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NEWS FROM BERE REGIS

PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL
Southbrook, Bere Regis, BH20 7DB 01929 471334

Spring 2018
It has been my pleasure to join Bere Regis Primary and Pre-
School and my first term seems to have flown by. Having
joined in January, I’ve been fortunate to have the chance to
meet many of our parents and families through everything
from our class assemblies and reading workshops to standing on the (very windy!)
gate in the mornings. I have joined the team as the Deputy Head and SENDCo,
ensuring every student has the chance to full reach their potential. I also teach on
three days a week, sharing my time between our Year 3/4 class and our Year 1/2
class, as well as dipping in elsewhere when I can. It has been a wonderful start
and I hope that, over the coming years, I will get to know many more members of
our community too.
The spring term was both short and sweet: between them, our students studied
the Ancient Greeks, Healthy Living and Kings and Queens. Our eldest students
studied Bere Regis as a village, heading out on a rather drizzly day to see, first
hand, our beautiful village’s history and geography. Snow was, of course, the talk
of the classroom for much of March and our students enjoyed some fantastic
sledging on the hill behind the school during our two days of closure.
Spring has now, though, well and

truly sprung. The playground has
been bathed in glorious sunshine
since Easter and we are already
enjoying full use of our wonderful
field. We continue our study of
Virtues, this term focussing on
Patience and Forgiveness. In
assembly, I shared Confucius’
quote, ‘It does not matter how
slowly you go as long as you do
not stop’. School is a place of constant challenge, and rightly so. Thus, the
patience to dig deep, to take a deep breath and to push on can be an
enormous asset to our students. In the modern world, patience could be
considered a dying art, so it is all the more important that we take the chance in
school to engender the capacity to wait or try again, without worry or angst.

In May, our twelve Year 6 students will undertake their SATs, embracing the

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