Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Mud Kitchen

  Fri 18 Mar 2016

  We are continuing to develop our outdoor area for learning and thanks to the PTFA have recently had a new shed erected to store equipment.  We would like to create a mud kitchen for the children to use where they can explore nature and the outdoors in greater depth; sorting, experimenting, testing and inquiring as they go. All characteristics of great scientists! We are looking for items from the home that you may no longer need e.g. saucepans, colanders, utensils, sieves, whisks, buckets, baskets, washing up bowls, jelly moulds, ice cube trays, nets, trays. Ideally these need to be metal, wooden or plastic, (not glass). If you have any old rugs or blankets which the children can sit on they would be useful too.  Anything you could donate will be very gratefully received. Thank you!  Ms Braidwood

• Orienteering at DMS

  Thu 17 Mar 2016

  Year 4's spent a fun morning at DMS taking part in orienteering, after being given a quick tour of the school, they were off! They were split into pairs with Cerne Abbas First School and had to first find pictures from photos around the school, then race back to show the year 8 leaders where abouts the photo was taken on the orienteering map of the school. They used their observation skills, communication and were very co-operative to find as many as they could. After a quick pit stop their next task was punch orienteering, each pair was given a sheet with a list of numbers which they had to locate on the map, find the clip and punch the pattern next to the number. Off they raced with renewed energy and arrived back with many fulfilled sheets, Mrs Taylor and Miss Hayward were exhausted just watching them! They ended their enjoyable morning by thanking the year 8 leaders and Mr Treble. The children did our school proud and they were all confident, courteous, co-operative and communicative with each other and  their new friends from Cerne Abbas, making them a credit to Winterbourne Valley First School.