Welcome to Corfe Castle C.E V.C First School

East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5EE

Telephone 01929 480428

Fax 01929 481223

E-mail: office@corfecastle.dorset.sch.uk 

Welcome to Corfe Castle CE VC First School.  We do hope you enjoy looking at our website.  We are all very proud of our school and we would like to share just a little of what we do through these web pages.  We, like the children, staff and parents to take an active part in helping put this work together, so we will be adding more exciting pages throughout the year.  Please bear with us when certain pages are missing, we promise to get them onto the site when we are all happy that they are a true reflection on what we do.

Mr N Beckett   (Headteacher)

Our Charity

Help us raise Funds for our 'New Hope' School in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

(Click on the image above to redirect you to our Partner Website)

Geography Week 2010

As part of our Geography week Mrs Dearn's children have hidden a treasure chest with the National trust somewhere on Corfe Common.  If you want to find our second 'cache' then you will need to log on to www.geocaching.com and locate ref.  GC255Q1.

Good luck!

Our Children combat speeding through our village

With the help of our local Police we have been monitoring the traffic outside our school.  We have even been caught on camera ourselves.  Click on the link below to be see us in action.

STOP - in 2009

We are officially at the forefront of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and have been awarded the

prestigious National ICT award

Click here to see more information in a 'press release'

(June 2009)

New Parent Support Service operated by Barnardo's.  Click on banner for further information.

Geocaching Travel bug update

Click here to track developments

KEY STAGE 2 RAP:

Our Year 3/4 class have been producing Professional Music!!

Click the image below to here their latest Chart hitting:

Blue Base Tables Rap

Ofsted Report (February 2009)

We are officially:

 'Good and rapidly improving school with many Outstanding Features'

For full access to our recent Ofsted report please click on the link below:

Corfe Castle CE VC First School (Ofsted Feb 2009)

For our Full Diocese Inspection Report (Feb 2009) please click here

Children's News

Year 4 School Council Newspaper (Issue 2) is now available

Please click here to download in 'Word format'

School Travel Plan is now ready for Parents to view.

Click on the link below to download the Draft Travel Plan (in Word)

Corfe Castle CE VC First School Travel Plan

Important Achievement

We have achieved the Healthy School Status

We are now officially recognised by both the Local Education Authority, and The National Healthy School team, as a Healthy School.

Treasure Hunting at Corfe Castle CE VC First School

We have recently added a new 'Geocache' in our school grounds.  Anyone interested in finding our treasure, and recording their find please visit Geocaching.com cache listing: GC1E9ZO. 

Would you like to follow our Bugs travel around the World?  If so then visit:

 Geocaching.com Tracking number: G6DVZ3

For further information speak to Mr Beckett, Jack or Cameron (year 4)

Open Day with Minister of State for Schools

Click on images below to open photos

Important Update

Information Communication Technology (ICT) Important Update

We have now started implementing a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).  For more information please click on the link below, which will take you to a new page dedicated to ICT here at Corfe Castle CE VC First School.

ICT Pages (Virtual Learning Environment)

Wake and Shake

Click here to watch our wonderful Wake and Shake Video

Our School

The school was built in 1895 but has been extensively modernised, two new classrooms being added in 1964.  In 1995 we celebrated the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone and in January 1996 the centenary of the opening of the school.  To mark the occasion the governors arranged for a gallery to be built at one end of our large hall, giving us much needed library space, plus the complete re-building of the school swimming pool.  In 2008 we had new playgrounds, including a fenced Early Years outdoor classroom.

During the Summer Term the children have the opportunity to swim most days, weather permitting!

Our numbers vary from year to year from approximately 60 to 85 children.  The school is organised into three classes with an overlap of age ranges in some classes. Children move from one class to another at the discretion of the teachers and at 9+ they move on to either Wareham Middle, Swanage Middle or Sandford Middle schools. 
 

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