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• Author, Actor and Playwright Chris Connaughton

  Thu 25 Apr 2024

  We were very lucky to have Chris Connaughton visit us again yesterday. As well as telling stories he was showing and teaching the children how to tell their own stories. We are concentrating on oracy as a school and this day helped the children understand not only how to make up their own stories but to retell them clearly and with expression. Children need to be be articulate and this will in turn improve their writing. It was a fun and very engaging day.

   

  

• Artist Sasha Constable visits for the day.

  Thu 25 Apr 2024

  This week local artist Sasha Constable visited our school as part of a bird project that we are doing. We have been learning about swallows, swifts and housemartins and there migration patterns. We have put bird boxes up around the school and hope that we may be able to see some of these bird make nests in school. The children enjoyed making bird mobiles with Sasha using cardboard and string.

  

• A busy day in Cerne Abbas CE VC FIrst School

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Today has been busy in our school. The last two weeks have been Walk to School Week and today we met at Simsay Fields and we all walked to school altogether. Then later today the Giants went to visit the Care Home and sang songs, rhymes and read stories with the people that live there. It was a lovely experience. At lunchtime Abbey Class went to church had had a Lent lunch with the community. We then sang them a song to say thank you for the delicious soup that we had. Just another fun day at our school :-)

  

• Muslim Lady Sherene Mourad

  Fri 23 Feb 2024

  Yesterday we had a Muslim lady called Sherene Mourad come and talk to the children about what Allah means to her. The children asked her some amazingly thoughtful and deep questions. It was very engaging having the Islam faith brought to life for us. Thank you Sherene.

  

• Treasure Island Pantomine

  Fri 01 Dec 2023

  FOCAS arranged for a pantomime 'Treasure Island' to perform to the children. It was absolutely great fun and the children loved it. Thank you to FOCAS for organising this. 

  

• Our Vision Reflective Day

  Wed 29 Nov 2023

  We spent a day off timetable looking in detail about how our vision 'to be the best we can be' impacts our lives and the lives of the people around us. At the start of the day teachers shared how they tried to be the best they could be in the various areas of their lives. Miss Stephens explained how she thought this was an ongoing daily way of thinking that we find easier on some days than others and Miss Trent talked about how she tried to be the best eldest sister that she could be. The children then visited each class in the mixed aged teams and thought more deeply about this. One class looked at how Ruth, a heroine from the the bible, tried to be the best she could be, another class thought about this through a windows, mirrors, doors perspective. We see things happening in our world (windows), it makes us feel a certain way (mirrors)  and then we take action as a result (doors). Finally another session was about how we are all wonderfully made and beautifully unique. The day ended with sharing our thoughts and recording these in our Reflective diaries.

  

• A visit about the Muslim faith

  Mon 16 Oct 2023

  We had a visit from Sherene who shared about her faith and what it meant to be a Muslim. She told us about how they pray 5 times a day and how they fast during Ramadan. One child asked what was her favourite thing about being a Muslim and she said that it was prayer. Being able to pray to God (who they call Allah) and know that he will help you in all situations. She showed us the clothes that they wear and how every Muslim would like to travel to Mecca on a Pilgrimage to Kaaba. We were very interested to find out about many Muslim women have had a huge impact on History. It was Muslim women who were responsible for the foundation of the world's first library and world's first hospital. You will also have heard of the Nadiya Hussain, the Bake Off champion and Dalilah Muhammed the Olympic champion. It was such an engaging talk. Thank you Sherene.

  

• Hopes and Dreams Week.

  Fri 13 Oct 2023

  This week, at school, we have had many visitors talking to the children about their, occupations. We never think children are too young to consider their options for the future. We have had such a variety of visitors including an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, railway worker, naval aviator, bridal shop owner, seamstress, fire fighter, police, cattery owner and personal trainer. What a lot of inspiration for our children! Thank you to everyone who joined us.

  

• Singing at the Care Home

  Fri 06 Oct 2023

  Today we took our Harvest Service to the Care Home in Cerne Abbas. We sang them our harvest songs ably introduced by William, Maddie and Alex. The elderly people loved it and sang along with us. The children loved it too and a few expressed how much pleasure it had given them to bring the elderly joy through our singing (one of our school values).

  

• Our Reflective Day - The Lord's Prayer

  Mon 17 Jul 2023

  Today we had a day off timetable where we found out the meaning behind the Lord's Prayer and also learnt to recite it. In Miss Stephen's class the children listened to different versions of the Lord's Prayer being sung. They created art work as they listened quietly and reflected on it. They learnt the prayer using actions.

  In Trendle Class they drew picture on 'our daily bread' of what God has provided for us and then ate it. They also thought about 'forgive us our sins' and wrote on a tissue paper person something we needed to forgive someone for and the put it in water and watched it fade anyway. This is what happens when we forgive people or when God forgives us. It makes us feel better. Finally Abbey class enjoyed playing fun games to help them remember the prayer.