SCHOOL NEWS: Celebrations for Wadham’s Sixth-Form students

SCHOOL NEWS: Celebrations for Wadham’s Sixth-Form students

Posted: 27th June 2017
SIXTH-FORM students at Wadham School in Crewkerne celebrated the end of year in style – together with their teaching staff – with a dinner and dance. Seventy students and staff members enjoyed a two-course meal at the Shrubbery Hotel in Ilminster on Thursday (June 22, 2017) followed by a lively evening of dancing to music provided by a former student’s disco, Glow…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Sunny Ile welcome Ilminster firefighters

SCHOOL NEWS: Sunny Ile welcome Ilminster firefighters

Posted: 16th June 2017
THE Sunny Ile Pre School – which is part of Greenfylde First School in Ilminster – was very lucky to take part in supporting Save the Children Den Building Day. Sunny Ile was invited to see the fireman and fire engine from Ilminster Fire Station who were there to support the Forest School’s event of building a den which could withstand extreme weather conditions. The…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Favourite book inspires scarecrow creation

SCHOOL NEWS: Favourite book inspires scarecrow creation

Posted: 13th June 2017
READING books certainly helped youngsters in Greenfylde First School recently when its reception classes turned one of its favourite books into a scarecrow for the Ilminster Midsummer Experience. Using sticks and leaves they created Julia Donaldson’s Stickman and proudly displayed him by the front gates of school. Stickman was a huge success and the pupils are now…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Anyone for tennis?

SCHOOL NEWS: Anyone for tennis?

Posted: 13th June 2017
WIMBLEDON fever will soon be with us and pupils from Ilminster and Crewkerne have got in early with their own mini-red tennis competition. Pupils from Greenfylde First School in Ilminster, Shepton Beauchamp Primary School, Ashlands First School and Misterton First School played a total of 28 matches down at the Ilminster Recreational Ground in this qualifying event for…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Firefighters test Greenfylde’s den building skills

SCHOOL NEWS: Firefighters test Greenfylde’s den building skills

Posted: 13th June 2017
SUPPORTING Save the Children’s Den Building Day became a very inventive albeit wet activity for pupils at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster. Each class was challenged to build a Den using any equipment it could find from the classrooms and from the onsite Forest School with the stipulation that the design must fit all of the pupils and staff from their class. They…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Energy backing for natural environment learning

SCHOOL NEWS: Energy backing for natural environment learning

Posted: 31st May 2017
SCIENCE and technology learning at a school near Ilminster has been energised by the purchase of renewable energy educational kits thanks to a £2,000 donation from the E.ON Energy Action Fund. Staff and governors at Neroche Primary School have developed a unique ‘forest school’ area at its site in Broadway which is used to educate pupils across each of its seven classes…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Mayor’s donation will help with outdoors learning

SCHOOL NEWS: Mayor’s donation will help with outdoors learning

Posted: 10th May 2017
THE Sunny Ile Pre-School was delighted to receive a £100 cheque from the Mayor of Ilminster, Cllr Val Keitch, during the town’s Annual Community Assembly on Tuesday (May 9, 2017). The pre-school was one of 12 groups and organisations to receive a donation from the Mayor who had raised around £1,000 for local good causes during the past year. Cheryl Herrick, the…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Still time to see Greenfylde artwork at the Meeting House

SCHOOL NEWS: Still time to see Greenfylde artwork at the Meeting House

Posted: 10th May 2017
ARTISTIC pupils from Greenfylde First School in Ilminster have been wowing visitors at their second art exhibition which has been celebrating and showcasing their talented work. The children – aged from two to nine – have taken great delight in showing the community their talents using a range of media and proving that the artistic future of Ilminster is flourishing in…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Quiz night at Greenfylde

SCHOOL NEWS: Quiz night at Greenfylde

Posted: 4th May 2017
THE Friends of Greenfylde School group in Ilminster will be holding a fundraising quiz night later this month. The event will take place on Friday, May 12, 2017, from 7pm in readiness for a 7.30pm start. A maximum of eight people per team, while it will cost £2 per person to take part. The quiz is for adults only and organisers have said that “fancy dress” is optional…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Race night at Swanmead

SCHOOL NEWS: Race night at Swanmead

Posted: 4th May 2017
A FUNDRAISING family race night will be held at Swanmead School in Ilminster on Friday (May 5, 2017). The event is being organised by the SCOFF – Swanmead Community of Families and Friends – group from 7pm with the first race setting off at 7.30pm. Headteacher Mark Walker said: “This will be a really fun event and it would be great to see lots of people there – bring…

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