Head Master's Notices

Amazingly, we have reached the end of term and what a term it has been!

I have attached an end of term letter to this bulletin and also links to an online Carol Service and Autumn Concert.

I thank you very much for your support this term and wish you all a very happy and healthy Christmas. 

End of term letter
Link to Dauntsey's YouTube channel 

Service premieres on our YouTube channel at 7.00pm this evening and I would like to thank Gareth Harris, our choirs, and our Chaplain, David Johnson for their incredible work pulling it together.

Whole School Notices and Reminders

Next Term's Calendar of Events

The Spring Term 2021 calendar is now live and can be accessed on the right hand link of the Calendar page here.

Please note, however, that we will update it a week in advance through the bulletin on a Friday.

Clubs and Societies For the Spring Term

Please find attached the timetable for the Clubs and Societies next term on offer here.

Examination Notices

Summer 2021 GCE and GCSE Examination Timetables

Please see attached Summer 2021 exam timetables for your information. There is a combined timetable and also one each with the GCE only details and the (I)GCSE only details.   
Combined Timetable
GCE Only
(I)GCSE Only

Reserve dates (with back-up papers) for students who miss any exams will be during July, but no further details are available yet. Hopefully, they won’t be required but we will keep you fully informed of examination news as it arises.

All pupils will receive a personalised examination timetable for the summer in late March. It will be in the same format as the personal mock exam timetables they received earlier this week.

More information about examinations can be found on the school intranet here.

If you have any queries about examinations please contact Mr Blumsom at the exams office at examsmanager@dauntseys.wilts.sch.uk or 01380 814677.

William Blumsom and Lucinda Jones
Examinations Office
01380 814677

Teen Tips: Surviving Christmas 2020

Teen Tips Wellbeing Hub are doing a Q&A for staff and parents next Monday, 14^th December, on surviving Christmas 2020.  Registration is free and the details are below. Please make sure you register in advance to ensure you get a place.

Registration link here
ID - 880 7484 3349
Passcode - 173405

School Counselling for Upper School Boarding Boys

Thank you to all respondents to the online survey circulated last June, which was trying to identify the factors contributing to the access of school counselling to Upper School male boarders . Your sons have received a short summary of my findings, but if you would also like a copy, please email me at  c.coupe@dauntseys.wilts.sch.uk and I will send you one in the new year.

Thank you once again for taking the time to complete the questionnaires.

Christmas Maths Competition

Many thanks to the 50 or so pupils who took part in the Christmas Maths Competition! The standard of entries was very high, but after much deliberation we have some winners, who will each receive either a game or a book, plus some seasonal edibles:

Upper School

First place: Nicola Hand
Second place: Samuel Hart
Third place: Georgie Ethelston

Lower School

First place: Matthew Nocton
Joint second place: Sophie Walker and Dylan Parsons

I have attached the questions below as the solutions so you can challenge your families over Christmas dinner.  I have also attached two of the best tie-breaker questions that pupils devised – it was particularly entertaining reading those (thank you to Matthew Nocton and Abi Evans for those attached).

Christmas Maths Competition: Questions
Christmas Maths Competition: Solutions
Best Submitted Questions

Merry Christmas!
Mr Mobbs

DSPA

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2021!
From the DSPA 

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Code DSPA at Checkout (valid till end December) 
Please see the attached poster for more information

DSPA Noticeboard

Please have a look at our digital noticeboard here. It is our own online community to connect Dauntsey's parents and businesses in order to buy, sell and advertise to each other in one trusted place. If you'd like to place an advert here, please email dspacontact@gmail.com

If you have not yet signed up to join the DSPA then please do so here.
If you are not sure if you have already joined then please contact Pip Wall, Membership Rep at pipsjwall@gmail.com

Please follow us on Twitter here @DauntseyDspa where we will keep you updated with news. We hope to host some Zoom events until we can meet again and will share details here. We would really love you to share any photos of past DSPA events with us and tag us with the hashtag #dspafun 

Lower School Notices and Reminders

Manor Matters

Hopefully, all Manor Parents/Guardians will have received my end of term letter via email earlier today. 

To summarise, we have made it through a long, challenging but extremely rewarding term. I have been hugely impressed with the positive approach and attitude adopted by the Manor pupils this term. If ever a Christmas break was well deserved, surely it is this one.

Our Christmas party was a huge success. An excellent meal was followed by karaoke, quiz and a visit from Father Christmas. The event rounded off the term perfectly and showed the importance of kids being kids, together in a school environment. Home Alone beat its sequel to win the Christmas Film World Cup and was enjoyed by many in the tv room last night.

My wife, daughters and I have thoroughly enjoyed this first term in The Manor, we would like to thank you all for your ongoing support and are looking forward to the shared adventures ahead in the new year. 

Wishing you all a very happy, safe and peaceful Christmas. 
Peter Guille, House Master.

Please do follow us on Twitter @ManorDauntseys to keep up to date.