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BH20 5SA Telephone: 01929 400330

Fax : 01929 400717 Email:office@lulworthwinfrith.dorset.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mr Richard Skinner

AUTUMN 1 — Newsletter

Pablo Picasso: “Every child is an artist …..”

VISTING ARTIST

GINA MARSHALL

On Tuesday 15th October we

had a visit from Gina Marshall, a

local artist based in Swanage.

Much of Gina’s work is based

around local landmarks or

coastal scenery, as you can see

from the sample below. She has

a unique and methodical

approach towards her art and

came in to deliver a workshop

for our Year 5 children, along

with some visiting children from

Winchelsea Special School.

The children are now working hard on heir own paintings and have taken on this new artistic challenge with enthusiasm. We hope to be able to display the children’s finished works in two art exhibitions at the Lighthouse in Poole and in the Lulworth Visitors Centre. We are looking forward to seeing the children’s work on display and we will be sure to give parents the dates and times of these exhibitions.

OUR ARTS PARTNERSHIP

PROGRAMME

Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School &

Winchelsea Special School

This term our Year 5 children will be team-

ing up with children from Winchelsea

Special School in Poole as part of an

ambitious Arts Partnership Programme. It

is hoped that the final works will be

displayed in Lulworth Visitor Centre and in

an exhibition at Poole Lighthouse.

The children will be working closely and it

is a real example of how well our children

live out the school values of belief, fellow-

ship and harmony in their everyday lives.

Through the project the children will be

studying the works of local artist Gina

Marshall. Gina has already attended some

of the sessions with the children and is

working with them on this joint project

which will be a positive and inspiring

experience for all of the children.

Job Vacancy:

Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School has a vacancy for a Midday Supervisor at Lulworth site. Hours of work 7.5 hours per week (Mondays to Fridays 11.45am - 1.15 pm), term time only. Midday Supervisors are required to set up, serve hot food and supervise children’s lunches.

Duties also include supervision of children’s games on the playground as part of a team, and cleaning the lunch hall at the end of lunchtime.

Rate of pay £9.00 per hour. Please contact the School Office on 01929 400330 for further information.

OUR WIDER CURRICULUM

Curriculum Afternoons

The new Ofsted framework now highlights the importance and high expectations of a broad, balanced and creative curriculum in more detail. At Lulworth we have now revised and

restructured our curriculum on Friday

afternoons to ensure more consistency in

our delivery of R.E. and to create more

opportunities to explore the Wider

Curriculum, with the children taking part in a

range of art, design, science and physical

activities on a rotational basis.

Curriculum Day—School Values Last Monday was our first whole school curriculum day and the children spent time exploring the school’s new learning values: Aspiration, resilience, courage, collab-

oration, trust, friendship, respect, kind-ness and forgiveness

We feel that these new learning val-ues support the school’s core val-ues of belief, fellowship and har-mony extremely well.

OUR BROAD, BALANCED and CREATIVE CURRICULUM

Governors’ Update

Co-opted Governor

Vacancies x 1

Who can be a co-opted governor?Anyone can be a Co-opted Gover-nor. A Co-opted Governor is chosen by the governing body and are people who have the skills required to contrib-ute to the effective governance and success of the school. We are specifically looking for people with a finance background but will con-sider anyone. The most important qualities for being a governor are enthusiasm, commit-ment and an interest in education. What does the role involve? At most schools you’ll need to attend a governors' meeting each half term. You’ll also be invited to join one sub-committee – these cover different are-as like the curriculum or finance and buildings. You’ll need to be able to work well in a team. If you think this is something you

would like to apply, please contact the

school office on 01929 40330

HARVEST CELERBRATION

Earlier this month, the school celebrated

Harvest Festival by holding a service at the

Holy Trinity Church in West Lulworth.

It was a lovely occasion with the children

singing and sharing poetry that they had

written around the harvest theme and the

service was supported by members of the

church community

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all

members of the school and wider community

who supported the school by attending this

service.

There was a harvest collection for the local

foodbank and the school was grateful for the

generous donations that were made. This has

already been sent to the foodbank to support those

in the community that are in need.

Our Values in Action

Our school values of Belief, Fellowship and Harmony underpin everything that we do at

Lulworth and Winfrith Primary. Through these values we believe

the children will grow morally, socially, emotionally and spiritually.

School Values and Celebration Assembly

Recently, we have reviewed our school values and ethos and our recent curriculum day

was based on our new learning values. We will now be linking these values to our school

assembly programme and next half term we will be focussing on the values of:

ASPIRATION, COURAGE AND RESILIENCE.

Year 6 Forest Schools

Were inspired to write a poem about an old oak tree that we saw when we were taking part in a forest schools activity in Wood Street.

Ode To A Tree Unnoticed. The tree stood still, gnarled, twisted by centuries of loneliness. As crippled as witches nails, standing above us. The tree is like a wizened, ancient hag standing alone amongst the youth of saplings. The spirit of an elderly lady, grabbing her closest victims. It's winding fingers reach out like a greeting hand. The tree is creased: withered, growing with ivy stretching out of it's bones. Lonely, sad and depressed: the tree stands like a soldier in war. Hide.

Year 6 — Mill on the Brue Residential

In September our Year 6 Class went on an early residential trip to Mill on the Brue Activity Centre in Somerset.. The activity centre is in a beautiful setting and the children enjoyed taking on the challenge of a range of outdoor activities and impressed the instructors with their shooting skills, enthusiasm, bravery and commitment. The teachers were extremely proud of all of the children who were great ambassadors for the school.

RIDE AND STRIDE

Following on from last year and as part of our

commitment to church and community, on

Friday 25th October, the Year 2 and KS2 chil-

dren took part in a ‘Ride and Stride’ event. The

children walked from Daggers Gate to East

Chaldon in an effort to raise money for the

Dorset Historic Churches Trust . The event

was a great success and the children man-

aged the walk well.

PUPIL VOICE

Wider Curriculum Time

Henry DHB—Year 5

“ WACCA time is great fun

because we get to do different

activities and work with different

children and teachers.”

“ My favourite activity this term

has been design technology,

where we have been designing and

making our own playgrounds with

Miss Neaves. I am also looking

forward yoga as well!”

OUR SCHOOL TRIPS & RESIDENTIALS

SPORTING NEWS

Dare to Believe Festival

At the end of last month Year 3 and 4

children took part in a multi-sports

event at Purbeck. There were a variety

of games such as fireball, crocodile

cones and some football based team

games and the children put a lot of en-

ergy and effort in to their performance.

The children showed their speed and

agility throughout these activities and

we were proud of their sportsman like

attitude throughout the event.

Crocodile Cones

Bertie:

“I really enjoyed the crocodile cones game. It was fun and fast paced!”

SPORTING NEWS

Football Competitions

7 A- side Football Competition

A group of nine skilful boys from Year 5 and 6

took part in a football competition earlier this

month. The games ran for 6 minutes, so the

football was fast and played at pace.

The boys played brilliantly and showed true

sporting spirit in the way they supported each

other and acted on and off the sportsfield.

Year 5/6 Girls Football

Our Year 5 & 6 girls played eight energetic 11

minute games of football in a competition last

week at Purbeck. They should all be very

proud of their efforts. They showed skill, resili-

ence and self belief as they took on some

challenging competition.

It was a tough afternoon but through their

determination, friendly attitude and team spirit

the girls managed to secure 2nd place

overall—well

done!

Lulworth and Winfrith Primary School Newsletter

Dates for the Diary

Parking Unfortunately, the school has now received several complaints and comments from parents and members of the community around parking, blocking entrances and keeping children safe at dropping off and picking up times. This is across both school sites but is more acute at Winfrith. Can we remind all parents to be careful and considerate and these times and make an extra effort not to block the lanes or cause any concerns for parents with very young children. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

REMINDERS:

Date Events

4th November

First day back after half term

6th November

Year 6 Height & Weigh—Please inform the school if you would like to opt-out

11th—12th November 11th & 13th November

Parents Evening for Yr R—Year 5 Parents Evening for Yr 6

11th November

Remembrance Church Service

11th November

Year 5/6 Michael Rosen—Weymouth Pavilion

15th November

Children in Need

26th November

Curriculum Day

6th Decem-ber

PTA Christmas Fair

9th/10th & 11th

December

Nativity

18th December

Carol Concert

The class with the best year to date attendance is:

Hambury Class— 97.59%

A big well done to them!

2nd place: Worbarrow 96.62% 3rd place: Woodpeckers 94.73% Attendance so far this term for the whole school is 94.88%- Well done!

Class Attendance Trophy