PTA Valentine's DiscoDidn't we have fun at our Valentine's Day Disco - we danced, decorated Valentine's biscuit, were tattooed (not really) and generally had loads of fun.
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We are St Andrew's
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Our snowy schoolIt was a tad parky this week.
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Oliver's cast B stole the showOur last night night of school plays saw Ash and Willow classes's Cast B performing a splendid rendition of Oliver. Click on Fagin's boys to see our slide show. Alternatively watch our powerpoint presentation below.
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A Dancing Christmas PartyChestnut, Oak, Holly and Acorn Classes put on a spectacular show which was enjoyed by one and all. Click on Santa and his helpers to watch our slideshow. Alternatively watch our powerpoint presentation below.
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Ash and Willow Classes' Cast A perform OliverThe children of Ash and Willow Classes have been rehearsing hard which paid off in the first performance on Tuesday 8th December with Cast A. All parents and friends really enjoyed the performance with superb acting and rousing singing.
Click on our bevvy of beauties for more photos or alternatively have look at the powerpoint below.
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Santa's Grotto calendars & diaries make ideal Christmas presentsWe took some lovely photos of the children and their families in Santa's Grotto. Click on Santa and Charlotte and watch the slideshow. If you would like any of these, or any other photos of your children on our website, put onto a calendar or diary, contact Sandra in the office. The laminated calendars are £2 each, 2 for £3 or 5 for £5 and the diaries and £3 each or 2 for £5.
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Lots of fun at the PTA Christmas FayreWe all had loads of fun at our fayre. Each child made a a Christmas craft creation . There wer games, raffles, lovely food and a wonderful performance by the choir and instrumentalists. Thanks to everyone for making it a great event.
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Victorian Day in KS2 & the Florence Day in KS1We had a lovely living history day being Vitorians: understanding Brunel, celebrating a Victorian Christmas & exploring what it was like to be a soldier or nurse in the Crimean War. Isambard Kindom Brunel, aka Steve Manning, came to share his Victorian knowledge with us.We all took part in Victorian class rules with drill, inspections and lots of handwriting.
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Armistice Day 2009Four children from Year 6, Willow Class, Callum, Kim, Scott & Kitty, laid a wreath at this year's Remembrance Day service, 91 years after the end of the Great War.
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Leavers' Church Service, Party & Assembly, 2009We had a very moving Leavers' Church Service, followed by the Leavers' Assembly. Click on the links below to watch snippets of YEAR 6's special day. We say goodbye to them and to Phil Hall & Tess O'Rourke. We will miss you all and wish you well for the future.
If you want to download any of these videos just right-click, click "Save Target as" and then save it onto your computer.
We are Year 6 from the Leavers' Assembly - "Stand by Me" - Year 6 with the choir - Year 6 - "Give a Little Love" from Bugsy Malone - "Song of Erin" by Nathaniel - "I like the Flowers" - the choir - "Lord of the Dance" - year 5 bellringers - "minuet" - by Sophie on the flute - "Lazy Days" - all - "Believe in Yourself - by Year 3 teacher, leaver Tess O'Rourke - "Our onward journey" - by leaver year 6 teacher, Phil Hall - A taste of Year 6 Leavers' party
To listen to the audio files below, click on the arrows:
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Classes Chestnut & Oak enjoy a trip to Upton HeathAs part of this term's work in Geography and Science has been about improving the environment and plants, we decided to go to Upton Heath near Poole. Dorset Heathland is rarer than tropical rainforests!
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We all celebrated Darwin's 200th BirthdayTo celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday, schools up and down the country received a pack from Kew gardens and the Welcome trust. We spent the day exploring, collecting, investigating and discovering.
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS DAY IN YEAR 6SCITT trainees Holly Varndell, James Rich, Amy Rutherford, Abby Spain and Rachel Anderson organised an Expressive Arts Day with Year 6 focusing on our community. They created some fantastic street art, wrote and performed a dance and a rap. Click on the link below to see the results of our creativity.
our expressive arts
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Girls' Football at SherborneOur Year 6 girls excelled and surprised themselves as they finished joint third in this tournament. Everyone played well and enjoyed themselves. Well done! 'high fives' all around
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Yr 3 and 4 Boys' Football TournamentOur boys did really well to finish third in their group. Next year in 2010 we may go one step further.
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EASTER PRAISE 2009We enjoyed a very uplifting Easter service conducted by Bishop George in our beautiful local church of St Andrews, with fantastic singing from the school choir, bell ringing by Year 5 and instrument playing.
Click on the links below to enjoy our Easter Praise.
Thank You For Loving Me- School Choir - video
Lord of the Dance - Year 5 bell ringers - video
Scarborough Fayre - by our guitarists - video
Life is a Wonderful Thing - School Choir - video
If you want to save any of these onto your computer, right click on the link and click on "Save Target As"
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NETBALLERS & FOOTBALLERs in BRYANSTON TOURNAMENT APRIL 2009Our sportsmen took part in the Bryanston tournament.Click on Callum to look at the netball team and click on the link below to get a flavour of the day.
Netballers & Footballers at at the Bryanston tournament
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PIRATE DAY & OPENING OF THE AGILITY TRAILWe had a very welcome guest to open our AGILITY TRAIL on Friday 13th February, Pirate RINGER, OOOH AAAR. All the children had a lovely day singing pirate songs and doing pirate things. Click on the link below to listen to our pirate song.
PIRATE SONG
PIRATE PHOTOS
0r click on the PIRATE SHIP and then on slideshow to see all our photos.
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FANTASTIC NEW AGILITY TRAILThe immediate excitement of 2009 is the construction of our long awaited Agility Trail. All the funds raised by the PTA in the various activities they stoically organise , fairs, quizzes etc, over the last few years have been put into this project. This, together with a very generous donation from Westland in Yeovil, has been matched by school funds.
All along the journey, the children via the School Council, have been consulted as to the specific elements they would actually like to see in their Agility Trail. Their ideas were transferred into a plan from which, using Peter Hunt from the Toy Barn in Sherborne, as our consultant, we were able to commission exactly what we wanted. The supplier Home Front from Salisbury then constructed the play trail in mid-January. The Trail will include an imaginative play element - "the ship" designed with KS1 children in mind with bridges, cargo nets, slides, climbing wall and sails to give shade on those hot summers' days (do you remember those from your youth?). What will be lovely about this is that this area can also be used as an outdoor classroom in the warmer months.
In addition, the rest of the trail, which will keep the older children entertained for hours, will comprise: climbing and monkey bars, wobble and spring beams, traverse and rock walls, rope walk, climbing trees and stepping stones. What is also fantastic is that the whole trail is constructed onto all weather safety matting which means that the children will be able to access the trail from the playground without traipsing through the muddy field. Just another item to add to our list of ensuring we are a Healthy School.
CLICK ON THE PIRATE SHIP AND THEN ON THE SLIDESHOW TO VIEW YEARS 3 & 4 ENJOYING THEMSELVES.
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CINDERELLA ROCKERFELLAYears 4, 5 and 6 put on a fantastic production of Cinderella Rockerfella. Click on the stars to the right to see our slideshow of stars or click on the link below to see a musical version.
Cinderella Rockerfella the stars slideshow
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OUR 2008 PTA CHRISTMAS FAYREWe have been enjoying ourselves and raising funds at our PTA CHRISTMAS FAYRE. Click on the photo to see the beautiful crafts we have been making.Click on the links below to listen to our Christmas music.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer sung by the choir
Mish and Alex Locke playing Jingle Bells on their saxophones
Sophie playing We Wish You a Merry Christmas on her flute
Jingle Bells sung and played by the Choir and instramentalists
Good King Wenceslas played by Year 5 bell ringers
Merry Christmas sung and played by the choir and band
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THE UNVEILING OF OUR AFRICAN MOSAICFinally our African mosaic is finished and we had its unveiling by Bishop George and our African Arts Week sponsors, Rob Fox, from Porter Dodson, Solicitors and Advisors. It was a lovely occasion and enjoyed by all.
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A Better WorldOur new display in the hall takes the words of our school song " Wake up each day... with happy hearts ..and make a better world for you" and illustrates them in the most technicolour artwork. Certainly something to cheer you up each morning.
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TAG RUGBY 17th October 2008On Friday 17th October two teams from St Andrew's competed in the Sherborne Tag Rugby tournament at the Terraces, Sherborne.
After breathtaking performances both Yr 5 and Yr 6 teams were triumphant and brought back the trophies and medals. They received their medals in assembly on Monday 20th.
Enjoy looking at nour fantastic pictures from our winning teams.
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CLASS 5 HAVE FUN AT LEESONOnce again Class 5 had a fantastic week at Leeson House, Langton Matravers. The week comprised walking, sand dune investigation, orienteering, natural art,steam train trip, delicious food,a visit to Arne nature reserve and a visit to a stone quarry.
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VISIT BY GOOD KING HALWe spent the day with King Henry himself who told us all about the life and time of himself and his family. The best bits were learning about crime and punishment.
This is what he says about us!
Monday, September 15, 2008
St Andrew's Junior School, Yetminster
A brand new school today for me. I cannot even begin to remember the last time I had ever been to Yetminster - some good years ago that's for sure. But here I was! Now St Andrew's Junior is a delightful school and I was doing a full Tudor day with years 3, 4, 5 & 6 all in one! A grand total of about 90 children. And they were all such nice kids, in some quite spectacular costumes and full of enthusiasm and laughter. We had a great day!
The teachers were all delightful as well, including a very nice chap who had the good taste and sense to be a mad keen Manchester City fan like myself. I was very upset when the children voted that he should go in the stocks later on.
Yetminster is a beautiful big village/small town, and it also has a very nice village shop where I got my lunch from today. Then back to the afternoon we pushed on with the stocks session and were joined eventually by the rest of the infants who came in to watch the jousting tournament. Some of the little ones found the noise a bit much, but the rest of them joined in with gusto! It was a hard fought contest and it was the gents who finally snatched victory. So the ongoing score is now:
GENTLEMEN 2 - 1 LADIES
GOOD KING HAL
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VISITING BRASS QUARTET 2008We have been lucky enough to have a visit from a Brass Quartet who are touring around schools to inspire children and adults to take up a brass instrument…and wow did they inspire! The musicians were both charismatic and talented and the children loved the theatre that is brought to their playing of such tunes as Teddy Bears' Picnic, William Tell Overture and those Magnificent Men in their flying machines.
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