We had 3 teams of children representing Dorchester Primary School in the Quiz Club general knowledge area heat today, linking up with schools all over the UK online. The children bravely took on a range of extremely challenging questions, and with 88 teams competing in total, we came 54th. Well done to all the children who took part!
Great News - The Egg Raffle is back!
Thanks to Riad's hard work and funding via FODS, our main Forest School Area is looking amazing.
TOTF team won the second round are into the quarter finals! DPS 60, Brookfield 49. Brookfield staff praised Dorchester children’s honesty when the scorer made an error in their favour and they challenged it. Well done everyone - we eargerly await the next round!
The NHS are hosting some webinars on the theme of supporting children with anxiety, including anxiety around exams. This is for KS2 parents and carers. Scan the QR code or click here to read more.
Every Thursday, I (Mr Dennis) teach Maths in Orange class, and I am consistently blown away by the outstandingly thorough note-taking and mathematical diagrams that Lydia and Emma both draw on their whiteboards throughout the learning input. They do this simply because they want to, and it is staggering what they produce! As a result, I simply had to share this with the rest of the school - these two are ambassadors for hard work and dedication to Mathematics and deserve recognition for their incredible efforts. Well done!
On Wednesday, we had a special assembly on the theme of Chinese New Year, which was led by our Faith and Culture ambassadors from Years 3-5. They eloquently presented to the whole school – they were loud, clear, engaging and truly informative! Well done to De’Vante, Aston, Mokshitha, Krishan, Joseph, Mariam, Dharsna, Yashvee, Labeena, April, Tanishka, Simon, Rayyan, Danny, Hanisk, Saffyia and Theertha. A special mention to Naveena who sadly was not in and therefore unable to take part. As well as that, Victor, from Year 6, then delivered his own presentation on the same theme – his family are from Malaysia and the Lunar New year is a very big deal in his family, and he was keen to share this with the school – he did a tremendous job too - really well done everyone.
Number Day 2024!
The children in Year 5 were incredibly lucky to have the extremely generous and talented mothers of Etta & Emma, Kate, Molly and Kelson who kindly came into school for three consecutive mornings this week and ran highly engaging and fun sessions all about Chinese New Year. The children learnt about Lunar New Year traditions, the Chinese Zodiac - the year of Dragon and fun facts of DOs and DON'TS during the new year days.
They experienced the writing of Fai-Chun and traditional Chinese paper cutting and there was also a chance to see some traditional Chinese clothing! The mums put so much time and effort into preparing and delivering wonderful presentations all about this important festival and the children had an absolute blast, and learnt so much - at the end, they all received their own red gift envelopes - a staple tradition, with good luck messages written in Chinese inside.
We are so fortunate to have such an incredible community of families here at Dorchester, and we are so very grateful for your time - thank you so much to all the Mums again!
Here is what our pupil leaders across the school have been working on recently!
We are fortunate to have here at Dorchester Primary a sensational KS1 choir, which currently only consists of 6 children - and there is space for 20! So if your child is in KS1 and would like to join, there is more than enough space and they would be welcomed with open arms!
The choir are now rehearsing in preparation for the KS1 Big Sing 2024! They will be performing two songs on their own and then 4 songs with the other schools also taking part. KS1 choir takes place on Tuesdays after school, so if you are interested please contact the school office as this performance they are preparing for is set to be very special indeed.