Paralympics

Hope you are all being inspired by the paralympians. Look out for Maxine Moore (former POW pupil) in the club throwing field athletics event! Why not read this article on Maxine from the Dorset Echo with your children? http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/localsport/9900898.Paralympics__UK_record_holder_Moore_going_for_gold/?ref=rss

Back to school!

We are all looking forward to a new school year, full of new experiences and fun! Teachers are in training on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th September and we shall see all the children bright eyed on the first day of term (Wednesday 5th) ready to learn!

Our Paralympic inspired film! - WATCH IT HERE NOW

We have made our own animated film to celebrate a year of Paralympic activities in our school and we are now really proud to share it with the world! Inspired by blind footballer David Clark and ex-pupil and former Paralympic medallist Mark Newton, we have created Running Blind a Paralympic story with an agricultural twist featuring an angry bull, a Dorset farmer and the Team GB Paralympic training camp at Maiden Castle. Children across the school worked with a team of artists to write, draw, animate, voice and direct the three minute film which is being screened during London 2012 Paralympic Games. Blind goalscorer David Clarke faces the challenge of his life as he prepares for the Games. Players are baffled when a lost match ball is mysteriously heard moving around the pre-games venue at Maiden Castle.

With the help of other Paralympians, sharp-eyed schoolchildren help solve the riddle but getting that ball back takes all of the blind striker’s extraordinary skills. Project producer and drama therapist Sharon Hayden said the children had come up with some wonderful story ideas. “Through drama sessions and working with our scriptwriting mentor, they have produced a great story - and done it justice with some lovely drawing and animation. “We are incredibly grateful to funders First Light and West Dorset District Council who have given these children the opportunity to make something which will be seen by thousands of people.”

Assistant head Gary Spracklen said the experience had been one that would live with the children forever. “The team of artists from our production partner Nisbet Media have done a wonderful job and involved the whole school in this project. It has been extraordinary to see the different elements of the film come together.”

Running Blind is funded by the Lottery through the BFI's First Light initiative.

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