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Celebrating 180 years
A group of our staff and students attended a special 180th anniversary thanksgiving event at All Hallows by the Tower in London. They joined supporters and staff alongside our Patron HRH Princess Anne in a service of celebration featuring music, readings and a special film produced in school reflecting on the changes in education from […]
Read moreChristmas Party
A Christmas party was held for the students this afternoon with lots of fun, singing and dancing. Local acoustic duo The Pudenski Bros got the party underway with a set full of Christmas pop classics among other tunes. There was also an attempt to make ‘the longest paper chain in the world!’ A fun time […]
Read moreChristmas Concert
There were more Christmas activities to enjoy today including a whole school Christmas concert in St Aldhelm’s Church. Parents, carers, friends and families joined us to enjoy festive performances of songs and poems from our classes. This afternoon we gathered again, welcoming parents and carers back to school to watch the premiere of the school […]
Read moreCantabile Choir
To kick off a busy week of Christmas activities we welcomed the Cantabile Choir today for a special Christmas performance. The choir, led by Jean Holt, notched up the Christmas spirit with all the best festive favourites, which got us all singing and swaying along. We were treated to excellent renditions of ‘Hark the herald […]
Read moreNew School Captains
We have had a couple of weeks of hustings, manifesto films and campaigning in the run up to the election of our school captains from our newly appointed student ambassadors. The thirteen candidates have been working hard to win the votes of staff and students. Interim Head, Ed Potterton, had the task of counting the […]
Read moreBethlehem Comes to Branksome
Class Purbeck have been decorating our ‘Victoria Tree’ for this year’s St Aldhelm’s Church Shining Branches Christmas Tree Festival. Our ‘Bethlehem comes to Branksome’ tree shows the town of Bethlehem with all of its houses and palm trees. The decorations were all made by our students. There is also a display at the foot of […]
Read moreChristmas Concert
This morning, after a cancellation in their busy schedule, we were pleased to be able to host a performance by ‘InSpire Daytime Voices’, who are part of Poole and Parkstone Productions. The Choir, which was founded in 2018, performed a concert full of Christmas favourites to entertain us. The students joined in with singing and […]
Read moreAdvent Adventure
Christmas officially got underway in school this morning! We were all very excited as the Creative Arts Department kicked off the festive celebrations in grand style with ‘The Advent Adventure’. There was a mixture of dance, theatrical storytelling, acrobatics and lots of festive fun. Two local professional dancers, Olivia and Claire led a fun and […]
Read moreThank You Soundstorm
As part of our link with the local music hub, Soundstorm, we have been learning more about woodwind instruments. Local professional saxophonist, Wendy Allen, has been taking lessons with music teachers, Jo and Mike so children can hear the wonderful sounds of the saxophone and learn about how the instruments works and where it sits […]
Read moreLiberate Dance
Today Furzey, Arne, Pergins, Portland, Brownsea, Purbeck and Sandbanks classes took part in a workshop run by Liberate Dance. Liberate Dance was created by Amanda Watkins and Vickie Simmonds and is an exclusive wheelchair-based dance company based in Winchester. They believe in celebrating the freedom of movement a wheelchair brings to people with disabilities. This […]
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