Hello, I'm Laura Day, Arts Centre Manager at The Dart.

 

The Dart is a vibrant community space offering a diverse mix of affordable, creative experiences for everyone, including art, dance and music.  We offer a host of classes and courses for adults including gouache painting, pottery, dressmaking, floristry and cookery.  We have some interesting social clubs too, including a monthly book club, open mic and film night.  During the holidays we offer popular art and cookery clubs for children aged 4-16.

 

Let us tell you a little bit about The Dart Team and our own creative talents!

 

Laura (top left) studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art as a mature student and went on to complete an MA in Short Film Making.  You can usually find her in thinking mode, planning the future of The Dart!

Sarah (top middle) specialised in Photography at Arts University Bournemouth and went on to study an MA in Visual Communication at Solent.  You can usually find her creating art with the local community in The Dart Foyer and leading our Children's Art Programme!

Jasmine (top right) studied at Wildern and went on to specialise in Visual Merchandising.  You can usually find her supporting our Hirers and getting everything and everyone organised! 

Jo (bottom left) studied Hospitality at Eastleigh College.  She loves working with children and enjoys mindfulness hobbies such as yoga, colouring & reading. You can usually find her organising our spreadsheets or welcoming families to the Centre 

Michelle is extremely passionate about music and regularly volunteers at music festivals, you can usually find her supporting our evening hirers and popping post-it notes on your desk!

Amy (bottom right) also studied at Wildern!  She is very creative and loves drawing and lettering.  You can usually find her writing up our chalkboards and designing marketing materials for our events.

 

What's on at The Dart this Summer?

We have lots of wonderful things for you to get involved in this Summer.  We will be hosting FREE printmaking workshops every Tuesday morning as part of our Creative Residency Programme.  There will also be a low-cost Summer Family Film night in August as well as an amazing opportunity to take part in art workshops with six local, professional artists as The Dart Foyer becomes a venue for Hampshire Open Studios from 19-28th August.

 

For all the details, click on the links below or give us a call on 01489 779471 to find out more.  We're looking forward to meeting you!

 

Children's Holiday Activities Schedule

Free Printmaking Workshops
Summer Family Film Night
Hampshire Open Studios
The Dart Adult Courses Brochure April-Aug / Sept-Dec

This week we have enjoyed visiting Paultons Park and Sports Day where the House championship came to an exciting conclusion.  It has been great to see so many happy faces throughout both days.  We also loved welcoming so many parents into school for the welcome evenings and the slides can be found linked below.

 

Congratulations to Jubilee House for winning the house championship this morning after a fantastic year which included winning sports day this week.  They enjoyed a winners lunch in the hall today period 4.

Whole School

Monday 17 July Week A

Monday 17 July Colours Evening 7pm- 9pm

Tuesday 18 July Headteachers lunch for 700+ erefs

Wednesday 19 July Catch up Tdip/MenA/CWY and HPV Vaccinations 

Friday 21 July  early finish for School Holidays (12:30pm)

Friday 1 September - INSET day

Thursday 7 September - All students in school. 

 

Year 7 

Tuesday 18 July Samba Workshops

Year 8

Tuesday 18 July Samba Workshops

Year 9

 

Year 10

Tuesday 18 July Eastleigh College Taster Day

Year 11

Thursday 24 August 10am GCSE Results collection

 

Staff In-Service Training Days 2023-24 (Students will not be in school on the following INSET Days: )

Friday 1 September 

Friday 13 October

Friday 24 November

Monday 19 February 

Monday 24 June

English 

 

Year 8 will not have a ‘Summer Booklet’ as outlined for other year groups, as they will be focusing on the whole school Summer reading project.

Careers information

 

As we prepare for the new academic year we thought this would be a good time to outline all of the careers information, advice and guidance programmes your son/daughter will experience as they progress through year 10.

 GCSE Results collection

 

Thursday 24 August 10am from the Dart

Wildern Careers

 

Key information to help Wildern students think about preparing for the future can be found in the newsletter below for all year groups.  Some key dates for you also:

 

Year 11 Careers Parent Information Evening - 14 September 2023
(Presentations to parents/guardians highlighting the
benefits of further education study and apprenticeships)
Year 10 Careers Parent Information Evening - 21 September 2023
(Presentation on ‘Experience of a Workplace’ for parents/
guardians who were unable to attend the July meeting)
College Assemblies - w/b 25 September 2023
(An opportunity for students to understand the main attributes of local
colleges to help them make informed decisions)
Careers Fair - 3 October 2023
(For students to gather key information about post 16 education/ work)

 

Further Careers information in this issue of the Wildern Weekly click here

 

In Spring 2011, the Science department had some new members join the team - Oscar, Elmo, Mokey and Sprocket, Leopard Geckos

 

Share your memories and photos with us: 90thbirthday@wildern.org 

Monday

Bean and cheese flatbread pizza and mixed salad (v) or

Southern fried chicken strips with BBQ beans and nachos  

Tuesday

Fish fingers chips and beans or

Veggie/chicken meatballs, pasta and garlic bread (v)

Wednesday

Gammon/veggie bake bap and roast potatoes (v) or

Chicken nuggets chips and beans

Thursday

Meat or veggie curry of the day (v) or

Fish and chips

Friday

School closes at 12:30pm

U15 cricket squad were beaten by 34 runs in their district final v John Hanson Community School.

 

 

Here is our Summer term extra curricular activities including our Summer PE menu. Please look at what is on offer to your child and discuss this over the holidays with them as their might be something more that they can get involved with.

Please click here for a list of current Southampton and surrounding areas Apprenticeship Vacancies.

 

Taster Day information for this week (this is only relevant if your child has opted for these colleges), please make sure your child is aware of the arrangements.

 

Eastleigh College - Tuesday 18th July

Address: Chestnut Avenue, Eastleigh, SO50 5FS

Contact number: 02380 911000

 

You will need to make your own way to the college at 9:15am, ready for a 9:30am start. The day will finish at 2:30pm where you will need to make your own way home. Please bring a packed lunch. For all subjects, please wear comfortable clothes which you don’t mind getting messy. For Hair and Beauty, please wear flat, closed toe shoes to comply with health and safety regulations. For Automotive, Carpentry, Electrical, Engineering, Plumbing and Refrigeration please wear sturdy shoes/boots rather than trainers. For Catering and Hospitality please tie your hair back if you have long hair. If you are taking part in Gym Instructing and Personal Fitness then please bring loose fitting clothing with you that allow you to move freely ie. leggings/tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt or your PE kit.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Amino

 

A sprawling online discussion forum with incentives for checking in each day and the facility to follow certain users, Amino bears comparison to Reddit – but with an added sprinkle of Snapchat and a Twitter twist. It may not be radically original, but’s proving popular: there are now more than a million communities of fans exchanging views on topics from anime to zombies. 

 

The concept is to recreate the passion and excitement of live conventions in the online world: from behind their screens and keyboards, however, not everyone behaves as well as they might in person. From hurtful comments to age-inappropriate images and predatory messaging, our guide highlights some potential hazards to protect young users from.

 

Every Student Matters, Every Moment Counts

 

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