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Article 31 - Your Right to relax and play

Looking forward to hearing some stories this Thursday

Article 31 - Your Right to relax and play

We had a lovely evening in school in our PJs listening to tall tales in every classroom....and then had a delicious hot chocolate with massive marshmallows. We even had some time to talk to mums and dads about serious stuff like the new curriculum and assisting home learning. A good time was had by all

Article 29 - Your right to be the best that you can be

What a fabulous day we had creating art for art's sake. We ALL painted a can in the style of a famous artist and these will be used to create a piece of artwork to go outside. We also ALL created a memory board of our favourite memories with Ms Trew which were then attached to pieces of hessian and cascaded out of a trunk. Have a look at our photos to see what an inspirational day we had as well as being lots of fun. Thank you to all parents who helped collect the memories and cans and to all our bevvy of helpers who make the day so much easier. Enjoy our photos

Article 29 - Your right to be the best that you can be

Western gazette article
Our final installation for ARTS FOR ARTS' SAKE WOW WEEEK, our artistic can totem poles. I think they look brilliant outside Acorn's outside class room. Thank you to my helpers Sharon and Maryanne on the day, all the super staff, the children for their creativity and to Paul Hollick who put up the stakes.
The artwork was created in the style of Hirst in Acorn, Monet in Holly, Mondrian in Oak, Kandinsky in Chestnut, Matisse in Ash and finally Picasso in Willow. Fabulous

We applied for a grant last year with Paul Hollick, who does so much brilliant work for our school, agreeing to oversee the work.
We are looking forward to some better weather so we can all become involved in this project. I will keep you posted as the work progresses.
If you want to find out more about the Dorset Garden Trust please check out their web site.

http://www.dorsetgardenstrust.co.uk/

'Brilliant',' Fantastic', 'Amazing' , 'I loved it', were some of the comments from our youngest children. Well done all, but especially well done Mrs Hardy, Mrs Neate-Clegg, Ms Halsey and Mrs Darley.

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

Mrs Berry has just created an after school history club.We have been looking at things from the second World War - ration books, helmets and gas masks. The first week we also looked at how cameras evolved.

Article 31 - Your Right to relax and play

Tossing pancakes is always fun.

Article 2 - All children have these rights no matter what

Each class voted for two children to represent them as Rights' Respecters. Lucy was also voted to be their secretary

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

Our Extreme Challenge is to take photos of us reading in extreme places. Can you guess where we are?

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

Today we went to the Dorset County Museum. We had an interesting tour around the Viking section looking at bones from Viking found when they were building the main road down to Weymouth. There were 52 bodies but only 47 heads. They don't actually know but they think the five heads were put on poles around the area to frighten would-be attackers. We also looked at the Romans and Victorians. We did some dressing up and then we sketched them. We made some Viking chess people out of plaster. We had loads of fun - it was a great day. By Amber

The morning started like any other day but today was a special day, Commonweath Day. We went up to the church just before 10am with Mrs Sparks and Mrs Neate-Clegg.
At exactly 10am Rob Barfoot climbed the tower and raised the flag above St Andrew's Church tower, Yetminster. We then went into the church which was filled with lots of people. Rev Parfitt gave us a brief talk about what the Commonwealth was all about and he told us what the flag meant; the blue was for the oceans of the world and the golden globe was the world. Coming out of the golden world, there was a ring of spears pointing outwards, 53 in all, representing each country in the commonwealth. The spears showed us that we used to fight but now we are a family of nations who help each other.
We also had a small service in which we sang the National Anthem and Jerusalem and afterwards rang the bell in the church vestry as part of the ceremony.
Thank to everyone for making us so welcome and for giving us cakes, biscuits and chocolate eggs. Thanks you also to Mr Goater who came in to talk to us all the previous week about the Commonwealth.
by Ollie S and Emily, Ash Class

Article 14 Your right to follow your own religion

We welcomed the Open the Book crew who shared with us the story of how Jesus helped Peter the fisherman.

Article 29 - Your right to be the best that you can be

We sent about 50 pieces of our outstanding artwork to be exhibited with eight other school at Sherborne Prep. I think you will agree our artwork looks spledid. Here is our artwork plus some from the other schools. Well done everyone and thank to my art hero Fernando Velasquez for facilitating it all.

Article 29 - Your right to be the best that you can be

Wow and what a day it was; a melange of charcoal and dance. We were very lucky to have FOLK SOUTH WESTS's Philippa & Eddie and their fiddle player Ruth Thompson doing dance workshops with every single class followed by an assembly to share their dancing. In addition to that we had artist Adrian Whittlesea, Danny's "grandpappy" to share his charcoal drawing expertise with the children talking about mark making and all the wonderful qualities of charcoal. What a truly fabulous day, the children are so lucky to have such a wonderful community who want to share their talents with us. Thank ypu Phippa, Eddie, Ruth & Adrian.

One of our Rights' Respecters receiving the grant on behalf of our school.
Thank you so much Mr Hollick for organising this.

Article 14 Your right to follow your own religion

Another beautiful service with amazing musicians and singers conducted by Ms Halsey.

Article 15- Your right to meet with friends and Article 31 - Your right to relax and play

Our playground buddies help us really enjoy our playtimes. Look at our play equipment this week - oh what fun we had!

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

We had lots of mums and dads at our Open mornings. They shared their children's maths learning in KS2 and phonics in KS1 and Early Years. Thanks very much to all the mums and dads for coming in.

Article 14 Your right to follow your own religion

Welcome Rev Colette to our school. We had our first assembly today with her which we all enjoyed.

Article 15- Your right to meet with friends

We had a special assembly today presenting certificates to all those children who participated in the Sponsored Bounce. We also had special certificates for the Best, Craziest, Biggest etc Bouncers and Mrs Hole received one for Best Bounce in a skirt. We raised over £1000 which will be shared equally between Sport Relief and purchasing a Buddy Bench for our Quiet Area. Thanks so much to the PTFA for all their magnificent organisation and of course to the children and their sponsors. Enjoy our photos.

Article 14 - Your right to follow your own religion

During our weekly assembly, Mrs Prelogauskas told us about how she picked up Wolfy on her way to work. He had been very horrid to his fellow forest dwellers and called himself the king of the forest. Mrs Prelogauskas asked the children during assembly how Wolfy should behave and they told him all above the Christian values. Wolfy decided he would give it a go and went back to his forest a much happier wolf with lots of newly made friends.

Article 14 - Your right to follow your own religion

We had a really enjoyable Open the Book Assembly about Zacchaeus who was a wee little man
A wee little man was he
He started to climb in a sycamore tree
But he didn't... -

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

Walking to school all the way from Dorchester for the charity School in a Bag. Just going past our house at 7 this morning having left at 2 am avoiding buckets to rain. Also picking up school children to their way. Highlighting how far some children in Africa have to walk to get to school every day. Well done Ms Lane

Article 29- Your right to be the best that you can be

We had a fabulous morning participating in lots of wonderful sports. Enjoy our photos

Article 28 - Your right to learn and go to school

Mrs Mel Lane, a Year 6 teacher from St Andrew's Primary School In Yetminster, walked to school all the way from Dorchester for the charity SCHOOL IN A BAG but with a twist. SCHOOL IN A BAG, an initiative run by the Piers Simon Appeal, is a simple solution created to help poor, orphan, vulnerable and disaster affected children throughout the world. The twist was she left home at about 1.30 am, dodging huge rains storms, and as she hit Batcombe around 6.30 am, she collected school children from Chetnole and Yetminster who walked with her and her husband to school. Once at school all the children did laps around the field supporting the charity. This fundraiser not only highlights how far some children in Africa have to walk to get to school every day but is also the culmination of two years fund raising which also included a Smartie Challenge, Opposite and non-school uniform day, Name the Teddy, Bag pack at Tesco, Coutry Dancing Event and Cake Raffle. The aim was to raise enough money, £15 per bag, for each child to PACK A BAG
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and a week later each child in the school packed a bag to help a child to be able to go to school. Each SCHOOLBAG is filled with stationery, learning resources and eating utensils that will enable a child to write, draw, colour, calculate, express themselves and above all learn. An education for these children could be their passport to a life out of hardship and poverty.
What a wonderful thing for us to be able to do. Many thanks to Mrs Lane and all our supporters.

This is our entry, Scarymoo, created by our librarian Mrs Hole and her bookclubbers

Article 31 - Your right to relax and play

We had such a lovely day, the sun shone and the monkeys and apes looked pleased to see us.

Article 29 - Your right to be the best you can be

We are very proud to share our academic or otherwise with our parents and children. Following on from the Gold Certificate Assembly last Friday, we shared other awars such as winners of the Scarecrow competition, swimming, dance, acting as well as being able to judge the best milking cow. What a wonderful and interesting mix of after school activities.

Article 29 - Your right to be the best you can be

We had a very lovely and moving assembly saying goodbye to our year 6 leavers. They sang a song from their play, recited two poems and memories and they final song Adele's When We Were Young left no dry eye in the audience. We shared photos of all their younger years culminating in a set of photos and video created by Anna Taylor photography for which many many thanks. Anna's daughter Makenzy was part of Willow but she has since moved halfway across the world to Australia. Finally the children were presented with a goody bag which comprised their leavers' hoodies, a class photo and dvds of their play, Do You Remember..., and of their Big Adventure at PGL and all the photo videos, of which there were many as well as a Moving On booklet from our Wednesday Club. Many thanks also go to the year 6 mums who fund raised for the goody bags and several other activities. I know the children were very appreciative.
Good luck and we wish you all a fantastic future in whatever you do.
We also said goodbye to Jackie Pitcher, our Year 1 teacher and Jenny Ferguson our French and Year 2 teacher. We will miss you too.

Article 14 Your right to follow your own religion

Every week we are lucky to have our school chaplain, Rev'd Colette Annesley-Gamester, Team Vicar, come into school for collective worship. This week we were sharing ways of praying and Colette was introduced to the Rev's Freddie Fisher The Rev'd Fisher introduces very young children to aspects of the Christian faith through the adventures of Puddles - a very mischievous cat! Do join us every Wednesday at 2.30pm to share in our collective worship.

Article 24- Your right to good food and water and to be looked after if you are ill

Brilliant news; thanks to everyone who baked/supported the Macmillan coffee morning on Friday - we raised £150.10!
Dear all

This is to give notice that the PTFA AGM will be held on Tuesday 18th October at 6:30 pm in the school hall.

Everyone is welcome to attend, so please come along and find out how the PTFA plays a vital role in helping the children of St. Andrews school, our fundraising achievements and the benefits of having an active PTFA.

This year we need to elect a new Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasuerer. If you are interested in either of these posts please leave your details at the school office and I will contact you to discuss further.

Wine, coffee and nibbles will be on offer during the meeting, that's another good reason to come along!

Look forward to seeing you on the 18th.

Elaine Pennington
Chair PTFA

Article 38 - Your right to be kept safe during wartime

KS2 were so lucky to have a visit from some folk from the Old Vicarage in Leigh who had first hand experience of living through World War 2 including being an evacuee. Charlie Elford's mum who also works there came dressed in 1940's clothes. The children were fascinated by learning about WW2. Thank you so much for visiting us. We home you can come again.

The Children share in our collective worship and tell us all what rights mean to them
Article 2 All children have these rights no matter what

We had the Rev Tony and Vicar Richard take our collective worship for the last couple of weeks and the children helped by talking about the weekly rights associated with the bible reading.

Article 14 Your right to follow your own religion
Article 24 Your right to good food and water

We have just got back from a lovely Harvest festival led by Rev Tony and Rev John. Ash children made some harvest bread as did Luke from Holly and all the children brought in tins and packets for the Lord's Larder in Yeovil. We all feel very uplifted which was reflected in super singing. Thank you Miss Halsey for playing so beautifully.

Jae Malone, author of the 'The Winterne Series' , Silver Linings' , Queen of Diamonds and Fool's Gold. She read an extract from one of her books and answered the children's interesting questions about how she came into writing. Jae is taking part in the Sherborne Literacy festival and we were very lucky to have her visit us. She launched a story writing competition that the children can do over half term.

Article 31 - Your right to relax and play

We had such fun at playtime catching and playing with fallen leaves

These are for parents who would like to send their children to our lovely school. From 10am until 12 noon, please make an appointment to come and see what makes us special.

What a lovely happy event, well done to everyone! Lots of happy children and families, stunning Santa's grotto, beautiful children's Christmas crafts, delicious food, lovely choir singing, bell ringing and recorder playing, great fund raising stalls and local crafts. Thank you to everyone who came and who helped make this fair such a success. Well done Elaine and all your team.

We had a delightful dress rehearsal which we performed to the rest of the school. Enjoy our photos