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Ofsted report on the recent inspection is now available in the Ofsted section of the website. We are delighted to have been rated as a GOOD school!

Welcome to St Mary's C.E. Middle School

Thank you for visiting the website for St. Mary's C.E. Middle School. We are a 9-13 middle school situated on the outskirts of Puddletown, a small village in the beautiful Dorset countryside. We are a church school with an ethos built on the core Christian values of respect, forgiveness, justice, uniqueness, equality and acceptance.

Our aim is to give every pupil the chance to achieve their God given potential in all areas of their life and we are proud to have been assessed as an outstanding church school in our last two Church of England inspections. We expect the highest standards in both academic work and behaviour and we place our children at the centre of everything we do.

The pupils, staff and governors are very proud of our school and we hope that this website will allow you to see why. We look forward to having the opportunity to meet you in person.

Art

2017/2018 ART
Half Terms/Year Groups	Year 5	Year 6	Year 7	Year 8
Autumn 1	Colour	Human Form	African Masks	Street Art
Autumn 2	Printmaking From nature	Eqyptians	Still Life	Mixed media - Still Life
Spring 1	Aboriginal art	Eqyptians	Impressionist Landscape	Response to War Poetry
Spring 2	Greek Myths Creature Illustration	Materials Cube	Pop Art Action Image	Response to War Poetry
Summer 1	Greek Myths Creature Illustration	Materials/Book Cover Design	Pop Art/Robot Illustration	Grotesque Portrait
Summer2	Portraits	Book Cover	Robot Illustration	Grotesque Portrait

Art Shire Hall Visit

On Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th April artist Jason Wilsher-Mills worked with 60 of our pupils from year 5, 7 and 8 creating images for the new Shire hall Museum in Dorchester. The pupils created some fantastic self portraits where they had to imagine they were either one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, their wives or one of their children. The pupils worked digitally on I-Pads creating artworks using their own self portraits as a starting point. Jason was very impressed with the attitude and ability of the pupils and thought that our pupils were the best he had worked with in his long career!

Art Competition Time.....

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has launched a competition and Mr Ayling and Mr Moss would like to encourage as many pupils as possible to enter!

Artwork should be a painting or a drawing and incorporate the new helicopter in some way (as per the photograph below). It should also make clear that it is Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. Please see the attached poster for more details!!

All entries please give to Mr Moss by no later than Tuesday 17th October 2017!

Good luck everyone!!!