Mr Farrington's challenge

Mr Farrington is encouraging parents to support your child in practising handwriting at home. How about copying a short poem? Or practising letter formation? Does your child need to make their writing a bit smaller? Are they finding cursive joins a bit tricky? If your child uses a keyboard for most of their writing they could practise keyboard skills! Please send in any writing done at home and Mr F will provide a Home Learning Certificate! 

Writing week

This week the teachers are planning lots of interesting activities to develop the children's writing skills. This has included mixing up the classes so that older children can inspire the younger ones. Please look out for the displays of the children's work in the main corridor and ICT suite.

School closure Friday 18th January

The school will be CLOSED today due to the snow.

Bad weather

In the event of bad weather parents are advised to consult the school website and Dorsetforyou website for information about school closures. The governors have asked Mr Farrington to make an early decision in the event of snow in the Dorchester area. This is likely to mean that if it does snow, the school is likely to close.

Clubs

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Well the second term of clubs has begun this week and we’ve got a great array of clubs for your children to choose from. If you didn’t sign up for a club and your child wanted to please visit our school office to see if there are spaces.

Choir will begin on Thurs lunchtime with Mrs Mewett, and this year we will be having the support of Mrs Gallego in this club. The choir will be open to all children in Yr 2, 3 and 4 and we hope we can entice children to attend with an attendance card which will be signed each time they come. There will be some rewards to work towards to encourage children to regularly attend the choir too!!!!

Orchestra – this is very much taking the opportunity this year of our many talented proficient musicians. I endeavour to welcome all to orchestra, the children will need to have a range of notes to be able to play orchestral pieces thus why on the club lists I stated that the Music teachers will help me select children who are ready for this challenge! Anyway our task is to try to put one or two pieces together to showcase in the summer music concert! If you are able to help with this group then the more hands available the better so please contact me!

 Recorder club – I will be talking to the school on Wednesday morning about this but wanted to let parents know that we will be offering a beginner recorder class from next Monday, open to Reception children and anyone else who wishes to begin.

 The clubs are lots of fun for the children, can we ask you to help reinforce to your child that if they commit to a club then they do attend weekly? A lot of time is spent planning and preparing for these clubs, a benefit of when children regularly attend is that it really helps clubs which involve new learning each week like recorders and choir. I have been stunned by the progress recorder players made last year through committing to a weekly club.

 Many thanks with your support. Any questions regarding clubs please see either the office team or myself.

 Mrs Mewett

Hope

Our assembly theme for this week and next is Hope: a good way to look forward to the excitement of the New Year! Today I told the story of Pandora's Box and on Monday we shall be thinking about the rainbow as a symbol of hope and its use in the new South African flag.

Parents' information sessions

We will be holding our termly parents' information sessions for each class next week. They will be held in the school hall from 9.00am until 9.30am.
Monday 14th January Year 3
Tuesday 15th January Year 1
Wednesday 16th January Year 2
Thursday 17th January Year 4
Friday 18th January Reception