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Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:07pm
We had an amazing time at the Stroud Reading Festival. The children thoroughly enjoyed sitting and listening to the incredibly inspiring Emma Carroll. We are looking forward to diving in and reading her new book ‘The Tales of Truthwater Lake’.
English fun with 'direct speech'
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 2:03pm
This week, we had lots of fun reminding ourselves how to punctuate direct speech. We learnt a super catchy song to help us remember; please ask your child if they can sing it to you! Be warned though it is very catchy!! After this, the children tried turning some text messages between Mrs Barrett and Mrs Ward into direct speech. We then created comic strips around a conversation between two soldiers hiding in the Trojan horse. The children acted their comic strips and then turned them into direct speech to prove that they can now punctate direct speech accurately. What a busy but fun week we had in English!!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 11:42am
Some Christmas reminders:-7th December 2022
Wednesday 7th December – A visit to Stroud Christmas Tree Festival during the day
Thursday 8th December – PTFA Christmas Fair After school in the main school hall – all welcome
Friday 9th December – Christmas Jumper Day Please wear a Christmas jumper/top (sparkly or red/green etc) to school with leggings/jeans etc and silver coins donations for school funds
Monday 12th December – as usual!
**Tuesday 13th December* – Christmas Party Day !
• a.m. Carol Service rehearsal at St Laurence
p.m. Christmas Party afternoon – after lunchtime (end of day time is 3.15pm as usual)
Please bring some party clothes to change into and bring one food donation to share with the class P
• School Lunch should be ordered as usual
Wednesday 14th December: Christmas Lunch for all children – all children need to have pre-ordered their meal or bring a packed lunch 6.00pm Stroud Valley Primary School Carol Service at St Laurence Stroud – all welcome to attend. All children to be at the church in full school uniform by 5.45pm, please
Thursday 15th December: as usual!
Friday 16th December: Last Day of Term – please wear home clothes and bring silver coins for school funds
• end of school day collection as usual at 3.15pm
**Spring Term begins on Wednesday 4th January 2023
Many thanks for your support! Mrs Fathers
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 11:40am
This week we have been refining our group presentation and worked in our groups to create a sequence
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 11:35am
Diamond and Ruby classes enjoyed a great trip to Stroud Library this week. We were given an information talk about how to access fiction and non-fiction texts. Then we got busy taking part in a treasure hunt to find a variety of different titles in the children’s section. We all got the chance to select a book to take home and used the machines to borrow them. After that we had the chance to work in the lab with an “apple piano” made by using our hands to complete a circuit of wires connected to different apples. It was fun to experiment with the different notes and some of Stroud Valley’s budding scientists spotted that the piano would still work if we added extra people’s hands into the circuit. Finally we saw the laser cutter in action and it created cardboard ghosts for us each to take home. Many thanks to Archie and Ollie from Stroud Library for leading our exciting activities.
Our first PE lesson of the new school year
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 11:34am
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:57am
In this term’s Art and Design we are looking at creating self portraits in different media. We used mirrors to check the orientation of each feature and talked about light and shade – we are very proud of the results!
Performing our shapes on the equipment
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:47am
This week we got busy using the gym equipment – can you spot our pencil, star and tuck shapes?
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:45am
This week we have been learning a new stitch – “blanket stitch”. We used felt and coloured thread to create this new stitch. Some of us found threading the needle and tying a knot a challenge so we need lots more practice!
Self portraits using natural materials
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:43am
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:30am
Diamond and Ruby classes enjoyed a great trip to Stroud Library this week. We were given an information talk about how to access fiction and non-fiction texts. Then we got busy taking part in a treasure hunt to find a variety of different titles in the children’s section. We all got the chance to select a book to take home and used the machines to borrow them. After that we had the chance to work in the lab with an “apple piano” made by using our hands to complete a circuit of wires connected to different apples. It was fun to experiment with the different notes and some of Stroud Valley’s budding scientists spotted that the piano would still work if we added extra people’s hands into the circuit. Finally we saw the laser cutter in action and it created cardboard ghosts for us each to take home. Many thanks to Archie and Ollie from Stroud Library for leading our exciting activities.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:21am
Amber Class have been using different materials to create the settings from the Lonely Beast. They have been using charcoal and chalk to make a dark cave; collaging to make a forest scene; bubble printing and ink. We have had a wonderful day and you will all receive an incredible gift at the end of the year.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:19am
Amber Class had a wonderful learning experience at the museum today. We asked some big questions: What is history? What are museums and why do we have them? Who are historians? The children visited different areas of the museum and saw many different collections. They sang songs and rhymes and even dug for artefacts! They were all very well behaved and were true ambassadors of SVCS. A great first trip!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 10:12am
Amber Class welcomed their families into their classroom to make sock puppets of The Lonely Beast. What a lovely way to get together before the festive break!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 8:59am
We had a fab morning with Tamsin from Stroud Valleys project. We had to take the chaff off wheat seeds . mill them into flour. make dough and finally bake bread rolls.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 8:53am
What a fun day we had at The Museum at The Park . We handled old toys, played old fashioned games and made old fashioned toys. We even got to look around the whole museum.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 8:51am
Watch out for Superheroes they are trying to save the school from the rule breakers.
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 8:49am
What a great day we had with Tamsin from Stroud Valley’s project. We were trying to discover how animals keep warm in the winter especially a hedgehog. We made nests.a nd put hot watter bottles inside a puppet hedgehog. We left them to play a game and have hot chocolate. We were surprised how hot they stayed compared with poor BERT who was in the cold.
Date: 22nd Dec 2022 @ 3:10pm
Date: 21st Dec 2022 @ 12:15pm
We were very excited to meet our Year 6 book buddies. Throughout the year we will meet up and read and play together.
Date: 21st Dec 2022 @ 12:12pm
Today we had 15 children in school during our soft start week. Miss Nesbitt read Spinderella to us and then we had fun making our own spiderweb. We had to make sure we didn’t get stuck in our spider web and practised jumping around. We then made our own spiders for the web and practise cutting out.
Date: 21st Dec 2022 @ 11:59am
To finish off our first half term in Sunshine and Rainbow class we had a fun filled morning of Pumpkin soup. The children spent the morning doing lots of different pumpkin themed activities. They made pumpkin soup, wrote a recipe and designed their own pumpkins.
