European Day of Languages
The European Day of Languages is held on 26 September every year. It is organised jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Union to celebrate linguistic diversity in Europe and to promote language learning.
This year at Dame B's we considered the importance of learning another language, not only because of the opportunities for travel, making friends and understanding others ...
Sports Roundup
The sports teams have been busy during the first few weeks of the term competing in both rugby and football.
We have also elected a new Sports Crew ...
Early Years update
A round up of activities from the busy first few weeks of term for our Early Years pupils ...
Yrs 1 & 2 visit Saffron Walden Museum
Years 1 and 2 enjoyed and interesting trip to Saffron Walden Museum. Along the way we followed our map and added features and road names as we went ...
Year 3 explore Tropical Treasures
Year 3 visited Cambridge Botanic Gardens to kick start our learning on ‘Tropical Treasures.’ Where better to experience humidity and see the rainforest plants for ourselves?
Year 4 River Granta Trip
What a difference a fortnight makes! Having seen off the storm Aileen, whose appearance halted our planned trip on the 13th, once again we packed up and readied ourselves for our field study at (and in ) The River Granta, Hildersham ...
LAMDA and ABRSM success
In the Summer term 54 pupils took ABRSM music exams, Rock School guitar exams and recorder Music Medals with 100% pass rate.
The instruments played were varied and included; recorder, flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, piano, cello, violin and trombone.
Over 50 students from Years 2 - 6 Speech and Drama and Musical Theatre clubs took LAMDA exams in May. The students worked hard to learn poems, monologues, duologues, scenes and songs to present to an examiner and received fantastic results from passes through to distinctions.
Phonics for parents
On Friday 22 September, Miss White and Ms Brownbridge held a phonics information session for parents of children in Years 1 and 2. The session focused on explaining the key elements of the Read Write Inc phonics programme in Years 1 and 2 and the Year 2 Language and Literacy and Spelling Programmes.
Parents watched teaching demonstrations and were able to look at the resources their children are using. Parents were also given information about how best to support their child's reading and writing at home.
If you would likes any of the handouts from the session, please ask Miss White in 1W.