World Book Day - Thursday 7th March
We will once again be celebrating World Book Day, with a book character dress up day and lots of exciting book themed learning activities throughout the day.
We will once again be celebrating World Book Day, with a book character dress up day and lots of exciting book themed learning activities throughout the day.
This afternoon we welcomed the Top of the Form team from Stanley Park Juniors for the next round of this year's Top of the Form competition.
Clickbait, hyper-partisan opinion, and completely false information are running wild across the internet.
This just in! Breaking news! You don't want to miss THIS!
If you get your news online or from social media, this type of headline sounds very familiar. What's real? What's fake? What's satire? Now that anyone with access to a phone or computer can publish information online, it's getting harder to tell. But as more people go to Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and other online sources for their news and information, it's even more crucial that all of us -- especially children -- learn to decode what we read online. (Learn more about how children get their news and how they feel about it in Common Sense Media's report, News and America's Kids: How Young People Perceive and Are Impacted by the News.)
When fake news has threatened people's safety, tech companies have joined forces to crack down on the misinformation super-spreaders. But ad-supported networks are in somewhat of a bind, since they get money when users click on these stories -- so the crazier the headline, the more money they make. Most children and teens get their news from their feeds, so they need to learn how to view stories critically (and they should learn that skill anyway!). Even younger children can start to think about some key media-literacy questions. And as children get older, parents can help them become more sophisticated critical thinkers.
Here are a few basic questions to consider whenever you and your children encounter a piece of media:
Older children especially might enjoy learning tricks to spot fake news. Here are a few things to watch for:
What a huge success thiswas; an inspirational way to drive up the love of reading for everyone with sensational colours, costumes and smiles about school. Too many Wally's in the crowd to make it even slightly challenging to find him, plenty of Hermiones, Harrys and Weasleys, many Matildas, several Spidermen (mans?!), innumerable onesies and, quite simply, a sea of literary wonder flowing about the place! Thanks to Miss Butler for re-writing the lyrics to The Kooks' classic; the children sang beautifully. 'Read in Our Own Way!' Really must film it and post it to the Kook's Instagram come to think of it....!
Thanks to all children, staff and parents for the incredible effort today.
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.