Oct 21, 2024
All at Mountjoy would like to wish Joshua good luck at the Pride of Britain Awards tonight!
Joshua is a regional winner for fundraising – collecting and supporting the RNLI in Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis Regatta and Royal British Legion, so far raising over fifty thousand pounds for good causes.
Joshua attended Mountjoy School from the age of 4 through to 19. Even as a young child he was kind and generous and it left a hole when he moved into adulthood.
It gives us all at Mountjoy an enormous sense of pride and our pupils loved watching Josh’s TV appearance. What a man! All of our best wishes Josh, you are a hero.
Oct 18, 2024
Today, we had a great visit from SSCO Albert Pepper and SSCO Stuart Hann to talk to our older students regarding online safety. They spoke to the students about how to stay safe and how to speak to each other whilst online but also who to talk to if they are at school or at home and are worried about anything they see or hear. All the students were great and answered questions and scenarios with enthusiasm.
Oct 18, 2024
Mountjoy School are looking for a new Governor to join our team
Do you have an interest in education, some spare time and a willingness to help a local special school?
If so, we would be interested to hear from you, please email Siobhan Freer, Clerk to Governors s.freer@mountjoy.dorset.sch.uk for more information.
Oct 11, 2024
Ash class organised a day of activities for Hello Yellow Day to go towards their volunteering element of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Hello Yellow Day is a charity supporting young minds and yesterday was World Mental Health Day.
Ash pupils planned Wellie Wangling, football shoot outs, high tea, and Minion films for the students and Bacon sandwiches for staff. All the school gathered in the afternoon for a fun filled Custard Pie quiz for the senior staff.
Ash students would like to thank some organisations who donated goods for this event.
Waitrose, Dorchester for the high tea ingredients.
Barrett Bros in Crewkerne for the lovely bacon
Moores Biscuits in Bridport for prizes.
The whole school enjoyed a fun filled day and learnt the importance of good mental health awareness.
Jul 23, 2024
Monday 22nd July marked the launch of the Olympics at Mountjoy School with a very special local guest making an appearance. Harry Stewart the Paralympic swimmer for Team GB started the day with a question and answer session for our KS3 and above students. This inspirational and uplifting talk gave the students an insight into the daily life of an athlete. Harry has so far won Gold at the European Para Swimming Championships, multi-classification Bronze at the world series event in Aberdeen and of course securing the para swimming national title in London at the Aquatics GB swimming.
The children loved the opportunity to talk to Harry and ask him questions about the sport. We were also privileged to hold his most precious medals.
Mountjoy School will be supporting Harry during his Olympic journey and you can too by watching the opening ceremony on the 28th August and Harry will compete on Monday 2nd September. Go Team GB!
Jul 23, 2024
Oak Class have been lucky enough to have sessions at Weymouth and Portland Adventure. Returning to see Darren and the team after quite a break, we last worked with them when we did NCS 2 years ago. Darren and Alan came into school in the Autumn term to meet the students and see what equipment we would need them to provide for successful visits. The first group to go were our leavers and they had all been part of the original group so knew how it all worked, wrestling with wetsuits once tried never forgotten!!! But we were definitely quicker at getting sorted this time 😊
We went as 2 groups with each group having 3 sessions each taking part in; kayaking, Powerboat rides, crabbing and Mega SUP. The weather across the six weeks may have been very ropey in some parts but on Thursdays we seemed to get the best of it and enjoyed several very sunny sessions and eating picnic lunch on the benches outside the Sailing Academy before heading back to school.
The WPA team were amazing at ensuring successful activities for all our students attending. Anyone looking for fun holiday activities check you their webpage and socials.
