NUNNEY First School will be holding its annual Christmas fair this week when it will light up a Christmas tree in what is the school’s 120th anniversary year.
Villagers will put up the ten-foot Christmas tree on Thursday and it will be decorated with pieces made by village pupils and their parents. The tree will then be lit and unveiled at the Christmas fair on Friday, 2nd December.
The school’s Nicola McCormack said, “We are delighted to continue the strong links between the school and local village community.
“The website Visit Nunney was given £1,000 of Christmas lights after it entered a contest last year, and the Nunney Community Association is kindly paying for two trees and the stars to go on top.
“The community is very committed to making strong links between the school and the village as many of the villagers, their children and their grandchildren have attended the school. The event will bring the village and the school together in its 120th year of educating children.
“The school has always been at the heart of the village life and in 2014 it was knocked by a negative Ofsted report, when it was placed into Special Measures. In September this year the school joined The Partnership Trust and become an academy with a new head, Sue Heal.
“Sue has a history of taking failing schools out of the ashes and raising them to Outstanding. Having taken St Mary’s in Kilmersdon from Satisfactory to Outstanding and Hayesdown First School from Special Measures to Good with Outstanding elements in less than two years, she vows to do the same at Nunney.”
Parents are invited to visit the Christmas fair on Friday 2nd from 2.30pm.
