Dumpton wins Gold Primary Geography Quality Mark for the second time! It is with great pleasure to announce that Dumpton has been awarded the prestigious Gold Primary Geography Quality Mark by The Geographical Associat... News 30 September 2019
Pupils Achieve Outstanding Scholarship Success at Dumpton Congratulations to Dumpton’s senior leavers this year - they have achieved an outstanding 30 scholarships to local senior schools for next Sep... News 05 June 2019
New Headmaster at Dumpton School for September 2019 It is with great pleasure to announce that the governors have appointed Christian Saenger to take over as Headmaster of Dumpton School from Septembe... News 14 December 2018
IAPS National U13 Football Champions Many congratulations to the Year 8 girls who won the IAPS U13 National Football Championships at Taunton in October. Having won 4-0 away at Durlston... News 26 November 2018
Dumpton School – South West Environmental Youth Award Winners This year Dumpton School, Wimborne has won the prestigious South West of England Environmental Youth Award, having already won the Dorset prize. Chi... News 04 June 2018
Dumpton pupils achieve outstanding scholarship success Congratulations to our Year 8 pupils who achieved an outstanding 23 scholarships to local senior schools this September. The scholarships include ac... News 09 May 2018
Acclaimed Children's Author, Ross Montgomery visits Dumpton School We were delighted to welcome acclaimed children's author Ross Montgomery to Dumpton School last week. Ross filled the younger children's ima... News 30 April 2018
England and Team Bath Netball Player, Eboni Beckford-Chambers visits Dumpton School It was a pleasure to welcome England Netball International and Team Bath Super League star Eboni Beckford-Chambers to Dumpton last week. As well ... News 15 January 2018
Kukri Sports School of the Month Dumpton PREP School Sport We are delighted to have been chosen as Kukri Sports School of the Month this November. Sport is an integral part of life ... News 13 November 2017
Reception Children Celebrate Diwali Our thanks to Reception mum Neelma and her daughter for celebrating Diwali with us this week. The story of Rama and Sita was shared and Neelma expla... News 20 October 2017
Third Green Flag for Dumpton! Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging millions of children across 64 countries, making it the largest schools programme in the world. For more ... News 02 October 2017
Dumpton Ski Team Success Congratulations to the Dumpton Ski Team who took part in the British Independent Schools Ski Race at Hemel Hempstead yesterday. The team finished a ... News 27 September 2017
Autumn Harvesting in Pre-Prep Reception classes harvested seeds last Autumn from the Dumpton allotments, planted them in the Spring in class and continued the growing journey at ... News 25 September 2017
Inspiring film by pupils at Dumpton School The Year 7 and 8 pupils at Dumpton School have been extra busy this year starring in, filming, producing and editing their own full-length feature f... News 10 July 2017
Wimborne History Festival supports Roman Day at Dumpton School Creative Year 6 pupils at Dumpton School have designed and produced three wonderful ‘Roman’ Mosaics as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded... News 24 May 2017
National Swimming Champions We took an impressive squad to the IAPS Swimming Heats at Clayesmore in early February with 34 pupils competing in a series of relays and individual... News 17 May 2017
Dumpton Scholars 2017 Well done to our Year 8 pupils who achieved an outstanding 20 scholarships to the senior school of their choice this September. The scholarships inc... News 02 May 2017
Visiting Author Lauren St John Lauren St John is a multi-award winning author and one of her most popular books, Dead Man's Cove, was awarded the Blue Peter Book of the Year. ... News 06 March 2017
From Seed to Plough to Plate - The Prep School Allotment In our connected world everything is a simple click away, and children like to see instant results. However, they also have a natural interest in th... News 27 February 2017