Friday 24 October 2014

Governor's blog

Harvest Assembly

The Reception class children showed off all the hard work they have been doing based on Autumn in their first class assembly today.
Having been into Reception class on Tuesday morning, I saw the children working on cutting out pumpkins (that they had painted the day before) and creating fantastic autumn leaf pictures using vibrant, eye catching paints.
These were all on display today, along with pictures of baskets of fruit and also some fantastic singing to a lively harvest themed song which everybody enjoyed. An excellent first assembly for Reception class.

It was also great to see that so many children from across the school had taken part in the Library Challenge this summer and they were rewarded with the certificates for this achievement today.

Amanda Oakley
Foundation & Early Years Governor
24/10/14

Thursday 23 October 2014

Chair of Governor's Training

It has been all change within the Governing body over the last few months and I am very happy to have been elected as the new Chair of Governors at Blandford St. Mary.  We have a great governing team and I will be doing my best to lead the Governing Body in serving the best interests of the school.  To help with this I have enrolled on the Chair of Governors Leadership Development Programme and this week completed my first day of training, which proved a great learning and networking opportunity and is something that will definitely help me going forward.  If anyone reading this has any questions then please do stop me when in school or drop me an email at trevor.keep@hotmail.co.uk.
 
Trevor

Wednesday 22 October 2014



Today in Year 1 the children were very busy.  The egg they had been looking after so carefully had hatched leaving only a pile of twigs and leaves.  The very sad fact is that the baby dinosaur was nowhere to be seen !  The children searched the room and looked around the trees and bushes outside.    It was time to get busy and expand the search.

Posters were made with a picture of a baby dinosaur so everyone would know exactly what it would look like and at the top of the poster in large letters the word ‘Missing’
The posters were put up around the school in the hope someone would find the dinosaur.

Some amazing fossils were being found in the sand pit as the children learnt to be
paleontologists and search for remains of creatures that were alive millions of years ago.
Just before home time the story about Tom and his adventures was read with everyone
listening very carefully and quietly. The story was about Tom almost getting stuck in a bog. Fortunately Tom was able to reach out to a nearby fern and haul himself free.
A lively and interesting afternoon with some time spent admiring the new additions to the room – a new fish tank with four beautiful fish swimming very fast indeed !



Anne Davies-Hutton  

21/10/2014