Dunn Street Art Gallery

29th March 2021lbridges

During Art Week our children produced some amazing art work! They then made frames during Design Technology week and put them both together to showcase in our very own Dunn Street Art Gallery! We hope you enjoy our gallery as much as we did.

 

Welcome to a week of celebrating World Book Day 📚

1st March 2021N Noble

This year, for World Book Day, Dunn Street brings you stories to entertain and the challenge of working out who is The Masked Reader!!  Guesses in the comments or via Facebook…

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National Story Telling Week – Are you sitting comfortably? Then we will begin!!

2nd February 2021N Noble

Our final contributions this week come from Mrs Simanis, Hr Haswell and Miss Blair… thank-you to all staff for sharing their stories this week:

An appropriate celebration of the life of Sir Tom Moore through the book – 100 Steps – many thanks for sharing Mrs G-B.

New stories from Mr Hymers, Mrs Clough & Mrs G-B (again😮 !!) …

 

Thank-you so much to our first set of story-tellers: Mrs Trotter, Mrs G-B, Miss Noble and Miss Bridges… we hope you enjoy…📚😍⭐

 

Whole School PE Challenges 1-7 …

19th January 2021N Noble

We live in a world full of challenges. Going out and meeting friends is not happening, hobbies are cancelled and the internet gives you trouble when you when you should join Google Meets and complete your work!!  Also, one of the most important place in the world for all of us is closed! (I mean Dunn Street!)

This family decided to send even more challenges to the school team (students, teachers and other staff). PE Challenges! They send out two challenges a week and the goal is for each of us to try and try to overcome the challenge.

A challenge can be really hard, but don’t be discouraged! The purpose is just to have fun and get away from the computers in between lessons. You can also challenge your whole family, relatives, friends, pets, etc.

Let’s all challenge ourselves!

… how many of these challenges can you complete?  Be sure to let your teacher know and we will see which classes have risen to the challenge!!







SCHOOL CLOSURE, Monday 4th January 2021

4th January 2021N Noble

Monday 4th January 2021

Dear Parent/Carer

I hope you are all well and have had a lovely holiday with your children.

As you will now be aware, the government announced tonight that schools will close from tomorrow and everyone wherever possible needs to stay at home.

School will only be open for children of critical workers if they are unable to be cared for at home and our children from vulnerable families.

If you fall into the critical worker category, then please complete the attached form and email as soon as possible to the school office ([email protected]).

The list of ‘critical workers’ was updated on 31/12/20 and can be found on the government website www.gov.uk. The list of workers includes:

  • Health and Social care
  • Education and childcare
  • Key public services
  • Local and National government
  • Food and other necessary goods
  • Public safety and national security
  • Transport and border
  • Utilities, communication and financial services

Parents and carers of vulnerable pupils (who include those who have a social worker and have Education, Health and Care Plans) will be contacted directly by school staff tomorrow.

As in previous lockdowns we ask that every child who can be safely cared for at home should be. Remote learning will be available for pupils – staff will use Google Classroom.

Please continue to contact school if your child has any COVID symptoms and you are taking them for a test. Inform us as soon as possible of any test result (positive or negative). It is essential that emergency contact details are up to date for all pupils. If your child has been in contact with a positive case, they MUST isolate for ten days and they must not enter the school site.

We request that adults wear a mask when picking up or dropping off their child to reduce the risk of transmission. Can I please ask that all adults comply with this request?  We also request that only one adult per household drop off or collect from the school at any one time.

We understand the timing of this announcement has been difficult and a challenge for everyone and to support parents/carers we will still offer an 8.45am start to the day for the children of critical worker and our children of vulnerable families.

There will be no after school clubs until further notice.

This is going to be another challenging term for us all. We will continue to put your child’s safety and education at the forefront in all that we do. We will continue to follow the guidance from public health, the Department for Education and the Government.

Thank you for your continued support and for the well wishes and messages we have received over the Christmas break. If you have any queries, please no not hesitate to email or ring school.

All my very best wishes and I sincerely wish you all a Happy New Year.

Alison Burden, all staff and governors.

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Celebrating INTO Film Club (under 11 years old) of The Year!!

12th November 2020N Noble

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Brad said:

“I’m lost for words…  This is an extraordinary achievement. I can’t thank the parents, the teachers and staff enough for this! This is something the school should treasure for how long it is an education establishment. Everybody in the club thanks you all for giving us the chance to achieve this.

When we found out the club couldn’t make it to London because of coronavirus, we were devastated, appalled and furious. We thought INTO Film Awards had been cancelled and we had lost our chance at winning… until this morning when we watched the Virtual Award Ceremony and won!

The club is bamboozled in the sight of winning one of the biggest award shows in The UK! Mrs Baxter, our film club teacher, supported us in the pursuit of winning the award and becoming the best under 11’s film club in the UK. She helped us with basic animation, flip books and many more astonishing activities!

What I remember from the film club last year, is the smiling and bright faces of the children involved and the teachers knowing that they had created something that enhanced over time. This film club has inspired me to reach new heights with art and many more subjects which I did not think I would like!

This film club is not about coming in and watching movies every week!

This film club is not about the popcorn or the food and drink!

This film club is about ambition, inspiration, and mental, physical drive. Pushing you to your limits, creating imaginations within the children young or old, using subjects from the primary curriculum and making it into humorous work  which makes the pupils want to work and achieve the highest they can. This is not a club. This is a community.”

This message was received from INTO Film:

Congratulations on winning an Into Film Award for Club of the Year 11 and Under!

We hope you’re pleased and enjoyed the online screening of the ceremony. You can watch the full screening again here: https://vimeo.com/476214487

We’ve also published an article on our website including all the winners: https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/into-film-awards-2020-winners and announced on our social media channels!

The club members, Mrs Burden and Mrs Gilmore met with Mrs Baxter and Mrs Moore today and received some bags stuffed full of goodies as well as a superb trophy!