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We had a governor's visit this week who had kindly requested to attend our Faith and Culture and Language Ambassadors meetings. We discussed what the children had taken part in and achieved over the year - reflecting on the successes and what could be improved from September for the next round of children who would succeed them in these roles. Our governor commented positively on how important it was to be offering such leadership opportunities, given the increasingly diverse nature of our school. We also thought about some next steps for them too, which was extremely useful.

"I really like being able to share all about our faiths and celebrations to the whole school, sharing who we are with everyone feels really special." Naveena, Y4

The children then got the chance to write their own personal profiles for what they had most enjoyed about holding these roles. These will hopefully inspire the next round of selected ambassadors which will be voted for and selected in September. It was noted that some children wanted to remain in these roles for two years! And we discussed why it was important that these changed annually, to ensure that everyone throughout their time at Dorchester got to lead in different areas of the wider curriculum over time, diversifying the leaders and varying opportunities for all.

Huge congratulations to all of Year 6 children and staff for the collective efforts and incredible outcome of their wonderful performances this week. It was so obvious that the children really enjoyed performing, and all their hard work truly paid off. It was an utterly brilliant, hilarious and impressive performance; there really is some incredible acting and singing talent in Year 6. This marks though, sadly, one step closer to us having to say good bye to them, but not just yet! Thank you to all who supported on the night and came to watch, it is so much appreciated.

On an extremely warm Wednesday evening, our choirs and solo performers certainly did not let the heat get to them! The performances were beautifully moving and very impressive indeed. Well done to all the children who were part of the Infants and Junior choirs and Recorder club. Clearly much practise had gone into preparing for this big moment. A special mention to the solo performers who were Hugo (below), Hayat-Chloe, Emilia and Unai. Really well done everyone! Thanks also to all staff and parents who supported these wonderful children with their practising as this sort of talent doesn't just happen by accident, it takes hard work and dedication.

Also, up until the end of term, we will hopefully have other children who have been taking music lessons in school, or who are music ambassadors, to get the chance to perform recitals during assemblies. It is to be a musical end of the term for sure!

We amazingly have two teams who have now qualified for the National Finals to be held at Oxford University later this month! What an incredible achievement! Credit also must go to our third team too who did themselves proud but didn't quite make it as far as the others.

JLT met this week to discuss a charitable event which they could lead on and carry out for this term. After researching and discussing various different charities, our JLT voted and decided that we would choose to raise money for Cancer Research UK, after finding out that a few members of JLT had had some experience of family members of friends who had sadly had cancer at some stage. 

We then debated as to what would be the best means of raising money - after sharing different ideas, and identifying what the best initiative could be to gain the most profit, we agreed on setting up weekly ice cream stalls. It was raised by Joshua (year 6) that FODS are already selling ice creams for £1 - but these are ice lollies and packet ice creams - so Kieran (Year 5) suggested we sell freshly scooped ice creams into cornets, which everyone in JLT thought was a great idea. So it was decided, that every week until the end of term, different members of the JLT will be running an ice cream stall where children will be able to choose from a selection of ice creams to scoop into cornets, after which they will be able to choose toppings and sauces. The JLT ice cream stand will run every Monday afternoon until the end of term from 3.15pm - 3.30pm outside the school office.

We are thrilled to welcome Happy's Circus to the Sutton Education Trust this September.  Get your tickets now before it's too late!