May Queen 2021

May Queen is a tradition that has been held in Eastington village for many years. Traditionally the May Queen was crowned to celebrate the coming of Summer and she would process around the village at the start of a festival day. The tradition of crowning a May Queen in Eastington has only been broken during […]

Eastington Primary School – Red Nose Day

Many of you may know that Comic Relief believes that a fair world, free from poverty, is possible, and that those closest to the issues have the best solutions. They partner amazing projects and organisations that are working to tackle some of the biggest challenges people face. At school we learned about a boy called […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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During British Science week (12 – 16 thMarch) we were privileged to have a visit from Hayley Pincott, a Pathologist from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Hayley worked with every class in the school and the subject matter of her workshops varied. Class 1 and 2 made a human body map and class 3 […]

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Here, at Eastington Primary School, class two have been learning how to become Super Heroes! We want to be great thinkers with good mental health. We learn to ‘bounce back’ and as this is not necessarily an innate skill; we all need to practice. Through thought provoking and exciting activities, we are encouraged to develop […]

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Here at Eastington Primary, our community stretches far and wide, beyond our school gates and even beyond the village itself. We are lucky enough to have pen pals in both London and Kenya. Some of the children in Class 4 would like to share their experiences with you. Bea, year 5:  My pen pal is […]

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Class 3 have been thinking about starting a new academic year. Year 4 children are enjoying being older, responsible members of the class and Year 3 children are excited to have joined Key Stage 2! Here are some of their thoughts:-