News

School Award Win!

20th June 2025

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been named a Bronze Winner for Early Years Team of the Year in the Pearson National Teaching Awards 2025! These awards are among the most respected in UK education, often referred to as the “Oscars of...

Year 6 Residential Trip

19th June 2025

Year 6 took to the seas and landed in Poole harbour to spend a week at Rockley. They canoed, kayaked, frisbeed and sailed the open seas and made the most incredible memories as a year group. Not only did they take to the activities like...

Year 5 Residential Trip

18th June 2025

Year 5 threw themselves into a wide variety of exciting and adventurous challenges during their residential trip to Buddens Activity Centre in Dorset. From archery, kayaking, and canoeing to climbing, Taskmaster-style challenges, and even tomahawk throwing, the children embraced every activity with enthusiasm and energy....

Year 4 Production

17th June 2025

The children in Year 4 recently performed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Starting on Monday they worked exceptionally hard to develop their characters, create different scenes and practise the wonderful songs. On Friday, they then put on two fantastic performances for their families. All...

Wild Fangs Workshop

12th June 2025

To conclude their Minibeast topic from last half term, Reception had an exciting visit from Wild Fangs. The children had the chance to meet a variety of amazing creatures, including a flying frog, gecko, python, African snail, and a millipede. They loved learning interesting facts...

Regional Spelling Bee

11th June 2025

The excitement in the air was palpable at the Upper School, as 20 spellers from five different schools arrived to compete in the annual Dukes Regional Spelling Bee. The pupils had been practising for months and could hardly contain themselves as they whizzed through the...

Sports Day

10th June 2025

It was a triumphant Sports Day for Dragon. With conditions perfect for the field events, the children produced world class performance in the javelin and long jump events. Hundredths of seconds separated the top three in the hurdles event in many year groups. A new...

School Discos!

6th June 2025

The children had a brilliant time at their recent summer term school discos. The Lower School dressed to impress in their sparkling sea-themed masks, whilst the parents transformed the hall into a magical under the sea world. In the Upper School, the children dressed up...

Year 6 Entrepreneurial Fair

6th June 2025

Over the past two months, Year 6 have taken part in a number of financial literacy workshops which have focused on saving, budgeting, investing, trading and corporate finance. Following on from this, the children are currently applying many of their sprouting financial skills in a...