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Sailing

When children make suggestions, we always do our best to facilitate their ideas. So, when Wilf and Florence in Year 6 suggested a sailing activity, we arranged a Teams meeting with Cobnor Activity Centre. Billy from Year 5 joined the meeting which was held in the Headmaster’s study and there was a good discussion of the best way forward. We now have a taster session arranged for 30 children in September and hope that the activity will continue next summer.

GapStudents

Our three GAP students, Julia Powell -Davies, Matt Lusted and Abbey Bevan, arrived on a cold, dark day in January from sunny Australia have been a brilliant addition in all areas of school life – we all really appreciate their enthusiasm and `can do’ attitude. (Although we are not sure whether we have forgiven Mr Lusted for hoisting the Australian flag following the first Ashes test…)

CharityWalk

Karen Bentley and I completed the 25K and raised just over £700 for Shooting Star Chase children's hospice in Guildford as Team Dorset House School. The event was beautifully organised and ran from Windsor racecourse, along the river at Runnymede before entering Windsor Great Park and finishing back to the racecourse. It was extremely muddy, having rained continuously for the week before the event, but the day itself was dry, thank goodness!

The whole day was great fun and a wonderful way to raise lots of money for a very worthy cause. Thank you so much to all of our kind sponsors. We are definitely doing the Action Challenge again next year. Who would like to join us?

Sarah Armstrong