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.