recycling

Recycling Christmas Cards in the New Year

Please help us recycle your Christmas cards for the Woodland Trust Scheme.
We're asking you to recycle your Christmas cards to help us turn your cards into trees!

For every 1,000 cards dropped in to Marks & Spencer stores for recycling throughout January 2017, a new tree can be planted!

In the New Year, please bring any Christmas cards to the foyer outside the school office where there will be a bin. Do bunch these together and place a slip with the amount you are posting into our bin - this way the children will be able to calculate quickly whether we have collected enough to plant one or two trees. Please do not put loose cards in. The recycling bin will be in the foyer form the start of term. If you can, please do support this worthwhile venture. We will then make arrangements for the cards to be transported to Marks & Spencer at the end of the January 2017.

We wonder how many trees we can donate?!

Recycle Christmas Cards in the New year

In the New Year, please bring any Christmas cards to the foyer outside the school office where there will be a box. We will make arrangements for the box to be transported to Marks & Spencer at the end of the month.

Please help us recycle your Christmas cards for the Woodland Trust Scheme.
We're asking you to recycle your Christmas cards to help us turn your cards into trees!

For every 1,000 cards dropped in to Marks & Spencer stores for recycling throughout January 2017, a new tree can be planted!

DM

 

Christmas performances

It is time once again for our Christmas productions!

Reception, Year 1 and 2 are performing Sleepy Shepherd -10am

Years 3 and 4 are performing Roald Dahl’s Jack and the Beanstalk – 11am

There will be refreshments by POWSA between the shows.

On the day of the performances the front doors will open at 9.40am. Please enter via the School Office entrance.

Technology day (9/12/16)

A ‘Christmassy, art and crafty’ day was enjoyed by all on Friday 9^th December. It was the POW school annual ‘Technology day’ when children select three activities in which they wish to create a Christmas themed piece of art/ design work.  The manner in which children moved around the school, worked well within the mixed up age groups was superb. All children were displaying our resilient tortoise in tackling activities and the older children were lending a hand in helping organise the younger children’s work, showing the next steps in how to produce an item. Super skills from one and all! Some products made have been added to this blog.

Thank you finally to all parents who managed to join for some/ or all of the day, the extra pairs of hands very much helped!

 

Christmas fair, 2nd December

What a busy, Christmassy feel to the school yesterday evening! The school was full of children and our families making the realisation that Christmas is nearly knocking on our doors!

The school would like to thank you for your support, for the goodies donated and for spending those pennies! All which will be ploughed into making the children's learning and environments a richer place to learn in.

A huge thank you also to everyone who has helped in preparing for the Christmas fair, preparations, laying out and running stalls to tidying up at the end. Thank you to POWSA.

 

Whole School - Thursday 10th November 2016

On Wednesday, I lead an assembly all about Remembrance Day, the children were very thoughtful and respectful. We discussed the significance of the poppy and also the specific date and time. We practised being silent and focussing our thoughts or prayers on this moment of remembrance and  respect. Tomorrow we will be joining the rest of the country in remembering the brave men, women and families affected by war by spending 2 minutes in silence at 11 o'clock.

Mrs. Johnson

Christmas Cards - 2nd November 2016

Christmas card orders
We received communication today that the online ordering for the xmas cards has now failed completely. The company are reverting to paper orders and a pack is being sent to school. As far as we are aware any successful online orders are still valid but all others will need to complete paper order forms and bring money to school. This is not an ideal situation however POWSA are at hand to help you solve any issues and can take cash or cheques.

So, on Friday 4 th November and Monday 7 th November before and after school POWSA will be manning a table in the foyer where you can fill in the order forms and hand over cash or cheques.  We apologise for this inconvenience, however this is out of our control and are working hard to make the process successful!

Christmas cards order

Christmas card orders

Hopefully you have all received your child’s card design? You were given the information to order through the company directly on the back of the art work. The art work needs to come back to school to your child’s classroom, into their envelope - by Friday 4^th November – end of this week, ready to be sent off.

The company will be collecting on Monday 7^th November from our school office, no set time has been given so it is vitally important the art work is back in the class envelope on Friday please.

We are hoping for the cards to be delivered back to school around 22nd November.

Royal visit tomorrow - arrangements (27/10/16)

We have received slight changes to the day on Thursday for the Royal visit. All children and parents from The Prince of Wales School now need to meet at the security tent which will be located at the top of Peverell Avenue East. Please be there for 10 -10.15am latest.  Mr Scott (Lexi’s dad) is going to be a representative for the school so please make yourself familiar to him when you arrive.

Mr Scott has kindly suggested that anyone wishing to park may do so at his business. This is Deane Computer Solutions, unit 6A middle Farm Way, Dorchester. DT1 3AR.

Many thanks to Mr Scott for helping with this organisation.

Harvest celebrations 7th October

Thank you to everyone who took part in The Prince of Wales Harvest celebrations yesterday.

The children did a great job in presenting their songs, poems and art work to parents. Also the children have been busily cooking this week using our produce from the orchard, the goodies were sold in the café during the afternoon and they all went down a storm!

The harvest art work will be up next week so do please pop by the school hall to look at your child’s work if you were unable to come along.

The local food bank received two boxes of food from the school and it is looking like a good amount of money has been raised for the Kingfisher ward, who has asked the school to purchase some electrical equipment for children’s bedrooms.

We will keep you updated.

Harvest reminder - Friday 7th October

A reminder that the Harvest celebrations at The Prince of Wales School are this Friday the 7^th October.

9.15am for Reception, Year 1 and 2 in the school hall. 9.50am for Years 3 and 4.

The produce that everyone donates will be sold to you all at the end of the Harvest celebrations. Money will go towards the Kingfisher ward and to support people of Syria via UNICEF. Any leftover produce will be taken to the Food bank in Dorchester.

Café – classes have been making goodies for the café. We do also really appreciate any donations of cakes, etc for the café from you too, as we always seem to require large numbers!

At 2.30pm the Harvest café will be open in the school hall. You may take your child from class to go to the café and enjoy the produce they have been baking!  POWSA will be serving tea and coffee as well.

We hope to see many of you there!

All Years - Inspirational Indian Harvest - 5th October 2016

As part of our Harvest week we were delighted to welcome Imo and Kiran, who came to school yesterday to run workshops with the children about Indian Harvest.  Each class took part in two workshops and two assemblies where the children learned all sorts of fascinating facts about how people in India celebrate bringing in their harvest.  Did you know that in India they decorate the termite mounds at harvest time?  The children also got to dance, make rangoli patterns, make block patterns and learned how Indian children would start they day at school, how Indian farming differed from our own farming methods and how food would be blessed.  During the day we also created an amazing banner showing three different elements of Indian harvest - In the jungle, fields and town.  This will be displayed proudly in our hall for our harvest celebrations.  Come and have a closer look and see if you can spot all of the animals.

whole school assembly 'welcome'

The school welcomed the Reception class in our school assembly and discussed what it meant to feel included, part of, to belong to our school.

The children then looked at some unusual shells. Mr Macbean, Mrs Mewett and some children tried to blow into a conch shell to make a sound. A group of children also came and chose a favourite shell from Mrs Mewett's holiday collection of shells. We all agreed we love touching shells, some are shiny, bumpy, rough, have spiral patterns on them, big and small. We talked about how every shell is special and unique, each has had an important role to play and has been created to carry out a certain role. 

The assembly ended by us all thinking about how special we are, how unique we all are and we all have our own skills and strengths. School will help us develop these strengths as we grow.
 

All Years. Thursday 8th September. Library Summer reading challenge.

Welcome back after a wonderfully sunny summer holiday! I hope you all found time to enjoy a good book!

I cannot wait to see how many Prince of Wales children took part in the summer reading challenge at Dorchester Library - I eagerly await your certificates!

The Library e-mailed me to let you all know that you can still complete the challenge by taking your sticker sheets in this week-end, so don't worry if you forgot or didn't have time to pop in with the last one (it was a bit wet last week-end to be out and about).

I look forward to seeing you all standing up in assembly with your certificates!

If you haven't seen he BFG in the cinema, do try to go along and see it - why not read or share the book at home and compare the book with the film - which one is better?

Happy reading!

Mrs. Johnson

Whole school - Parent Information sessions next week

Dates for Parent Information sessions are as follows.

For new parents these sessions are approximately 20 minutes where the class teacher will talk to you in the hall and explain what your child will be learning this term and how you can aid the experience. They will also fill you in on any special aspects of the term. Lastly, you can also ask those unanswered questions.We do hope you are able to attend?
The class's newsletters will be out on Friday 16th September, all which is covered at the meeting will be on the blog and/ on the newsletter. Do please ask questions if you are unable to attend.


Reception: Monday 12th September - hall - 9am
Year 1 : Tuesday 13th September - hall - 9am
Year 2 : Wednesday 14th September - hall - 9am
Year 3 - Friday 16th September - hall - 9am
Year 4 - Thursday 15th September - hall - 9am

A new school year

We hope you have all had a lovely summer holidays? The staff are extremely excited and cannot wait to see their classes tomorrow.

We are also very excited in welcoming the new Reception children, Mr Gibson and his team are so looking forward to getting to know every child and has lots planned for their first week.

We look forward to seeing you all in the morning - we know it is going to be an exciting, fun, learning filled school year!

Mrs Mewett

DASP citizenship awards!

I would like to say a huge WELL DONE to Kurtis, George, Rosa, Isabelle and Finley who attended the very prestigious DASP citizenship of the year awards ceremony at THS on Tuesday evening!

The theatre was packed, the Mayor was there and the children had to parade onto the stage infront of 100s of people to collect their awards - Mrs. Thorpe and I were very proud of you all and felt very privileged to be a part of your special evening - well done!!!!!

Also, well done to Year 4 who wrote a special song and created a film for the occasion - it was very impressive and Mrs Thorpe and I felt very proud of our school!!!!!!!

Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Thorpe

Reading Challenge!

The summer holidays are nearly upon us..............why not get lost in an adventure............lose yourself in a good book!!!!!!!! If you fancy the challenge, as I set you in assembly this morning, pop along to Dorchester library and sign yourself up for the Summer Reading Challenge - all you have to do is read 6 books from now until September!!!!!!!!! The library will give you a fun themed sticker chart, each time you read a book, collect a sticker from the library to keep track of how many you have read! You will not only earn a medal and a certificate but will also have been on a great adventure!!!!!!!!

Let's see if we can get the WHOLE school signed up and taking part!!!!! You can do it - we love reading at PoW!!!!!!!!

Classes and staffing for September 2016

Your child has met their new teacher and team this afternoon. A letter will come out tomorrow with this information on.

Thank you.
 

Rio Carnival - Friday 8th July - 2pm - all welcome

A reminder that tomorrow afternoon is the finale of the Rio week in school. All classes will parade in carnival splendour and will dance and play music to entertain! This all begins at 2pm, weather permitting! Please come to the school office to be sent through to playing fields/ playground area.

Once the parade is over children will be allowed to leave with parents, but must return to the classroom to be signed out on the register and to be handed your child's report. If you are unable to attend then your child will remain in class until 3.30pm as normal.

We hope to see tomorrow!

 

Our link school visit yesterday

 

It was fantastic to host our link schools Belle Vue Infant and Newport Junior School from Aldershot yesterday. The children introduced themselves in an assembly and explained what Aldershot was like. 

 Mr MacBean taught the children some country dances and we played a team game called 'cross the swamp'.  After a picnic lunch we then taught the children some other games from around the world. 

All of the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and made some new friends. 

The Children's Voice meet Oliver Letwin

On Monday Mrs Thorpe and the Children's Voice went to Puddletown Middle School to meet our local MP Oliver Letwin. It was an important meeting where we shared with Mr Letwin our concerns about children in the world who cannot go to school. We handed over our 'Send my friend to school' rucksacks that everyone in the school had made with the messages to world leaders on. 

Coco read a speech on behalf of the Prince of Wales School about the importance of schooling and Jay asked Mr Letwin a question. 

Rio week 4th July - 8th July at POW school

You may be aware that the children during the week are going to be focussing on the upcoming Olympics as well as finding out and learning all about Rio, Brazil? We will also use the week to be creative through art, dance and music, culminating in a carnival on Friday afternoon in the grounds, fingers crossed! Do join us if you can from 2pm.

Summer fair 24th June, 2016.

Thank you to all who came along after school to attend the summer fair. It was very successful, the rain held off and plenty of people spent pennies too!
Thank you also to the POWSA committee who together worked hard on setting up, manning stalls and clearing away. It all worked well due to many hands on deck!
We are losing some POWSA members this year as their children move onto Middle school. If it is an area where you can give a little time to help at events or if you prefer the planning side then do drop by, email the office who will gladly forward emails to POWSA. We need you!

Successful "Bike-It Breakfast" today!

Well done to all of the children (and parents) who came to school on the bicycles and scooters today to enjoy a "Bike-It Breakfast" on arrival. This event was well-supported again.

DM

Dorchester carnival -18/06/16

A huge well done to the POW mice and rats which followed the Pied Piper (Mr Gibson) through the streets of Dorchester on Saturday 18th June. We had some very tiny mice in a pull along too!
 It was lovely to see so many faces of children and families along the streets on the procession. A worthwhile cause and I know all who took part were happy to be part of this community of fund raising. Thank you to Mrs Scott and Mrs Bernard also for organising this event for the school to take part in.

Building our learning powers! 15/06/16

We had some visitors to our assembly today who delivered our next super hero learning challenge! Captain America and Super girl presented 'POW' our school mascot with our second envelope. The challenge is to learn how to be 'reflective' within our learning. Learning and using skills as planning, revising, distilling and meta learning are areas in which classes are going to focus upon this half term. These skills will help us as learners be able to see how we learn, what helps us learn and how we can get better at challenges as well.

Bike-It Breakfast - Tuesday 21st June

Dear Parents,
As part of our on-going campaign to encourage children to come to school by bicycle and scooter whenever possible, we are holding another "Bike-It Breakfast" on Tuesday 21st June.
Children who cycle or scooter to school on Tuesday will be able to claim their flapjack, piece of fruit and refreshing drink!

Photo shows - Using bicycle power to whisk up a fruit-smoothie!

DM

The Queen's tea party 10/6/16

We had a lovely whole school Queen’s tea party on Friday 10^th June. Preschool also joined us for this event, the whole school stood and sang the National anthem, and of course ‘ Happy Birthday’ too before tucking into the delicious cakes you all generously sent in.

Unfortunately then the rain paid us a visit, however before long we were able to venture back outside to complete the event by playing some ‘Royal based party games.

I would like to thank all the Yr 3 and 4 pupils for being so helpful in collecting tables and chairs from across the school supported by our adultsto enable the event to happen. The children were also very helpful in supporting the younger children at the tea party. It really showed off the ‘service’ element within our school community, helping others where we can. Well done and thank you to all who made the event special.

Trophies - 27/5/16

We are asking all children who had trophies at our last awards ceremony just after Easter, to bring them back to school please the first day back (Monday 6th June). We are ready to carry out our next Awards ceremony for the first half of summer, but cannot do so without the trophies!

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Musical Soiree 23rd May 2016

What an incredible, inspiring night we had last night at The Prince of Wales School.

Our children surpassed themselves in confidence, musical ability and agility, not to mention resilience when things do not always go the way we hoped for!

We saw a whole host of talent, nurtured by our dedicated music teachers and from the support they receive from parents and other family members.

‘Where we are all inspired’ is our school mission; I have no doubt about it, we saw the very essence of this at the Musical Soiree 2016.

Well done to all.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra trip 18/05/16

Some of our musicians in Year 3 and Year 4 today went on a trip to see the BSO in concert!  'Elements' was the theme for the concert, the orchestra played music from Stravinsky, Smetana and Holst. The children were involved throughout using body percussion and singing. It was hugely inspiring listening and seeing an orchestra in action. The sounds created in the theatre were amazing and when all the audience participated with body percussion during Mars by Holst, it was simply stunning!
The children represented the school extremely well and, from their feedback, found it as inspiring as me! Well done BSO!

Summer fayre

The Prince of Wales Summer fayre is this Saturday 21^st May, 11 -2pm. Do come along and support the school. The children’s competitions are; make a miniature garden and paint a pebble. We are hoping to place the pebbles afterwards in the school garden. I look forward to seeing you there!

Beach safety assembly -Thursday 12th May

We welcomed the RNLI into school on Thursday 12th May. Ben and Maria came into school to explain to the school about how we can be safe on the beach and in the sea.

The children learned that the red and yellow flag is the flag which lets us know it is safe to go into the water. They also learned about other flags which mean danger possibly for different reasons.

The children brought home leaflets on Friday from the RNLI. Do have a look with your child at the key messages, they were all very interested!

BSO concert - parents needed!

I am after two parents who can come along on Weds 18th May in the morning to Poole Lighthouse to watch (with a group of Yr 3 and 4 children from our school) the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra.


We plan to be back at school around 12.30. If you are able to help then please come and either see me or pass on the message via the office.


Many thanks,  Mrs Mewett

Health and Safety week 9th May - 13th May

The children will be exploring aspects of staying safe and being healthy over the next week in class. We will be welcoming visitors to the school; RNLI will be visiting to run a Beach safety assembly with tips and key messages about being safe. We also are welcoming the Safer School Team who will be running sessions with each class about staying safe when online at age appropriate level. We also have the Life Education van in school on Tues and Weds (10th and 11th) and each class will access a session based upon the PSHE curriculum for their class. In class, the children will be talking about road safety as well as being healthy and linking this to their science topics.
Lastly, on Friday 20th May each class will be accessing children appropriate levels of first aid training kindly offered by St John's ambulance. Yr 4 will be running through the programme and hopefully completing the course for a certificate!


If you do have questions or some skills or time to offer do speak with your child's year team.
Thank you, Mrs Mewett

Monday 25th April assembly

Today in assembly the children learnt about the meaning behind St George's Day (23rd April), what a Saint is and of course a retelling of the famous story itself! Ask your child if they can recall the story to retell to another?


Also, a favour, we wonder whether anyone has a spare Union Jack flag to donate to the school? Ours is unfortunately tattered and beyond repair.
 

10 green bottles...

You may have noticed that the plastic bottle greenhouse is nearing completion - we now need more plastic bottles to help complete the roof. Please bring bottles into school to either Mr Gibson (R class) or Mrs Webb (Yr 2).

Thank you!

Big Pedal - Starts on Monday 18th April

 

Just a reminder that we are taking part in "The Big Pedal" again this year. We would like to encourage as many children as possible to come to school on their bicycles and scooters.
The competition lasts for the next two weeks.
In the last two years, the Prince of Wales School as achieved a very high percentage of scooterists and cyclists. We are hoping to achieve the same again in the competition this year.
Parents who scoot or cycle with their children can also earn points for the school.
DM

A visit in assembly from Iron Man!

A very exciting assembly on Wednesday, when 'Iron Man' made a visit to The Prince of Wales School!

The school have been focussing upon building our Learning Powers and our current particular focus is ' Resilience'. Iron Man presented the school with a knitted turtle which is our school mascot for 'resilience'. In class this week the children have been working upon how to 'grow our resilience' within their individual learning.
'Being absorbed', 'managing distractions' around them and 'persevering' are key areas we have all been thinking about developing with each others' help.

Successful Eco Celebration Day

On Tuesday, some of the children from Year 3 and 4 took part in a special "Eco Celebration Day at Cerne Abbas Village Hall. They were able to take part in a series of workshops which included making up songs, the philosophy of environmental care, and examining owl pellets! The children thoroughly enjoyed getting together with nine other schools from the local area.

DM

After School activities w/b 21/03/16

POW AFTER SCHOOL CLUB

Here are the activities that will be taking place this

week:21st March 2016

Every day there will be construction, pens and paper, various games and help with homework if needed.  As well as these there will be one main activity that you can join in with and a healthy snack.

Monday –Football with Alex for Yrs 3 & 4. Making a spring bird banner.

Tuesday –Basketball with Elliott for  Yrs 3 & 4. Cooking Easter biscuits.

Wednesday – Tag Rugby with Elliott for Reception, Yrs 1 & 2.  Making an birds nest.

Thursday –Football with Elliott for Reception, Yrs 1 & 2.  Film night and popcorn .

Friday - Bank Holiday.

PLEASE NOTE:  From 22/2/16 After School Club will take place in the main school and not in the Preschool building so please ring the bell when you come to pick up your child.  Thank you.

To book a space, please contact the Office stating  whether your child will be attending Sports Club or the After School Club. Please note that, if possible, we require a week's notice to cancel a previous booking  or you may still be charged.

Sports relief walk!

The entire school decided to take the Sports Relief challenge today; the school’s ‘Children’s Voice’ decided that they too would like to face a challenge, walking 1.75 miles from school to Maiden Castle and back. Despite it being rather chilly and a Friday afternoon, the children did this in super spirits and attitude. We were also pleased to see the Yr 4 children clearly supporting their buddies from Reception class to complete the walk.

We would like to thank the super turn out of parents today, enabling the children to complete this walk. The children have raised over £150 today and should be extremely proud of their efforts and awareness of supporting such a worthy charity.

Wessex FM next week

Please tune in to the Wessex FM school report every morning next week to hear 8 children from year 3 answer lots of questions on the radio!

CBeebies at the Watercress Farm

On Tuesday, some of the children in Year 1 and 2 were lucky enough to take part in filming a television programme at the Watercress Farm at Waddock Cross.
Sophie and George from Year 1 and William, Rohanna and Oona from Year 2 all got to meet the CBeebies film crew and the celebrity host JB (from XFactor "Boy Band" "JLS").
The children will be appearing on the CBeebies TV show "Down on the Farm" next month; we will let you know exactly when.
The children were all fantastic! They were brilliantly behaved and responded very naturally to camera and microphone.

 

I do have lots of other photographs that you can see on the foyer display screen.

 

 

We are all looking forward to seeing the TV show!

DM