Edd Moore represented Damers First School at a special Climate Change Event in London on 20th September organised by Delphis Eco (an ecological cleaning product we have used across the school for the last four years) CEO Mark Jankovich who was launching #Plasticspledge https://www.plasticfreepledge.com/ in Parliament Square with a giant turtle wrapped up in plastic. “There is more micro plastic in the sea than there are stars in […]
Isla in Meadow 4 at Damers First School has been shortlisted for Best Youth Volunteer in this years Dorset Voiunteer Centre Awards which will be held at the Dorford Centre at the end of October. Isla who asked for a litter picker for Christmas goes on beach cleans during her weekends she even asked the […]
Meadow 3 from Damers First School worked with Year 9, 10 and 11 students from The Thomas Hardye School to take part in a green clean organised by Campaign to Protect Rural England and Litter Free Dorset. The green clean runs for a month across the UK promoting awareness for a deposit return system to […]
Damers First School were the winners of Bella Ceramics Summer Giveaway Competition this year with a recorded number of votes. This years theme was plastic pollution. Children at the school were given the chance to make two large wall art installations with Bella Ceramics. The children designed, sketched onto ceramic tiles and then painted with glazes. […]
The Plastic Free Picnic took place in Borough Gardens, Dorchester to celebrate the town achieving SAS Plastic Free Community Status. It has been a campaign lead by Damers First School children with support from Dorchester Town Council, Litter Free Dorset, local businesses and community groups. On the day there were a whole host of stalls […]
Damers First School had a brand new nature area with pond constructed in the school grounds. The money was raised by the children who designed, produced and sold their award winning Waxtastic No Plastic (an alternative to cling film). Some of the funds also came from the awards the school have won through the children’s […]
These amazing poems were written by Year 3 children at Damers First School after taking part in the #GBSpringClean The children were inspired by Steve Backshall poem “Jemima Glitter and the voyage of Bob the Bottle”
Damers First School children have produced phenomenal art work as part of Open for Art Fortnight. This work has been inspired by Prince Charles’s book Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World. The children worked with recycle sculpture artist Peter Margerum to construct a natural life cycle with minibeasts, pollinators and flowers made […]
The chickens arrived and are getting use to their new home in Hensington Palace! The children are coming up with names for the chickens and these will be selected after Half Term. Each Year group have a different coloured chicken to look after.
Children in Year 3 at Damers First School have written some amazing poems about their hopes for a litter-free future. Take a look below.
