"Nurturing hearts; Inspiring minds"
News
See our home page for what is happening this week, and recent letters sent home.
Take a look at our new school slogan and our revised school values, aims and purposes. |
Following consultations with pupils, parents, staff and governors, and our two twilight sessions, we have created clear statements that we feel reflect the ethos of our school, and the direction in which we want our school to evolve. We used the ideas contributed by everyone about our strengths and what we do well, along with the areas we want to improve, to help define these values, aims and purposes. They are closely linked to our Rights and Responsibilities, and demonstrate our mission to encourage every child to achieve and be happy. Our new school slogan is unveiled at the top of this page, and stands for the very essence of what we aim to promote and achieve at All Saints. |
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What happened last week? |
Take a look below at our recent 'news' items! |
Week beginning Monday 23rd April 2012
In Assembly this week our theme is... compassion
Hooke Court - year 5 residential
On Wednesday 18th April, Miss S and Mrs Green accompanied the very excited (and a little nervous!) year 5s as they experienced their first school residential trip at Hooke Court Educational Centre near Beaminster. Among the activities enjoyed by the children were making dens in the forest, tackling the low rope and zipe wire course, bridging a moat and carrying treasure across it, and going on a spooky night walk.
Everyone's favourite activity, however, was the creation and launching of our own rockets! They went extraordinarily high in the sky - some landed in trees, while one group's fell into the neighbouring pig sty! The pig and her piglets were so interested in the rocket that they started to eat it!
Everyone had an amazing time at Hooke Court, and we particularly enjoyed meeting with other schools in our cluster. We got on really well with our new friends, and worked well together as a team.
Week beginning Monday 26th March 2012
In assembly this week our theme is...
All Saints Netballers are North Dorset Champs!
On a beautiful but hot day on Wednesday 28th March, our netballers took part in a tournament against all the primary schools in North Dorset... and won!
The team triumphed with a combination of excellent shooting, marking and intercepting, dodging and finding space, and catching and throwing skills - but most of all, TEAM WORK!
We now have the trophy at All Saints for a whole year, and will go on to compete against the winnng teams across the other areas of Dorset.
A big thanks to the mums who came with the team to the Gryphon and supported them, and huge thanks to Mrs Powell for her expert coaching.
Well done everyone!
Our footballers place fourth out of all North Dorset schools!
During the same day, our football team also did fantastically well, playing through the heat and working as a team to end up in fourth place overall. It is a fantastic result, and reflects the huge amount of hard work the team have put in this season. Congratulations!
Our Easter celebration service at All Saints Church |
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The whole school went along to Bishops Caundle church on Thursday 29th March for our special Easter service.Drama club performed a piece called 'the three trees', and each class read out poems and prayers for Easter. |
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The Reverend Budgell explained to everyone where her 'stole' had originated from, and explained what each colour stole represents.
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We sang four special hymns for the occasion, and some of us even had a chance to play the organ after the service! Thanks to the Reverend Budgell and Mr Budgell for a lovely service, and thank you to the parents and governors who attended. A big well done to all the children for performing and singing so beautifully! |
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Sapphires go Aztec!To celebrate their term's learning about the Aztec Civilization, Sapphire class played the popular Pinata game. They also sampled some typical Latin American nibbles!
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Week beginning 19th March 2012
Diamond Celebration Assembly |
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On Wednesday 21st March Diamonds presented parents and the rest of the school with a celebration assembly to show what they have been learning about this term. Every child in the class took part, showing artwork on reflections, or reading out pieces of writing they had done. They also explained about their trip to the Yeovilton Air Station, and what they enjoyed doing there. Click here to see the pdf presentation of the Diamond trip to Yeovilton Air Station. |
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Everyone especially enjoyed their performance of 'How the Tortoise got its shell', which they had learned through story-making. |
 
Click on one of the two pictures above to watch Diamond class perform their story-making!
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Tennis time!
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Diamond and Ruby classes took part in specialist tennis lessons on Wednesday with a qualified instructor. Everyone enjoyed practising catching and hitting the ball in different ways. Rubies thought the best bit was when the instructor hit the ball and it made a big SPLASH in the pond!
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Take one Picture progressDiamonds have painted the different pieces of their design. Soon they will be moving on to adding detail to their images using wool. |
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Rubies have now painted their traced pattern - we think it looks very 1920s! From this they have started rag-rugging.
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Sapphires have now moved on to working with Mudrock.
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Outdoor Campaigners assembly
On Tuesday 20th March we enjoyed a special assembly taken by the Outdoor Campaigners. They painted a special picture as they told the story of a young boy who grew up to make a huge difference to his community, and helped us think about ways in which can make a difference to the lives of other people.
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Well done to the year 3s and 4s for taking part in their first ever netball tournament!Our squad travelled to Sherborne Abbey School on Wednesday 21st March to take part in the pyramid netball tournament. We were nervous but excited, and after playing 8 matches, we came 5th overall, which we're very happy with. We made some great shots at goal, and now need to practise our marking and snappy passing. Well done everyone!
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Our snooker table is back in operation!Our snooker table, which is a popular choice for golden time, was in rather a poor state. That is until Mr Dummett kindly stepped in and offered to refurbish it for us. Now it looks as good as new! Many thanks to Mr Dummett for taking the time and resources to help us get back into championship-playing mode! |
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Sapphires practise their sewing-machine skillsWe are very lucky to benefit from the amazing sewing skills of Mrs Scott, who comes in every week to help Sapphires with creative projects. At the moment, she is helping us make our tidy-bags, which we hang on the back of our chairs. Some of us were a bit nervous about using a sewing machine at first, but now we are becoming much more confident! A big thanks to Mrs Scott for donating her time and skills. |
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Portrait perfectionChildren from each class have been working with Mrs Lewis to create staff portraits. These will be displayed in our newly decorated reception area - come and take a look! Mrs Lewis helped us think carefully about proportioning features, and close-up detail. Thanks to her help, we have lots of budding professional artists on our hands! |
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Week beginning 12th March 2012
Rubies link up with an American school...via Skype!
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Rubies have formed a link with a large Primary school in America, in the city of Indianapolis. Using Skype on the school laptops, the children have had their first video call with children in the 'Fourth Grade'. So far, we have introduced ourselves and asked questions about each other's schools. We have found out that there are around 500 people at the American school, and it has 19 classes! We showed them our school field and the views and the children thought they were 'awesome'!
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We plan on a regular link up in order to help us write 'biographies' of our new transatlantic friends. Following that, we aim to have a once weekly video call to see how we can help each other learn. Rubies have already learnt that despite the differences between our school and the American school, we also have lots of things in common. To find out more about our link-up school, click here to be taken to their website.
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Take One Picture: Sapphires progress with their Cubist modelsArtist Jane Burden spent an afternoon with Sapphire class, as they explored translating their still life sketches into 3D Cubist shapes. The next stage will be creating these in Mudrock. Jane will be in next week helping Diamonds and Rubies with their artwork based on the William Kalf painting.
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Special Sapphire Celebration Assembly
Watch their performance by clicking on the above!
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Children, staff, parents and governors watched a fabulous assembly on Wednesday 14th March given by Sapphires. Demonstrating their learning so far during the Spring term, we were treated to a brilliant maths masterclass in angles and types of lines by Jasper and Toby, along with writing and artwork from 'The Sailing Boat in the Sky' that Sapphires studied during Book Week.
Every member of the class took part - and all of Sapphires ended their assembly with a medley of songs they had learnt on their 'ocarinas'. |
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Week beginning 5th March 2012
Our theme was... Fair Trade Fortnight
Fairtrade tea-partyTo mark the end of Fairtrade Fortnight, Mrs Green organised a fabulous tea-party for the whole school, using the fairtrade items kindly donated by families. She was able to offer out cereal bars, bananas dipped in chocolate and cocoa powder, and segments of orange and pineapple. We also watched different Fairtrade video clips to learn about how buying Fairtrade items helps workers gain a fair wage in order to help them in having their basic human rights met. |
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Mrs Crumpler was also able to announce how much money had been collected by the donation of coppers - £45! Matched by government funding, this will mean we have raised £90 to go towards clean water schemes in Africa through Cafod. For more information on their 'thirsting for change' scheme, click here to be taken to their website. Thank you to everyone who contributed towards making our Fairtrade Fortnight special. |
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Mrs Green has organised a series of events to take place to support 'Fairtrade Fortnight', and to raise awareness of the Fairtrade organization. For more information about what we have planned, please click here to read her letter. To find out more about Fairtrade, visit their website by clicking here.We have been learning about Fairtrade through different activities. In Sapphires, we were put in to groups with specific materials, and had to make certain objects in order to earn money. Each group was missing something important, and had to use teamwork and ingenuity to keep their production line going!
In Rubies, we used the coppers collected in as a maths lesson, where we practised our skills in counting and grouping money in different amounts, before bagging it and checking it was correct. Some of us were also able to estimate the total amount raised, by multiplying the number of tables counting money (eleven) by the amount they had counted themselves, using the multiplication grid method to work it out. |
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Congratulations to our netball team, who played matches against teams from the Sherborne Partnership at the Gryphon School on Wednesday 7th March. They came joint second out of all the participating schools, and are now looking forward to the North Dorset Championship!
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A huge well done to our netballers!
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Congratulations to our Cross Country runners!Well done to everyone who took part in the cross country running at the Gryphon. Everyone placed really well, including a 7th place from Harriet! You all have excellent long-distance running skills! |
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Book Week short story competition winners!Thank you and well done to everyone who entered our short story competition. After careful reading by the teachers, the winners were announced in our Book Week assembly. Winners from each class received a £5 voucher to spend at the book fair; a runner up from each class received a special 'hand dabber', and an overall winner received an additional dabber and a pot of special fine liner pens. Everyone who entered also achieved 3 stickers for their achievement chart. Well done everyone, we have so many talented writers in our school! |
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Miss S and the year 3s, along with children from Buckland Newton and Bradford Abbas schools, visited the Ancient Technology Centre in Cranborne on Thursday 8th March, where they explored what life would have been like for people living in England during the Stone age and the Iron age.
We undertook several different activities that children would have had to do on a daily basis back then, such as digging the ground to prepare it for growing crops, ploughing the fields, drawing water, making fences, and creating fire. We saw recreations of ancient buildings, and even sat on animal skin rugs that included beavers, bears and wolves! We had such a great day - some of us even said it was the best day out they'd ever had!Thank you to Mrs Harvey for accompanying us on our trip!
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Eco-Committee special presentationOn Monday 5th March our Eco-committee gave a special assembly. They explained what they are working on at the moment, and gave an interesting talk with a powerpoint presentation. The committee talked about how important trees are to our eco-system, and what they do that helps our planet survive. They described the types of trees that the seeds each child took home as part of their special Jubliee tree planting pack, and how they grow. To take a look at their their powerpoint slides, click here. To read their script, click through to our eco-page! To find out more about the Jubilee Plant a Tree scheme run by the Woodland Trust, click here to go to their website. |
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Fairtrade Family Fun Day Tuesday 6th MarchParents and children have been invited to spend time having some creative fun together using fairtrade products, in a special day run by Dorset County Council. Using chocolate, coffee, tea and bananas as inspiration, they are making some wonderful artwork to take home.
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Take One PictureWe are taking part in this national art initiative, where creative projects are undertaken in collaboration with local artists, based on a specific picture. The picture this year is called 'Still Life with Drinking Horn', and is by the Dutch artist William Kalf. Each class is working with local artist Jane Burden, who has been the creative force behind our previous fantastic projects for Take One Picture. Diamonds are looking at the use of reflections through collage; Rubies are exploring rag-rugging using the carpet as stimulus, and Sapphires are examining the picture through Cubism.
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Finished artwork from our school will be shown alongside other pieces from our cluster schools at a special exhibition in the Summer term. To find out more about the National Gallery Take One Picture scheme, the picture and the artist, click here to be taken to their website.
We will put more pictures up of our projects as they progress! |
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Our Chess Tournament has started!
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Miss S managed to speak to some of the competitors during their first round matches. She asked Sam what skills were required to be a great chess player: "full concentration and good tactics". Billy agreed, and added that you need to have a "good mind and clever thinking".
Miss S also asked why they decided to take up chess. Samuel said "it's a good opportunity for me to develop my skills", and Jordan explained that "it's fun - when I get a point it makes me happy". Check back over the next few weeks to find out how the tournament is progressing. For more information about chess club, take a look at our chess page on the website. |
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Curriculum CookingWe are very lucky to benefit from the culinary talents of three parents, Mrs Harvey, Mrs Read and Mrs Loader, who have kindly donated their time to provide children with a weekly experience of food preparation and cooking during golden time. This term, we have extended the time given for cooking to approximately an hour, and made it part of our curriculum learning time. Each week, children from different classes are learning how to prepare and create nutritious and healthy snacks, working together as a team. In this way, all children across the school will have the opportunity to learn about healthy eating, and acquire the skills to make informed choices about food and its preparation. This is really important to us as a healthy school. For more information about keeping healthy, click here to visit the government's 'Change4Life' website. |
We love seeing what they've made each week - and the smells coming from the kitchen are fabulous! |
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Piano LessonsMrs Irving has started to provide piano lessons for those children who wanted to take it up as an instrument. We are doing really well, and with practice hope to perform what we have been learning at a future celebration assembly! |
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Week beginning 27th February 2012
This week it's... BOOK WEEK!
There will be lots of exciting activities during Book Week, including a whole-school quiz, not to mention our fancy dress Friday, where you can come to school dressed as your favourite book character.Remember that we will also be holding our fantastic short story writing competition! One child per class will receive £5 worth of book vouchers to spend at the book fair.NEWS FLASH... The deadline has now passed, and our teachers are currently carefully reading all stories submitted. Winners will be announced in Friday's assembly!We held a special superskills session on Wednesday, where Key Stage 2 children read to younger children.We all really enjoy being heard read, or being read to!
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We will also be holding a Scholastic Book Fair, which will run from Tuesday 28th February to Monday 5th March, before and after school in the school hall. Do come along and support it - from the money taken, the school receives a proportion back to spend on books for our library - our target for the week is £700. You can download a handy guide to encouraging your child to read at home that Scholastic have produced by clicking here.
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Books at Bedtime
We held our first ever books at bedtime event on Thursday 1st March at 6pm. Children came to school in pyjamas with their teddies, and listened to books read by staff before having a hot chocolate (and marshmallows) and a biscuit in the hall.
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They enjoyed one last story read to them by Mrs Crumpler before it was time to go home. Everyone who came thought it was brilliant, and that we should definitely do it next year. The year 6s who said they won't be here next year have been invited back to help with the reading next time!
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Week beginning 20th February 2012
Diamond Trip to Yeovilton Air Station Friday 24th FebruaryReception and years 1 and 2 travelled to the Yeovilton Air Station to meet with Commander Wookey and Lieutenent. Commander Johnny Hartley, where they sat inside a helicopter and watched a simulator in action!
They also went inside (and on top of!) a fire engine, and squirted water from the hose at moving targets.Diamonds came back buzzing with lots of ideas, which will be used to help them with their learning over the next few weeks. Their learning will be ready for Diamonds' celebration assembly, so do remember to come and see all the great things they have been achieving on Wednesday 21st March at 9am in the school hall. Many thanks go to everyone involved in the trip, including Mr Harding for accompanying Diamonds. |
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Ash Wednesday ServiceA special worship was held in the school hall on Wednesday 22nd February by the Reverend William Ridding. We thought carefully about the meaning and significance of Lent, and gave extra thanks and prayers to people who are important to us. The Reverend made the sign of the cross in ash on the foreheads of representatives from each class. |
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Exciting news for all Dr Who fans aged 9-11! |
The challenge is simple. We are to write a mini-episode that features the Doctor in an Olympic-themed adventure. Amy and Rory can be included in the script alongside one of four familiar alien species plus a brand new human character. Miss S will be taking writing workshops every Thursday lunchtime for those who would like to enter - the deadline is in March, so we have lots of time to really polish up an amazing script that will be perfect for the time lord! Don't take our word for it - hear from the Dr himself! Click here to follow the link and to watch Matt Smith introduce the competition. For more information, click here to visit the BBC Dr Who website. |
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Week beginning 12th December 2011
This week in assembly we are thinking about...
Christmas
Take a look at our Christmas schedule below - there are lots of exciting things happening!
Christmas Party time!On Thursday 15th December the whole school dressed up in fancy dress and enjoyed lots of party food, following a special visit from Father Christmas!
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A visit from Father Christmas... on a tractor!During our Christmas Party lunch on the 15th December we were thrilled and delighted to receive a surprise visit from Father Christmas, who chose the perfect countryside form of transport to get here: a tractor! He asked if everyone had been good, and said that he had read all of our letters, before giving out sweets. Thank you for visiting us Father Christmas!
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Letters to Father Christmas... care of the Chief ElfOn Thursday 8th December we had a flying visit from Father Christmas' Chief Elf. She arrived by helicopter to meet the children and collect in their letters to Father Christmas, which every child had written. Staff have chosen letters from each class that they were really impressed with, to put on the website. See if you can work out why!
A big thank you also to the year 6s, who helped members of Diamonds compose their letters. The letter below was written in a 'buddy pair'. Isobel in Reception told Sophie H what to put down. |
Diamonds...Dear Santa, Please may I have a box of Bloco. I would like a box of Bloco. It would be fun. Love from Eleanor.
Rubies...Dear Father Christmas, this time for Christmas I would like to share things with every poor child, but first I would really appreciate it if you could get me a 3DS. For the poor children I think they should get healthy food and water. From Oliver. Dear Father Christmas, I am writing to tell you what I would like for me and everyone else this Christmas. This year I only want a few things, like Supergraphics and Vectron Wave. May you give Christmas spirit to all who need it and all who don't, and a box of chocolates for granny please. Please make another child's Christmas special and magical, as ours are. Give them the correct medical care, so that they live longer, give them education, so that they can progress in every subject as their lives expand. Sprinkle some magic on those children this Christmas. Yours sincerely Ellen. |
Sapphires...Dear Santa, I would like for Christmas a Smurf book, because I have watched the movie but I think the book will be far better. Also may I be able to have a Tweety-pie key ring, so I can hang it in my school bag. I know I'm being greedy but could you also bring some chocolate and Smurf dvds, so my family and I can have a cinema. From Brooke. Dear Father Christmas, this year I've asked for quite an expensive gift I admit but if you could squeeze one or two things for me and my family you wouldn't believe how much I would appreciate it. It would be fantastic if we as a family could have a chess set. I desperately want to beat my dad and help my mum learn. The pleasant surprise is I would love to see it snowing, I think many people would agree with me, and in return I shall give you some luscious goodies for you and your reindeer - or tell me what do you fancy? Thank you so much! From Jack. |
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Tuck shop updateThis term our weekly tuck shop has raised just over £150 for school funds. It is an extremely popular part of the children's Thursdays! We are all so grateful to the people who have provided items to sell, and to all parents for providing money for the children to buy the items! Also a big well done to the year 6s who organise the tuck shop, including laying out the goods, following strict health and hygiene standards when dealing with food, organising who serves and who takes the money, and counting the profits afterwards. They have demonstrated excellent organisation and business skills! |
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Gryphon and All Saints recorder concertWe were lucky enough to receive a visit from the Gryphon School's recorder ensemble on Thursday 15th December. Members of Rubies and Sapphires had practised a version of 'Good King Wensleslas', which they performed with the Gryphon students. They had only learnt the carol in a week, and it sounded brilliant!
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Christmas Carol ServiceOn the evening of Wednesday 14th December, a magical Christmas Carol service was held at Stourton Caundle church. Lots of families came to hear the year 6s give special readings. The teachers were so proud of them, as every child read absolutely BEAUTIFULLY! Rubies created a nativity tableaux, and played their parts extremely well. We also sang lots of festive carols, and went home full of Christmas cheer. Thank you to everyone who participated in this event!
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Our Christmas nativity - soon to be in the Western Gazette!Our nativity this year is called 'The Animals from the Stable' - the children in Diamonds decided what animals would be there! Rubies provided choral support, and sang beautifully. The solo singers sounded amazing! Before the nativity began, Sapphires performed the story of 'Pappa Panov' off by heart, and performed their 12 bar blues composition. After the performance, a photographer from the Western Gazette came and took a photo of our nativity scene - hopefully it will be in an upcoming issue! Listen to performances of the Ruby Choir singing songs from the nativity here: |
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Look at all the things we did last week!
Key Stage 1 party and meeting Father ChristmasDiamonds played party games and saw Father Christmas on Friday 9th December. Everyone told him what they would like for Christmas, and he said he'd talk to the Elves and gave them a chocolate treat.
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Key Stage 2 disco!Rubies and Sapphires brought their best dance moves to the school disco, which included a dance-off between boys v girls and the two classes. Everyone had great fun dancing - some of us couldn't stop!
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Hot school meals Christmas specialSo many of our children opted for the hot school meal on Thursday - there was a queue all around the outside of the hall! We had a full turkey lunch with mince pies, party hats and festive tunes. Thanks to Mrs Chalke and Mrs Hallett for being fantastic lunchtime supervisors, and making the mealtime run seamlessly!
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The Chief Elf has landed!The whole school was filled with excitement on Thursday 8th December as a helicopter flew in to land on the school field, bringing with it Father Christmas' Chief Elf! The elf visited each class and picked up our letters for Father Christmas. We asked her lots of questions, sung her a song, then rushed outside to wave her off as the helicopter picked her up and sped away. It's so exciting to think our letters are now en route to the North Pole!
Take a look HERE at the video Miss S took of the helicopter dropping off the Chief Elf, and HERE to see the Chief Elf leaving with our letters for Father Christmas! |
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Ruby RecitalRubies gave a brilliant performance to parents and the whole school today, showcasing their flute and recorder learning from this term. |
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Christmas buffet lunch
Children who have hot school meals were treated to a delicious Christmas buffet lunch on Wednesday 7th December, complete with party hats and Christmas cake!
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Sapphires play the blues...Years 5 and 6 have been working with Miss Davies from the music department at the Gryphon School, learning about the 12 bar blues. Through these workshops, they have created a song to fit a Victorian poem written by Eleanor Farjean. |
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Mrs Dodd, artist extraordinaire!Rubies have been learning about famous Victorian painters in art as part of their Victorian topic, including the work of John Everett Millais, who painted the famous 'Ophelia' painting. Rubies had all contributed to creating a large-scale version, but needed some help thinking about how to paint in the facial features. So they were thrilled to have help from parent Sam Dodd, who just so happens to be a professional artist! She worked with the class in small groups to help them add facial features that were clear and in proportion. Take a look at the finished result and see what you think. Thank you Mrs Dodd for your help! |
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Christmas lambs!On Monday 5th of December the whole school was lucky enough to receive a visit from Sophie's dad, who brought in two of his baby lambs. We were allowed to stroke them - they felt wonderfully soft! Sophie's dad was extremely impressed with the questions we asked - we found out that the numbers made with red spray on their backs is so that the farmer can match them with their mums, and that these lambs are for breeding, NOT for eating (phew!). Rubies wrote Mr Hole thank you letters for showing us his amazing lambs. Miss S and Mrs Green chose these letters by Finlay and Annabelle because they used excellent specific vocabulary and paragraphs.
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These letters have actually been typed straight onto the website by Finlay and Annabelle themselves!
Dear Mr Hole, I'm writing to you because I would like to say a big thank you for showing us the lambs! It was very fun because it was the first time ever I'd stroked a lamb I've only seen one. I felt good because it was the first time I'd ever felt fur in my life. I found out when the belly button fell off it didn't hurt at all. What is it like to own sheep? Why do they have those tags on their ears? When does their belly button fall off? How many sheep have you got? From Finlay. Dear Mr Hole, I'm writing to you to say thank you for bringing two of your lambs in for our school to see. I can't imagine what it was like for you to get the lambs you wanted, and transporting them to our school. I also wonder how much trouble it was getting them out of the field and into the box. It was such a great experience because I have never stroked a lamb before. I felt like I was touching a jumper. When you brought the lambs in I discovered that they don't have names and they are one week old. They have little tags on their ears like number plates on a car. Also they are sprayed one side to match them with their mum. Yours sincerely Annabelle.
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Bring your Christingle...Last Thursday we all went to Bishops Caundle church for our Christingle service. Lots of parents came to hear us sing special hymns, read prayers, and light our Christingles. We remembered what each part of the Christingle represented. Although we were encouraged to wait until we got home before eating any of it, some of us couldn't resist, and the sweets and fruit had already gone by the time we arrived back at school! |
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Diamond celebration assemblyOn Wednesday 30th November, Diamonds showed delighted parents a selection of their learning from this term. These celebration assemblies have been really successful, and we will be doing them every term! Mrs Cozens has put together a presentation for those parents who were unable to attend - find out about the amazing learning taking place in Diamonds by clicking HERE to download. |
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Rotary Shoebox scheme - can you help?We are continuing our yearly scheme of donating shoeboxes filled with gifts to be sent to children across Eastern Europe, in association with the Rotary Club. To find out more about how the scheme works, visit their website by clicking here. |
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Week beginning 21st November 2011
This week in assembly we are thinking about...
Truthfulness
Sapphire Celebration Assembly
Congratulations to Sapphires on an amazing first celebration assembly, watched by the whole school, parents and governors. They explained about what they have been learning in their Victorian topic through performing a play about life in a Victorian school, reading diary entries, as well as displaying artwork inspired by William Morris. |
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Year 2s go to the Bisi-Fest at the Gryphon!On Wednesday 23rd November, year 2s took part in a badminton skills event at the Gryphon school, along with other schools from our Pyramid. They were taught by Gryphon pupil leaders lots of useful fitness skills, as well as how to hold a badminton racket, serve and hit the shuttlecock. Special thanks goes to Mrs Loader for being a brilliant trip helper. Take a look at us in action below! |
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We have raised over £80 for Children in Need through our 'Bake a Difference' cake sale, organised by our School Council.Thank you to everyone who either brought in cakes or bought them. School Council judged the cakes made from each class, and came up with 4 winners: Joe and Giorgia in Diamonds, Oliver in Rubies and Samuel in Sapphires. They also chose an over-all winner, who was Tom in Sapphires. Congratulations to the winners, and congratulations to everyone for helping us raise money for such a good cause! To find our more about where the money we raised will go, click here
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Week beginning 14th November 2011
Click here to download Mrs Crumpler's weekly event-information letter for this week.
This week in assembly we are thinking about...
Similarities and Differences.
Well done Rubies on your celebration assembly! A big well done to the Ruby class who gave their very first celebration assembly on Wednesday 16th to parents and the rest of the school. They sung 'True Colours' and 'Count on Me', Alex showed his Science video about keeping teeth healthy, we looked at Finlay, Archie and Connor's 'My heart is like...' simile Photostory poems, and Sophie and Ellen presented our Connectives Zone of Relevance. Take a look at their Zone here - click on the hyperlinks when viewing it in a slide-show to be taken to the dictionary definitions!
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On Thursday 17th at 2.50pm in the School Hall we formally inducted Mrs Crumpler as our headteacher, in a special service taken by the Reverend Budgell with involvement from other clergy members in our parish, as well as the Salisbury Diocese. Parents and governors attended this service, where children read prayers especially written for the occasion. Mrs Crumpler was given the 'keys' to the school, dressed up in a beautiful red ribbon! She was also presented with a Bible. Thank you to everyone who supported this event, and we wish Mrs Crumpler many years of happiness and success at All Saints.
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Remember the Children in Need 'Bake a Difference' bake sale on Friday break time! Bring in cakes or money to buy cakes to help raise money for Children in Need. School Council have also added a competitive element to this bake sale - they will judge the best cakes! There will be one winner from each class, whose entry will be judged on decoration and its link to Children in Need. The prize will be their pick of a free cake!For more information about the 'Bake a Difference' campaign visit the Blue Peter website here
Week beginning 7th November 2011
Another busy week at school!
Click here to download Mrs Crumpler's weekly event-information letter for this week.
This week in assembly we are thinking about remembrance.
At 11 o'clock on Friday the 11th of November, we will be observing the two minute silence. We will be thinking about the generations of people who have given their lives in support of our freedom. We have created a whole-school display about remembrance. Sapphires have written about remembrance, Rubies have decorated words with poppy-field images, and Diamonds have made their own 3D poppies.
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For more information about this important day, visit the Royal British Legion website here |
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| Tag Rugby Tournament results from Friday 5th NovemberA valiant effort from our tag rugby players, who braved the lashings of rain and mud to give it their all. We learnt a lot, and did especially well at supporting one another, along with our damp and soggy parents cheering us on! |    |
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Open day for prospective parents and children:Wednesday 9th November 9.30-11.30. We held a successful open morning, where prospective parents and children visited the school. They took a look around our classrooms and saw the excellent learning taking place. Mrs Crumpler gave a talk about how special our school is, and Rubies sang our Rights Respecting Schools theme song, 'Count on Me'. Thank you to everyone who supported us and helped make this event happen! Friday 11th November: non-school uniform day. Money raised will go towards the Christmas hampers. |
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Week beginning 17th October 2011
Thursday 20th 'twilight' evening.This is the second session where we are revisiting our values, aims and purposes as a school. We believe that successful learning is a result of having clear and achievable aims, so we are taking time to decide what they should be for our school. We are currently doing this with parents, children and governors. At the moment we have looked at the things we do well. Now we are going to take a look at the things we need to improve to make our school the best place of learning it can be.
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What do we do well here at All Saints?What could we do to improve?
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Science at SherborneWednesday 19th October: year 6s had a science session at Sherborne Girls Science Centre. Lewis and Harriet enjoyed the exploding balloons filled with hydrogen! Tom and George enjoyed the flowers and bananas that crumbled to dust after being dunked in liquid nitrogen!... |
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Results of our two netball matches: 'A' team won against Sherborne Primary 3-1. Year 5 netballers lost 3-0. Footballers lost 4-0. Men of the match were Jordan and Elliot - well done to you two, and well done everyone!
Thank you for the wonderful cake donations for our tuck shop this week! We raised just under £14.00 and will add this to our running total. Thanks also to all the incredible mums who gave items for us to sell at our ASSA Friday cafe. We raised £55 to go towards our new learning centre! Hopefully we can have more cafe Fridays in future!
Week beginning 10th October 2011
| Tuesday 11th 'twilight' evening. We are revisiting our values, aims and purposes as a school. We believe that successful learning is a result of having clear and achievable aims, so we are taking time to decide what they should be for our school. We are currently doing this with parents, children and governors. At the moment we have looked at the things we do well, and thought about how we could describe our school in 3 words! At the next session, we will think about what we can improve upon. |
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Harvest festival!Wednesday 12th at 10.30am - we celebrated Harvest festival with a special assembly taken by the Reverend William Ridding from Stourton Caundle church.Each class gave a presentation about harvest in relation to the Unicef rights of the child we have been looking at.
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| Thursday 13th October: we were lucky enough to receive a visit from two lovely dental nurses from Dorchester hospital, who explained to us how to look after our teeth. We really enjoyed learning about the different types of teeth we have, and how we can protect them against decay! | Terrific Teeth!
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