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Our Faith and Culture ambassadors delivered an informative and delightful assembly to the children in KS1 and had several parents come along to watch also. Perfectly timed since Ramadan begins for Muslims today! The ambassadors spoke clearly and confidently after a few practices together, and were keen to also share what it means to be a faith and culture ambassador at Dorchester, and in Naya's words, 'I like being a Faith and Culture ambassador because I like to celebrate the school's diversity."

We had a sensational afternoon on Thursday with a some wonderful performances from children of all ages. 

Special thanks to all those who sang in the Junior and Infants choirs, as well as to their teachers Mrs Cucharo, Mrs Wyman and Mrs Rich for all the rehearsals leading up to the big performances.

More thanks as well to all those who played in the recorder group, and of course thanks to Mrs Bell and also Mrs Cucharo for their coaching and playing. Of course, a very special congratulations to all individual performers too: Astrid (Y1), Scarlett (Y6), Ethan (Year 5), Pavlo (Y6), Nuwaira (Y6) and Haim (Y5). Scarlett and Nuwaira, beautiful singing. Astrid, Pavlo and Haim, lovely piano playing, and Ethan some very loud and super drumming!

The afternoon was a pleasure to watch and be a part of and is such a nice way to take us through to the half term break with the gift of music and performance. Last of all, thanks to all those who supported by coming along to watch!

Juliette, Clarice and Jason were raising money for the British Heart Foundation this afternoon, as a part of a JLT initiative to raise funds for the chosen charity. It was Juliette's idea to sell her homemade bracelets, and Jason and Clarice were also helping with some of the making too. All three of them were well-prepared and organised and managed to sell several this afternoon! They will be selling them outside the assembly hall again next Friday 7th February too, so remember your coins - £1.50 for one or £2.50 for two bracelets! Well done again team!

New class ambassadors were chosen for training for this term. We discussed the role of the class ambassador as being a positive representative from their respective classes, and the importance of knowing all about the learning going on in their classes.

We then had some fun drama training sessions on how to meet and greet visitors, how to engage in conversation, how to talk about the classroom learning and how to do this with articulation, confidence and excellent manners. We practised the art of keeping a conversation going, how to make polite suggestions for what work to look and how to speak to new people visiting the school.

The children really enjoyed the session, and are very much looking forward to visitors to their classes, so that they may put their newly learnt presentation and oracy skills to the test.

This week, the Faith and Culture ambassadors met to discuss the various upcoming religious and cultural events coming up over the academic year. They worked in groups, led by Year 6 ambassadors to mind map how we can celebrate and learn about these various events in school. With an ever increasingly diverse population in school, we talked about the importance of bringing these events to life and learning from one another.