News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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What's (Not) On
Wed 04 May 2016The Dassett Farmers’ Market – What’s (Not) On
It promise to be a hugely exciting afternoon on Saturday 21st. From 12 - 4pm we will be hosting a massive array of fun and exciting things. In addition to our huge plant, cake and book stalls our exhibitors and attractions so far include:
Art Decadence
Beautiful hand painted art clocks and original art.
Barbecue run by The Merrie Lion
A gorgeous assortment of delicious food.
Warwickshire Beekeepers Association http://www.warleambees.org.uk/
Advice from the experts, an open frame hive, virtual demo, candle making activity and honey!
Bar and Pimms Tent
Strictly for the grown ups!
Card Stall
Wide selection with the book stall.
Competitions: Photography, Jams, Conserves and Art
Entries welcome or just come and admire.
Craft and Activity Stalls
Fun things for children to do.
Under 5's Play Area
Hannah's Big Cookies http://www.hannahsbigcookies.com/cookies.html
They really are big!
Dassett School Craft Sale
Gardening and wildlife crafts designed and made by the children.
Dotty Hen http://www.dottyhen.com/
Amazing array of scarfs and accessories.
Ecover
Fire Engine Display
Our local fire engine will be on display and meet the firefighters.
Fir Tree Falconry https://www.firtreefalconry.co.uk/
Fabulous falcons and owls for you to meet.
Food For Life http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/
Healthy cooking workshops throughout the afternoon.
Home Farm Happy Hogs http://www.homefarmhappyhogs.com/
Come and meet some beautiful rare breed sheep and pigs and wool for sale.
Nathan Wood Carving
Fabulous garden ornaments.
Paddocks Products http://www.paddocksproductsfarmshop.co.uk/
Including a fabulous range of beef, pork, lamb and eggs.
Raffle
Great prizes on offer.
Rebecca Marsh
Lovely make up and toiletries.
Rocket Seeds Display
See the RHS and Tim Peake seeds from space experiment in action.
Second hand designer brand clothes
Also school uniform on sale.
Smoothie stall
Yummy smoothies made by The Dassett Cooking Club.
Stonesfield Soap Company https://www.stonesfieldsoap.com/
Pure, hand-made, palm oil free artisan soaps.
Talton Mill Farm Shop http://www.taltonmill.co.uk/
Including an amazing array of pork, chicken and beef, wild venison and vegetables.
The Leaping Sheep Company
Apple Juice.
The Merrie Lion http://merrielion.co.uk/
Our amazing local pub are providing a feast for the day. Sausages, pork and apple rolls, home made vege burgers.
UGM Nurseries http://www.tvfm.org.uk/member/144/ugm%2Bnursery/index.html
A huge selection of hanging baskets and plants.
Warwickshire Master Composters https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/composting
Advice from the experts.
Our local branch.
Windmill Orchards http://www.windmillorchards.co.uk/
Apple juice.
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A Classic Experience
Thu 28 Apr 2016On 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.
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Cluster Football Tournament Finalists
Tue 26 Apr 2016Congratulations 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 2016We 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 27th 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/
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Reminder for Parents – Leave Of Absence during Term Time
Thu 07 Apr 2016As 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.
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Saplings, Seeds, Spuds and Science please
Mon 04 Apr 2016The Seeds are Back!
At 04:26am on Tuesday 2nd 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.
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Year 2 Pop Up Space Museum
Sat 19 Mar 2016An amazing experience was had by Year 2 over three days of visits from the Museum on the Move and much subsequent hard work putting together the exhibits and then constructing their space museum.
It was brilliantly put together and hugely informative, displaying a fabulous array of both knowledge and skills.
Some of the many comments left by visitors to the museum said:
'Well presented and prepared museum. Pupils all helped on our tour around museum.'
'An excellent learning tour for pupils and mums, dads and grandparents. Well done all.'
'Fantastic!!'
'Wonderful work. The children enjoyed telling me about their work.'
'What and amazing opportunity the children have been involved in! We loved looking at the different examples of how the children have learnt about space. Amazing!'
'Very good. Learned lots of new things and got lots of different things to try and have a go at.'
'What a fantastic museum! I loved looking around the exhibits and hearing how enthusiastically the children explained them to me.'
'What a lot of hard work, well done! Such interesting facts, great models and lovely games'.
'Fantastic to see the work everyone has done over the past few weeks and the children's enthusiasm for their topic'.
'I think the children and teachers have worked extremely hard. I would love to be invited to something like this again! seeing what they do shows us so much more than what they tell us they do! Well done Year 2!'
'Inspirational'.
Pictures can be found at:
http://www.thedassettprimary.co.uk/pictures-2/
Our thanks go to the amazing Museum on the Move and their dedicated and inspirational team - Warwickshire's and Worcestershire's award winning Mobile Museum and, of course, Tim Peake for inspiration!
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Full House for a Full House
Sun 13 Mar 2016At least four dozen and legs eleven came knocking at the door on Friday night and it was time for fun. At the beginning, man alive we were in a state but me and you didn’t make them wait, and rise and shine - you’re doing fine, especially the young and keen did strive and strive. Halfway there we did stop and run when it was time for tea and then they asked for more though straight on through till all but one we were nearly there. It was a little unlucky for some but there were at least a lucky seven at the candy store. Was she worth it? – bulls eye.
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RHS Christmas Card Competition!
Thu 10 Mar 2016Spring is on its way so Christmas is probably the last thing on your mind - but in the world of retail Christmas always comes early! That is why, throughout March, the RHS are looking for festive designs for their first ever RHS Campaign for School Gardening Christmas card, which will be sold in our RHS shops this Christmas.
They want pupils to create an original design, preferably (but not necessarily) incorporating an element of horticulture or gardening. Think snowmen, robins, snowy gardens and wintry walks!
There will be two designs chosen, one from pupils aged 11 years and under and one from pupils aged 12-18. As well as having their designs sold in RHS shops, the two winners will also win £100 of gardening goodies and art supplies.The deadline for entries is 5pm on Monday 21 March 2016 so pupils have just a few weeks to come up with their winning designs. For full details, an entry form and template please go to:
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World Book Day
Thu 03 Mar 2016WOW – everyone looked amazing on World Book Day today – thank you so much for all of your effort with the costumes.
We had superheroes, Fairytale characters, people from Hogwarts, Where’s Wally, Cats in Hats, Alice and her Wonderland characters, some Skullduggery, Roald Dahl favourites, and too many more to mention. Photos will be in the class pages.
We enjoyed the special lunch menu, prepared for us by Pam and her team and most classes did work based on Roald Dahl, as it is the centenary of his birth.
What a great day!
