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End of term news:
Now that the summer holidays are in full swing there may not be a great deal of news every week but we shall attempt to put items of interest on the website as we hear of what the children are up to! Term ended on Thursday 3rd July with our Speech Day celebration in the marquee at the main school. Our speaker was the author Sally Grindley who told us where she finds inspiration for her books before reading one of her favourite stories Why is the sky blue? You could have heard a pin drop. The choir and children in KS1 and KS2 were all in good form as they sang extracts from Sound of Music, Blue Crystal and Litter Muncher. In my speech, which you can find elsewhere, I encouraged the children to use their imagination and start making memories now! We all went back to the Junior School for strawberries and cream, tea or bubbles as one child called the special edition Cava. Term finally ended with the leavers’ disco on Thursday evening as they danced and sang to music of their choice. I wish you a very happy holiday. I’m also looking forward to a break. Doubtless I’ll tell you all about my trip sometime – possibly in an Assembly or two! |
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Nursery Children in print! Poems written by the Nursery children are to be included in a book, ‘My First Poem’ which is part of the Young Writers initiative. Pre- schools and Nurseries were asked to submit poems in the Spring of this year and we were delighted to learn that all the poems we submitted are to be included in the book!
The book is due to be published on 30th September and will be available to view in school shortly afterwards. Well done everyone!
New Nursery Children Pop In! Children starting in the Nursery in September took the chance to ‘pop in and play ‘ this week. Parents, children and even grandparents came along to meet staff and get to know the toys and activities. A sunny afternoon guaranteed a great time was had by all – there were even a few tears on departure from those who would have quite liked to stay! Thank you all for coming. Do pop in again next Thursday at 1pm and we look forward to welcoming you all in September! |
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A selection of photographs from the recent Year 1 Secret Seeds trip.
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SUMMER FAIR One unusual way to keep cool in the recent warm, sunny weather was to be seen at Wellington Junior School’s summer fair last week (Monday 9th June) when Headmaster, Harry McFaul and other senior members of staff, Rachel Eaton-Jones (Deputy) and Year 5 teachers Roger Hitchin and Lee Lawrenson went in the stocks to be pelted with sponges. ‘Fortunately not everyone was a good shot,’ said Mr McFaul, ‘ so we didn’t get totally soaked! The sun dried us off fairly quickly - and it is all in a good cause’
The children organised various stalls – Farmers’ Market, plant sales, games, Tombola, Lucky Dip and the major attraction was the raffle with its vast array of superb hampers. The fair may only have lasted an hour and a half but well over £1600 was raised for the six charities the schoolchildren had selected earlier in the year.
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Reception children are all busy learning about Transport, our new topic for this half term. As you can see they have had great fun building a super fast Thomas in their classroom with 'Go Faster' silver stripes! Transport is one of those special topics that can be extended indefinitely and which all the family can enjoy together! So get out the train-set you hid in the attic, Dad. We all want a go. |
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Nursery classes participated in Eco- week by shopping for Fair Trade ingredients and using them in delicious Fair Trade recipes! Banana bread and chocolate crispies were enjoyed by the adults who came to our Fair Trade tea party. The children were able to look for the distinctive Fair Trade symbol , helping us to identify ethically produced ingredients. They also learned to look out for the re-cycling logo on packaging. |
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Year 1 Sculpture making Year 1 children have enjoyed exploring the work of Andy Goldsworthy this term. They have been collecting all sorts of natural materials and turning them into works of art. On a blustery Friday morning they ventured out to Wellington monument where they had great fun working in groups, creating their own sculptures. Luckily they avoided the forecasted storms and arrived back at school muddy but cheerful! |
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Kilve ~ Hattie Wheller
We were told by the main in charge of the swamp walk to put on very old clothes. He said if you have anything white it will never be white again. We had a little walk in the small woods and then we arrived at the stream. I was scared at first but excited. The man shouted “follow me” and off we went. It was really squelchy mud and it wasn’t long before my hands and knees were covered in gooey, squidgy, black mud, it smelt disgusting, I even got it in my lovely, clean, thick impossible to wash hair! The man told us to put cow pat on our faces and pretend we were Indians. He also put weeds in our hair for decoration. At last we reached the end of the swamp walk. Me and Izzy were really sad because we wanted to do it again. Click here to see the powerpoint presentation of our time at Kilve. Kilve ~ Millie Eaton-Jones When I went to Kilve I enjoyed every second of it, especially the activities. The first thing I saw when we arrived at Kilve was the climbing wall. It was very high and made me feel quite scared. That evening when we sat down for supper I felt very happy about our first day there. During the night when I went to the toilet I heard some badgers. We turned on the torch and |
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Mary had a little lamb… Not many children (even those called Mary) get to bring a lamb to school but our Nursery children had a visit from a lamb on Monday and then on Friday another parent brought two sheep into school, told the children all about how we get wool and then gave a
The children and staff were impressed with the speed and skill of the exercise. As the Infant Department are looking at Farms and farm animals this session, this was an unexpected treat. |
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Nursery classes climbed aboard the school bus recently for a Spring visit to Vivary Park! The sun shone, rather unexpectedly, and our classroom Spring focus was reinforced by seeing glorious Spring flowers as well as ducks, geese and moorhens. Children, staff and accompanying parents also enjoyed the delicious ‘monkey muffins’ and ‘fruity flapjacks’ which were made in Nursery and taken with us for snacktime. |
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Year 2 having fun at Huish Woods Year 2 had a great time at Huish Woods playing in the Monkey Park, taking part in a variety of woodland based activities and using a range of tools to make animal wood-carvings. They learnt to identify a variety of trees, found various animal footprints, badger sets, rabbit burrows and hunted for creepy crawlies. In the evening much fun was had singing and dancing round the camp fire and toasting marshmallows before climbing into their sleeping bags. The result of two very active days was happy, dirty and suitably exhausted children. Click here to see a pdf of our slide show.
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It was dark and rainy as the WJS ski trip we set off for Prato Nevoso at 3.30am on Sunday 16th March. However the sun was shining in Turin and the snow was fantastic as we got kitted up ready for a week of adventures. The children made incredible progress during their ski lessons and were judged good enough to tackle floodlit night-skiing, a truly unique experience. They were all were brilliantly behaved, a fact commented on by fellow travellers, staff at the hotel, the ski reps and instructors and the staff at our favourite café! Well Done everyone. Many thanks to the staff who accompanied the children, Mr Savage, Mrs Eaton-Jones and especially Mrs John for organising such a wonderful trip. |
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As an introduction to the topic 'down on the farm', Year 1 visited Pennywell Farm. They had a fantastic, hands-on opportunity to learn about farm animals. The children fed baby lambs, collected duck and chicken eggs, saw five day old piglets and learnt about the needs of animals. |
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The following pupils received Golden Leaf awards at the end of last term. Congratulations to them all. Ben Wardell
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The Blue Crystal Stunning dancing! Magical singing! Moving acting! Visually spectacular costumes, make-up and hair! Wellington Junior School has recently held its performances of The Blue Crystal, an amazing science fiction drama, performed by all children of Key Stage 2. Considering this half term was short, the rehearsals have been intense, and to get 120 children acting and singing was due largely to the producing The play centres on the dying planets of Earth and Zarcon, who both need the energy supplied by the blue crystals to revitalise their people. As ever this production is the highlight of the school year, not just for those children who like to act and sing, but for the many who have discovered new confidence, skills and talents, which the school feels are crucial to each child’s development. All the staff supported the production, and the team spirit between staff and children was evident in the short sketch midway  through the play as they joined the children to perform ‘Startrekkin’. Applause and laughter were continuous throughout the evening, and it was a magnificent show! |
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Nursery children enjoyed a visit from Wellington GP Dr Yates. Our doctors’ surgery role play was brought to life as Dr Yates showed us her real stethoscope and auroscope, helped us to try on bandages and talked to us about using medicines safely. The children were fascinated to hear their hearts beating , using the stethoscope and Dr Yates kindly left us one for experimenting! Many thanks to Dr Yates for coming in to Nursery to talk to us. |
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Nursery children at WJS have been celebrating St David’s day in style this week with a visit from Mrs Beryl Farrow (also known as Mrs Lawrenson’s mum!) Mrs Farrow showed the children traditional Welsh costumes and helped them to make delicious Welsh cakes. Other activities included listening to the story of St David, drawing the traditional Welsh emblems of the leek and the daffodil and even learning a few words of Welsh Many thanks to Mrs Farrow for coming to visit us and helping us to learn such a lot about this special day for Wales! |
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Wellington Junior School gets the thumbs up!
Wellington Junior School has just received its inspection report and Headmaster, Harry McFaul is delighted with the findings which confirm that the school ‘provides a good all-round education and meets its aims.’ The team of inspectors who visited the school last November were effusive in their praise, noting an improvement on the already good standards recorded in the previous report.
Mr McFaul was very pleased that inspectors praised in particular the personal qualities of the pupils, the supportive relationships between staff and pupils and the emphasis on pastoral care. This is great preparation for later life as befits a school whose motto is “Learning for Life”!
He was also delighted that the inspectors recognised the excellent support and effective teaching provided by the staff who employ a wide range of skills appropriate to the needs of each child. A large proportion of the lessons observed were deemed “outstanding”. ‘To achieve the top grade is very difficult and so this is a well-deserved accolade for staff,’ acknowledged Mr McFaul. ’We are fortunate to have such talented and enthusiastic teachers at Wellington’.
Mr McFaul was keen to underline the importance of the whole school team as the school moves forward at this important stage of its development. He added ‘I am obviously very pleased that the school has received such an encouraging report, but we are not a school that is content to rest on its laurels. The report has helped to identify where we can implement change and so make further improvement. We will continue to strive to offer a first rate education, based on the broad and engaging curriculum of which we are justly proud.’
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Lizzie Welch Freddy Stevens Thomas Jameson Charlotte Johns Max Cubitt Jack Derrick Kit Sells Tara Russell Patrick Buckley Poppy Webb-Taylor Olivia Woodhead James Caple Polly Wheller Kiran Thakur
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Year 5 pupils at Wellington Junior School had a fantastic interactive space session with Simon Auld an experienced science teacher who set up Space Odyssey after experiencing a mobile dome presentation at a school in Surrey. Simon is the only science teacher in the UK offering mobile planetarium presentations. He studied astronomy at university, trained as a physics teacher and has been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society since 1993. The content and delivery of every presentation is carefully pitched to suit the audience involved, using a wealth of hi-tech resources including digital multimedia, high-resolution digital projection and advanced computer simulations. Needles to say the children all responded extremely well and absorbed all the information with rapt attention. |
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On St Valentine’s the whole of Wellington Junior School was ‘in the pink’ if not ‘in the red’ as pupils and staff tried to raise money for various charities. ‘It was really great that everyone rose to the challenge of dressing in something bright on a day when most people’s thoughts were turned towards ‘romantic encounters’,’ said Harry McFaul, Head master. Pupils at WJS found time to think about helping other people and have lots of fun at the same time! Here we see a selection of smiling Key Stage 1 children who are looking very colourful. ‘It makes a change from school uniform!’ commented one pupil. At the last count approximately £200 has been raised.
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Nick Feetenby, Beat Manager for Wellington Town Centre North and Nick Barber CPO visited Wellington Junior School on Thursday 14 February. The Year 2 pupils were being taught road safety as part of their curriculum topic – they also had a demonstration of the lights and sirens on the Police patrol car. During the visit Nick Feetenby also demonstrated the use of a breathaliser on Mr Harry McFaul, Headmaster at Wellington Junior School. Thankfully the test proved negative! |
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Pupils at Wellington Junior School had a visit from the Chinese Lion who came to Morning Assembly with Chinese pupils from the Senior School. The Sixth Form students played traditional Chinese musical instruments such as the flute, cymbals and drums to accompany the dancers who performed a traditional celebratory dance to welcome in the Year of the Rat. Here you can see them with the children from Nursery who had dressed up in Chinese costume especially for the occasion. |
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Using knowledge developed in previous science lessons, small groups of Year 2 children were set the following challenge. How can you make your marble take the longest amount of time to travel down a ramp? All pupils had great fun exploring the use of different surfaces on the ramp and ways of making the marble change direction. |
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U10 Hockey Tour 2008 The U10 hockey team went on their annual hockey tour to Salisbury. We left bright and early and headed to Bournemouth where we played the first of our matches. We played against Castle Court and won 4-0 and then we played Talbot Heath and won 1-0. From there we went to The Romsey Rapids, for some fun! After an afternoon of swimming we had developed good appetites so we went to Pizza hut for our evening meal. We woke up bright and early on Sunday morning, had breakfast and drove to Amesbury where we were greeted by about 100 other children. We played nine games in total; we won one, lost one and drew seven. Most of the teams were predominately boys so that gave us a real challenge. We left Amesbury exhausted and ready for more food! We had Sunday lunch and then headed back to school. It was an excellent weekend, filled with fun, laughter and of course a bit of hockey!   |
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Playdough pancakes were also made and used in a fun pancake race outside. The children decided it was quite hard to flip the pancakes but it was great fun trying! |
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Year 4 dine out. On Wednesday, Year 4 had lunch at the Dynasty Restaurant in Taunton as part of their study of India. As always, the hospitality was very generous and the children were able to sample a wide variety of Indian foods. A photograph gallery exists of previous visits to the restaurant and we hope that we can continue this tradition for some time to come. Wellington staff agree that extending the children’s learning and experiences outside the classroom is a valuable part of their education and of course the meal was delicious! |
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Children at Wellington Junior School are very lucky this term – especially in the current bad weather we are having at present. In class they are doing a world tour as they learn about where countries such as Italy, France, Hawaii, India, China, Mexico can be found on the globe. They learn about customs, dress up in costume, have a go at some traditional dancing and best of all get a real taste of the country of the week as they eat special food. So far they have sorted pasta shapes and eaten pizza and other Italian delights. This week it was fresh croissants and future treats in store include hula dancing, Chinese dragon dancing, curry-tasting, Peking duck and crispy pancakes. Let’s hope they can bring some sunshine back from their travels! |
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In a very special assembly last week children at Wellington Junior School learned how Hero rats are trained to find land-mines in various parts of the world. Following their charity speeches when Year 5 children had to give a presentation to the whole school to persuade the pupils to select their chosen ‘good cause’, Hero rats was one of those chosen. Steve, a keeper from Exmoor Zoo, brought a Hero rat for all the children to see. He told them lots of interesting and sobering facts. They discovered that there are 110 million of these devices buried in over 60 countries. Each 20 minutes someone, often children wanting to play in the fields, is killed or injured. Steve then gave a practical demonstration. Mr McFaul, Headmaster was invited to walk over a land-mine – fortunately it was not a real one! He confessed to being a little anxious! The keeper then ‘trained’ six year 5 pupils to recognise which ‘smells’ meant treats. Real hero rats are rewarded for smelling explosives. Their treat is a piece of banana. Hero rats are also very efficient as they can cover an area of 100m² in 30 minutes which is about what a man can cover in a day. You can find out more on line by logging on to www.herorat.orgThe hero rats can be visited at certain times of the year -when they are not working abroad- at Exmoor Zoo. |
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Behind the scenes at Sainsbury's Nursery children had a wonderful visit to Sainsbury’s in Taunton. They met the baker, saw the machines that mixed dough and made the bread. We shivered inside the freezer room and saw the trucks and boxes behind the scenes. It was interesting to see the fresh fish counter and look at the different shapes and colours, as well as the eyes and scales. We looked at the different fruits and vegetables and learnt some names of the more unusual ones. All the children were able to have a go at using the till, looking carefully for the bar code and listening for the bleep. The most exciting part was using the machine that puts the jam inside the doughnuts! Finally the children ate their doughnuts and some exotic fruit. A huge thank you to all the staff at Sainsbury’s in Hankridge Farm in Taunton and especially to Mrs Petrich for organising the visit. |
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Traditional Tales in the Nursery Nursery children are focusing on Traditional Tales this term, starting this week with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Role play areas in both classrooms have been transformed into the bears’ cottage with bear costumes, masks and wigs making it difficult to tell who was who ……! The children have enjoyed making porridge – very welcome on cold, wet mornings – and exploring the internet for games and activities connected with the story. |
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Year 5 choir children with musical support from Wellington Junior School’s Director of Music Rachel White sang a medley of traditional and contemporary versions of carols for the residents of Chelston Park Nursing Home. We visit the home every year, and it was very exciting to be able to sing both in the original building and in the new wing this year. The children sang beautifully and enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards (they were particularly impressed when they discovered that some of the people they were talking to were 100 years old!). Thanks to the staff for their welcome refreshments, and to Dennis for driving us there. |
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Many people reading the school calendar at the start of the year would have been intrigued to see the following phrase, ‘Staff, Parent and Peris’ rehearsals to start’. All became clear as the term went on and invitations to perform ‘The Inn Crowd’ started to appear in Janus, the weekly newsletter and around school. Mrs Rachel White, Director of Music brought together people keen to bring very differing degrees of experience to a Choral and Orchestral Production. Staff from Junior and Senior schools, governors, families and friends worked together to support the Junior School Choir as they performed ‘The Inn Crowd’. Not only was the audience on the night full of proud family members, young and old, but the composer of the piece, Roger Jones had heard that it was to be performed by children as young as 6 and was keen to hear the results. He was suitably impressed as Orchestra, Adult and Junior School Choirs and soloists came together to produce an amazing telling of the Christmas Story. It was a wonderful experience for all those involved and an uplifting performance for all those lucky enough to have been there. We all await plans for next year’s project! |
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As we move ever closer to Christmas, things are really hotting up at Wellington Junior School. Rehearsals have given way to actual performances and haven’t the children done themselves and everyone else proud! It is a very special time of year when the innocent enthusiasm of the children and the powerful simplicity of the Christmas story reach those parts few things seldom touch! I never cease to be amazed at how brilliantly the pupils rise to the challenge of being on stage, delivering their lines and singing their songs with such confidence. The children in both Key Stage 1 and Early Years managed to draw a few tears from the audience with their moving performances. Congratulations to pupils and staff who rehearsed so thoroughly in the previous weeks. The obvious enjoyment of how much the Christmas shows have meant to them can be seen on the children’s faces. We were all delighted to welcome parents, grandparents and friends to the various performances Finding new and innovative ways of telling an age-old story that everyone knows – or thinks they know – is never easy, so it was doubly delightful to watch two versions of the Nativity story told with great gusto, wonderful humour and yet tremendous sensitivity during the week when children in the lower part of the school took to the stage to perform “The Bossy King” and “The Bethlehem Boottee Company” or BBC for short! |
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The final scores after eight gruelling rounds – and the tie-breaker - from the demanding quizmasters were as follows: Pioneer 73 Galileo 72 Apollo 66 Viking 64½ Thanks to Mr Lawrenson and Mr Hitchin for devising the questions and Mr Savage for the technical wizardry to make it all possible. |
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This week saw the children in Early Years present their fantastic Christmas production, ‘The Bossy King’ . The children gave their all and impressed us all – and parents and grandparents – with their beautiful singing and confident speaking! Everyone who watched was very proud, particularly as the youngest children have only been in school for a matter of weeks. Well done to everyone – and Happy Christmas! |
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Children in Year 3 classes have been doing some interesting work on healthy eating. They have been looking at what they eat, how it is presented, its composition and food value. They then went on to select and plan either a sandwich, using different types of bread, or a salad, using various ingredients for a specific age of person, considering their particular needs to give a balanced diet. This was followed by the really fun part - a practical session! During this session they actually set about preparing the ingredients and assembling the final product. There were all sorts of combinations proposed – some of which definitely got the thumbs down!! At the end they got to taste their handiwork and assess whether they had been successful. Above you can see an example of the very colourful results! |
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Pupils from Year 1 through to Year 6 (who we don’t see much of as they are in the Senior School) enjoyed fantastic team challenges during our recent Happy Puzzle Day. They had to work together to solve a variety of riddles and puzzles throughout the day. We knew that the day had been an enormous success as we heard all the stories in the playground and at lunch time. There was a particularly lively and purposeful atmosphere in school all day and the children were still buzzing as they took their parents into the Sale in order to carry out some Christmas shopping!
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 The Reception Classes at Wellington Junior School showed us what they have managed to fit in to their days, in spite of all the glitter and excitement about next week’s Christmas performance! Whilst they’ve been exploring their topic of Light and Dark, they have learned an enormous amount about the Solar System. The role play corners have been space stations (‘for people not aliens’, we learned), maths lessons have seen children creating fantastic 2D pictures of rockets and 3D models of space men and rockets and they entertained us all with a very lively version of ’10 Little Spacemen’! Well Done everyone… |
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On Thursday morning the atmosphere at WJS was rather tense as the Year 5 finalists prepared to present their chosen charities to KS1 & KS2 pupils. The six finalists had done a great deal of research into their chosen area and in their talks exhibited not only their knowledge of their specialist subjects but also their dexterity and expertise in handling modern technology. Below you can see (left to right) Lucy Edward, Kit, Barnaby, William and Eve who talked about charities as varied as Dorset Wildlife Trust, Send-a-cow, World Vision, International Animal Rescue, Hero rats and Playpumps International. Each of them spoke with passion and insight and then answered impromptu questions at the end of the presentation prior to a vote. The end result was a narrow win for Barnaby’s ‘Save the Bears’ - International Animal Rescue -but because of the closeness of the totals we have decided to support each of the charities to some extent. Well done to all concerned. It was a superb occasion! We now need to raise lots of money for all these worthwhile causes. |
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Nursery have enjoyed celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali this week. The children sampled a delicious array of Indian foods including samosas, naan bread and basmati rice as part of the Indian banquet from the Show Spice Restaurant in Wellington . They then put this experience to good use in our own Indian Restaurant role play, dressing up in saris to take orders from customers! Other activities included making diwa lamps from clay, experimenting with coloured rice and making our own Mendhi hands. Mr McFaul called in to show us his beautiful Indian coat, slippers and trousers and, with Mrs Nicholls modelling a sari, gave the children a lovely introduction to this important festival. |
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Year 1 pupils were very excited about their long-awaited trip to Wookey Hole. They were amazed by the size of the caves! They were thrilled to wear special safety reflective jackets for their tour underground as they heard a mixture of fact and legend about the caves from their guide. Photography was not quite as easy as on the surface but here we can see the children looking at the stalactites. |
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On Friday Mrs Hester and Mrs Lawrenson, assisted by LSAs and a band of parent helpers took the Nursery children up to the Wellington Monument for their special Guy Fawkes treat of sausages and sparklers. The children enjoyed a walk in the sunshine looking at the autumn leaves, acorns and berries before tucking into delicious farm reared pork sausages. They were also learning how to keep save as they explored their environment. The children enjoyed working together as they learned about traditions and customs, at this special time of year Needless to say in the midst of all this exciting learning a great time was had by all! Thanks to everyone who helped. |
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Children in Reception are learning about light and dark, the sky, planets and stars. Miss Murray and Mrs Brooks have made transformed the role play area into a fantastic rocket (as you can see in this picture) while Mrs Needs, Mrs Newsham and Miss Opie have turned their role play area into Outer Space with stars and planets dangling from the night canopy. The children have had great fun making and decorating stars of all sizes and colours – but mostly with lots of glitter. There will be lots of sparkle and twinkling in the days ahead, I’m sure! |
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When Scrumpy came to visit. Children in the Nursery gave a very warm welcome to the vet, Mr Caygill from the Mount Veterinary Hospital and his very lovely dog, Scrumpy when they came to visit! Mr Caygill is also known as Sammy’s daddy and, ably assisted by Mrs Caygill, the children enthusiastically bandaged Scrumpy’s paws, looked closely at a muzzle and a bull’s nose ring and tried to guess what they were for! Lots was learned about caring for animals and the very important job that a vet does. Many thanks to Mr and Mrs Caygill – and to Scrumpy for being such a great patient! |
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Reception Issy Piper, Zoe Holland Year 1 Abi Norman, Verity Vance Year 3 Thomas Piper, Amy Bennett Year 5 Alex Piper, Tara Phillips, William Mitchell |
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Ella and Dylan Leonard’s Grampy is famous for his giant pumpkins and he sent in three this year. |
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 Nursery Visit the Vets!Nursery classes had a marvellous trip to the vets this week when they took Sam, the lovely Nursery rabbit to have his annual injections. The children walked beautifully through town to the Mount Vet Hospital and were fascinated to see several dogs and a cat arrive to see the vet whilst we waited our turn! Sam was very well behaved as the vet gave him his jabs and also checked his teeth and claws. Our visit fitted really well into our activities linked to pets and vets and particularly with the vets surgery role play in each classroom. Our thanks to The Mount for making us so welcome! Also this week, we have been visited by Mrs Perry’s ducklings, Toby ‘s puppy, Lilly Spike’s gecko, Wicky and Sammy’s daddy, Mr Caygill the vet! Thank you to everyone! |
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They all started the curse with pristine white tee-shirts which gradually became dirtier as the challenges increased and at the end were a murky brown - beyond even the stoutest efforts of the very best of washing powders! The team members recounted their efforts in Celebration Assembly just before Half-term and received their superb individual medals which had been presented to them at the end of the event. Any further sponsorship or donations will be passed on to the charity mentioned above. However congratulations are due to our team of intrepid ladies on their tremendous achievement. |
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On Monday morning Rev. Hellier led our annual Harvest Festival in the School Chapel when the children in Years 1-5 presented baskets of fruit, vegetables and other food items at the start of the service. Special mention must be made of Holly Buckley and Harry Acton who sang solo verses – Harry’s solo was in Hebrew! The other half of the donations were sent to the Taunton Women’s Refuge. Sincere thanks to those parents and friends who so kindly donated food items. |
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On Thursday morning Mr George Moody came to school Assembly and told children in KS2 about Wellington’s most famous historical inhabitant who died 400 years ago in June 1607. Suitably dressed as Privy Counsellor to King James 1, Mr Moody gave an interesting mixture of facts and legends about Sir John and told his young audience that Sir John was Chief Justice at the time of the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh and Guy Fawkes. |
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Nursery Wellie Walk to Langford Common 
Muddy boots and damp trousers were all part of the fun when Nursery went to Langford Common for an autumn walk! Mrs Lawrenson led the way and the treasure bags we took with us were soon full of colourful leaves, shiny acorns and knobbly fir cones. Along the way, we spotted funghi, beautiful cobwebs and even – we think – some deer tracks! We were very pleased to have Toby’s mummy, Mrs Hodges with us - and of course, Lilly the puppy! Since we got back, the children have been using a Circle Map to think about what we saw. Please do take a look - it is displayed on the board outside Mrs Eaton-Jones’s office. |
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'Make a Difference Day'
Sainsbury’s came in to meet Year 1 on their 6th ‘Make a Difference Day’. They brought us in a cookery kit, DVD and some delicious sandwich ingredients. The kit included chopping boards, aprons and a wide variety of utensils for the children to learn how to use. The children are busy preparing sandwiches to show us all how delicious healthy eating can be. All our thanks to Mrs Petrich and the staff at Sainsbury’s for their generous gift. |
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First Nursery Outing!
The climbing frame train was a great favourite, as were the swings and the roundabout. There was an extra bonus as the Big Top was up in the park for the visiting circus and we enjoyed wondering what was inside………. The children enjoyed the walk back through the park and we saw a beautiful swan and cygnets and a very tame squirrel. We are looking forward to climbing aboard Dennis’s bus again soon. |
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Staff in the Nursery have been welcoming new children and their parents to WJS for the first time this week and it has been a delight to see how happily they are settling in!
The children have enjoyed exploring their new surroundings, making friends with Sam, the Nursery rabbit and meeting Mr Savage and Mrs White for ICT and Music sessions – all with big smiles! Best of all, they are already very good at being good listeners and clever sitters!
We are already looking forward to our first outing to Vivary Park next week, traveling on the Bus and meeting our driver, Dennis.
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Early Years thoroughly enjoyed a Pirates and Princesses Celebration Day which, as you can see from the photograph, was deemed to be a great success. Many thanks to all who made costumes, painted faces and generally entered into the spirit of the day. Mrs Hester looked great in her tiara! And Mrs Horne was a scary pirate! |
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Nursery Strawberry Picking Nursery children enjoyed good weather for their trip to Thurloxton Fruit Farm last week to pick strawberries! The staff there were most welcoming, encouraging the children to sample raspberries, tayberries, loganberries and blackcurrants as well as strawberries! It has to be said that strawberries remained firm favourite with most of the children! Many thanks to all at Thurloxton for allowing us to visit and to our parent helpers for accompanying us.  |
All Aboard! 
Cheque presentation to Force
Nursery Fair trade Fun!
When I remember Kilve lots of lovely thoughts pop into my head. I enjoyed all of the activities but my favourite one by far was the slimy, sewagey, gross, smelly stream walk on Tuesday.
saw them eating some food. In the morning we woke 
up and had some breakfast. After that we went straight into the activities. Firstly I did grass sledging, secondly I did Pond dipping, after that was the stream walk and finally I did the fantasy trail. I nearly forgot, after pond dipping we had lunch and it was scrumptious.
commentated sheep-shearing demonstration of two sheep in the playground!
Nursery visit Vivary Park
The WJS Skiing trip: Prato Nevoso 2008
Year 1 visited Pennywell Farm
Beatrice Cross
and choreography skills of Roger Hitchin and the singing direction of Rachel White. 
Dr Yates Visit to nursery
Nursery Classes celebrate St David’s Day 
Golden Leaf certificates were presented to the following children in assembly this morning. 
The St Valentine blush!
Beat Manager visits Wellington Junior School
Lion dance is a big hit with children! 
Science in action. 
Nursery children and staff have enjoyed celebrating Shrove Tuesday this week with a feast of pancakes! Children The children learned how the tradition of making pancakes stems from the using up of special ingredients before the beginning of the season of Lent. Pancake batter was enthusiastically made and the children chose their favourite fillings.
Reception children go on World Tour
Hero rats
Year 5 sing carols at Chelston
The Inn Crowd at Wellington Junior School
Christmas is coming!
The House Quiz on Tuesday afternoon was very hotly contested by everyone in Years 3-5 in the four houses – so closely in fact that we had joint winners in Galileo and Pioneer with only a couple of points separating Apollo and Viking. The tie-breaker was nail-biting, as you can imagine! Questions came thick and fast and tested the brain cells to their limit!
Nursery and Reception Christmas Celebration – The Bossy King! 
Year 3 budding chefs!
The Happy Puzzle Day
Year Five speak out in support of others!
Nursery Celebrate Diwali!
Year 1 children take a trip underground!
Nursery ‘sausage sizzle and exploration’ at Wellington Monument
Reception classes take off for outer space! 
Golden leaf winners for the first half of Autumn Term 2007 are seen here:
The Giant Pumpkin!
Members of staff as you’ve never seen them before!
Our Harvest Gifts 
Sir John Popham visits WJS 
Kiran Wins Orienteering Competition by 13 Minutes!
Nursery children enjoyed their first outing of the year to Vivary Park this week. It was very exciting to climb onto the big bus and meet Dennis our friendly driver!
Early Years ‘Pirates and Princesses’