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

News for this week

DIARY DATES OCTOBER 16th Y3/4 Swimming Guitar Lessons 17th Y5—Evacuation Day Piano Lessons Parents invited into school for lunch KS1 Thrilling Thursday 2.50pm (fortnightly) 18th Y4—Noah's Ark Trip Parents invited into school for lunch Y1 Celebration Assembly 2.30pm—All Parents Welcome 21st Guitar Lessons Marling open evening 22nd Violin Lessons KS1 Welly walk 1.40pm 23rd Y3/4 Swimming School Open morning 9.30am all welcome Guitar Lessons 24th School Photographs — Individual and Family shots Piano Lessons PTFA AGM 3.30pm 25th Last day of Term 1 28th OCT—1st NOV is HALF TERM 28th Psalms Holiday club 10-3 29th Psalms Holiday club 10-3 NOVEMBER 4th INSET Day 5th 1st Day of Term 2 6th School Open morning 9.30am all welcome 7th Shoe box collection 8th PTFA Firework Display 11th Parents evening Y6 Bikeability—All week 12th Parents evening DECEMBER 11th Advent Service St. Georges Church 2.30pm All parents welcome 16th FLU immunisations 18th Christmas lunch KS1 Nativity 6pm 20th Last Day 1.15pm Finish

Date: 16th October 2019 Issue 70

Aldi stickers We have done it! We have completed our poster, so a massive well done and thank you to all for spending your money at Aldi. We will now send off our completed poster to receive new sports kit for school, then we will be entered into a prize draw with the chance to win £20k for school. Watch this space and fingers crossed!

Football Congratulations to the school football teams who played in very wet and muddy conditions on Monday at the Stroud District schools competition. Year 5&6 came 4th in their group stage and Year 3&4 came 2nd and were runners up in the challenge cup competition. A special well done to Harry Hudd who was top scorer with 5 goals!

PTFA - AGM The annual general meeting will be taking place next Thursday 24th Oct at 3.30pm at school, all parents are welcome to go along and attend.

A letter with more details will be coming home today so look out for it.

Harvest service It was lovely to see so many at Harvest service last Friday, a big thank you to those who attended and supported your

children.

Plaques Year 5 went to the Nailsworth archives this week, to meet Mike the archivist responsible for putting up the blue plaques in Nailsworth. You may have noticed these on some older cottages. They are placed on the houses of World War One soldiers who lost their lives in battle. Mike shared information about each soldier with the children including photographs and ranks. The whole class found it fascinating and shared stories about their own ancestors’ involvement in both World Wars. Palko and Jess demonstrated their knowledge of World War One aircraft.

Year 5 are planning to compile all this information into fact files and construct a map showing the location of all the blue plaques in Nailsworth. They will exhibit this information in St Georges Church ready for Remembrance

Day.

Reception We all tried to copy a sentence into our writing books.

We made a human number line from 0-30.

Yesterday we did a half mile walk around the field, This was 2 laps.

Year 1 This week, we have been practising for our worship on Friday and we are very excited to show you. We have been learning to read and spell our tricky words.

Year 2 Seydo and Julia brought in bread which they made at home. It was yummy! Dave from the kitchen has been in to see (and sample) our baking and we are about to start making the sandwich choices ready to have for our school dinners.

Year 3 We finally finished our Guide Dog stories about what it must be like to be a Guide Dog. We are looking forward to meeting a real guide dog soon.

In Maths, we have been learning about column method and how to apply it.

Year 4 This week we have been doing 4 digit + 4 digits in Maths. We have also been writing fact files about ourselves and our town. Miss Jackson is going to take them to South Africa and share them with the local school children.

Year 5 In year 5 we have been doing some tests this week.

In English, we have been writing about WW2.

In Maths, we have been learning about line graphs, it has been fun. We are looking forward to our Evacuation day tomorrow and will tell you all about it next week.

Year 6 This week, Year 6 have started to build their longship in DT using cardboard strips. They will now start their paper mache to make it sturdy. In writing, they have began to publish their work using the Viking runes (the Viking alphabet). This idea was inspired by Max’s homework. In maths, we are consolidating reasoning and learning how to answer tricky questions.

Below are some photos of our Fiver Fest trip last week to town.

Kitchen staff needed…. ‘Colourful Catering’ run by Dave and Alex our school chefs are looking to recruit two new members of staff. These applicants don’t need to be chefs but must have an interest in food and want to learn more.

The first position is for 4-5 hours a day Monday to Friday. A driving licence is necessary to use the company vehicle. Pay will be between £12 -£12.50 per hour depending on any past experience. The position is to start in December.

The second position is for 2-2.5 hours a day Monday to Friday. The days could be 5 a week or 3 a week depending on our rota. Pay will be £8.21 per hour and again a driving licence is essential.

If you are interested in either of these positions please pop in and see Cat in the office and she will forward your details onto ‘Colourful Catering’. Many thanks.

FGR Please see the attached letter from Forest Green Rovers, celebrating their 130th birthday.