Sutton Music Trust provides 1:1, paired and group lessons (including Piano and Singing) at Dorchester Primary School. Lessons can begin at the start of the school term or after half-term breaks with our specialist tutors. Find out how to register your interest here.
We had a sensational afternoon on Thursday with a some wonderful performances from children of all ages.
Special thanks to all those who sang in the Junior and Infants choirs, as well as to their teachers Mrs Cucharo, Mrs Wyman and Mrs Rich for all the rehearsals leading up to the big performances.
More thanks as well to all those who played in the recorder group, and of course thanks to Mrs Bell and also Mrs Cucharo for their coaching and playing. Of course, a very special congratulations to all individual performers too: Astrid (Y1), Scarlett (Y6), Ethan (Year 5), Pavlo (Y6), Nuwaira (Y6) and Haim (Y5). Scarlett and Nuwaira, beautiful singing. Astrid, Pavlo and Haim, lovely piano playing, and Ethan some very loud and super drumming!
The afternoon was a pleasure to watch and be a part of and is such a nice way to take us through to the half term break with the gift of music and performance. Last of all, thanks to all those who supported by coming along to watch!
Our Music and Mental Health Ambassadors met this week, see what they got up to!
Juliette, Clarice and Jason were raising money for the British Heart Foundation this afternoon, as a part of a JLT initiative to raise funds for the chosen charity. It was Juliette's idea to sell her homemade bracelets, and Jason and Clarice were also helping with some of the making too. All three of them were well-prepared and organised and managed to sell several this afternoon! They will be selling them outside the assembly hall again next Friday 7th February too, so remember your coins - £1.50 for one or £2.50 for two bracelets! Well done again team!
It was kept top secret up until we had confirmation (about 2pm on Thursday) that we were to be visited by Fulham's Premier League squad members Issa Diop and Jorge Cuenca. The children were greeted with a tremendous surprise at the end of the assembly as our Fulham footballers walked in at about 3pm to raucous applause! The children were also able to ask them a few questions about what life is like being a Premier League and international football player. At the end of the day, the players signed player portraits and brochures and took photos with everyone who queued up to do so. They were extremely polite and engaging with our Dorchester community. How lucky we are to have links with such a great football foundation.
New class ambassadors were chosen for training for this term. We discussed the role of the class ambassador as being a positive representative from their respective classes, and the importance of knowing all about the learning going on in their classes.
We then had some fun drama training sessions on how to meet and greet visitors, how to engage in conversation, how to talk about the classroom learning and how to do this with articulation, confidence and excellent manners. We practised the art of keeping a conversation going, how to make polite suggestions for what work to look and how to speak to new people visiting the school.
The children really enjoyed the session, and are very much looking forward to visitors to their classes, so that they may put their newly learnt presentation and oracy skills to the test.
JLT met this week to discuss school wide matters. We re read the minutes from our last meeting and developed ideas from there as to how to move forward productively.
It was decided that the charity focus for fund raising from JLT will be the British Heart Foundation, as it was found that several JLT members had family stories relating to this charity. Juliette, Year 5, has decided to put on a bracelet sale next Friday 31st after school, where she will be donating three quarters of the sales money to the British Heart Foundation.
Some JLT members decided that they would like run some throwing and catching games on the playground next week too, to create different play opportunities in the playground other than just free play with the scrapstore playpod or matches the team sports zone. It was also suggested that we purchase some more hoops and skipping ropes for the blue cage in the playground too.
We asked staff to remind children of the safety in and around the team sports zone as some JLT members noted some children walking into the zone during matches which they were concerned could lead to accidents.
This week, the Faith and Culture ambassadors met to discuss the various upcoming religious and cultural events coming up over the academic year. They worked in groups, led by Year 6 ambassadors to mind map how we can celebrate and learn about these various events in school. With an ever increasingly diverse population in school, we talked about the importance of bringing these events to life and learning from one another.
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Please find below information regarding the forthcoming Messy Church and Messy Church Goes Wild.
These sessions provide free fun for all the family - and are free of charge to everyone.
Messy Church and Messy Church Goes Wild dates for 2025 are shown below if you want to get them in the diary now.
See the attached documents below for all information regarding parenting offer and coffee and information sessions coming up.