Contents Year 3 Creative writing
House competitions The House competitions continue to be a fundamental part of Junior School life, allowing all the boys to participate as well as getting to know other boys from other Year Groups and work well as a team. An early highlight, as it always is, was the team building event where the boys demonstrated cooperation, initiative, humour, compromise, energy and empathy in order to get all the tasks done. Throughout the year we have had a combination of rugby, cross country, football, hockey, cricket, pat ball, pancake racing and the maths and general knowledge competitions. But this year saw Mrs Cooper organise a House Poetry competition on the Symposium’s theme of Movement and Miss Rowe organised a brilliant House Art competition which allowed the boys to attempt to reproduce a famous art work. The results were quite stunning. The overall highlight for me, however, was Mr Broughton’s House History competition which was held at the beginning of this term. The brief was for all the boys to prepare a family history project. The result was a wonderful array of family trees and stories which the boys had researched from primary sources. The exhibition to celebrate this was testimony to the diversity and richness of the Dulwich Community. Charities During the year so far we have raised nearly £2500 for a variety of charities including Roald Dahl’s children’s charity, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, Oxfam, Sense charity for the blind and deaf and for Mind. This has been through a number of ways, the usual retiring collections, mufti days and cake sales, but also collecting foreign coins, growing sunflowers and donating nearly new books. Drama Finally, in drama we have taken the boys to higher levels. Earlier in the year we had a new venture to allow all the Year 5s to get their chance in the spotlight with the Three Musketeers – a play in two days. Many of you will have seen the quality of the Year 6 play, Beaver Towers. It was a world premiere which allowed all the boys to experience a real theatre production at the hands of the talented Drama department. Then, as many of you have seen and others will see tomorrow, Mr Goodrich’s extraordinary Year 3 play, the Treasure of Cutlass Island. Such a triumph of humour, singing, musicality, confidence and fun. This has been an incredible year where the boys have learnt so much about themselves and the world around them. Staffing I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all the staff. I know that over the course of your time in the Junior
School you have got to know them as professionals and have watched them in action looking after, supporting, guiding and inspiring your sons. It is a privilege to be part of such a fun, committed and hardworking team of people. This year we welcomed Ed Wickstead, Sam Neate, Martin Frost, Martin Davis, Joanna Green and Wioletta Szymanek to our staff and if you haven’t already met them, I’m sure you will in time. There are a few members of staff who are moving on this year. Mr Wilson – Form Tutor, science coordinator and inspirational rock guitarist, moves to take some A Level physics and be a Lower School Form Tutor. However he’ll still be teaching Junior School science. Similarly, Mr Sewell, who has been our Junior School Graduate Assistant Teacher, moves to the senior part of the College to study for his PGCE in PE but he will still be very much in evidence in some Junior School Games and PE lessons. Finally three members of staff will be leaving us. Mrs Barton , who has helped us out on a number of occasions in recent years (most recently in a part time role covering Chris Skelton’s teaching), is leaving us to travel around Europe for 18 months with her family. Mr Quadros , who has been the rock and inspiration for the development of our Junior School music over the last five years is taking up a post as director of Music at DC Singapore – a little bit closer to his home. And finally, Mr Broughton, is leaving after nine years of dedicated service to the boys and the Junior School where he has been a Form Tutor and history coordinator and phenomenally successful Housemaster of Howard. Before I finish my review of the year I would like to relate two stories. Firstly from a parent at the Year 7 new parents’ evening. They said they chose Dulwich because they felt it is exciting and the teachers were interesting and funny. They felt welcomed. Secondly, I was talking to one of the mums about her son going on the Year 6 trip residential trip. She asked him who he was going to be sharing with and he said he didn’t know yet but he didn’t mind who he shared with as all his Year Group are his friends. So, to finish, in the Junior School, you can see that education is a continuous life event – every day is a school day. In the Junior School and at the College we provide lessons and activities for the boys which promote extended, wow, memorable and free learning moments about the world around them and, fundamentally about changing themselves as whole people . They may not have reached an advanced conception of learning yet but this is what we are aspiring to and know that they will get there faster thanks to the experiences the school provides.
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Art and DT
The Treasure of Cutlass Island play
Roald Dahl Day
Bay Pond and Southwark Cathedral
Year 4 Creative writing
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Art and DT 12 Viking workshop and Henry VIII visit 14 Year 5 Creative writing 16 The Three Musketeers play 19 Art and DT 20 Mexicolore, Kew Gardens and Southwark Cathedral 22 Year 6 Creative writing 24 Art and DT 26 Beaver Towers play 28 Tate Gallery, Stomp workshop and Imperial War Museum 30
Academic Enrichment Junior School Symposium
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Dulwich Inventive
Book Week and World Book Day
Author Visits Assemblies
Inter schools quiz competitions
Clubs
Music Year 3 Strings and Year 4 Orchestra 48 Chapel Choir and Junior Strings Festival 49 Great Hall Concert 50 Junior School Concerts 51 Events Charity events 52 Boy News 53 Speech Day 54 Founder’s Day 56 Trips Wales - Year 4 and 5 58 Osmington Bay - Year 6 60 Ski trip to Alpe d’Huez 62
Sport Rugby
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Rugby Tour and Tennis Aquathlon and Swimming
Triathlon
Hockey and Cricket
Sports Day Houses Teambuilding
Poetry
Art
History
Pat ball and Pancakes
Leavers Staff Farewells Year 6 Leavers
Dr Toby Griffiths
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