Monday 11 November 2013

Firework night success

Hi,
Just wanted to say a big thank you to my Friends of School and Governor colleagues who helped to organise what turned out to be a really great firework night for the children and their families at Blandford St. Mary School.  You each played a vital role in its success and I cannot thank you enough for your support.  All being well I hope this is something we can do on an annual basis for the children at school going forward.
 
Thanks again,
 
Trevor

Thursday 13 June 2013

BLMIS meeting.

Mick and I attended the BLMIS meeting on behalf of Blandford St. Mary this afternoon.  Yet another productive meeting at which we have managed to secure the much needed funds to resurface the school playground.  This should take place over the school summer holiday and hence be in place for the new academic year.  Other minor building maintenance type issues that the school has are also being addressed and things feel as though they are moving forward, which is great.
 
Trevor Keep

Monday 10 June 2013

Kingston Lacy Running Festival

Please could you put the following onto the Blandford St. Mary School Governor Blog - many thanks:
 
A great turnout by the Governors, Staff and parents from the school at the Kingston Lacy Running Festival yesterday (Sunday 9th June) - both to run in one of the races and to assist with marshalling.  It was a well organised event by VO2 and everyone seemed to enjoy a good run through the grounds of Kingston Lacy, especially Seb and Paul Flavell who won the Family Fun Mile.  It was good to see some supporters from school there too - in fact it was much appreciated from those of us striding out to complete one of the main distance events.
 
All efforts - runners and supporters - will have helped to raise some funds through Friends of School for some additional school equipment, so all in a good cause - the exact amount is yet to be confirmed, but several hundred pounds has been raised to date, so a great team effort by all.
 
Well done and thank you to everyone who got involved.

Trevor Keep.

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Sports Day Success.......and rain.

Please could you put the following onto the Blandford St. Mary School Governor Blog - many thanks:
 
Well we managed one half of the School Sports Day.  It was great to see the enthusiasm and efforts being put in from the Key Stage 1 Children and there was some great support from Parents.  Unfortunately the rain crept in at lunchtime and the Key Stage 2 Sports Day had to be put off for another day.
 
Trevor Keep.

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Safeguarding


Had a very interesting and informative meeting this afternoon with Mr Lavis. We worked our way through the latest safe guarding audit covering all policies and procedures. As a parent, governor and the designated safeguarding governor I was overwhelmed by the amount of work, time and commitment Mr Lavis and the staff contribute towards this very important subject. Outstanding!

Emma Willson - Safeguarding Governor

Thursday 7 March 2013

World Book Day

The children were buzzing in school this afternoon.
Reception children had made paper dolls stimulated by Julia Donaldson's new book Paper Dolls.
They made a very colourful display.
In year 1 some children were writing new adventures for the paper dolls while others were making up recipes for scrambled snake, owl ice cream and roasted fox.
Year 2 were stimulated by Roald Dahl's The Twits.
They designed new book covers with blurb on the back,created a life size Mrs Twit, wrote new tricks for the Twits to play on each other and lastly a group were making walking sticks and worm spaghetti.
The children were engrossed in their tasks obviously enjoying every minute of their World Book Day.
 
I didn't have time to visit KS2 but I did hear equally exciting happening were going on.
 
Thanks to all for an interesting and stimulating visit.
Kate Melvin

Thursday 14 February 2013

Enterprise week

It was great to see the kids getting involved with Enterprise week.  Some good pitches at the Friday morning assembly prior to selling everything they had made later that day.

I myself presented to Year 6 about my work and job (Engineering Manager).  Not as easy presenting to a set of year 6 children as it is a group of engineers, but with a few props and a couple of willing volunteers from the class everything seemed to go ok.  They seemed to enjoy it and I did too to be honest – may well even see one of them join our work force on an apprenticeship or something in years to come.

 

Well done to everyone for their part in making Enterprise Week such a success.

 

Trevor Keep


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Wednesday 13 February 2013

Year 6 Netball Festival

How lovely to watch Year 6 Netball Festival this afternoon, despite the cold and raining conditions the girls played with grit and determination never giving up.

The tournament ended with the team coming a very impressive 3rd place.

Well done Year 6 Netball team and Mrs Thomas

Jayne Green

Monday 11 February 2013

Enterprise Week

How busy the children and teachers have been this week which resulted in such lovely products being made.  This Fridays assembly each class advertised their products ready for selling to the other children in the afternoon
 
Reception made terrific dinosaur biscuits, mobiles and badges. 
Year 1 continued with their Victorian theme and made toys such as cup toys and dolls and advertised them by great posters  
Year 2 made windmills and spinners which kept there 'moving and motion' theme and they told us how fantastic they were by clever jingles. 
Year 3 chocolate truffles looked gorgeous and the children's adverts they made were very entertaining. 
Year 4s lavender pillows promoted Fair Trade and produced an outstanding product.
Year 5 battled with technology but the live adverts promoting their jam were first rate and all the children performed brilliantly, I am sure the jam will taste as good as their advertising!
and finally Year 6 made boxes, all different kinds for all different storage uses.
 
A very successful week with hopefully lots of money being raised in a very productive and educational way.
 
Jayne Green

Thursday 7 February 2013

Enterprise Week Year 4

Exciting times in class this week. The children are thoroughly enjoying planning, researching and making their products. I cannot wait to see what treasures they will bring home Friday. Even though they would have preferred not to be doing spellings with me. Excellent results achieved as ever. Emma Willson Parent Governor
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Saturday 2 February 2013

Assembly 1st February 2013

Yet again Year 2 amazed us when they told us about their work on Traditional Tales.
They wrote their own versions where the good characters became bad and the bad good.
We watched their animated stories on laptops...............wow......what great achievements!
 
Then they showed us moving toys that they had made but that was not all------------------
they finished off with a gymnastic display that they are preparing for a Gymnastic Festival.
Brilliant balances!
 
After assembly while the parents were looking at the children's work we were treated to tea and biscuits.
Not any old biscuits but biscuits decorated with symmetrical patterns.
 
The children and staff have worked hard to produce such varied examples of curriculum learning.
I can't wait to see and hear what learning they will achieve in the summer term!
 
Kate Melvin