POWSA biggest Raffle ever!

POWSA biggest Raffle ever - prizes are as follows (and more to follow!!!)  Make sure you buy some raffle tickets, ready for the Summer Fair this Saturday 11am - 2pm: A set of Golf Clubs, Sunday lunch for 2 adults and up to 3 children at Moonfleet Manor Hotel, Poundbury Cycles - complimentary bike service, Bonjour! Cafe - £10 voucher, Dorset Wine - £5 Voucher, Cafe on the Green - Cream Tea voucher, Olives et al - voucher, 2 x Miniature Clocks, A Treasure Trail, Brand New Shoulder Bag from Peacocks, 4x complimentary tickets Weymouth Sealife Park, 1x complimentary family ticket Abbotsbury Swannery, 2x complimentary family ticket Lulworth Castle and Park, 1x complimentary family ticket Pecorama, Jordan & Jordan collapsible camping colander, On the Table £10 gift voucher

Dodgesons - Pair of tough Gardening gloves, Wise Owl Toys - Colour your own Puzzles, Pure - Back, Neck & Shoulder massage, Tesco - Liquor Chocolates, Step toes - bag, Seven Springs Studio – Family Portrait Voucher and makeover Photography Voucher.

Olympic Torch

The Olympic torch has arrived in Britain! The torch landed in Cornwall this evening accompanied by HRH Princess Anne, President of the Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe, London Mayor Boris Johnson and Olympic Ambassador, Sir David Beckham. It now starts a 70 day journey around Britain, arriving in Dorchester on Thursday 12th July. The whole school will be walking up to Poundbury to see the torch on the afternoon of Thursday 12th July!

Diamond Jubilee celebrations

On Friday 1st June 1.30 pm we shall be celebrating HRH Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee with a street party at school. We ask that the children join in by bringing in party food and dressing up in red, white and blue (or any combination of these!) The children will be given a commemorative mug to keep as a souvenir of the day. Parents are welcome to come along to help or join in the fun!

Facebook

It has come to my attention that some pupils in school have Facebook accounts. May I take this opportunity to remind you that the terms and conditions of using Facebook state that the user must be 13 years or over (Article 4.5). If your child does have an account then they have already broken the terms of the site and have lied about their age. As a school we will be contacting Facebook to get your child's account removed. Although we now have a school Facebook account for parental communication, we want to make it very clear that this is an adult site that is not suitable for children. Mr. Farrington

Residentials

The Year 3 and 4 classes have just returned from their residential trips to Cranborne Ancient Technology Centre and Fairthorne Manor. We all had a great time and the children were fantastic on both trips.

CONGRATULATIONS MR. SPRACKLEN

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Spracklen who has been shortlisted for the first ever South West Digital Educator Award! Mr. Spracklen will travel to Plymouth in July to compete against ten other regional leaders of digital education for the prestigious title. Mr. Spracklen’s work for the award focus’ on our inclusive ethos and explores how I.C.T helps to support our motto of a school, ‘Where we are all inspired to learn’.

Dorchester Carnival

This years carnival has no theme, so we have chosen a theme for the Prince of Wales School as the Olympics!  A great chance to dress up as an Olympic athlete!  The carnival is on Saturday the 16th June.  If you would like to be involved, to help or further information, please contact Mrs Bernard or Mrs Scott.

WELL DONE - Miss. Bates

Congratulations to Miss. Bates who successfully completed the Dorchester and District Lions Club 10K 'Fun Run' on Sunday 6th May, 2012. Miss. Bates was raising funds for SEN equipment for pupils here at the Prince of Wales First School. If you would still like to add to the growing sponsorship money being raised, please see Miss. Bates in the office. WELL DONE AGAIN MISS. BATES - WE ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF YOU AT THE SCHOOL!

REMINDER - Tesco Vouchers

Our school needs your help to collect Tesco schools vouchers! Vouchers collected in previous years have exceeded 20,000 and have helped us to obtain some exciting resources. This year we are looking to set a school record and collect more vouchers than ever before! Please try to collect as many vouchers as you can and do not be afraid to ask your friends, neighbours, work colleagues for their vouchers as well. Many people who do not have children simply discard these vouchers and we could make valuable use of them. Collecting boxes are by the school office. Please bring in your vouchers on or before 01/06/12.

Digital Leaders - Update

We have decided as a group to keep a blog about all we are learning about in our roles as Digital Leaders. This week Mr. Spracklen is typing the blog  but in future weeks we will be taking the role of ‘Blog Writers’ to keep the world up to date with what we are doing in our roles as Digital Leaders. Last week, we all agreed that we needed a logo which represented our roles as digital leaders. Mr. Spracklen set us all the challenge to design a logo at home and email the school office with our design before Monday. The response was fantastic and we all worked really hard to complete the below logos. Which one is your favourite?

 

 As a group, we had a long discussion about which logo to choose before voting. The logo chosen to represent Digital Leaders following our vote is:

We hope you like our logo and we look forward to wearing it on a badge very soon!

Mr. Butcher's Off Today!

FROM MR. BUTCHER'S BLOG - Today we set off. Meeting up at Heathrow later for the flight to Dheli in India, then onto Khatmandu Nepal arriving Friday. Saturday we fly to Pakhara and start the trek after a long drive. READ MORE NOW - Simply follow the link on the school homepage or follow @powsiteman on Twitter.