Author: Claire Oaten

This week saw Herne View hosting the final of the Ilminster Literary Festival Poetry Recital Competition and it was a pleasure to welcome the nine schools who brought eighteen exceptional finalists. All of the children who performed their poems from memory performed to a very high standard and the judges from the Literary Festival Committee had a very difficult decision. …

Well done to our Herne View Pupils who were winners in this year’s Ilminster Literary Festival Writing Competition. The judges were very impressed by the submissions from the school and it was a pleasure to go and see them receive their certificates and prizes from the committee at Ilminster Library this weekend. Well done to everyone who participated and especially …

Children and staff at Herne View Primary and Apple Orchard Pre School in Ilminster joined in the fun for Comic Relief by turning the school into a wave of red and donning some odd socks to raise over £200 for the charity this last week.

What a cacophony of characters walked through the doors of school this week and we had lot of fun with all our learning for that day centred on Reading, characters and books. With a visit from Michael O’Leary a local storyteller, a book swap, reading cafe in KS2, shared story times with older and younger pupils and a range of …

It was frying pans to the ready as Herne View Primary School pupils in Ilminster took to the playground in a pancake flip challenge to raise funds for the PTA. An annual event, pupils are sponsored for the number of flips they can manage in a set time and thanks went to the Year 5 pupils for supporting with their …