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Autumn Term Week Two

The Enormous Turnip Monday was a wet day but we still had lots of outside and inside fun . We painted puddles and made hand prints using floor. We have learnt a new story this week, The Enormous Turnip. Its a story of a farmer who grew an enormous turnip. It was so big he […]

Autumn Term Week 1

A BIG, BIG WELCOME.   IT’S LOVELY TO BE BACK! Welcome back to all the children we had last year and a big welcome to all our new children. The children have had a lovely week settling into pre-school and exploring our outside and inside areas. They have enjoyed making mud cakes, splashing in water and […]

Y4 Legendary Legionaries (The Romans in Britain)

As part of our learning about the Roman invasion of Britain, and how they changed life across their empire, we experienced Roman road making and arch building, were visited by Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, and spent the day as Roman soldiers training, cooking (flatbreads and dips from across the Empire) and camping. These activities […]

Leavers Play 2021: Macbeth

Year 6 excelled in their final task at Dore Primary School: The Leavers Play. This year, we take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Our task was made all the more difficult by an impromptu spell of home learning which slashed our rehearsal and filming time. See if you can recognise the famous scenes below. Goodbye Year 6! […]

Y6 Summer Athletics Competition

Congratulations to all the Y6 athletes who represented the school magnificently at the summer inter-school athletics event. Our fine athletes competed across a range of track and field disciplines and rewarded with a slew of bronze, silver and golds!

2 truths and a lie
Y3 Transition – Two truths and a lie

It is not often a teacher encourages lies. But for as a way to get to know the new Year 3’s, Mrs Davison, Mrs Guiton and Mr Hanks have been asking children to tell two truths and a lie about themselves. They also drew brilliant pictures to help us recognise them. The children (and teachers) […]

Y3 How does your garden grow?

Our final learning journey in Year 3, has inspired some wonderful creativity: science, art, computing and English. In Science, we learnt the correct names and funtions of different parts of a plant. Children showed their understanding by choosing different materials to represent each part. We are so lucky at Dore Primary to have access to […]