cooking with Star Anise. Year 1

have successfully completed their

first swimming lesson – all the

adults came back saying how

brilliant they all were. Thank you

Year 1. Year 6 are set to build their

Goblin racing go-karts after raising

nearly £900 towards them. Their

first race is towards the end of

May and we are lucky to have a

couple of Dyson Engineers coming in

to help!

A big thank you to Mrs Purchase

and Mrs Wingfield who spent many

days of the Easter holidays helping

to put the brand new sound and

lighting system into the school hall.

We now have a fantastic £10,000

system all linked together and easy

to use! We look forward to the

Drama Club’s first performance

with the new equipment in a few

weeks time with their performance

of Poptastic. Tickets available now

for the two nights.

The new clubs list is out today,

please encourage your children to

join in and try as many clubs as

possible. There are also many

opportunities to represent the

school during the summer so do get

along to the clubs.

Our next Parent Forum is on the

29th April at 2.45pm where we will

provide an update on the Food

Education Project, including the

lunch menus, plus also take the

chance to agree some guideline for

healthy packed lunch boxes. There

will be a chance to raise other

topics or concerns. All Parents are

welcome to come along and the

Governors and I look forward to

working with you.

The children have been challenged

this weekend to practise service in

the kitchen at home; learning to

wash up, lay the table, fill the dish

VALUES

DIARY DATES

Nailsworth C of E Primary School Nympsfield Road, Nailsworth, Glos. GL6 0ET. Phone 01453 832382 Fax 01453 836348 Email admin@nailsworth.gloucs.sch.uk; head@nailsworth.gloucs.sch.uk

Web nailsworthschool.org.uk

Newsletter Date 15th April 2016

Head’s message

APRIL 18th Summer Clubs Start Drum Lessons 11—1.30pm Mindfulness Y4 & Y3 Chess in Y4 2.20—3.15pm 19th Piano lesson CANCELLED now on Friday 22nd Cluster Year 2 Multi Sports Skills here at school 1-3pm 20th Y1 Swimming 8.20—10.30 Guitar Lessons 10:45—12:05pm

21st Mindfulness Y3 & Y4 Celebration Assembly No Y4 2:50pm Y5/6 Inside Football Final 3.30—6pm 22nd Piano lessons 24th Rehearsal for Drama Performance 10-4pm in Hall 26th Drama Performance 7pm 27th Drama Performance 7pm 29th Parent Forum 2.45pm MAY 2nd Bank Holiday 3rd Grammar Awareness for Parents KS1 & KS2 3.30—4.30 9—12th Y6 SAT Tests 25th KS2 Swimming Gala 9—11 26th KS1 Drama Club Performance 2:30pm 27th Last day of Term 5 JUNE 6th INSET Day 7th First Day Term 6 17th McMillian Cancer Fundraiser 20th Class & Leavers Photographs 21st Pulsar Games Y4,5 & 6 Sports Spiritual Discovery 9-12pm

Our Christian Values this term will focus on:

Service

It has been lovely seeing everyone

since the Easter break. We have had

an energetic start to the summer

term with lots of children taking up

the challenge of running a marathon

over the next 13 weeks – some

children are attempting the

ultra-marathon, a whopping 100 miles!

Thanks to an idea from Finley in

Year 3, some children are taking home

a marathon record sheet to add the

miles they run at home, so if you wish

to join in please ask for a sheet. A

number of children are getting a few

laps in at the start and end of the day

– please make sure that your children

are safe when crossing the car park

at this time as this is the normal

route of the track. For those unsure -

four laps make a mile!

Our Christian value this term is

Service – we have been learning about

the person who has the greatest

talent or skill, whatever that may be.

That person should become the

servant by teaching others and giving

what they have. We are, therefore,

looking at who is using their talents to

help others and I am looking forward

to giving out many Service badges

this term. Please remember that if

your son or daughter demonstrates

any of the school values at home,

please let us know and we are more

than happy to present them with a

badge in school. They can

demonstrate the value in relation to

themselves, others around them or

through contributing to the

community or world.

This term Year 3 and Year 4 will be

part of a pilot project around

Mindfulness - the ability to be a

master of that crazy little voice that

constantly yaps away in our mind and

our reactions to life – great life skills

to have! Year 2 will enjoy a musical

project with Groove On and will begin

washer, empty the dish washer, clean and

chop the veg, make a cake! Have fun!

Have a great weekend, enjoy the running!

Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Beacons

Invitation to Attend the Lighting of North Cheltenham’s Beacon, Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Dr,

Cheltenham GL52 3JE.

Thursday, 21st April. 8.00pm for 8.20pm – 9pm

During the evening of Thursday, 21st April, Cheltenham will be joining over a thousand other towns, villages and communities throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, UK Overseas Territories and a Commonwealth Country in lighting beacons to celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen. HRH The Prince of Wales will invite Her Majesty The Queen to light the Principal Beacon at Windsor Castle. This will be followed by the lighting of other beacons at Windsor, followed by the lighting of beacons at the top of the four highest peaks

in the UK at 7.15pm.

Led by the Mayor of Cheltenham, Councillor Duncan Smith, the lighting of Cheltenham’s beacon for the north of the town will take place at The Pittville Pump Room at 8.30pm,

preceded by a short ceremony at 8.20pm.

On behalf of The Trustees of the Cheltenham Trust, I am delighted to extend a warm invitation to join us in celebrating this historic occasion in the beautiful surroundings of The Pittville Pump Room and Pittville Park.

The Pittville Pump Room bar will be open during the event and light refreshments will be available. I look forward to seeing you on the 21st April, at what promises to be a memorable and special event. Yours faithfully,

Julie Finch

CEO The Cheltenham Trust

On Thursday

(21st April) Y3

are organising an

Egyptian Themed

Menu at

Lunchtime

A meze of Egyptian

Foods more details

to follow

CLASS NEWS

Rec Class

Monday we brought back out beans that we have been growing

since the Easter Holidays. Violet brought in a tadpole, which

we are looking after, they were frog spawn and they will grown

into big mummy and daddy frogs. We have been counting

backward from 30. We made paper aeroplanes and threw them

to see how far they went, we measured the distance.

By all Reception Class

Y1 Class

We have been swimming and we jumped in the water! We have

also been writing letters to Jack in ‘Jack in the Beanstalk.’

By Raima Ahmed & Cameron Gardiner

Y2 Class

In Maths we played with fractions of shapes, in Art our new

subject is mixing primary colours to make secondary colours.

By Leo Drackett & Joe Arkell

Y3 Class

In Maths we have been doing fractions. In English we have

been doing Kennings Poems and we have been doing Mindfulness.

In Topic we have been doing Ancient Egypt.

Y4 Class

On Monday we started recounts in Literacy. Then we had

some people come in to teach us about Mindfulness and how to

train our brains. In Maths we have looked at measuring. This

term we are learning French which is fun but complicated.

By Maddy Jarman, Katherine Courtney & Nevaya Ostle

Y5 Class

We started the week with a visit from Andy Poole from Psalms,

who talked about his Christian Beliefs. He is also a wrestler

and the WWE Intercontinental Champion! In Maths we have

been studying fractions and we did a test, while in Literacy we

have been doing persuasive writing and making Legoland

Brochures. In Science, we have been learning about

butterflies and frog lifecycles and how they are different.

By Leanne Shaw and Patryk Bedkowski

Y6 Class

This week in Y6 all our writing in English has been based on the

book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by JK Rowling.

We have been writing character descriptions, newspaper

articles, and making changes to the story. We are very busy

as we have SATs in 3 weeks time. In Maths we have been

learning ration and proportion and how it could help us in our

SATs. Ration and proportion sounds hard but it is actually

quite easy.

By Sophie Grant & Morgan Tanner

Y6 Class

Sophie Grant & Morgan Tanner

Y5 Class

Leanne Shaw & Patryk Bedkowski

Y4 Class

Maddy Jarman & Dylan Hartley

Y3 Class

Effie Pope & Matilda Mechan

Y2 Class

Lois Armshaw & Jacob Sutton

Y1 Class

Owen Hynes & Jaydon Moody

Rec Class

Tilly Thompson & Angel-Rose Bliss

Stars of the Week

We would like to celebrate those children who are demonstrating the values that we have covered so far this year, at home. The values are:

THANKFULNESS

TRUST

PERSEVERANCE

JUSTICE

SERVICE.

If your child has demonstrated any

of these values, please write their

teacher a short note about how/when

they demonstrated this value. They

will then be awarded the appropriate

values badge