Remembrance day

The children held their two minute silence at the entrance to the Church around the memorial Cross. They were all fabulous and listened carefully to the significance of the Poppy and afterwards several reflected on what they thought about during the silence.

Harvest Festival

The children took part in their annual harvest festival.  Thank you to everyone for donating the lovely produce and joining us for the service and farmers Market held after.  Proceeds to Dorthy House £105 Thank you

Whole School Trip to Weymouth

Berkley went to Weymouth! We all had a wonderful time on our whole school trip to Weymouth.  It was a beautiful day and the children were all a pleasure to take. Many members of the public took time to comment to the staff on how well behaved all the children were.  We were all super […]

Stem Fayre

Berkley School organised a Frome School Stem Fayre.  Mr Banton did a fantastic job and it was a great success.  All the children came back to school with fantastic ideas.  Thank you to Selwood School for agreeing to host the fayre and a big hank you to all the business that came along to support […]

Easter Service

The children held their Easter Service this week on Wednesday 3rd April.  It was lovely to see the church so packed for this special celebration. The delicious Easter bread was broken up and shared between all the children and staff at the end of the day. Thanks to Mr Sanders for providing this for everyone.  […]

Easter Wow Day

The children at Berkley spent the morning learning more about the bible stories of Easter.  They worked in mixed age groups for this wow session and thoroughly enjoyed learning and acting out the stories. They experienced six different workshops and reflected on the meaning of Easter.

Family Service

Mrs Hooper took the children to St Mary’s Family Service 17th March 2019. The children were fantastic and spoke confidently.  Thank you to Mrs Hooper and Mrs White for rehearsing with the children.  It was lovely to see so many people joining the congregation. Thanks to all the children, staff and parents that attended.

World Book Day

All the children dressed up in their favourite book characters.  They started the day sharing their costumes and books in a special book assembly.  They then completed lots of book based activities in the classroom.  Great fun was had by all! World Book Day

Thank you to our FBS

We love our new Reception outside area play equipment.  Massive thanks from all the staff and children to our Friends of Berkley School (FBS) for fundraising so we could enjoy our outdoor space.  We love it!

Christingle

The children took part in a lovely Christingle Service at St Mary’s Church Berkley on Sunday 16th December.  It was lovely to see so many staff and parents give thanks with the local community.  The children learnt all about the Christingle and its significance.  Every year it is important to give thanks for the seasons, […]

Remembrance

Our Year 3 and 4 observed a one minutes silence for all the people that lost their lives in WW1 and WW2. Our Reception and KS1 observed the one minutes silence in the Hall. A very special remembrance song was led by the children. Berkley children took part in the special 100 years Rememberance Service […]

Community Day 2018

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Community Day.  We had different activities in each class and the science experiments in owls class were very popular.  A huge thank you to the FBS for their pop-up cafe, selling Tea, Coffee and Cake.  The children’s singing in Church was amazing.  Thank you to everyone […]

Whole School Trip to Weymouth Beach

Wow what a fantastic day we all had on Wednesday at Weymouth Beach.  Where to start! We loved the paddling in the sea, the sandcastle competition, the games on the beach, our fish and chips in a bucket with a spade, and not forgetting the gorgeous Dorset ice-cream.  The sandcastle competition was extremely difficult to […]

Squirrels Class go into business!

Squirrels class decided to set up a morning snack shop.  They decided to make snacks and sale them over 2 days. This was hugely lucrative! They did brilliantly and all the children were happy with their snacks.  A massive thank you to everyone who brought snacks from squirrels shop last week.  They raised an amazing […]