SCHOOL NEWS: Neroche installs new IT equipment
Posted: 20th April 2016
CHILDREN and staff at Neroche Primary School at Broadway have been really excited following a £30,000 investment in computer equipment has been installed in the school. The school invested heavily over the Easter period in updating its IT provision. In addition to providing an extra 30 laptops and ten ipads, the school has replaced its servers and wireless network in…
SCHOOL NEWS: Sunny Ile children learn more about the outdoors
Posted: 14th April 2016
CHILDREN at Sunny Ile Pre School had great fun exploring Greenfylde First School’s outdoor classroom in Ilminster. They found lots of wildlife including bugs and bees during the activity led by Greenfylde’s Forest School teacher Vernon Higgins on Tuesday (April 12, 2016). The Sunny Ile children have recently been enjoying the story Stick Man – so Mr Higgins organised an…
SCHOOL NEWS: Lady with the Lamp
Posted: 3rd April 2016
CHILDREN at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster have been delving into the history books and learning more about Britain’s most famous nurse – Florence Nightingale. The children learned about her job as a nurse and investigated what the hospitals would have been like for the nurses and soldiers during the Crimean War in the 1850s. She became known as the Lady with the…
SCHOOL NEWS: Pupils learn about diversity and equality
Posted: 3rd April 2016
CHILDREN at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster were given a talk about equality and diversity. Gloria Lawrence was invited into the school as a guest speaker and she told her own story of how she was the only black girl in her first class at school and nobody would play with her. She talked to the classes about different types of racism and during the session the…
SCHOOL NEWS: Cathy Tremaine now stands alongside Mother Teresa and Boris Yeltsin
Posted: 29th March 2016
MANY present and former students of Wadham School in Crewkerne have been offering words of best wishes to teacher Cathy Tremaine who has just retired after an amazing 35-year teaching career at the school. A special celebration was recently held for Cathy and her colleagues and also present were members of the Rotary Clubs of Ilminster and Crewkerne. The Ilminster club’s…
SCHOOL NEWS: Eggtastic entries in Easter contest at Neroche
Posted: 24th March 2016
EASTER came early at Neroche Primary School at Broadway as all of the school’s children took part in their annual Easter Egg competition. There were many EGGTASTIC entries ranging from baby chicks to Star Wars. The children of Neroche’s School Council were the judges for the event, and at a special assembly presented each class winners with a chocolate Easter Egg and the…
SCHOOL NEWS: Children quiz councillors on Ilminster’s future
Posted: 23rd March 2016
MEMBERS of Ilminster Town Council were put under the spotlight again by local school children during their regular Question Time sessions. The Mayor, Cllr Rose Neave, and Cllr Sophie Storey, along with town clerk Joy Norris, were grilled by children from Greenfylde First School and Swanmead School in Ilminster and Wadham School at Crewkerne. The children had a range of…
SCHOOL NEWS: Easter activities at The Minster
Posted: 23rd March 2016
FAMILIES of pupils at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster were invited to take part in a range of Easter activities at The Minster. The activities were led by Rev Nigel Done and organised by Tracey Hallett, their youth pioneer, and ranged from decorating “thought” pebbles, decorating Easter flowers, parachute games and creating their own Easter gardens. Greenfylde…
SCHOOL NEWS: MP impressed by ideas at Somerset Children’s Parliament
Posted: 21st March 2016
YEOVIL MP Marcus Fysh was delighted to be asked to officially open the Somerset Children’s Parliament in the Council Chamber at Taunton. Mr Fysh was asked to provide an opening address to the schools present, before listening to all of the schools presenting in the afternoon session on Friday (March 18, 2016). The range of topics covered was impressive and included…
SCHOOL NEWS: Puppets teach children about prejudice and bullying
Posted: 20th March 2016
CHILDREN and staff at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster welcomed Pete the Poet into school to do some work on cultural diversity. Everyone had an informative and fun session learning about differences and tolerance. Using puppets Pete told stories involving prejudice and bullying in a way that was easy for the children to understand. Every child had a puppet and was…
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