Mid week question

We all enjoyed our trip to the garden centre. What was your favourite thing you saw?
How many camels were there?
How many lions did you see?

Christmas Games for all on SWGfL Merlin

The '12 Games of Christmas Game' is now available for all pupils to play through SWGfL Merlin. This features 12 educational games and activities for children in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. The games have a value of £29.99 and we hope that you will enjoy playing them free through SWGfL Merlin. P.S - If you have forgotten your login details, please see Mrs. Dukes in the Library or Mr. Spracklen who will happily get you a fresh copy.

OLYMPIC TORCH HAND OVER

On Monday 28th November 2011, pupils from our school took the DASP Olympic Torch to Manor Park. Carrying banners proclaiming the Olympic values, we walked across town to deliver the Torch. As we passed Dorchester Middle School, we were cheered on by all the pupils who had come out of lesson to see us. On our walk we were accompanied by members of the Thomas Hardye Student Voice. A large number of Manor Park children welcomed us on our arrival and watched the handover of the Torch.

Week of 28th December

We are really looking forward to our trip to the garden centre, this really starts our Christmas celebrations and topic work. When we visit the garden centre we take some little challenge cards with us so the children have to look out for different things. We also take cameras so they can record their favourite decorations, then we see if we can make some of them in our sessions.

We will be continuing on with our learning about shape. We have just started to learn our new Christmas song 'bow to the king' hope you enjoy it... words to follow.

PSRN:- Continuing on with our learning about shapes and keeping graphs and tally's. Using challenge cards to find how many...? At the garden centre. Start to design a Christmas number line.

CLL:- Learning a new Christmas Song. Reflecting on our trip once back at pre-school, talking and writing about it.

@Home:- Ask your child if they enjoyed their trip to the garden centre, What was their favourite Christmas Decoration? Did we set them a Challenge? What was it?

Mid week question

We have been talking about different shapes, we have had different shaped snacks this week. Have a look at home and see what shapes you can find. Can you find an interesting shape and tell us about it?

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DASP Olympic Torch Arrives

Today (23/11/11) we received the DASP Olympic torch which is making its way around all the schools in the Dorchester Area Schools Partnership. Today children from St Mary’s Dorchester shared with us some of their learning about the Olympics. On Monday (28/11/11) November some of our children will be making their way across town to Manor Park. We shall be working with some of their classes and passing on the work we have done in making our banners. All of this will be filmed by students from Thomas Hardye School. For more information on the torch relay visit the dedicated page on the DASP website: http://www.dasp.org.uk/daspolympictorch.htm. Mr. Spracklen

Wise Owl Toy orders

If your ordering toys from Wise Owl Toys in town please mention the pre-school as we will recieve 10% of the costs of all orders. Please return Wise Owl Toy orders forms with payment to Amanda by Wednesday 30th November.
Thank you for supporting the pre-school.

Week of 21st November

This week see us join the school to start our Olympic 2012 celebrations. We will be talking about the Olympics, and introducing the Olympic values of friendship, respect and excellence. These values will form a thread through the rest of the year. The Dorset Area Schools Partnership (DASP) have their own torch which will be passed from school to school up until 2012 Olympics. It is our school turn next week and to celebrate each class in the school is making an Olympic banner, We will be making ours next week, do look out for it!

PSRN:- SHAPES-using the Olympic circles we will be playing and making lots of different things with shapes, indoors and outdoors. Also making a graph from our snacktime using shapes e.g. how many of our snacks are square, triangles etc.

CLL:- Books about friends, the children will choose their favourite, look out for what it is on the blog.

@Home:- Answer our midweek blog question.

Mid week question

We have had a visitor in to talk to us about recycling. What can you tell us about recycling?

Please leave us your reply.

Ofsted Parent View

As you know at the Prince of Wales First School we are always looking for feedback and encourage you to provide this in a variety of ways. Whether this is through face-to-face conversation, comments on our class blogs or through our annual parents questionnaire, we always welcome your feedback. Building on this, we would now encourage you to go online and express your views using the new ‘Parent View’ website from Ofsted. This 12-question survey will help other parents as they make important choices about their child’s education and provide Ofsted with information about our school that will help them inform their priorities for inspection. The questionnaire does not allow free text comments but invites responses to a series of closed questions. To express your view, please visit our school website now and click on the parent tab and look for the link to the Parent View website. Alternatively, visit: http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/.

Week of 14th November

We have a busy week this week, on Wednesday we will be having a visitor from the council who is going to tell us all about recycling, we have a new compost bin ready for her visit. On Thursday and Friday we will be taking part in Children in Need,making patterns, doing spotty things and thinking about those who don't have as much as we do. We will be continuing with owl babies at the beginning of the week and thinking about day and night.

PSRN:- observe and use positional language, next to,in front, behind etc
Making patterns

CLL:- learning lots of different words about recycling.
Our book will be 'the owl babies'

@home:-
Talk about the owl babies story
Ask what is dark and what is light?

Mid week question

Who are Sarah, Percy and Bill?

Please put answer on comment page.

Week of 7th November

This week we will start the week enjoying the sights and sounds of fireworks on the computer and making firework pictures, using lots of colours.

We are then going to continue our thinking and learning about Autumn and what happens in this season, by thinking about what birds need at this time of the year, reading the book of The Owl Babies and making owl puppets and masks.

PSRN:- Observe and use positional language, next to, in front, behind etc.

CLL:- We will be thinking of words to describe fireworks, what they look like and the sounds they make.
Our book will be The Owl Babies.

@Home:- Talk about the owl babies story.
Tell us about your firework parties.

Ongoing saga of the preschool ceiling

We apologise for the any confusion over which door to pick up from etc this week. I have not put a letter out due to changing classrooms through out the week. Please bear with us while the ceiling is being mended.
Thank you

Pre-school

Mid week Question of the week.

When you talk about the book we have been reading this week, can your child tell you what the book is called? Can they remember the animals from the story? Ask them if they can tell the family about the story.

Answers on the comments page please!!! Don't forget to leave your name!

Can you help? (Cheese Boxes - Year 2)

Can you help? Miss. Mertens in Year 2 is on the hunt for circular cheese boxes like the one pictured above. If you have any of these boxes we would be very grateful to receive them.