With only a week to go until we reach half-term, I wanted to remind both parents and students that the deadline for applying to upper schools is October 31st 2018. All our local upper schools have now had their Open Evenings but, if you did not get the opportunity to attend, they would be happy for you to contact them to arrange a visit. 

Schools our Year 8 pupils have gone on to from CMS are listed below along with their website addresses in case you are interested in taking a further look:

Queen Elizabeth School, Wimborne: ​www.qe.dorset.sch.uk/
Ferndown Upper School: www.fernup.dorset.sch.uk
Dorset Studio School, Kingston Maurward (Agriculture/Animal/Equine/Farming): http://dorsetstudioschool.co.uk/
Leaf Studio School, Bournemouth (Stage & Screen): https://www.leafstudio.co.uk/


Dorset County Council have also sent us details regarding the application process for upper school places.
Please note that the deadline for applications is 31st October.
Please refer to the letter and poster below for more details:

For homework Year 8 have been asked to research a Tudor Monarch (or other influential British person from the period, perhaps: Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Sir Francis Drake, Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn or any of the Monarch's spouse). You need to create a profile on a page of A4 and include:
•A picture
•Dates they lived
•What they are famous for

You may also want to add more detail about their success / failure, their children and the legacy they left for England. The work can be done using a computer or by hand.

The best ones will be displayed (their authors will be rewarded) so you might be best looking into a less well known person as I can only display one King Henry VIII and remember, you need to keep all the information on a page of A4.

For geography in year 8 we are doing an extended piece of work, which will be well worth discussing with your parents, because the situation is very real in many places in East Dorset at the moment. Why not get your parents views and do some internet research (see the links below). It will be worth recording data and quotes to use as evidence in your written work.
Our question is:
If the government insisted that one thousand new homes were built in your settlement, list and explain five:

• Benefits
• Problems
• Things to plan for
• Ways the settlement would change

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-45405817
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/13320237.650_house_development_on_former_greenbelt_will_be__new_town___warn_campaigners/
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16110102.Latest_phase_of_major_Wimborne_development_gets_the_green_light/

Click on the gallery below ensure you meet your target.​

On your map of the south coast locate the following:
•New Forest (green)
•South Downs (green)
•Colour all towns & cities in Red
•Draw on Oxford (red)
•Draw on the M4, M3, M40, M27, M25 (blue)
•River Thames, English Channel, Bristol Channel (blue)
•Salisbury Plain (green)

Why do people want to live in Christchurch in the 21st Century?
Don’t spend more than ½ an hour.
Don’t write more than a page of A4.
Make it neat, use (and finish) your map (you should make notes on the back) and add to it if you want to.

Even though it is still only September, it is time for Year 8 students (and their parents) to start thinking ahead to next year. Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne is holding an open evening for prospective students on Thursday, 27th September. Please see the QE website for further details:

​www.qe.dorset.sch.uk/

Dorset County Council have also sent us details regarding the application process for upper school places.
Please note that the deadline for applications is 31st October.
Please refer to the letter and poster below for more details:

This week saw the launch of four different leadership opportunities for our Year 8 pupils: Sports, Arts, French and Maths Ambassadors. Mrs Williams introduced the importance of leadership and seizing every opportunity that comes your way before passing on to Mr Garza, Mrs Everett and Mr Hilder to sell their leadership role!
With a deadline of Monday a 3pm, we want to encourage as many of our pupils to apply as possible.
So pick up a pen and get writing Year 8's! You don't know unless you try!

Please click on the links below to download the different leadership application forms:
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​•Pick a Geography topic: volcanoes or coasts. Create a collage on one side of A4 to include the 7 concepts of geography in this topic.
•Extra challenge: Instead, pick another topic we did not study last year.
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• FOCUS ON EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!

This morning, 12 Year 8 pupils attended a dance workshop at QE School after being invited to join their Junior Dance Group. They, along with several other middle school pupils, worked hard to produce an extremely high standard dance sequence that will hopefully be showcased at QE's Open Evening at the end of September! All the girls were keen and enthusiastic to continue with their dance experience once they start QE. Well done everyone.

Our Year 8 pupils have arrived safely at QE this morning and have already been challenged with a QE quiz. They have now set off to experience two lessons: English and Maths.