An arty challenge - 4th February 2021

  Hopefully you have all received your latest lockdown goody pack today!  You will find included some tissue paper and some black card to help you join in with this week's challenge. 

#InspiredToLearn - Lockdown 2 - Week 5 Challenge

We have been asked by Window Wanderland to take part in a Dorchester Wide community event!  

Window Wanderland is coming to Dorchester on 19th-21st February, 6-9pm.

This event asks people to decorate a window at home as part of a window trail around our local community.

Window Wanderland’s aim is to bring the whole community together to create a magical outdoor gallery of hope and solidarity, at this difficult time.

 

They are asking everybody, from individuals to businesses, to register and create a window display on the theme, 

 

'A Brighter Future.'

 

All are invited to view the wonderful windows and Dorchester's community spirit on a safe, Covid-friendly evening walk.

It would be great if you would consider signing up and creating a window even if you don’t live in the local community or want to take part in the actual event.

 

If you do want to be part of the trail, registration is quick and simple at: www.windowwanderland.com/Dorchester

 

If you have enjoyed getting Arty with your own windows and fancy an extra challenge how about making a Jiggly Jelly Fish to hang in a shop window?

Then you need #InspiredToLearn EXTRA ARTY CHALLENGE!

We have been approached by Store6 in Poundbury to help us decorate their windows with your models of Jellyfish made from recycled materials.  If you fancy joining in and seeing your design in a shop window during the window wanderland event, please bring your completed jellyfish to school by next Friday 12th February and place it in the box inside the front entrance.  Please add your name and a hanging thread to your design so that it can be hung up for all to see!

Don't forget to look out for your design if you take part in the Window Wanderland Event between the 19th and 21st of February.

Saturday 10th June - Summer fayre

The Prince of Wales Summer Fayre is this Saturday 10^th June 11-2pm! Do please come along, bring family and friends.

A football tournament, activities and games for children, BBQ, bouncy castle, skittles, prizes to be won! The event is solely to raise funds for our school and Pre-School. Finally, if you do feel you could help man a stall then do please sign up in the foyer of the main school or over at Pre-school. More helpers mean that everyone can enjoy the event.

Friday 9^th June – This day is a ‘non School uniform’ day – Please bring in chocolates and wine to donate towards the fayre tombola’s please. We do also need cakes for the café and teddies too!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mrs Mewett, Julia Nineham and the POWSA committee

Welcome !

Welcome back to Pre School for a very exciting, interesting fun year.
We hope you have all had a lovely summer holiday, and enjoyed the super weather.

For the rest of this week and next week we will be recalling what we did in the summer holidays, and recording the children's thoughts and encouraging them to draw pictures about what they have enjoyed.
We also have some lovely paint activities, making pictures of ice creams, and using them to create a number display.

Starting back at pre school don't forget your child will probably still need a hat as the forecast is good, and a bag with a change of clothes if you feel your child needs one.

There will be a parents get together the week of the 15th September,( letter next week). At that time we will giving out changing bags so you can keep a change of clothes in the cloakroom, plus lots of exciting news and routines for your child's year at pre school.

looking forward to seeing you all
Pre School team

THANK YOU

A very big thank you to all our very generous parents for all our lovely gifts.
The Carluccios vouchers were a most unexpected gift and a lovely surprise, which we will all enjoy very much.
 Thank you all for being so kind, we have had a super year and hope the children have enjoyed exploring and learning with us as much as we have enjoyed being with them.
Thank you once again from all the pre school team.

READING CHALLENGE !!!!!!!!!!!!

The summer reading challenge at the library runs from 5th July until 6th September.

There is a challenge for early years, so your child will be able to take part.
Just visit the library fill in a registration card and collect your Mythical Maze book mark.
Your child then borrows and reads or listens to books and gets a poster and stickers when the books are returned.
Every time you go to the  library your child will get more stickers on their challenge poster.
When you have completed the challenge your child will receive a medal and a certificate will be presented in school assembly in October.

The children really love taking part in this challenge, its fun, its free and its good for you,
so get involved in the summer holidays.
There are also other free activities at the library including a Myths and Legends dance workshop on 28th July, creative family art workshops.

So take part in the Mythical Maze summer reading challenge and enjoy.   Amanda

correction

please note the dates for next week on the last blog are now correct
Amanda

the last week

The children have absolutely loved our activities this past week. We took our inspiration from a poster of the Tour de France and a visit to sports day on Monday morning.
The children had lots of ideas of sports and activities they would like to do from bike rides, to football, basketball and hockey. So we have been doing these all week and more.
We had some yummy snacks as well. lots had a go at squeezing oranges, then we loved the fresh juice to drink.
We went to watch the staff versus school netball and football matches on Wednesday afternoon, we made a lovely picnic to take with the children making egg sandwiches.

So.. as I mentioned in the last blog our last them is Captain Flynn and the dinosaur books. The children asked for pirates and dinosaurs as two of the things they would like to play with, so we decided on the books as they are so popular.

Lots to remember next week, and things to take home.
please return book bags
barbeque 16th
fish and chip lunch 17th
theatre 18th

Amanda and pre schoolteam