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From the Headmistress

Dear Parents

This week we have enjoyed hosting our Boden sale run by Springfield Parents' Association (SPA), it was lovely to welcome so many visitors from all three RGS Schools as well as local residents.

Particular thanks must go to Fay and her team who organised clothes, baked cakes and hosted the afternoon and evening. It is not too late to order, please see our previous letter with the special code.

The School and grounds are looking beautiful in preparation for our last Open Day of the year tomorrow and a number of  visitors are already booked in. Please encourage anyone who may be interested in coming along and seeing the School. As ever our pupil guides will be eagerly waiting to show people around.

Year Three and Four are also eagerly looking forward to their residential visit to the Wye Valley next week, fingers crossed for warm sunshine.

Kind regards
Laura Brown


Creative Dragonflies
Our topic this half term is ‘Under The Sea’ and the children this week have enjoyed the story of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Ronda and David Armitage.  Inspired by the story, the children made their own tasty rolls.

The children worked as a team to weigh, mix and knead the dough before putting the mixture in the proving oven. An hour later their bread had risen and it was ready to roll and shape. Each child went home with a delicious roll ready for their supper.



Dragonflies went on an Art adventure in the Gloucestershire countryside. They went to Nature in Art based at Wallsworth Hall, Twigworth, near Gloucester, where they did block printing and felt making on the theme of under the water. We looked around the grounds and discovered statues of animals and plants made from all sorts of materials including horse shoes.



All Ship Shape 
On Wednesday, Year Five travelled to Bristol to visit the S.S Great Britain. The trip linked with the current Storms & Shipwrecks topic and the children thoroughly enjoyed finding out about the long and varied life of the remarkable ship. The day started with a workshop where the children examined artefacts and read first hand accounts made by some of the passengers who had made various journeys onboard. These journeys included taking prospectors to the Australian gold rush, soldiers to the Crimean War and wealthy Victorian tourists to New York. We then toured the ship and discovered that it was a definite advantage to be rich when travelling on a ship in the 19th Century. The tour included sights, sounds and smells of a ship and we were surprised to discover that as well as carrying live animals for meat, a baby was born during one voyage.



Gold Book Awards:
Ducklings - Felipe Torronteguy
Tadpoles - Eleni Izamis and
Alexandra Wilson-Thomas
Frogs - Bethan Bowdrey
Dragonflies - Katie Williams
Year One - Ava Haynes
Year Two - Hattie Gibbs
Year Three -Lola Tait
Year Four - Daisy Leek
Year Five - Evie Smith
Year Six - Sian Gaynor-Smith

Headmistress' Awards - Olivia Munro (Year Three) and Harriet Alexander (Year Five) for their excellent work welcoming visitors.
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Be Afraid
This week, Year Four have been using the green screen to face their own fears. We read Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett and created our own pages inspired by this book. The fears ranged from wasps to orcas and heights to the dark.


Maths Evening
Thank you to all the parents who attended the maths evening this week. It was well attended and great to know how useful this type of meeting is. Over the next week, I will send out the notes and details of this event for anyone who requested them.
Mr Miller

Effective Communication
Year Two have been very busy discovering lots of interesting facts about the way that people communicate with each other. We have had lots of fun using morse code, semaphore and walkie talkies. We also explored and looked at the life of Louis Braille and discovered how he made a significant change to the way blind people read and write.





Friendly Brownies
At Brownies, we made Kokeshi Dolls. These are given as friendship tokens in Japan.  There they are carved out of wood and the artist signs his name on the bottom of each doll that he makes.  We made ours out of paper.



Cricket
Our U8/9 boys have played two cricket matches recently.

Against The Downs School, our fielding and some of our batting was very good.


Lukas Twiehaus Year Four

The boys improved on this performance against RGS The Grange with some much more accurate bowling and some super batting.


Joseph Cole Year Three


 



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