High Stile
Great Dunmow
Essex
CM6 1EB
Tel: 01371 872340
Fax: 01371 875144
admin@dsmprimary.essex.sch.uk
School library: On selected packets of cereal (Nestle cereal) you can find a coupon for the libary. If you find a coupon like that, cut or rip it out. Then bring them into school and pop them in the library coupon box. Tesco and Sainsbry’s coupons: When you spend £10 at Sainsbry’s and Tesco, you will receive coupons for [...]
Every child in the school recently created a self portrait for the National Face Britain Campaign. Each portrait was projected onto Buckingham Palace to create an image of the queen for her Diamond Jubliee. To watch what happened, look at Blue Peter on BBC iplayer from Friday 26th April. Here is the address – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h008h/Blue_Peter_26_04_2012/ If you [...]
Over the Spring term the Reception classes looked at a number of traditional stories and Nursery Rhymes. Each week has brought a new challenge for the children to solve, and sometimes we have had to call on the emergency services to give a helping hand! When poor Humpty Dumpty and Jack & Jill had awful [...]
School library: On selected packets of cereal (Nestle cereal) you can find a coupon for the libary. If you find a coupon like that, cut or rip it out. Then bring them into school and pop them in the library coupon box.
Tesco and Sainsbry’s coupons: When you spend £10 at Sainsbry’s and Tesco, you will receive coupons for school equipment. Please bring them into school and pop them in the Tesco or Sainsbry’s coupon box.
Old phones and ink carteges: If you have an old phone or any used ink cartridges please bring them into school. Put them in a special bag the office will provide and pop them in a special box in reception.
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Every child in the school recently created a self portrait for the National Face Britain Campaign. Each portrait was projected onto Buckingham Palace to create an image of the queen for her Diamond Jubliee. To watch what happened, look
at Blue Peter on BBC iplayer from Friday 26th April.
Here is the address – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h008h/Blue_Peter_26_04_2012/
If you would like to find out more and see your child’s image, please log onto -
Enjoy looking at the portraits!
Over the Spring term the Reception classes looked at a number of traditional stories and Nursery Rhymes. Each week has brought a new challenge for the children to solve, and sometimes we have had to call on the emergency services to give a helping hand!
When poor Humpty Dumpty and Jack & Jill had awful falls, we called on the ambulance to take them to hospital!
When helping Red Riding Hood, we called on the Police to arrest the wolf!
When Rapunzel was trapped in the tall tower, we called on the fire service to rescue her!
To celebrate the children’s achievements and progress, we invited families in to hear some of our favourite songs from this term…
…and share ‘Learning Journey’ books. As you can see from the photographs, all the children were very proud as they showed us how to ‘Enjoy & Achieve’!
Durning the Autumn many people brought in bulbs to make our school garden more colourful. The planting was a big success and now they are blooming up everywhere. Thanks too Mrs Watts and many children involved our school looks fantastic. Below are some photos and you are more than welcome to go and have a look at them.
Ellie
We are delighted to tell you that our Netball team has won the local school league. Not only that, our football team has won the local Scott Forbes Football Tournament and has come second in the league. Throughout their league games all our children have displayed great skill and sportmanship. Also, we are very proud of two children. Harry will be representing the whole of Uttlesford in the County Cross Country Championships. Luke has been selected to represent England in the Kyokushinkai Karate Championships in Switzerland next month.
On Monday 5th of March 2012 the choir went to the O2! It was really really exciting! We went to Young Voices and performed with thousands other children. There were dance moves we all had to learn and it looked amazing with us all dancing together! It also sounded absolutely extraordinary with us all singing together!!!!
I must say it was so much fun and I recommend that lots of people should join choir to do lots more amazingly exciting and fun things like this!!!!
By the writer of Do Not Read This If You Are Easily Scared (Ella)!
Year 2′s topic this half term is Pirates. The children have the opportunity to come into school dressed as pirates and to choose their own pirate names. Click on to the Year 2 page to see some of the self portraits the children have created in their ICT lessons.
Welcome.
Our School, Dunmow St Mary’s Primary, have a new website club run by Mrs Allen and Mrs Holland during Tuesday lunch at 12:40.
Our club members so far are, Alistair, Billy, Chloe, Ellie, Ella, Elouise, Emily, Izzy, Owen (Me) and Sarah. We each write in our own words what is happening around school and the clubs we go to out of school.
In this website you will find many things that we do in school clubs and the different age groups. Have a look at our new sections ‘Pupils’ and ‘Sports’. You will also find out about school council, how it is run and who is in it.
We really hope you enjoy our school website and all the new things added to it.
Owen!
We have a fantastic school gardener and the children are very much involved in improving and maintaining the school grounds. Below is the latest news:
Herb Wheel and Gardening Club
In October the Herb Wheel near the Kitchen was cleared and replanted with the help of the children from the Gardening Club. Here is a photograph of all the children involved. Every one of these children has attended the club each week and I think Mrs Bryant who helps us will agree that all involved have had lots of fun.
The children have proved themselves extremely hardworking and enthusiastic. They have contributed a great deal not only in the effort they have put in to the school gardens, but in making my job even more rewarding. Some examples of the work they have undertaken are listed below:
This year we start preparing for the growing season and are thinking of ideas on how to incorporate an Olympic theme over by the poly tunnel.
Bulb Planting
I had a busy week preparing and planting bulbs for the school ‘Bulb Planting’ with children from every class in the school. I would like to say this was a great success but want to hold tight until something starts to grow! However, the children and parents were extremely generous and we had many bulbs to plant. I initially tried dibbing the bulbs into the turf, which not only was hard work proved near impossible with some of the larger bulbs. However, two classes in and I adopted a new approach of lifting squares of turf and planting them in clumps and then placing the turf back. This was so much better!
Reception Vegetables
The Reception classes are taking part in the ‘Rocket Garden Schools’ programme. This is where vegetable and salad crops were chosen and posted by Rocket Gardens to be planted and harvested during term times. This corner of the Reception playground is looking extremely healthy and the children will be able to harvest some of the plants very soon. In the early weeks when the plants needed more care and attention the children were always keen to help with the watering and are asking lots of questions whenever I appear in their playground.
Willow Dome
With all the leaves gone I have had the opportunity of reweaving the Willow Dome, which is now complete. A few logs have been placed inside to encourage the children to sit rather than charge through and I have removed the safety tape so it is officially ‘Open’. Now the children will get a chance to play in it and I can see if it is sturdy enough.
Mella Watts,
School Gardener
