World Book Day and Stories at Six: March 2024
To celebrate World Book Day, all the children came to school dressed in their favourite book character.
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
To celebrate World Book Day, all the children came to school dressed in their favourite book character.
As part of our Sports Funding, we arranged for our children to experience skateboarding and scooter lessons. The children were very excited!
Every academic year, we hold two special school weeks when we are off timetable and immersed in a particular subject or theme. This year, it was all things science!
The school took part in the annual Christingle Service at St Aldhelm Church on 8th December 2023.
Our annual Carols By Candlelight service took place on the 7th December 2023.
At the end of October, three Year 3s and three Year 4s took part in a multi-skills festival held at Sunninghill School.
The whole school spent an excellent week off timetable as we focused on all things musical!
As part of the Dorchester Schools Literacy Festival, Year 1 & 2 visited Thomas Hardye School to hear from the author and illustrator Neal Layton. This was an exciting opportunity to hear from Neal Layton about the process of writing and illustrating a children's picture book.
This year, we celebrated Harvest with all things singing! Each class performed a song as we worked through the alphabet and how each letter of the alphabet was linked to Harvest!
We asked for donations to Dorchester Food Bank for our Harvest Festival then, as part of their Active Citizenship focus, our Year 1 pupils took these donations to the Food Bank themselves so they could learn more about how the Food Bank works.
At the end of term, we celebrated achieving our Eco Schools Green Flag once more. Well done to all the Eco Schools Committee and Mrs Schoorens for all your hard work throughout the year.
We celebrated this achievement by inviting parents into school for a special Eco Schools picnic and for everyone to watch as we raised our new Eco School Green Flag.
At Frome Valley First School, we place a lot of emphasis on children learning to play musical instruments, particularly tuned musical instruments.
Frome Valley First School is always so proud to present its annual school play production. This is a whole school play where every child takes part on the stage and every member of staff is involved from directing the play and writing the script, to creating all the props, to making all the costumes and creating all the dances!
This year’s play was based on Beauty & the Beast.