BERKLEY CHURCH OF ENGLAND VA FIRST SCHOOL

All year 3 and 4 have the chance to learn to play the recorder and to learn to play the violin as part of the wider opportunities programme.

Extra gifted and talented opportunities are provide for our children through the Frome Community Learning Partnership.

We also offer enrichment weeks such as Art Week, Multicultural Week, Book Week and Music Week.

We have a bedtime stories or poems evening with cocoa during our book week for  all children to come back to school.

The ethos of the school is such that all people who come in whether staff, pupil, parent or visitor, are valued as individuals in their own right. The spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of the pupils underpin the curriculum

Our three class school caters for a five year age range. The classes are Rabbits, Squirrels and Badgers.

In September 2003 Berkley C of E First School has become Voluntary Aided. The move to VA status has given the governing body more options for funding. The school caters for 92 children between the ages of four and nine. At nine years of age the majority of children transfer to Selwood or Oakfield Middle Schools in Frome, Somerset.

St. Mary's church is situated behind the school. We have collective worship four times a week.