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15/11/18 UPDATE: Check out our new Sports Captain Video for more reasons why we need your votes!!

Here at Herne, we are really keen to promote healthy lifestyles (even if we like the odd cake!) and to achieve this we’d love to put an all-weather running track around the perimeter of our school field.  This track would be about 1.5 metres wide and 500 metres long.  This means that twice around the track would be a 1 km run.  For some of our children, they would be encouraged to walk before taking up running, but this will help the school to tackle childhood obesity, something that affects a large number of children at Herne.

This is likely to cost the best part of £50,000 and is a huge investment for our school and children in the local community, not least the junior runners in the RunnyHoneys group.  We are grateful for their help and their mission to achieve this fantastic facility and have this based at Herne and we really need your help to make this dream a reality!  A community grant is available through Aviva but to stand a chance of getting a huge contribution from them, we have to get as many votes as possible.  Follow this link and add your votes (each person can vote 10 times) to the 5,344 votes that we have received so far.  There is also a Crowd Funding section where we have already raised £780.  We can do this if you spread the word and register your vote.  There’s also a handy ‘How to’ video on the link to show you how to go about supporting this project.  

https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/4-1754

Thank you so much to everyone who supported the idea of throwing Mr Markham out of a plane for FitzRoy.  The amount raised, including Gift Aid, amounted to over £1,500!  With such a significant amount above the original target of £1,000, you took Mr Markham to new heights and he actually skydived from 15,000ft, nearly 3 miles up!  See our website for two videos from different camera angles to watch his adventure.  Here is the link:

If you’d still like to make a donation, please click here:   https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/hernejunior-fitzroy

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On Friday 29th June, a group of Year 4 students took part in our annual camp on our school field.  Everyone had a wonderful time toasting Smores and being thoroughly entertained by Mr Jones, our resident fire juggler!  Thank you so much to all the parents who helped in the morning - it made a huge difference!

There are a few more photos available in our Gallery or by clicking here

Year 3 had an amazing Saxon day; the costumes and enthusiasm were outstanding!  They performed in a Rainbow Theatre production, which looked at the end of the Roman occupation and the rise of the Saxons in Britain.

They created their own compositions based on Saxon Gods, made brooches and learnt about Runes. A fantastic day was had by all.

Please click here for more photos.

Over the past few days, a selection of children from Year 3 were given the amazing opportunity to take part in an archaeological dig which is based at Colemore.  They used metal detectors and other tools, to locate and sift  through artefacts and learnt how to sort and classify all the wonderful artefacts found.  More photos can be found here

It was wonderful to see so many of you at last nights' SATs Information evening.  Please click here for a copy of the presentation.