Around the World in Eighty Days

I watched an amazing performance on Thursday night in Blandford St Mary School.

All the Key Stage 2 children performed with great skill and enthusiasm.The music was impressive,the dancers were terrific, every single child enjoyed being on stage .

It was  a real treat to watch!

Children and staff had obviously worked hard to achieve such success.

CONGRATULATIONS all your efforts were worth it.

Kate Melvin

Governor Visit

I spent a good afternoon in school today seeing the Children in their learning environment.  The plan was to do a short work/job presentation to year 5 when they arrived back from their trip to "Streetwise" in Poole, but they arrived back too late and I have promised to rearrange for another day.  I did give them a quick 5 minute introduction to myself and what I was going to show them, which was great and they were very quick to ask some pretty smart questions, so I am anticipating a very interactive session when I go back.
 
I also got to do a quick visit around the school with Carol Brown and chat to some of the children about what they were learning - it was great to have them so willingly engage me in what they were doing and nice to see them so enthusiastic about it too.  Thank you to those teachers on whose class we popped into - much appreciated.
 
Finally, as the Governor for Maths I got some good discussion time with Nick Osborne to talk about the new Maths Curriculum and how it was being rolled out with teachers and pupils at school.  There is clearly lots to do and bits still to clarify - particularly around performance marking - but there is a plan in place and the children have a great set of teachers to lead them through it all.
 
Until next time,  bye for now - Trevor Keep - Chair of Governors

Celebration Assembly - Year 1

An excellent display from Year 1 about their learning with the topic 'All Creatures Great and Small' .  They had learnt about endangered animals and had painted some brilliant pictures of tigers, eagles and a huge picture of a giant panda with some bamboo shoots with green leaves made from paper. Rebecca from Monkey World had been to visit the class and helped everyone make bottles with the monkeys favourite food inside. For National Poetry Day they decided to write about Orangutans and a poem was read for the whole school to enjoy.The class had been working very hard learning a dance and the video, with catchy music and some excellent moves, was great fun and very well performed.

 

The theme of the reflection time was 'Our Beautiful World' and the singing of 'All things bright and beautiful' was

loud and much enjoyed. Visitors to the assembly were then treated to cakes made by Year 1, which were decorated with poppies. 

 

A very interesting assembly with fantastic work and good listening and learning skills demonstrated.

Fireworks night!

What a fantastic spectacle night last night !! Great to see so many people enjoying themselves and a huge thank you to Trevor Keep and everyone else who was instrumental in putting it all together. Thank you!