News

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

• A Classic Experience

  Thu 28 Apr 2016

  On Monday afternoon at 2.30pm, some members of the Village Violin School went to St Mary’s Church in Warwick to attend a concert rehearsal, featuring the world renowned classical violinist Nicola Benedetti, who was performing with the Armonico Consort Choir and Orchestra (which includes Veronique the Village Violin School teacher). The children stayed for an hour, were the only people who had been invited and were privileged to see a ‘real life’ famous musician working.

  Nicola Benedetti spoke to the children at the end and everyone was extremely impressed with how respectful and quiet our children were during the practice. I know this is something the children will remember forever and our thanks to Veronique for organising it and the parents who helped transport.

  

• Cluster Football Tournament Finalists

  Tue 26 Apr 2016
  Congratulations to our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils who made up our squad for the Cluster Football Tournament held on 26th April at the playing fields in Fenny Compton. They played superbly and worked well as a team, despite it being freezing cold and ranging between bright sunshine with a bitter wind and snow! They won 2 and lost 2  in the heats to then take part in the match for 2nd and 3rd place - the decider to see who would be in the final. We won that on Penalties (with a great save from Jack and a great goal from Edward) and then played in the final, losing 2-0 to Wellesbourne. The teams taking part were Moreton Morrell, Temple Herdewyke, Kineton Primary, The Dassett and Wellesbourne. Our team was jack, Louis, Charlotte and Codey (Year 6) and Edward, Harry and Max (Year 5). Special thanks to Onside Coaching for organising the tournament and to Fenny Compton FC for marking out the pitches and allowing us the use of the pavilion. We are very grateful for your support.

• Food For Life Silver

  Thu 14 Apr 2016

  We are absolutely thrilled to be able to announce that The Dassett has just been awarded the prestigious Food For Life Silver Award – one of only 50 or so schools in the country to have attained this level! This comes hot on the heels of the Bronze we achieved at the end of last year and means that since our commencing the Awards scheme last May Bank Holiday we have achieved two Awards in eleven months – quite unprecedented – so much so we have been asked to be a case study school and now we are moving on to the Gold.

  It is a glowing endorsement of everything we are doing here at The Dassett, with regard to healthy eating, and we thank the Gardening and Cooking Clubs, our amazing kitchen team, The Friends for supporting our move away from flight trays and everyone that has been involved in this truly astounding progression.

  We will be collecting our two Awards on Wednesday 27^th April and Sam and Charlotte (Y6) will be attending and doing a presentation on how we have made this happen. Well done everyone!

  Find out more here http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/

  

• Reminder for Parents – Leave Of Absence during Term Time

  Thu 07 Apr 2016

  As you will all be aware, current attendance regulations stipulate a Head teacher may not grant a leave of absence during term-time unless there are exceptional circumstances.

  Each application for a leave of absence will be considered on a case by case basis and on its own merits.

  It is for the Head Teacher to decide what he/she views as ‘exceptional’ and it is at their discretion if the circumstances warrant the leave to be granted. If the leave is granted, the head teacher is able to determine the number of school days a child can be absent for.

  The school can only consider Leave of Absence requests which are made by the ‘resident’ parent.

  Where applications for leave of absence are made in advance and refused, the child will be required to be in school on the dates set out in the application. If the child is absent during that period, it will be recorded as an unauthorised absence, which may result in legal action being taken against the parent(s), by way of a Fixed Penalty Notice.

  Failure to make an application for leave in advance can also result in a Fixed Penalty Notice being issued to the parent(s).

  Where a Fixed Penalty Notice is issued and not paid within the required timeframe as set out on the notice, the matter will be referred to Warwickshire County Council’s Legal Services to consider instigating criminal proceedings under S444 Education Act 1996.

  Parents are asked to respect the new regulations under which the school must work and if there is a need to take a child out of school during term-time, an application or request must be made in advance and make clear how the circumstances are exceptional.

• Saplings, Seeds, Spuds and Science please

  Mon 04 Apr 2016

  The Seeds are Back!

  At 04:26am on Tuesday 2^nd March, Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed safely back on Earth in Kazakhstan. The seeds then travelled with Scott Kelly to NASA in Houston on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia and returned to the UK on Thursday. The RHS have been busy packing them up so they can be sent to out to us with our Rocket Science experiment pack and they will be here on 18th April! Launch site to be announced. If anyone has any experience setting up a Raspberry Pi could they speak to Mr. Hine as we are planning to create a time lapse video of the experiment.

   

  Grow Wild

  We have received our Grow Wild seed kits from Grow Wild at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens and are getting ready to prep the ground and create two wild flower borders over the coming week.

   

  Grow Your Own Potatoes

  Our GYOP potatoes have been chitting away very nicely in the quite of the big workroom and are going to be planted into the allotment over the next week or so.

   

  The Woodland Trust

  We are so excited to announce that we have got over 400 Dogwood, Hawthorn, Hazel, Silver Birch, Rowan and Wild Cherry saplings arriving later this year to plant as two feature hedges to the front and rear of the school.