We saw some lovely collaboration between Dame Allan's Junior School and our Senior School this morning, as our Sixth Form Sports Leaders dropped in to teach a Year 3 games lesson! 🏏🙌 There were excellent displays of both leadership and cricket across the board!
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Give a warm welcome to our new Head Boy and Head Girl, Arshan and Issy! 👏 We're also welcoming a new Y12 Officer team, congratulations to Harry, Siân, Toby, Jessica, Sam, Amelia, Abdul, Sophie, Jack, Lucy, Aaron, Marina, Will, Abigail, Tom, and Jane ♦🎉

Pastoral update 🔉: We are proud to have launched Whisper, an anonymous reporting tool to provide pupils with a safe and confidential platform to voice any worries or concerns, directly to our pastoral team 🧠♥. Read more ⬇

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Our talented Year 8 and 9 drama club gave us a sneak peak of their performance of 'The Wrong Pantomime' during lunch. Lucky audiences are in for a treat! 👀🍰🐊

Drumroll please... 🥁 We have totted up the points, and can share which House won out on #DASGivingDay . Congratulations to Hild, Hedley, and Coquet, who triumphed not only in our 1705 obstacle race, but also in our donor challenge! 👏

Our first ever #DASGivingDay raised a whopping £82,763 for transformational bursaries from 265 kind donors 🎉 We've been blown away by the generous support of our community. As our Principal Mr Scott says below, thank you all ♦

There are 30 minutes left to donate to #DASGivingDay and support our transformational bursary fund! 🚨 Show your support here ➡ dameallans.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1591 ♦
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Thank you so much to the generous donors who have helped to raise such an incredible amount. It will change lives ♥

Whilst our #DASGivingDay is a lot of fun, it is important to remember that it is all supporting our transformational bursary funds - which help pupils like Nasif thrive ♦ Read his story below 💬⬇

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Fancy a spot of netball? 🏀 To celebrate #DASGivingDay and our theme/founding year of 1705, our pupils took on the challenge of scoring as many points as possible (up to a goal of 1705) within 30 mins. There were some seriously impressive shots!
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Our Y7 pupils were the last to compete in the 1705m race and obstacle course today, their enthusiasm and support of each other did us proud! ♥ Thanks to DASPA for funding our inflatables, plus our cupcakes today 🧁 and to Mrs Dresser for coordinating the runs 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ #DASGivingDay

Lunchtime saw a big race on the obstacle course - our Principal Mr Scott vs our Bursar, Mrs McDonald! 👀 Any guesses who came away victorious? 🏃‍♂️ #DASGivingDay

We've had lots of pupils tackle our 1705m run (chosen for our founding year!), and inflatable obstacle course so far - the highlight has to be our Polly Bells jumping on in full costume! 🙌 Plus DAS cupcakes galore. We've just hit 200 donors - THANK YOU ♥ #DASGivingDay

Day 2 of #DASGivingDay and today it is the turn of the Senior School! 🎉♦ We're delighted to announce that our current total raised is a fantastic £57,771 for our bursary fund! Thank you so much for your support - let's have another great day 👏

Our #DASGivingDay is all to support our bursary fund, which can be truly transformational ♥ - just ask our Allanians. Below, Yunus, Janice, Angela, and Bryan all share the impact that a bursary or an assisted place, had on them ⬇💬

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.Dame Allan's Junior School ended their fantastic #DASGivingDay with a whole school tug of war! ♦💪 The competition was fierce, from Nursery to Year 6, and it was a perfect way to celebrate this special event. THANK YOU so much to everyone who helped to make this day possible👏🎉

We have raised an amazing £16,000 for our bursary fund in the first few hours of our #DASGivingDay ! ♥🎉 Thank you SO much to the kind donors who have made this possible, and to our generous match funders. Let's keep going! 🙌♦

Our #DASGivingDay theme at Junior School is the Olympics! 🏃‍♂️🇫🇷 Pupils are getting stuck in with Eiffel Tower models, salt dough Olympic rings, and Union Jack collages ♦️👏🏻

And we're OFF! We have officially launched our first ever #DASGivingDay with a rocket launch on the Senior School field (thanks to Mr Dickinson for being pilot!) ♦🚀 Thank you to everyone who has already donated to support our transformational bursary fund ♥🎉