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• Cerne Abbas Village Fête

  Sat 04 Jul 2015
  1. Calling all Knights, Lords, Ladies, Princesses and Serfs!

   

   

  Janine Ryan is helping to organise the church fete which this year is recognising the 800^th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

   

  We would love to see as many children (and grown-ups!) in medieval fancy dress.  It can be as fancy or as simple as you like (a tabard over clothing with a belt for example).

   

  There will be a procession starting at the school playing field at 1.20pm to walk to the vicarage gardens and be the official openers of the fête.  (Please note this is not a school run activity and the children will be your responsibility).

   

  All children participating will be entered into a prize draw.

   

  The school have also been asked to once again run the popular fruit tombola and donations of exotic fruits e.g. pineapples, mangos, kiwis will be requested during the week beginning Monday 29^th June.  More details to follow nearer the time.

• St. Mary's Charminter Football Tournament

  Wed 01 Jul 2015

  Everyone arrived at St. Mary’s Charminster First School for their annual Football Tournament where we were split into two groups where we each play the other teams, with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals. We played some great football against Winterbourne Abbas, Damers “A”, Manor Park “A” and St Mary’s Charminster “B” scoring 12 goals between Toby, George and Rhys to top our group without losing a single game. We showed great team work, some wonderful defensive and goalkeeping displays along with some jinking solo runs. This guaranteed us top spot and a semi-final against Damers “B”. Again we showed how well we worked as a team and after a very tense opening 3 minutes we broke the deadlock with 2 quick goals and went on to win 3-1 comfortably.  Our final match was against Damers “A” but unfortunately we ran out of steam in this game and couldn’t repeat what we had done in our group game against them and lost 3-1. When the final whistle went and through our own personal disappointment all our children went to shake hands with the winners and congratulated them. Once again all our team showed what a credit to our school they are and we were all very proud of them. We would like to thank all parents who took their children and supported us that evening, couldn’t do it without this!

  

• Sports Day

  Thu 18 Jun 2015
  What a fabulous afternoon we had watching the children enjoying the round robin then giving it their all in their various races, huge thanks to Mr Dailey and the Year 8 Sports Leaders from DMS, seeing some familiar faces helping made the day and everyone helped to make the day run smoothly, also a thank you to Tesco's for supplying us with water bottles, we were very luck to have the sun shine all afternoon so your kind refreshments were appreciated. Congratulations to the Red Team for winning this year and lastly thank you to all the parents/family/carers who came and supported us.  

  

• Global Arts Week

  Fri 12 Jun 2015

  Week beginning 22^nd June will be a Global Arts week. We will be learning about artists from around the world and using their art to inspire our own art work. We will also have an artist in for two mornings to create a landscape of Cerne out of felt. For this we will need all reception and Trendle to bring in a hand towel  in a named plastic bag.

  To pay for materials we also ask if each child brings in a donation of a pound to cover the cost. We would be very grateful if you could bring this in as soon as possible so that we may get the resources in time.

  On the Wednesday, after picking the children up from school we invite you to walk down the school corridor and view our art instillation which will transport you to another continent.

• Mayfair

  Fri 22 May 2015

  Congratulations to everyone regarding the Mayfair on Saturday – an incredible £1772.78 was raised.

   

  Massive thanks go to Katy Wall for organising this wonderful event (with help from Janine Ryan and many others).  Thank you to everyone who worked tirelessly through the day to make this such a successful fundraiser.  We so appreciate how hard everyone worked. 

   

  We will let you know in due course what the money will be spent on to enhance your children’s education.  Over the last year FOCAS have funded learning captures in all classes and provided new books for home reading for the children.

• Maths Day

  Wed 20 May 2015

  On Wednesday 20^th May the whole school will be spending a day learning together across the classes about Maths.  You are invited to join us at 2.00 pm to enjoy some maths games that the children will have made during the day.  We look forward to seeing you then.

• Send My Friend to School

  Mon 18 May 2015

  We are supporting the Send My Friend to School campaign. 2015 is a significant year because world leaders said that all children would be in school by this year but still 58 million are not. In September the leaders of the world are meeting together and they will discuss this issue. We have all written letters to David Cameron and suggested things that we would do to help get all children to school. In June Daniel and Honor will go to London's houses of Parliament to give them our letters with the other DASP schools.

   

  Today we received the DASP box from Piddlevalley First school which contains all of the letters to David Cameron and the MP's and added ours. Tomorrow we will take the box to  Charminster First school.

   

  We also sang Be Bold Be strong as part of the ceremony. Go to your child's Class page to listen to song.

  

• MayFair 2015

  Sat 16 May 2015

  WE DESPERATELY NEED HELPERS FOR THE MAYFAIR WHICH IS OUR MAJOR SCHOOL FUNDRAISER.  We rely on the FOCAS funds to enhance your children’s learning in school and to this end we rely heavily on the generosity of parents and the community to help make this a very successful fundraiser.  So we are asking for your support in contributing goodies for the stalls, selling raffle tickets and donating prizes in exchange for a Crazy Hair day  and ‘Dress as your Hero’  or ‘Dress Down’ day for the tombola stalls.

   

  Our grateful thanks go to Katy Wall and Janine Ryan for organising the whole event .

   

  To reduce production costs Rachel  Guest  has designed personal raffle tickets at £1 each – These will be sent out next week we would be grateful if you could sell as many as  possible. 

   

  We desperately need parents to help run the stalls, and parents to organise the teas and cakes.

   

                                                                  We are having the following stalls

  Bric a Brac

  Adult tombola

  Chocolate tombola

  Toy stall

  Plants

  Books / CD’s etc

  Raffle

  Cakes and or savouries

  School uniform seconds / as new

  Hair braiding

  Etc etc

   

  Please do bring in any donations for these stalls and ask neighbours etc.

   

  Please can we ask for helpers

  • to help collect and set up tables and chairs from the vicarage,
  • to help erect the gazebos – easy assemble ones this year
  • to run stalls.

  Please pop in and see Alex if you are happy to help

   

  We are having a ‘Dress as your Hero’ day on Friday 1^st May in exchange for Adult tombola - bottles, jars, tins, smellies, candles etc, and then a  WACKY HAIR DAY  on Friday  8^th  May in exchange for chocolate for the chocolate tombola.

   

  We would also be very grateful if every child could fill a jar or two or three! for the school Jar Stall.  You can fill them with anything you like from candles, soaps, marbles, sweets and decorate them with ribbons etc.

   

  PLANTS FOR MAYFAIR

   

  Calling all gardeners – if you are dividing up perennial plans in your garden please pot up any you don’t need for May Fair.   Many thanks.

   

• DASP Computing Kidsmeet

  Thu 30 Apr 2015

  DASP Computing Kidsmeet

   

  Today 4 children from Abbey Class, as well as Mrs Horwood and Miss Cook, went to St. Osmund's Middle School to meet other pupils from other DASP schools and to share what they have been learning in Computing. We shared our learning about programming on 'Scratch'. We also saw other children's learning which we found really exciting. Our favourite things we saw were:

  • A 3D Printer
  • Kodu Coding
  • Dash and Dot Robots
  • Robot Tanks
  • A Blue Screen APP
  • Lego WeGo!
  • Hopscotch

  We had a marvellous day filled with fun, learning and play!

   

  Vaila, Tom, Jack and Ellie

   

  Miss Cook and Mrs Horwood were very proud of the children from Cerne Abbas School as they were all of our values, especially courteous and confident.

  

• Year 4 Residential Trip to Hooke Court

  Wed 22 Apr 2015

  Our Year 4’s will be having their two night residential trip to Hooke Court from Wednesday 22^nd April to Friday 24^th April.  The total cost will be £125 to include accommodation, food and activities plus transport. We ask that the money be paid by 1^st June.  Please see Mrs Ryan if you have difficulties with this payment.

   

  Year 4 parents are invited to a meeting on Monday 23^rd March at 3.30 pm with Mrs Mattison to find out all the details about their Residential trip to Hooke Court on Wednesday 22^nd to Friday 24^th April, and ask any questions.