Mostly music!

The Prince of Wales Musical Soiree

If your child has been learning an instrument for a while (not a beginner) or is a member of choir then you should have received a letter to invite you to watch them and their peers perform in the annual school concert. This takes place on Weds 10^th June in the school hall at 6pm. We are allocating adult tickets, two per family. If you wish for an extra seat then please let the office know you wish for extra and we will hand out the week before the concert. Thanks!

 

Beginners – Assembly on Monday22nd June at 10.10am

If your child has begun learning an instrument this year then this assembly is for you! Again, hopefully you will have received a letter to invite you. No seat limitations!  These groups include Reception beginner recorder group, Mr Farrington’s Yr 1 recorder group, Miss Johnson’s recorder group, Mrs Thorpe’s beginner uke group and hopefully the Yr 4 children who have started to learn the clarinet this year.  Please join us if you can; will be lovely for the children to get the support from you and their class mates.

Celt Day

We had a very successful Celt Day today, with glorious weather to match. We began the day by setting up our settlement/hillfort, going about daily life..........milking cows, chopping wood, collecting eggs, iron work, cooking etc suddenly, a Roman messenger ran into the fort telling us the terrible news that an enemy, by the name of Boudicca, was nearing our tribe.........what were we to do? Was this a red herring? We discussed strategies incase she should arrive and went about our daily duties, weaving, cooking bread over the fire and making jewellery, all the while keeping a look out for Boudicca. After lunch, we learned more about the Iceni Queen and decided that the Roman messenger was sent to try to turn us against her! We chose to wait for her arrival.........meanwhile, more weaving, building our own shelters and carving claves and making beads. as we neared the end of our Celtic experience we received news from Boudicca that the Romans had made her life very difficult and she was no longer willing to put up with this, so she recruited out tribe into her army and we marched off to seek out the Romans - a battle ensued, however the Romans had better weapons and battle plans - we were defeated!!!!!!!! Could we continue to live alongside the Romans.......?

Relationships and Sex Education Parent Information Sessions

We are holding parent information sessions for each class to explain our approach to Relationships and Sex Education as follows:

Monday 1st June                              Reception
Tuesday 2nd June                            Year 1
Wednesday 3rd June                        Year 2
Thursday 4th June                            Year 4
Friday 5th June                                 Year 3

As usual these will be held in the school hall from 9.00 until 9.30.

These sessions are designed to explain how the Jigsaw scheme of work that we are using in common with most other DASP First schools introduces Relationships and Sex education in an age appropriate, progressive way in a short series of lessons within the unit of work called "Changing Me".

Information about this is coming home via a newsletter but we hope these extra parent information sessions will be helpful in explaining the school's approach which has been approved by the governing body.

POWSA Summer Fair Saturday 6th June

At POWSA Towers we've been working hard to prepare for the Summer Fair. On Saturday 6th June we have the annual inter - school football & netball tournaments and running alongside these the chance for you to all enjoy yourselves, have fun and support the school. There will be games to play, candyfloss, burgers and juices to keep you going as well as the chance to cheer on the teams from years 3 & 4. There will be competitions: colouring, scone baking and a Minecraft challenge!

We have already received some initial donations of crockery and will welcome any more donations that you can spare. Please don't donate anything that might make an appearance on Antiques Roadshow but if you have any plates or bowls that are old, chipped or just unloved we will put them to a smashing new use.

There is a sign up sheet at the schools reception, if you can spare some time to help us on the day, be it flipping burgers on the BBQ (we'll supply the apron) or running a game for an hour please let us know, your help and support is greatly appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you there, the football  & netball kick off at 11am

PLEASE READ ME!!!!!!!!

Please read the blog, 2 blogs ago, about Celts day! We all discussed it today!

I talked about clothes and added it to last blogs, children doing bike ability should bring in their clothes for that and lunches will remain as normal!!!!!

Thanks

Mrs. J

Oooooops!!!! Kiwi cricket?????

Firstly, I apologise for "Kiwi" cricket, although a fruit salad game might have been fun!!!!! Also "insight" (must type slowly and check!!!!! There's a lesson for you Year 4, check check check!!!! :-)

Last rugby today, which was great fun - top trumps maths and lots of tag games! Thanks London Irish!

The children who competed in the Biathle had a great day and all moved up the rankings-well done!!!

Harry also told me that he had been for an audition for The Royal Ballet School!!!!!! Outstanding!!!! We will all be keeping our fingers crossed for you Harry - another young person with high ambition and who is chasing his dreams, you'll get there Harry, keep going!!!

See you all tomorrow-I hope you all took the letter from me about the change of pyjama swimming/life saving session!?!?

Mrs. Johnson

Results!!!! And Celt day

And the sporting success continues......... Well done to the team of 8 children who took part in the kiwi cricket festival-we came first, again!! !!!! The children also represented the school well and were a credit to us-well done!!!!

Ben S also competed for the first time this week in Yeovil, wheel chair racing and came first in the slalom event - all that training is paying off Ben, your Olympic dreams are insight!!!!

4 children independently entered the schools Biathle which took place at Leweston today, I can't wait to hear how they got on!!!!!

After Elise astounded us with her Self taught piano and flute skills this week, several other children were inspired and have been teaching themselves instruments - well done Erin for having the courage to play in front of us, your first audience!!!!!! I look forward to hearing how Sophie is progressing with her oboe and also if Ben W has any new guitar numbers up his sleeve!!!!!

Harry told me he is taking part in a 15k bike ride to raise money for a cancer charity, there is no end to your talents Harry too!!!!

This Thursday is our Celts day, please dress up, but as I said before, don't go buying a costume-legs must be covered up and sensible shoes worn as we will be using tools, a plain t-shirt is good and then accessorise with a towel/blanket over shoulders and maybe a belt or brooch!!!! Bring normal lunch and water bottle!!!!

See you tomorrow!!!

Mrs. J and The Team :-)

Ploughed area

Our wheat, barley and beans are making a good showing now! Hopefully, the wildflowers we also sowed should be soon be showing!

Swimming gala success!

We have just heard that one of our teams came FIRST in the West Dorset Swimming Gala this week! Two of our swimmers will now go on to represent West Dorset in a county wide gala. Congratulations! Our other team came a very creditable 7th out of 11 schools. Well done!

Fairthorne Feedback

Many thanks to those parents who have left us know what your views are about the recent residential trip to Fairthorne Manor. If you haven't done so, please send us an email or chat to Mr Farrington when you see him. It will be really helpful to get your views. Check out some of the photos in the foyer screen and also on the website!

Swimming gala

Well done to all the children who took part in the West Dorset Swimming Gala. You all enjoyed yourselves competing against other children and you all did extremely well! A special thank you to the three reserves who were happy to support their classmates and be available in case of illness....sorry we couldn't get you a swim. We now look forward to the results which will be sent to us in due course! Mrs Smith deserves a special mention for helping the children make such great progress over the course of the year.

swimming gala reminder.........

We were lucky enough to hear the musicians, who learn the violin, play for us this morning - it was great to hear and see such progress since the last time - well done Sam D and Elise - brilliant - I look forward to hearing you again in the summer concert! And, of course, all the other musicians!

Well done to Georgia B, Be a and Rocco who took part in a Biathle competition at Millfield yesterday - a tough event indeed, great resilience!!!!

Running club as usual tomorrow.

Those of you in the swimming gala, don't forget your kits, 2 x towels, water bottles and packed lunch!!!

We began our Year 4 tests today - reading and mental maths - super focus year 4, well done! We will be doing numeracy and writing during the week. These tests go up to middle schools and support out teacher assessments.

See you all tomorrow!

Mrs. J

Pictures

Check out the school website and year 4 class photos for Fairthorne pics!!!!! (I think I definitely spotted some super hero shots!!!!)

Our Fiarthorne diaries are looking superb-when they are written they will be on display in class along with photos, so please come in and have a look!!!!

Science: we began learning about habitats and investigated the school grounds.....
History: we began comparing and contrasting middle Stone Age, New Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
PE: we continued playing cricket and 8 children have been selected to take part in a festival next Fridayat the cricket ground from 9:30-2:30. If there are 1 or 2 parents that would like to accompany the group for the day then please pop in and see me!!! Swimming gala letters went home yesterday, well done to those children taking part, please let me know ASAP if they cannot take part for any reason.
Music: painting with sound.

The next few weeks spellings will be focusing on homophones and Year 4 word list words. X tables are now mixed.

On the Last Thursday of this half term we are planning a Celt day, the children will be asked to come in dressed as a Celt-please DO NOT buy new clothes.......plain trousers or leggings and sturdy shoes (as we will be using tools/knives in the roundhouse area-with Mrs. Thorpe our trained Forest Schools teacher) and then a plain top and either a towel or blanket make a great shawl!!!!!! Have a hunt on google for pictures!!!!!

Mrs. J :-)

A Fairthorne post from Mr F.

A quick blog to say how much we all enjoyed taking the Year 4 children away to Fairthorne Manor last week. Everyone had a brilliant time and the children participated with great enthusiasm, good humour and super co-operation. I hope the children have been able to tell parents all about their adventures!

No running club this week/Fairthorne

I hope you are all feeling fully rested after such a fun-packed, busy residential trip? It was a fantastic trip with many exciting experiences! ALL children on the trip overcame fears and barriers and achieved things they never thought they could!!!! Super brave class!!!!!! We played games in the dark as well as exploring the woods at night!!!! There was a colossal football match against a primary school from Bristol (approx 40 children playing!!!!!!), new songs learned around the campfire, abseiling, raft building, kayaking, orienteering, zip-wiring, pond dipping, archery, crate challenge.

The children shared their rooms brilliantly, looking after each other and working as a team to keep them tidy!!!! This class was outstanding at bedtimes with EVERY child going straight to sleep and sleeping soundly through the night!!!! Amazing!!!!!
There were quite a few items left behind so they will be outside the classroom at the end of the day to be claimed!!!!!

I hope you all feel very proud of yourselves and your achievements last week - we will be spending this weeks literacy based around the trip and photos will be on display by the end of the week for parents to come and see!!!!!! Lots of valuable memories created to treasure forever!!!!! Well done!!!!

There will be no running club tomorrow, however I will run one in the last week of this half term and for any children taking part in the Schools Biathle in 2 weeks time, I will run an extra training session next week.

Don't forget Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Bishop's parent information session on Thursday at 9 in the school hall - a very valuable session that I recommend you come along to!

A huge Thankyou to Mr. Macbean, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Long for giving up their time to come on the trip and make it such a memorable one!!!!!! And, of course, not forgetting Mr. Farrington, who we had the privilege of sharing his last Fairthorne trip with and hope that we helped make it a memorable one for him too!!!!

Mrs. J