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Old Hardyeans will gather in Dorchester on Thursday 15 December at the Colliton Club for their traditional Christmas lunch.  As usual, the invitation includes former scholars of the Green School and the Secondary Modern School, as well as students of the modern Thomas Hardye School, under the wider auspices of the...
The invitation was headed “70 not out” as the Class of ‘58- those who began studying at Hardye’s School in Dorchester in 1958- headed for their annual reunion at the Colliton Club. Aged 11 in 1958, these Old Hardyeans are now hovering around the milestone of 70 years old,...
A Dorset sixth-former has led a drive to support a pioneering medical research programme that is helping to find a cure for Coronavirus. Tristram Waters, an 18-year-old Computer Science student at Bryanston School near Blandford, researched and developed a plan to capitalise on the School’s computing resources to support...
Leader of Dorset Council, Spencer Flower, has written to the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds MP, asking for the Government to take urgent action to address the national crisis around for funding for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The call comes after...
Old Hardyeans gather in Dorchester next month at the King’s Arms for their Annual Reunion Dinner, to celebrate the 110th. anniversary of their founding in 1905. Alumni from the former Green School and Dorchester Secondary Modern School are being invited to share in the celebrations and make the...
Dorchester Agricultural Society funds local school farm visits
Dorchester Agricultural Society paid for 120 pupils from Jewell Academy, a primary school in Bournemouth, to visit North West Farm in Winterborne Kingston. The Society set up the Dorchester Agricultural Society 1840 Education Fund three years ago to provide Dorset schools with knowledge of agriculture, horticulture and rural enterprise. It...
"A sort of civilised St. Trinians," was how guest speaker Rev. Vicky Thurtell described the Dorchester Grammar School for Girls- widely known as the Green School from the colour of their uniforms- including their underclothing! The Vicar of St Peters, Dorchester, soon to become Canon Precentor at Exeter Cathedral,...
It comes to something when a social media influencer is hijacking the minds of young boys and negatively impacting upon schools up and down the country. So much so they are having to build a response to his hate in to the curriculum. This Andrew Tate https://dorseteye.com/andrew-tate-the-man-destroyed-on-twitter-by-greta-thunberg/ And this school's response. Why is...
This teacher sums up what tens of thousands of teachers are saying. Many, many schools do not have the classroom capacity already without throwing social distancing in to the mix. https://twitter.com/1kilroywashere/status/1277591664278884362?s=20 Penny Lane
Dorset County Council has set out proposals in a paper going to Cabinet on 17 October for a redefined relationship between the council and schools and academies across Dorset. The aim of the proposals is to bring about school improvement through the creation of a new Dorset School Improvement Board...