Next week brings a host of events, starting with the school election winning Star Party running the school on Monday – please see separate letter here on page 3; KS 2 being part of the Pulsar games on Wednesday morning and Sports Day on Friday: KS2 10-12.10, family picnic between 12.10 and 1.10pm, followed by KS1 1.10-3pm.

The PTFA are working hard in to prepare for the Summer Fete - Saturday 8th July 12-2.30pm. It sounds amazing with FREE CIRCUS WORKSHOPS AND SHOW!!!! Please come along as it promises to be a great afternoon. Raffle tickets are now available to purchase and to help sell – there are some fantastic prizes including GIFFORDS CIRCUS TICKETS. Please can you sell as many as possible to your friends and family? All proceeds go to the school and the office has more tickets!

If you like gardening and are able to lend a hand on Sunday morning, there is a community group who will be meeting at school to continue the development of the community allotment. We have lots of things to plant, so it is getting vital to establish the raised beds!

Please keep a look out for key events in the diary, there is a lot going on!

Enjoy a cooler weekend!

VALUES

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

Newsletter Date: 23 June 2017 Issue No: 35

A very busy week for all! It started with Year 5 enjoying a fun packed secondary experience at SWR – the science lab was most popular especially burning lots of different substances and ended with Year 5 today visiting the SS Great Britain as part of their Titantic adventure. In between time, Year 1 and Year 3 both excelled along with the school council at helping choose the new teachers for September. Year 4 and 6 had a fantastic art day at the Museum in the Park meeting professional artists whilst our Athletics squad members did us proud.

We are looking at ways of increasing the opportunities for children to learn an instrument and are working with the Local Authority Music hub to provide a broader range of instruments for the children to learn. The children enjoyed the strings professional musician’s little introduction at Thursday’s celebration assembly. We hope enough children are inspired to start a stringed instrument to have the teacher come regularly to school. Next week the drumming teacher hopes to share his talents.

We are pleased to appoint Poppy Baker (Year 1) and Milly Jackson (Year3) who will join us in September. Miss Jackson will be meeting her new class next Tuesday and Miss Baker will be meeting hers in July. We are sure you will make them warmly welcome and enjoy the skills and talents they bring to their classes and the school.

Head’s Message

29th Commoners Cricket Tournament 3.30-5.00 Cont’d New Reception Parents Info Evening 6-7pm 30th SCHOOL SPORTS DAY KS2—10.00-12.10 Parent picnic lunch—12.10-1.30 KS1—1.30-3.00 NO Fencing Club today Y5 Stroud High School Open Morning Reg closes for Grammar School entrance test JULY 6th Y6 Thomas Keble Induction Day 7th Thomas Keble Induction Day 2nd hand uniform sale—Hall Commoners Cricket Tournament 3.30—5.00pm New Reception children in class 9-10.30 8th PTFA Summer Fete 12-2.30pm 10th Sing & Danceathon 7.40am—6pm 11th Y6 SWR Induction Day Y2 Trip to Westonbirt 12th Y6 SWR Induction Day 13th Class moving up morning—9am-12noon Y6 SWR Induction Day Art & Sports Award Evening 6pm 14th KS2 Trip to RAF Fairford New Reception children in class 9-10.30 IN LAST WEEK OF TERM—NO AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS 18th Y6 Performance 6.30—8pm 21st Last Day of Term 6 incudes Leavers Service at 9.30 and Family Picnic at 12.10. School finishes at 1.10pm. SEPTEMBER 6th First Day of Term 1 2017-18

Our Christian Values this term focus on

Friendship

JUNE 25th Help us create raised beds in our Community Garden—10am 26th FUN DAY—no school uniform Drum lessons NO KS1 Hi-Jinks Drama Club today 27th Piano Lessons KS2 District Athletics Stratford Park 5.45pm—7.30pm 28th Year 2 Swimming continues Y5 Marling Open Morning 9-11am Guitar lessons 29th Celebration Assembly 2.50pm All parents/carers welcome Y4 Fit2Last Trip to FGR

CLASS NEWS

Reception Class In Maths we have been doing our first pictogram using our food diaries. We have also performed a class investigation: some of us have eaten beetroot or sweetcorn to see if it changes our poo! The results are coming in! Y1 Class In English, we have finished our booklets on the four seasons. Now we are drawing our pictures. We have also been interviewing some teachers. They planned fun lessons. We have also been learning about weather and writing our own news weather report. By Rebecca and Jessica. Y2 Class We have ben writing letters to Doug the firefighter and Vinny at FGR. By Lola W. We’ve been trying new foods with the Star Anise chefs. By Toby. Y3 Class We’ve had lots of different teachers this week—we even got to interview some of them! We did Mixed Problems in Maths and in English, we continued writing our Explorers Reports. Y4 Class In English, we have been writing non-chronological reports on climate change. In Maths, we have been doing symmetry. In Topic, we have been drawing a map of Queensland. We also completed a Maths test. We went to Stroud Museum with Year 6 and met 4 experts. By Theo J. Y5 Class On Monday, we had a really fun day at an experience day at SWR. On Tuesday, we were back at school to start the tests—we did a spag, spelling and an arithmetic test. On the third day of the week, we did another maths test but it was a reasoning and a reading test. We also played a friendly match with the Year 3’s. Today we will be writing an APP. By Emily & Daisy. Y6 Class This week we went on a trip to Stroud Museum to ‘Meet the Experts’. It was fascinating and we learned about bats, dormice, moths and birds of prey. We have decided on the Y6 trip and we plan to go to Airhop in Bristol. We have also organised next Monday’s Fun Day. You will remember , Star Party are running the school and there will be a water fight. We can’t wait!

Stars of the Week

Reception Class Alesha Hussain Y1 Class The Whole Class! Y2 Class The Whole Class! (shown here are: Gracie Cropton, Kaitlyn Dudek, Levi Palmer, Cameron Gardiner, Lola Powell, Alfie Bulbeck) Y3 Class Lois Armshaw, Holly Wooldridge Y4 Class Harvey Palmer & Yilmaz Ozkan Y5 Class Nevaya Ostle Y6 Class Coco Pope & Daisy Griffiths

FUN DAY—Monday 26th June

Will be organised by the StarParty who won our

school election and so get to run the school for the

day. See their letter on Page 3.

LOST PROPERTY

Please could you call in to the Office to go through

the uniform box. There are loads of school jumpers

and cardigans that are unnamed as well as named.

We will make available for sale all unclaimed items

next Thursday for the new Reception Parents’

Evening.