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English Year 5 and 6 Taster Session

Dec 16 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

On Wednesday 11th of December, over eighty year 5 and 6 students visited The Purbeck School for an afternoon taster session in English. The students, and some keen parents, enjoyed participating in a creative writing competition where the students found themselves having to compete to write creative descriptions of the seaside. Students looked at how to use descriptive skills to improve their writing, and, using mini-whiteboards, the students created a range of vivid auditory and visual imagery...

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Autumn term sports partnership news

Dec 04 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

October and November have been particularly busy this year with a number of activities including multi skills events, outdoor and adventurous days and sporting competitions. The beginning of October saw the partnerships younger pupils get a chance to take part in a multi sports festival. This involved a number of activities including elephant football, team building games and indoor curling. Initially the aim was to take the event outside but mother nature let us down so we ended up retiring to the sports...

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The Science Experience

Nov 21 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

Wednesday 14th November saw a large number of Year 5 and 6 students arrive at The Purbeck School for Science taster lessons. The students and their parents conducted a number of different chemical reactions, such as neutralisations, exothermic reactions and the ‘squeaky pop’ reaction . Our Science teachers took the chemical reactions one step further and demonstrated the explosive nature of hydrogen on a larger scale. Students were excited to have the opportunity to do hands on chemical...

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Sports Partnership Spring Term

May 01 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

It’s been a busy spring term with new events and various CPD courses which have all been brilliantly attended. Handball We started the term with a new event, the Year 5 and 6 Handball festival. This was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all, all the teams were buzzing and were really excited about putting new skills into practice. They started with some time learning the new skills and how to play the game and they were then put into some games which they loved. We were lucky enough...

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Humanities Taster Session

Apr 19 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

On Wednesday 21st March, nearly a hundred Year 5 and 6 students from many of our partner primary schools visited The Purbeck School for an afternoon taster session in History and Geography. The students, and some keen parents, enjoyed both a History and a Geography session where they experienced some of the learning and skills that they will enjoy when they move to Secondary education. The photo shows a group of students in their History session, figuring out how castles changed and developed...

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Network Reading Group

Jan 29 in Corfe Castle Primary School, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

On Monday afternoon, The Purbeck School hosted St Mary’s Swanage, St George’s Langton Matravers, Corfe Primary and Wareham St Mary for our 2018 launch of the joint network reading group. Students from year 6 joined some of our year 7 students and enjoyed a very entertaining afternoon in our library where they were introduced to the award winning book ‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman. It was a real pleasure to see students from the different schools working enthusiastically together...

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The English Experience

Jan 25 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

On Wednesday 24th of January, over one hundred year five and six students from many of our partner primary schools visited The Purbeck School for an afternoon Purbeck experience in English. The students enjoyed finding out a bit more about one of the books they will read when joining The Purbeck School: ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell. Using mini white boards, students started the session by impressing The Purbeck School English teachers with their excellent knowledge of language devices....

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Sports partnership round up November

Dec 08 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

So November has been busy with a number of competitions involving all age groups from year 1 through to year 6. Year 1-2 have been involved in Mini Olympics festival where they were able to take part in a number of different activities including elephant football, balancing activities and crawling through tunnels. 90 pupils took up the opportunity which was lovely to see and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The festival was delivered by Libby Jenner in Year 13 as part of her OCR coursework...

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September Sports Partnership

Oct 13 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, Lulworth & Winfrith Primary School, News, St George’s Primary School Langton, St Mary and Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wool, St Mary’s Primary School Swanage, Stoborough Primary School, Swanage Primary School, Swanage St Mark’s Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

So September has come and gone rather quickly and the partnership has again been thrown head first into an extensive activity programme. Luckily the weather has been on our side and all events have been a huge success. Our first event was the year 5 and 6 inclusive festival, where 10 pupils from each school were invited to come and take part in a number of sporting activities. The festival was aimed at pupils that may have needed a little more support in PE with its aim to give them some more...

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A ‘Wonder’ful Day!

May 18 in Bovington Primary School, Corfe Castle Primary School, The Purbeck School, Wareham St Mary Primary School, Wool Primary School Written by: Nicky Marsh

On Monday afternoon, The Purbeck School hosted Corfe Castle, Wareham St Mary, Bovington and Wool primary schools for our first ever joint reading group in our Library. Students from year 5 joined some of our year 7 students and enjoyed a very entertaining afternoon where they were introduced to the award winning book ‘Wonder’ by R. J Palacio. It was a real pleasure to see students from the different schools working enthusiastically together through a series of activities: creating...