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• Our Easter Service

  Sat 25 Mar 2023

  The children led our Easter Service in church on Friday. Abbey Class led the service and enacted the story of Holy Week. Trendle Class  read a class Easter prayer and Giants and Duckling Class sang a happy Easter song. Jonathan completed the service with a blessing. The children were amazing and comments made by people who attended included 'it was a joy to see and hear the school worship in the traditional story of Easter. Beautifully presented and amazing to see the impeccable behaviour of the children.' and 'We loved it. Such lucky children to have such an amazing school and such lovely teachers.'

  Thank you to everyone.

  

• Our Reflective Day

  Mon 20 Mar 2023

  Today has been a 'Reflective day' across our school. We have been learning about how the bible story of Samuel and Eli relates to our school. Samuel was the son of Hannah. Hannah wanted a baby boy very much and when God gave her Samuel she made sure that he was raised in the church. One night Samuel heard a voice calling him. At first he thought it was his teacher, Eli's voice, but then he found out that it was God speaking to him! Samuel went on to be a great leader for God who was very sensitive to hearing God’s voice and what he wanted him to say to people. Mrs Cresswell explained that Samuel was a good example of someone who had been raised by a good teacher and could listen to God (his inner voice).

  We have been learning about how this relates to our school bible verse: 'Teach a child how they should live and they will remember it all of their lives' Proverbs, Chapter 22, verse 6.
  Just like Samuel, we all have an inner voice (this is the God’s voice for Christians or your conscience) which also guides us to what to do for the best.

  During the day we visited different classrooms to complete various activities and learning linked to the story. With Mrs Cresswell we thought about our inner voice and what it says to us. We thought about how our inner voice can help us to make a difference and to 'be the best we can be'. With Miss Stephens we found out a bit more about the story of Samuel by playing listening games and making our own telephones; helping us to think about how important it is to listen to the voices around us. With Mrs Brown we learnt about what Eli taught Samuel about keeping the temple clean and how they showed our Christian values.

  We gathered together as a school at the end of the day to share all our learning and reflections. Well done, everyone. You all worked collaboratively in your colour teams exploring the story with all your teachers and friends across the school. Perhaps you could look through the pictures at home and tell your grown ups more about our learning today!

  

• Lent Lunch

  Mon 13 Mar 2023

  Abbey Class were invited to our church for the annual Lent Lunch. This year they were raising money for the Disasters Emergency Committee for the Turkish/Syrian Earthquake Appeal. We were served with soup and bread and then had a satsuma for pudding. It was delicious and everyone ate it all up.  Thank you to all of our families for your donations. They have raised nearly £1000. Abbey Class thanked everyone by singing 'You've Got a Friend in Me' from the film 'Toy Story.' A thoroughly good time was had by all.

  

• Safety Internet Day

  Sat 11 Feb 2023

  On Tuesday it was Internet safety day, we started the day with a school assembly where Mrs Brown explained what Internet safety day was.

  During a circle time the Ducklings watched a story called Hanni and the magic window, it is written for children aged 3 and up and is a rhyming story about speaking out and getting help.

  https://youtu.be/Ub8tefWs7U4 

  We then talked about what we think the Internet is? What do we/ other people use it for? What devices do we use the Internet on?

  Next we came up with some ideas how to safe safe while using the Internet and what to do if we see something that might worry use or if something happens that we aren't sure about. We decided the best thing to do would be to tell a grown up, someone at home or even our teachers.

  

• British Values Day

  Fri 20 Jan 2023

   

   On Monday, we had a focus on British Values for the day where we explored each value in depth. The day started with the whole school gathering together and discussing what the values were and where we could see them in our school. The children then went back to their classes and learnt more about them in depth. We had some excellent discussions including Abbey Class acting out a parliamentary debate!

  

• Super Hero Day

  Sat 14 Jan 2023

  On Friday we had a Super Hero Day. Everyone Came dressed up as a superhero to raise money for our local super hero charity Cerne Abbas Wild Life Trust. They help injured and ill wild life in Cerne. The Giant and Duckling class visited them last term and this term their topic enquiry question is 'Who are our heroes?'. The children (and staff) came dressed as a variety people. We had doctors, nurses, teachers, mummies and daddies as well as the fire brigade, police and Spiderman and Batman. We raised just over £95 to help the charity and we presented Jess, from the charity, with the money during Praise Worship.

  

• Christmas Carols and Our Hummingbird Choir

  Sat 03 Dec 2022

  The children from our school opened the Cerne Abbas Christmas Fair on Saturday with carols. We sang 'Away in a Manger', 'Silent Night', 'Little Donkey', 'It was on a Starry Night', and 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. It was a magical way to open the fair.

   

  The next day our choir, called 'The Hummingbird' sang at the St. Nicholas Service in church. The children also led the prayers and Ollie was the child Bishop who gave an address about how we can contribute positively to our world. He finished with a Christmas blessing for everyone.

  Well done to all the children of our school. What a lovely way to start Christmas.

  

• Worship Group Leading Worship

  Mon 21 Nov 2022 Angela Brown

  Today  one of our Worship Group led Worship to introduce our value of Peace. She planned and delivered this herself.

  

• Mental Health and Well-Being Week

  Mon 14 Nov 2022

  We started our Mental Health and Wellbeing week with a happiness talk from Jermaine Harris. He travels the world talking to groups including famous people such as footballers and celebrities.
  He told us that scientists have worked out that being kind to others make us all happy. He explained that there are two ways to make us happy...
  1. Saying thank you for things that make us happy
  2. Moving and dancing (we all had a boogie to 'I like to move it move it...!'
  Scientists say that when we move around, our brains feel happy.

  He talked about the importance of role-models and how they believe in themselves. It is important that we imagine ourselves where we want to be and set a goal e.g to be the best golfer.
  We learnt how to give ourselves self affirmations... e.g. I am strong, I am beautiful

  He talked to us about the power of breathe and taking breaths which fill our tummies (not physically!).

  Throughout the presentation, the word 'dance' popped up... every time this happened, we had to stand up and dance... children loved this!

  This has been such an uplifting morning... thank you Jermaine.

  

• Our Hopes and Dreams Week

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  This week has been our 'Hopes and Dreams Week' where we have been thinking about what hopes and dreams we have for the future and what we might like to do when we are grown up. We have been very lucky and have met lots of interesting people who have been telling us more about their jobs and work.

  On Monday we met Ali who talked to us about her job at Monkey World. She talked lots about the qualities she needs to do her job well. She told us that after school, she continued to learn and how learning doesn't stop when you leave school. She told us the importance of being curious and doing a job that brings us joy and happiness as well as paying the bills.

  On Tuesday we had a visit from Charlotte who is a plumber. She talked about her job working in people's houses, helping to mend broken or leaking pipes or helping to fit new bathrooms or radiators. She pointed out the different pipes in our classroom and told us about the water inside them that heats up to keep us warm or to allow us to use our taps. She showed us lots of tools that she uses when she's working including a special pipe cutter!

  On Wednesday we met Callum who is a business manager in the fenestration industry (new word for most adults and children!!) We learnt that means he works for companies who generate the materials for, build and fit windows and doors in peoples houses and other buildings like shops, schools and hospitals. We watched videos of working factories showing how the plastic is heated and shaped then cut precisely and distributed to suppliers. We especially liked watching the fork lifts driving around! Callum told us that when he first started working he used to drive the fork lift but now he works managing a team of people and selling things to companies that need them.

  Yesterday we had Jonah's Mummy, Zoe, an artist and illustrator visit our classroom. She showed us some of the books she has written and illustrated, focusing on a new book 'Totty' the turtle. We looked closely at the pictures then she helped us to create our own special turtle! We each had a section of the shell to decorate with tissue paper and sparkly stickers as well as a baby turtle which we used to create our own head bands. We had lots of fun making art with Zoe and loved listening to her read us one of her new books as our home time story.

  Today we met Stuart who is Ivy's Daddy. He talked to us about the job he used to have working as a civil engineer. He showed us lots of interesting pictures and talked to us about the varied roles within civil engineering and how anyone who likes maths, problem solving, building or fixing things would have lots of skills to become a civil engineer! We watched a video that showed us some big civil engineering projects including bridges, power plants, train tracks and even wind turbines. It was very interesting to hear from people of different ages, both women and men, talking passionately about their roles within the industry. Stuart even gave us some special pom pom civil engineer buddies wearing hard hats as gifts to bring home!

  What a special and exciting week! We are very grateful to all our visitors for taking the time to talk to us and give us inspiration for what we might like to do when we are grown up. Thank you especially to our parent visitors!