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no light pollution. A warmer activity and after school sports clubs,
back at the scout hut was looking including triathlon, dodgeball,
for Nessie – not in a loch but head cheerleading, gymnastics to
first in a large bowl of cooked
name a few! Year 3/4 as part of
a World War 2 topic, dressed as

evacuees and spent a fun filled
day at Nothe Fort in Weymouth.
Reception class visited the Bere
Regis Fire Station and enjoyed
getting wet. You may have
noticed children from Pebbles
(pre-school) walking around the village and surrounding area. Year 5/6
completed a learning walk of the village, mapping it and identifying key
buildings. Year 1/2 visited the RNLI in Poole, and the whole school enjoyed an
African drumming day.
You can read more about our themes and plans to take the school forward on
s p a g h e t t i , w i t h m u c h our website – www.bereregis.dorset.sch.uk
encouragement from the other Wayne Roberts Lucy Roberts
team members – but no tomato sauce!!! Cubs have been working towards their
Headteacher Chair of Governors
personal safety badge and also made bird feeders from recycled plastic bottles.

Beaver News
One of the things that we try to do in Beavers in getting our young people to be
more independent and able to spend a night away from home. So at the
beginning of February we celebrated Chinese New Year with a sleepover in the
Scout Hut! For these events we erect tents inside, and so it is just like camping (but
less damp), and the beavers learn to sort out their beds and kit just as they would
on a campsite.
We began the evening with craft work, and all the beavers made a Chinese
dragon puppet, using chop sticks to hold them! Then we all got cooking a stirfry
Chinese supper (thanks to Rhiannon) - chopping vegetables with sharp knives and
stirring the food in woks over gas stoves. Some of the beavers loved the noodles
and sauces, others were not so keen - most made a good effort to eat with
chopsticks (different ones from those we used in the craft!). Most enjoyed the jam
tarts they had made for pudding and the fortune cookies!
Then we played a few games and got the tents sorted out, and the beavers got
ready for story and bed. It took them a long while to settle, but they were all
asleep between 11pm and 4am, which is quite an achievement for these nights
away! Then in the morning we had clear up, tents away, lucky gold coin craft
and breakfast, more clearing up and finishing off craft until the parents arrived at
9:30am! It was a very successful themed sleepover, and it is wonderful to see how
the beavers gain confidence over the 2 years they spend in this section.

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