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Get Together News
By Cerne and Cheselbourne First Schools

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AT THE BRING AND BUY SALE.
At Cerne Abbas School Class 2 did a bring and buy sale for children in need. The school raised £110.59.In the bring and buy sale,we did a raffle the prizes were a scooter,hat and scarf and a box of sweets. One of our stalls was cakes, that the school made. We had 4 other stalls that were Toys, Books, Videos and Puzzles.
HUGO’S GRANDAD
When my Grandad came in to school he told us about doodlebugs. During the war doodlebugs flew over and when it slows down it swoops down and bangs. My granddad once did a naughty thing in the war. He cut his hair and he got told off. All the children wanted to know what his medals meant. When he was little he was in an air raid shelter and he left behind his teddy and it got blown up.
By Hugo
RUNNING BROOD MARE AND FOAL.
On the 6th of December a 3am at prince place one of Mrs Bryer brood mares and her foal open the stable door and trotted down past her friends, Past the house then open a wooden gate. The brood Mare with her foal trotted down a lane leading to the Yeovil main road, Jodie chased after them but they escaped on to the main road. Then onwards we don’t know what happened. The foal was hit by a car and died. The car was crashed, but the people in the car called 999 for help. The brood mare went home safe and sound without her foal.
Jodie
Jodie
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Thursday 11 December 2003

WELCOME TO OUR NEWSPAPER

JOKES
We have some Christmas jokes for you.
Why did Santa get stuck up the chimney?
Because Rudolf got stuck first!
What did Santa say to the mince pie monster?
CHOMP!
What Christmas decoration do boys put in their hair?
anGEL!
what did Mrs Claus say to Mr Claus when she looked out of the window?
Looks like rain-deer!
From Jordan and Matthew
Book Review
HARRY POTTER and the order of the phoenix
The book was excellent. I really thought it was really sad when Sirius Black, his godparent died. If you are reading the 5th Potter book good luck it is a excellent book..
This is the book where Harry Potter gets more angry and more daring and goes on a mission to save his is godparent But his godparent dies trying to save him.
Jamie Manor Park

CHRISTMAS BANGER
St Marys first school are getting ready to dance, dance, dance at there Christmas party.
St Marys are really looking forward to playing the games,seeing Santa and having the food. The year ones and twos get to see santa but he leaves presents for the older ones.They get delicious things to eat such as grapes, sandwiches, crisps, sausages and more.
We go to school at St Marys. We’re in year four.
WELL COOL
The children of St Marys said the games were BRILL! Miss Clayton our teacher said "I love the the games they’re COOL!"
Lets Party!
Music lessons started a few weeks after term began.
Music lessons are happening at St. Marys. Pupils from year 4 are attending them. These music lessons contain learning the Guitar, keyboard, piano, saxophone and flute and much, much more.
Short brown haired pianist Emily said "music lessons are great I'm enjoying learning the piano".
Great
Music lessons are great everyone is enjoying what they are learning.

FOOTBALL CRAZY!
A tournament was held at Milborne School. It was on Tuesday the 18th of November 2003. The Cerne Abbas Team was Henry, Will, Alex, Daisy,David, Joe, Pearce and Cieran. Charlie was the coach and Mrs Riley was the manager. The tournament was held for league A and B. There was a pitch for league A and one for league B. The winners went to the top of their league.
The first match for Cerne was victory! Alex scored a brilliant goal, it hit the back of the net so hard that the goalkeeper got scared! Henrys goal was just by chance. Henry was flying round the pitch shouting for joy. Milborne won against Cerne by one goal. That was the only game Cerne had lost. Cerne found out that they had WON the tournament! They were amazed and tired out.
LOCAL BOY SCORES WINNER!!!!
The Cerne supporters go bananas as the team comes home to winners Alex, Henry and Pearce scored the goals that will go down in football history! The yellow shirt is a lucky one in Cerne’s point of view; they don’t know what’s in store for them when they get home!!
The coach is definitely over the moon!! How the team celebrated when they had won. The team was a bit confused about the points though! The fantastic event is not only about promoting the individual players skills But the whole teams as well. The team have made a huge improvement in the past two tournaments. They need an inch more improvement and then they will be perfect!!
Alex
CRICKET MANIA
On Friday the 5th of December class two went over the road to learn new cricket techniques. David, William, Henry and Cieran did brilliant with their hitting and catching.
The wicket they used was different from normal. They had a wicket with a small cone on top with a ball on the cone. They had to hit the ball off the cone and hit the fence.
They all had a great time.
David

Sports News

On the 11th day December Cerne Abbas school and Cheselbourne school got together to make a dasp newspaper.
Year 4 go Celtic Mad! A report by Matthew
Year 4 go Celtic crazy as they travel back in time to the iron age and discover the way the Celts lived a long time ago. Pippa showed Year 4 how to make string, die wool and grind wheat to flour on the saucer, a bun grinding stone, a saddle stone and a quern. I had to use a large stone and a small stone to grind the grain into flour.
On the making string we use the fibres of a stinging nettle. Samuel and me spun the fibres into string. First we split it into three groups it took two children to do the job. Second one person spun one way the other the opposite way and then I put them together and then we straightened it and tie a knot at the end. To die the wool Year 4 had to fluff it up then push the wool gently into the die. If you want to go and have a great day go to New Barn, it’s recommended.

Year 4 get sent back in time
A report by Emilie
All of Year 4 went on a trip to New Barn Field Centre. We went on the Tuesday the 7th October to learn more about the Celts. First of all we did some grinding flour on stones. The stones were called saddle stone and just a rider stone and a stone that was called the quern stone. It was hard work but all of Year 4 had a go on the grinding the flour.
We all had to lie back on the Celt roof and we smelt of smoke but the helper did not have to it was not fair and half of Year 4 had to lie and dry roof and the other half had to lie on wet roof. We all had to go inside the Celt house with a real fire and the floor was all dusty and it was very dark. The only light we had was the fire. The door was left open so that was another bit of light but it was still a bit dark. The lady told us that the Celts would live like this with just the fire and the door when it was opened. We stayed in there for a bit and then we came out and it was nice be out in the fresh air.
Drama Club’s Play
Drama club are doing a play called Shh Santa. Drama club is on Thursday. It is run by Miss Roberts for year 4 children. We have made a sleigh and a costume for Santa and the reindeers. We wrapped presents and put them in the sleigh. Craig thinks it is a good idea to do a play for the nursery children. Poppy thinks it is a sweet idea to do a play for the nursery children. We would like to thank miss Roberts for bringing drama into are lives.

FANTASTIC SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES
In science and Humanities we are learning about volcanoes.
St Marys school year 4
In Science and Humanities were learning about volcanoes and how under the earth
is like baked beans .The earths crust is as thin as an egg shell and right in the middle
it is solid metal .Outside the solid metal is like baked beans and how you get
Volcanoes or explosions is underneath us it looks for a place to explode
and that's how you get volcanoes explosions .
WOW!
Chloe said "it was scary, exciting and full of education and she could not take her
eyes off the television .
Miss Clayton said "I loved teaching it".
HOW TO GET HEALTHY
1. Run around the school 7 times each day and round your house 3 times - quietly !!!!
2. Bring in healthy snacks like:
· Raisons
· Carrots
· Celery
· Sultanas
· Apples
· Grapes
· Oranges
3. Carry on eating healthy ‘stuff’ outside of school
4. You need to drink lots of water to keep healthy.
5. Skipping is good for you. It puts a lot of effort, its really good for you. vegtbels and fuit to keep you fit and healthy its really good for you.
Always wash your hands after you go to the loo or wash your hands before you eat.
Vegetable soup
Ingredients
3l stock
8 tomatoes
4 potatoes
3 courgettes
4 parsnips
8 carrots
1 swede
1 leek
2 onions
salt and pepper to taste
You will need: A knife, a large saucepan, cooker ,hotplate, chopping board, large spoon, bowl and apron.
Method
Chop the vegetables. Put the vegetables in a bowl.
Make the vegetables stock by crumbling cubes into the water.
Put the vegetables in the saucepan.
Bring to the boil. Simmer for 30 minuites
Enjoy.
May and Liam

Spy Watch
As part of our WWII project we have been watching Spy Watch on TV and reading the books. This is the story.
Three children, Dennis, Mary and Norman, were sent away to the countryside because of the bombing in London. Two of the boys stayed with a lady called Aunt Amy. She was nice. Mary went to stay in an enormous, grand house but the people who lived there were very nasty to her.
By Greg
Polly showed the boys around the farm because they didn’t know anything about the country. She taught them how to pick up eggs and to milk the cows. They got fed up so they jumped over the gate and raced across the field and landed in a cows field and went to sleep. They woke up trapped by cows - there was no escape. The boys were scared but Polly walked straight though the cows. Grainger, who lived at the manor house, came to Wells Farm. He wanted to get money from Aunt Amy. The boys hid behind Grangers car. He also wanted to buy Wells Farm but Aunt Amy wouldn’t let him. He said “Leave the farm, you can’t look after all the animals” he shouted.
Jennifer
Mary heard Grainger outside so she crept over to the window and saw Grainger going, very secretively down a little lane. Mary didn’t know where he was going. The next day Polly and Dennis were picking mushrooms when suddenly a German plane flew overhead. They looked up as the plane came crashing down.
Lauren
The German pilot escaped from the plane and hid in Grainer’s greenhouse. He gave his gun to the children and they hid it in a box. Suddenly Grainger appeared “What’s all this then?” he said. “Don’t shoot” Norman said. “ What makes you think it will be him I’ll shoot” said Grainger. The next day Grainger went out and Mary followed him. A truck came to a quarry. They went through the quarry and they saw Grainger. He nearly hit them. Mary, Norman, Polly and Dennis saw a truck and Mary and Norman ran to West Borne Hall. Mary kicked Grainger in the leg. He threw Norman and Mary in a wooden shed .Dennis set them free. Mike, an American soldier and the MP’s caught Grainger and Miss Millington. Norman went back to London with his mum and Mary went to stay with Aunt Amy.
Christopher

We all went to Scaplen’s Court for a day to experience what life was like in WWII.
We had a go in the olden day school. We were sitting on old wooden desks. It was really hard to write . We were writing with nibs. We had to dip our nibs in ink pots. We wrote a little letter back to home. We had to go up to the blackboard and write a word on it. I spelt air raid wrong. I spelt it like this are raid the teacher told me off very badly. When I got back to my desk I sat on my gas mask box. We had to do our hand writing in sand boxes. She called our surnames out instead of our christian names.
By Daisy
Make do and mend We found out uses for old things.
MATS FOR AIR RAID SHELTERS
1. You need: old material, scissors and someone who can plait.
2. Cut three strips of material.
3. Tie a knot on one end.
4. One person holds the knotted end (possibly the person who can’t plait) the other person plaits.
5. Collect all plaits, coil them and stitch together.
6. End.
This is nice and warm in the morning as you sometimes stay in the air raid shelter all night!
By Alice
COOKING
We had on costumes from the 2nd World War. We saw a ration book. Ration means there is a shortage of food .We came with gas mask boxes and name labels. We made things like date jam and banana spread also we made pancakes and oatmeal scones. We slapped the jam and banana spread on to what was called the national bread. The banana spread was made from parsnips .The jam was the best spread and the oatmeal scones were the best baking.
By Ben
Evacuees
We pretended to be evacuees. Mrs Wheatley blew the whistle and we went to our special place, which was under the stairs. When the all clear sounded it was safe to come out from under the stairs and we played a game. The game was where you had to run around and shout “fire fire” and when you got to the fire brigade they got the hose and put the fire out.
I think the day was fun and I learnt some stuff .
Jacob

SCAPLEN’S COURT MUSEUM

STEPS GALA 2003
On Saturday 15th November west Dorset warriors swimming club held their steps gala at the Thomas Hardy leisure centre, Dorchester. About seventy swimmers were waiting for the races to begin. The teachers came to tell the swimmers which races they were in and the man with the starting machine began the first race. They were off! The strokes that they did were backstroke, front crawl, butterfly and breaststroke. In the breast stroke Arabella came third in step 1,while her older sister Sophie shot up to a super first place in step 4.Matthew, seven swam so well he got a first in front crawl, swimming with the Minnows. Sophie dived off brilliantly and swam fifty meters of front crawl .The Steps were Minnows, step 1, step 2 and all the way up to step 6. About 50 parents came to watch the gala, which started at 5’oclock and ended at about 8’oclock.Everyone was enjoying them selves .Nevertheless some people were getting a bit tired so we ended it wit a big clap and the swimmers got a lolly and a certificate.
Arabella
AT ST MARYS SCHOOL WE HAVE A PLAY SCHOOL CALLED HAYCORNS. CHILDREN UNDER FIVE ARE ALLOWED TO COME.YOU COULD HAVE A LUNCH TIME CLUB. IN HAYCORNS WE HAVE APLAY HOUSE AND A SAND PIT. FOR SUMMER THEY HAVE PLAY CARS.TO GO DOWN THE HILLS YOU COULD HAVE FUN. IN SIDE YOU COULD PAINT AND PLAY WITH BRICKS. HAYCORNS STARTS AT 9 0 CLOCK IF YOU STAY FOR LUNCH CLUB IT STARTS A12 0 CLOCK AND IF YOU STAY FOR THE WHOLE DAY IT ENDS AT 3 .15 PM
Our Magnificent WWII Play
The play we did was great. The play started in the city. Leia was mum and Christopher was dad.
Nicola and Hugo were their children - they adored each other.
Mum interrupted the children’s game to say they needed to have a serious conversation. The children were devastated when they heard that they had to go to the country
side. They arrived at the station to be evacuated to the countryside.
They reached Cheselbourne village hall, where they were going to stay. People were coming to choose which child they would like. Miss Clark was terrifying. She didn’t want a boy, someone big that would eat too much. She had a nice house and she did not want someone spoiling it. She was very fussy. The warden told her she had to have one so he chose a small, quiet, nice little girl for her!!
We sang lots of lively war songs to cheer everyone up.
By Leia and Nicola
Alexanders are Great!
In Ancient Greece, Alexander led many armies of Macedonia into battle,
He became King after his father Philip King of Macedonia and Olympia, was murdered at a relatives funeral and Alexander succeeded him as King.
He was just twenty years old.
Alexander did not have to reorganise the Macedonian army-that had already been done by his father Philip.
Alex