Snow Day!
There was great excitement at Frome Valley First School on Thursday 21st November when it snowed!
Our Wessex family of schools
Bere Regis School
Damers First School
Dorchester Middle School
Frome Valley First School
Manor Park CE First School
Milborne St Andrews First School
Piddle Valley CE First School
Puddletown CE First School
The Purbeck School
St. Mary's CE Middle School
St Osmund's CE Middle School
Thomas Hardye School
There was great excitement at Frome Valley First School on Thursday 21st November when it snowed!
On Sunday 10th November, Miss Thorp and two children from Year 4 represented the school at Crossway's Remembrance Sunday service.
On Thursday 7th November, eight Year 3 and Year 4 children took part in a tag rugby festival at Dorchester Rugby Club alongside other schools from the Weymouth and Dorchester area.
On Thursday 17th October, Year 1 and 2 attended the Dorchester Schools Literacy Festival.
On Friday 11th October, Year 1 visited the Food Bank in the Dorchester Dorford Centre as they delivered our Harvest donations to the Food Bank.
With the general election taking place on 4.7.24, Frome Valley First School decided to hold its own mock elections as part of our British Values work.
On 3rd July, Reception visited Crossways Court (housing care for retired people) as part of their Active Citizens work.
On 19th June, all children across the school took part in our annual sports day. KS1 and Reception had their sports day in the morning and KS2 (Years 3&4) had their sports day in the afternoon.
On an afternoon at the end of May, we held our annual May Day. This included each class dancing at least 2 traditional dances as well as dances for family members to join in with too.
It was a great privilege for Frome Valley First School to be part of the Dorchester Schools Miles for Mosaic fundraising event. Many schools in the Dorchester area have used the services of the charity Mosaic to support children in their school with bereavement. Overall, 13 schools supported this event.
As part of our equality plan for 2022-2026, we wanted to focus on neurodiversity with our pupils to increase their understanding of this. We spent two days this academic year thinking about neurodiversity.
On Thursday 14th March, eight Year 3 and Year 4 children took part in a tag rugby festival at Dorchester Rugby Club alongside other schools from the Weymouth and Dorchester area.