we had another quick food/water break before we took on other pairs in Kayak races during the afternoon.

Just before we left we had time to take a trip to the tuck shop for some sweets and then dressed to come back to school. All our children Jack, Niamh, Johnny, Oliver, Amabelle, Hannah, Katie and Jasmine showed all our 7 C's especially confidence, communicative and conscientious and we were very proud of them.

I would like to say a thank you to Mrs Macey for coming with myself and the children, was much appreciated.