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Do go and see the PTA Community Pool display at the Showcase window on Silver St this week. The PTA are promoting their soon to be released new online booking system for hiring the swimming pool. If you are interested in being added to a list to receive further details when booking is open please email pta@herneviewschool.co.uk.
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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 
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A guest article this time by Edward Wells of Ilminster Rotary. The finals of the annual Young Voices Competition took place at Herne View Primary School in Ilminster on Tuesday 19th March. A collaboration between the school and the Rotary Club of Ilminster, the competition featured 13 young orators from 6 to 10 years old addressing a roomful of people 
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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.
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Thank you to all our visitors who have given up their time to talk to the children about a range of careers this week for our Careers Week. The children have thoroughly enjoyed finding out more about how their learning in school links to future careers and we hope we have inspired them for future learning and development. Our pupils 
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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 
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Do try and go and see Herne View’s young artists who are on display at the Arts Centre at the Meeting House until Saturday 2nd March as part of this year’s Schools Go Visual XI. All of the classes at school have visited and as well as providing an opportunity to take pride in seeing their and their peer’s art 
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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 
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Families had the chance to come back in the classroom this week as Herne View Primary in Ilminster invited families to join in lessons and experience learning with their children. Joining in lessons ranging from phonics to writing and mathematics, families experienced how children are learning in the classroom and the knowledge and skills they are needing to develop to 
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Well done to our Y3/4 football teams who had success at a recent CISP (Crewkerne and Ilminster Schools’ Partnership) event held at Wadham. Twelve children went with Miss Taylor for the 6 a side competition and our two teams had an outstanding afternoon with final scores of Herne View 2 coming 1st and Herne View 1 coming 3rd. Very well 
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