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Y4 Winter Walk

To end an excellent first term in Y4, we spent our penultimate day before the Christmas holiday undertaking a 10 kilometre walk from school, up to Totley Moss and Blacka Moor, then back to school. As you can see, the views were NOT amazing as the weather was pretty awful. Fortunately, Y4 children (and teachers) […]

Santa Dash

As part of our commitment to promoting physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle, our wonderful Year 6s organised the annual Dore Primary School Santa Dash. Children from across the juniors took part, completing a fun course around the school grounds. The course was well-marshalled by our Year 6s and participants were encouraged to […]

Y4 UDOIT Dance Festival

Working with Dance charity UDOIT for the last six weeks has been an absolute pleasure and privilege for our Y4 children. Coached by dance teachers Jack and Sinead, both classes have learned different routines to different mixes of music. Our children have worked so hard to focus on and learn the moves, and their confidence […]

Y4 Sheffield Children’s Book Awards Visit

Y4 spent a fantastic day in Sheffield city centre, attending the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards. At a very lively ceremony, we were entertained by ‘That Poetry Guy’, then saw the winners of the various awards, including the ones we had voted for when we were in Y3. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield presented the overall […]

Year 5 Tag Rugby Competition

On Friday 6th October, Mr Hanks and Mrs Taggart took two Dore teams to compete against 12 other schools in a Tag Rugby Tournament. It was the first time we had attended a rugby event and it was a lot of fun with a great level of competativeness. The Y5P team brilliantly well winning their […]

Y4, Y5 and Y6 Panathlon Bowling

We were lucky to be invited to take two teams of children to attend the Panathlon Games Ten-Pin Bowling competition. Our children had a fantastic time at the event, with our Y5 and Y6 team finishing seventh overall (out of 24 teams). The medals we received are lovely! Thanks to the folks at Panathlon and […]