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Wimborne Builders Offer Adult Career Change Opportunities

By DomCar at 09:48 on 07/10/11

Wimborne based building firm Harry J Palmer, founded in Broadstone in the 1930's, have formed a partnership with Brockenhurst Collage providing a new scheme to help adult career changers gain valuable construction industry NVQ qualifications. There has always been a problem for adults wishing to change career and work in the building industry, as they need site experience to progress with their qualifications, but can't get site...
Excellent A-Level Results For Wimborne's Queen Elizabeth's School Students

By DomCar at 14:13 on 30/08/11

A-Level students of Wimborne's Queen Elizabeth's School achieved an excellent number of results with an overall pass rate of 98.4%. 45% of those grades were between A* - B and over 71% between A* - C. The traditionally exacting subjects such as Mathematics, Sciences and Modern Foreign Languages all experienced especially high performances with 72% A*- C and 70% A* - C respectively. It's also great to hear that 75% of students exceeded...
Wimborne's New Queen Elizabeth's School To Open In October

By DomCar at 10:58 on 10/08/11

Wimborne's new eco-friendly Queen Elizabeth's School will open a little later than originally scheduled, but happily still on budget. The school, with its environmentally friendly design including solar/wind power energy collection, rain water recycling and low energy use, was due to open at the start of September and will now open when students return after half term in October. The building will actually be ready before the half-term...
Wimborne First School Pupils Rear Their Own Fish

By DomCar at 16:21 on 10/05/11

Pupils of Wimborne First School have had great fun learning all about the growth and development of fish after being given a rare opportunity to rear their own trout at the school. The children were given the trout as eggs in January, which were then placed, in a tank outside the head teacher's office where the pupils could watch their progress. The children helped to look after the trout by cleaning the tank three times a day and...
Celebrating 40 years of St Michael’s Middle School on Colehill

By johnspatchet at 21:34 on 29/03/11

Calling past pupils and friends Preparations are nearly complete for one of our main celebratory events of the year. On Wednesday and Thursday, 6th and 7th, April at the Layard Theatre, Canford School, present pupils will be joining with past pupils to acknowledge the part music has played in the life of the school since 1971. Performances start at 7:30pm. A number of past pupils who have continued to make music their...

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Should Wimborne Schools Notify Parents Of Illness Outbreaks?

By DomCar

It seems EDCC do send out warnings. I've been informed a letter is doing the rounds telling parents...

By DomCar at 12:46 on 21/06/11

Should Wimborne's schools notify parents when their students are hit by illness? After the recent round of Chicken Pox and a diarrhoea and vomiting bug in schools in Colehill, I was wondering if the schools should inform parents of any outbreak, so they can decide for themselves if their child should go to school and be exposed to it? Both of our kids have been ill recently, with Chicken Pox and a sickness bug, and it's been a...
Wimborne School Children Get Their Own Gardens To Care For

By MrBobBobly

Health & safety, with that and teachers not being allowed to restrain unruly children when they...

By DomCar at 10:52 on 26/05/11

Wimborne school children can now get stuck in to working on their new garden project thanks to help from local garden centres. The lucky children at St John's School in Wimborne are now developing green fingers thanks to a new garden in the school grounds. The school, which is working towards its Eco School status, has in its garden a vegetable patch, raised beds (for flowers I presume) and a sensory garden for the pupils to look...
School Placement Maddness For Sturminster Marshall Mother

By MrBobBobly

I agree, if they can't sort out one simple school place it's time to get someone in who can do the...

By DomCar at 09:48 on 25/04/11

Vicky Borrett, a divorced mother of two living in Sturminster Marshall, has been forced to home school her five-year-old child after failing to find a suitable local school place for him. In December Dorset County Council agreed to visit Vicky to offer guidance on home schooling, but failed to turn up until the 1st March. Since then Dorset County Council have offered the child a place at Bere Regis First School eleven miles away from...
Outstanding Colehill Nursery

By McAngry

Good to hear today's children are getting a good start with their education.

By DomCar at 14:38 on 18/03/11

Chrysalis was recently rewarded with an "OUTSTANDING" Ofsted, one of only six awarded to nurseries in the county. Chrysalis is a thriving independent nursery situated in the grounds of Hayeswood First School. It offers top quality educational care for 2-5 year-olds in a caring, happy atmosphere. It was established in 1994 and boasts dedicated long-serving members of staff who work confidently with the Montessori method and...
Wimborne Schools Escape Cuts

By DomCar

So Wimborne escaped, but a couple of schools in Poole were not so lucky. It was nice to know the...

By DomCar at 10:36 on 06/07/10

Wimborne schools not affected by the Government's school building cuts. Stand by for a little bit of politics. You have been warned. This news probably comes as a big relief to Queen Elizabeth School with its £50.6million budget. But then again I suppose they wouldn't cut a budget for a building already in progress.... or would they? You just can't tell what's going to happen next in these hard times. Looking at the list of...