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Mayfair Saturday 17th May

Sat 17 May 2014

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 Wacky Hair day and ‘Dress Down’ day for the tombola stalls.

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

To reduce production costs Matthew Scott 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

Abbey Class Bluebell Walk

Thu 15 May 2014

As part of the Trees for Dorset project Abbey Class will be going on a Bluebell Walk on Thursday. They will be walking in woods during the morning. They will listen for birdsong and look at Ancient Woodland indicators, ditch and bank systems, trees and flowers.

In the afternoon they will look at food webs in the Oak Woodland and do observation drawing of things they find, and pictures of animals to make a giant food web.

They will need home clothes and wellington boots please.

Dress Down Day

Fri 09 May 2014

‘Dress Down’ day, next Friday in exchange for adult tombola for the MayFair.

WACKY HAIR DAY

Fri 02 May 2014

We are having a WACKY HAIR DAY on Friday 2nd May in exchange for chocolate for the chocolate tombola and a DRESS DOWN DAY on Friday 9th May in exchange for bottles, jars, tins, smellies, candles etc etc for the adult tombola.

Re-enactment days for Trendle and Abbey Class

Wed 23 Apr 2014

As an introduction to their Naughty Normans and Ruthless Romans topics – Abbey Class will be having a Norman re-enactment day on Thursday 24th April and Trendle will be having their Roman re-enactment day on the Wednesday 23rd April. This will be an amazing opportunity for your child to go back in time and explore history through drama. We have invited a professional drama company to make this day really special for your child. Please can you devise an appropriate costume for your child.

The School will be funding these learning captures but we will be asking parents to contribute to our final learning capture on Carnivals that will be spectacular.

Mini Beasts Forest School for Giant

Tue 22 Apr 2014

On our return from the Easter Holidays on Tuesday 22nd April, Giant Class will be having a mini beasts forest school. Please can all children have outdoor gear and wellies please.

Spring Assembly and Cake Sale

Thu 03 Apr 2014

We look forward to seeing many of you at our Spring Assembly on Thursday 3rd April at 2 pm in the Church.

As part of our ‘Money Matters’ week the children will be learning about Fair Trade ingredients and making treats and cakes. We would like to invite you all to our Cake Sale after the Spring Assembly in aid of ‘Guide Dogs for the Blind’ – a charity chosen by the School Council.
Donations of cakes and biscuits will be gratefully received.

Milborne St Andrew Football Festival

Thu 27 Mar 2014

On arrival we changed into our football boots ready for an afternoon of football, armed with our lucky mascot from Lucy, first up were The Prince of Wales School and with great defending from Amelia and Archie and great saves from Daniel P in goal, we deservedly drew this game 0-0, Thomas had our best chance in the game with a Beckham like shot from near the half way line. Broadmayne School were up next with a familiar face in their line up, Joe Arthy, we dominated this game and had several goalmouth scrambles with Olly running the show from midfield but just couldn't force the ball home, we then let in a breakaway goal and lost 1-0. We played the hosts Milborne School in our 3rd game, George played his best game yet and went on an amazing solo run and shot just wide and then not long after Toby sent in a powerful shot which cannoned back off the post! We were then hit with an unlucky goal that squirmed underneath the hands of our goalie and lost narrowly 1-0. After some well earned orange squash, biscuits and cake (kindly purchased by Mrs Horsington) we played St Mary's School and were under pressure straight away and went down to an early goal, however we then counter attacked ourselves and Thomas was sent through by a superb ball from Katie to go one on one with their keeper and without a fantastic save we would have levelled the score, Katie also defended with determined tenacity but was unable to keep out another shot and we lost 2-0. Our final game was against Winterborne School, with Hannah and Eden defending for their lives that left Toby and George to attack with both going close but again drawing a blank, 0-0. Everyone enjoyed playing and went home with smiles on their faces, Mrs Price and Miss Nottley were proud at how courteous, caring and confident they all were. Special mentions to Mrs Horsington for transporting to and from school and Mr & Mrs Beresford and Toby's grandparents, huge thank you to you all for coming to support the team.

Pro Kick Schools Challenge and Sport Relief Challenges

Wed 26 Mar 2014

The whole school is taking part in the Pro Kick Schools Challenge on Wednesday afternoon. Thank you so much to those of you who have returned the sponsorship forms, but there is no obligation to gain sponsorship as you child will take part anyway.This is a fully inclusive exciting opportunity for your child to have a fun experience, using a gigantic inflatable goal with digital display that shows how fast your child can make the ball travel. This is a charity fundraising event that will benefit both our school and their charity.

AND THEN AFTER SCHOOL

Please don’t forget the ‘Challenges for all the Mums and Dads ‘ on WEDNESDAY AT 3.15 PM. There will be three parent - child challenges – the first challenge being a ‘Penalty Shoot- out’ the second being a ‘Netball Hoop Challenge’ and the third being a ‘Hockey Goal event’. Please find your competitive spirit and join in to raise money for Sport Relief. Miss Cook and her School Council volunteers will be on the School playground along with Miss Nottley and Mrs Price on WEDNESDAY for you to take part in these challenges - £1 a go or £2 for a go at all 3!

School Council Parents – please could you let Miss Cook know if you are happy for your child to help run the challenges on Wednesday afternoon for Sports Relief please? Thank you!

Pre-Ofsted Evaluation Report.

Mon 24 Mar 2014

At Cerne VC CE First School we very much value supportive and rigorous external verification to improve our practice and ultimately outcomes for children.

We were very pleased to invite Deborah Zachory, an experienced and fully qualified Ofsted inspector, to our school for two full days. We asked Deborah to carry out a pre-Ofsted inspection against the new inspection framework, validate and challenge the school's self evaluation, prior to Federation with Winterbourne Valley VA CE First School in September.

The reports are attached under the About Us - Key Information - Our Evaluation section on the Home page.

We would very much like to thank Deborah for a very intense, thorough and challenging two days that have led to purposeful and meaningful development points.

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