Category: Children & education
Eastington Primary School – Class 4
Be kind – show respect and care We are aiming high together to be kind. Being kind means looking out for others, caring for them and treating everyone with respect. I have seen kindness in our school when children open doors for others and say thank you. Jessica Hyde Be cooperative – work well […]
Playgroup
After a week of Halloween and firework celebrations over the half term holiday, we have returned to playgroup to create an exciting Christmas performance ‘The Magic of Christmas’ which we will perform at the end of term. We are also looking forward to making lots of Christmas crafts and cooking delicious treats to eat. We […]
Eastington Primary School Oct 2019
Our academic year 2019-2020 is well underway and in Class 3 we have been thinking about our new school values. Through our daily assemblies and PSHE lessons, we have been talking about aiming high together to be: ● Kind – show respect and care ● Co-operative – work well together ● Resilient – keep trying […]
Baby and Toddler Groups
Eastington Baby and Toddler Group Monday 10-11:30am Eastington Methodist Hall If you have pre-school children we would love to see you. Each week around 11 mums, grandmas, dads, carers, and their babies and toddlers, meet. There are plenty of toys as well as craft & cooking activities, singing, and Bible stories. We have healthy refreshments […]
Duck Races 2019
Eastington Duck races took place on 7th July, this annual event feature 200 rubber ducks racing down the river along with all the more traditional features of a village fete. This year we were lucky to be joined by two brilliant contrasting bands; a steel band, ‘Steel Attraction’ and a rock band, ‘Boxcar Mavericks’ . […]
Eastington Primary School – Class 1
Class 1 have been busy thinking about how we can care for our environment as part of our topic on ‘Glorious Gloucestershire’. We studied the story ‘Dear Greenpeace’ by Simon James. In the story Emily believes she has found a whale in her pond and so writes to Greenpeace to ask advice about how she […]
Playgroup Autumn Term Newsletter
We have had a fantastic summer term with the children, enjoying lots of outdoor activities including having fun in the paddling pools and eating ice lollies to keep cool. The children participated in a mini sports day, joining in with running, jumping, football and team games – we played hungry hippos where the children laying […]
Eastington Primary School goes Roman
On Monday 20th May 2019, Class 5 went on a trip to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. As we are currently learning about the Romans, it was very interesting to explore the museum and find out more about them. After arriving at the museum, we ventured off to our first workshop. The workshop consisted of […]
Eastington Playgroup
We were very busy last term looking at expressive arts and design, colour mixing and recycled construction. The children were encouraged to choose and explore materials to express themselves by using clay, paint, dancing and mark making resources. Mothers Day Afternoon Tea We celebrated Mother’s Day and all the children made an invitation and decorated […]
Teddy Tunes
Teddy Tunes Come on down to The lovely village of Frampton on Severn for a giggle and a jiggle with your little ones! Every Thursday 10am pronto during term time you’ll find us singing away accompanied by my guitar, perhaps shaking a tambourine and enjoying homemade cake amongst other delights at the hatch with our […]
Easter Egg Hunt 2019
Another Great Egg Hunt and another lovely spring day in which to enjoy it. The standard of art-work for this event just keeps going up and up – here are just a random few of the amazing Disney-themed creations on show, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Thanks all involved – […]
1st Eastington Brownies
Since Easter we have been concentrating on learning and applying new skills and getting out of doors; We’ve been pretend cycle riding. We’ve been stone painting whilst sat in the sun, it’s very therapeutic we discovered, look out when you are out and about for the Eastington Rocks ‘Join Brownies’ stones. All the ones in […]
Purple 4 Polio at the School
For over 30 years, Rotary and its members have been committed to fighting to eradicate polio across the world. The Purple4Polio initiative was launched by Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland to raise funds and awareness for our efforts to eradicate polio and promote the work of our global campaign, ‘End Polio Now’. When a […]
First Eastington Brownies
Our Mamma Mia sleepover in January was a huge success and the Brownies all wanted to know when we could do it again! I never knew that so many meatballs could be eaten in one sitting, (they were absolutely enthralled by the concept of Smash, and that you could make mash without a potato) next […]
Eastington Primary School
Eastington Primary SchoolAs a school we have recently had a ‘Whole School Health Week.’ We were very fortunate to receive visits from people who were experts in different aspects of health and participate in lots of new activities. Lessons during the week focused on resilience by making ourselves a Superhero, developing our self-confidence and a […]
Eastington PlayGroup
Firstly, we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported our recent Bingo evening, we had a brilliant turnout with some fabulous prizes on offer. We made a healthy profit and this has enabled us to purchase some new toys and replace some tired ones too. Thank you to all that […]
Eastington Playgroup
The children enjoyed participating in our nativity play ‘The Greatest Day’ for which we had been rehearsing many times beforehand and we managed to entertain everyone and enjoyed yet another amusing performance. The children have enjoyed talking about Christmas, what they did in the holidays and who they spent Christmas with. We linked this to […]
1st Eastington Brownies
We’ve had a busy few weeks at 1st Eastington Brownies. Unfortunately our carol singing trip before Christmas was cancelled due to the Noro virus at the care home. We did meet for a Christmas craft evening, however, in which the brownies re-cycled Aldi yogurt jars into beautiful Christmas tea-light holders and practiced gift wrapping skills. […]
Eastington Primary School
Class 2 have been learning how to write information texts. We were very lucky to have a visit from Mrs. Taylor and Debbie from Clockhouse Vets in Stroud. They brought a rescue dog Mack. Debbie let us listen to Mack’s heartbeat and told us how to look after him. Mrs. Taylor also let us bandage […]
Teckels Animal Sanctuary
Just before Christmas, there was an urgent appeal from Teckels Animal Sanctuaries in Whitminster indicating that their future was at risk due to lack of funds. Operating since 2003, Teckels is run by a small dedicated team of staff and volunteers. They aim to find the best possible homes for all the animals that arrive […]
Purple 4 Polio – Crocus planting at the School
World Polio Day was October 24th 2018. Stonehouse Rotarians gathered with support from the Eastington Community Orchard project to present a school assembly about ‘Purple4Polio’ and then to help the children plant about 3-4,000 purple crocus corms outside Eastington School and in the Orchard. The children were very attentive and interested and asked lots of […]
Easter Egg Hunt 2019
It is that time of year again, as Christmas is over we must start thinking about Easter (I have already spotted Easter Eggs in the supermarket!) Last years Easter Egg Hunt made a huge £2500 which was shared between Eastington Playgroup and Eastington Primary School. These funds had a significant impact on our learning environments, […]
Eastington Primary School
Class 4 As our History topic this term has been World War 1 and World War II, we have immersed ourselves in how lives were affected during these terrible, yet incredible times. The children have enjoyed experiencing an ‘evacuation’ whilst on a WWII trip to the STEAM museum, have learnt about rationing, the role of […]
Eastington Playgroup
We started the first week back with dressing up for Halloween and the children enjoyed making pumpkin pictures with different shapes and listening to spooky stories in the dark den with torches. The children dressed up again, this time as superheroes to support Children In Need and families made a voluntary donation to help make […]
Teddy Tunes
Calling all babies, toddlers, children, parents, grandparents, friends and carers! Come along to a Teddytunes session near you and release your ‘inner child’ . Every Thursday during term time we meet at Frampton Village Hall 10am for musical merriment, cordial capers and fabulous frolics. All washed down with good coffee (or herb tea) chocolate biscuits […]
1st Eastington Brownies
The brownies are really enjoying the new brownie programme and so far we have: ● practised striking matches to light a tea light ● completed an obstacle first aid course wearing home made slings ● practised guide exercise drills of yesterday ● learnt about how the union jack is made up ● hand sewn our […]
Eastington Primary School
Class 3 have been excited about coming back to school after the summer holiday! In these first few weeks the new Y3/4 children have been getting to know each other and learning the importance of friendship. They have taken inspiration from their English focus which is all about fables. The children have enjoyed listening and […]
Eastington Playgroup
We have had a very busy start to the new school term since September and have been settling into routines and supporting children’s transition to playgroup and encouraging independence for the older children.We have started the Autumn term by drawing our self-portraits and we have made a large ‘Guess Who?’ game which the children have […]
1st Eastington Brownies
We welcomed 3 new girls from Rainbows to Brownies for the first time. Those to whom it really matters – the Brownies – got to see the new programme this week and it was really well received. We looked at the six Themes which are the basis of the new programme and then played a […]
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