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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!

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.

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!

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!