Thank you Harry Tuffins!

Coalway Junior School Gardening Club have been really fortunate to receive a £350 donation through the Nisa Making a Difference Locally charity. This was presented to the club by the store manager of our local Tuffins store during asssembly.
This will be a great help and enable the Gardening club to grow a larger variety of produce as they can now afford to purchase a fantastic new green house.
Thank you so much.

Year 3 Visit To Dean Heritage Centre

Year 3 had a super day visiting Dean Heritage Centre as part of their work on Forest Capers. We learnt what is what like to live in the Forest of Dean years ago and how this compared to life in the area today.

During our visit we took part in various different workshops; learning about the life of a miner, the life of a charcoal burner as well as visiting the Victorian cottage and the museum.
Once back at school we used this information to inspire our report writing and completed some fantastic reports on charcoal burning.

Having a fabulous time in France

We are having a wonderful time in France. The children went up the Eiffel Tower and then went on their boat trip down the Seine. We have been very lucky with the weather. Beautiful sunshine yesterday so we have some fantastic photo's. Off to Disney tomorrow and then home Tuesday morning.

Love from the Coalway Crew in France XXXX

Skip For Fun

On Thursday the 20th of October we held a 'Skip For Fun' Day. Each child worked in a group of 3 and between them they had to skip for 20 minutes. The children soon realised that this was a really long time to skip for!!

We saw a variety of skipping skills ranging from hopping, skipping backwards, long jump rop and skipping with a partner. All of the children completed the 'Skip for Fun' challenge and had fun in the process!!

Cross Country at Lakers

What a couple of great races! Cross country at Lakers, combined with intermittent showers and a supporting audience of Coalway cheering parents. There were about 40 children in total running from schools around the area. The top six children in each race will go through to the next stage.

The results were (drum roll ........)

The girls race:-
Millie 6th, Izzy 7th, Ruby 9th, Alanah 12th, Freya 16th.

The boys race:- Harri 3rd, Jacob 4th, Henry 8th, Conner 13th, Kyran 16th, Fraser 19th.

Watch this space for the next round.

Thanks to Mr Tomley for organising this and to the parents who were able to transport the children and support them.

Cross Country

Mr Tomley from Lakers came to school last Thursday. He laid out a cross country course for all of the Y5 and Y6 children to run.

'It was hard but enjoyable....'
'I have never run so far .....'

The top 6 girls and 6 boys are going to represent Coalway Juniors at an inter-school cross-country event organised by Mr Tomly at Lakers next week. ..... Watch this space for the results!

Year Four Harvest Assembly

Did you get to see the Year 4 Harvest Assembly? If not, then you missed a real TREAT! We all learned how important clean water is to everyone for a healthy life. Every time you flush the toilet, you use 9.5 litres of water, while people in Ethiopia only have 5 litres of water to use in a day. Another interesting fact is that only 3% of the water on earth is available for us to use! We certainly learned a lot.

The children sang a Harvest Samba and a traditional African song beautifully. They then explained how we can help other people across the world to live healthy lives by making a contribution to Water Aid or Seeds for Africa. This helps them not only grow healthy, vitamin rich vegetables and fruit, but to have clean water to drink. Have you filled an envelope with spare change yet? Please return your contribution to school - we have spare envelopes if you didn't get one.
Hope you enjoy our singing.