Year 3 - Exploring the Forest

As part of our Forest Capers topic, Year 3 had great fun this morning exploring the local woodland. They spotted animal tracks, squirrels( which scarpered very quickly!) and lots of interesting plants and trees growing in the forest. This has helped them to understand more about their local environment.
They also went on a blackberry hunt, an important ingredient for the cakes that they will be making for their parents to eat when they visit tomorrow. We hope they enjoy them!
A big thank you to all our parent volunteers who joined us on the trip. We hope you enjoyed it too.

GPJ Multi Sports Semi Final

WOW!  What an event!  We played Woolaston in the Semi Final.  We won, they won, we won, they won, back and forth as winners of each event.  Finally the relay, still not knowing the actual results.  We won the relay!  So, was this enough?  Unbelievably the score was LEVEL!  As a tie breaker we had to run the relay again.  It was so close, Woolaston ran the race in 47 seconds.  Coalway ran it in ...... 46 seconds!  We had WON!  My ears are still ringing from the screaming (and that was me!)  Now the big one, final against St. Johns next week ... watch this space.  Good luck everyone, enjoy it, a fabulous occasion to the end school year on.  Mrs Simpson

Year 3 Visitor

Year 3 had a special visitor today. As they have been learning all about 'The Good Life' Mrs Ball brought her lamb April in to visit them. They learnt all about the reasons why she had been hand reared and they were able to hand feed her. She was a very lively little character - even trying to follow them back into the classroom to take part in their literacy lesson!

Year 3 - Measuring

As part of their work on capacity Year 3 had lots of fun estimating and measuring different amounts of water. They calibrated different containers, estmated how much different containers would hold and accurately measured different amounts in millilitres and litres.

Year 3 - The Three Counties Show

As part of their Good Life topic Year 3 visited The Three Counties Show. They had a great time looking at the different events. They enjoyed learning about different aspects of farming such as watching sheep being sheared, blacksmiths at work as well as having a go at milking.

Malawi Olympic Visitors!!

During the year 2 mini olympics today, organised by their year 5 buddies, Coalway Junior School had some very, very important visitors!!
During our arts festival Mrs Waite organised for year 4 to enter their art work into a competition to have their work displayed for the Malawi Olympic team. We were lucky enough to have Joyce and Carlton, who will be competing for the Malawi Olympic team for swimming, come into school to have a look at the mini olympics afternoon and to say hello to all the children. They even took part in a small game of rounders with the year 6 children!

Joyce and Carlton with their olympic trainer.

This was a fantastic opportunity for the children to meet Olympic athletes. If you want to support and cheer on Joyce and Carlton they will be competing on the 1st of August the 2nd of August. A big thankyou to Mrs Waite and the fantastic year 4 art work that made this possible.

Year 2 and Year 5 Olympics afternoon

The year 5s have been working very hard during their 'Olympics' theme to plan a mini olympics afternoon for their year 2 buddies. This afternoon year 2 came down and competed against each other in the games the year 5s had designed and the year 5s even treated their year 2 buddies to an olympics opening and closing ceremony!! Everybody had fun and everybody took part. Congratulations to Greece who were the winning year 2 team and a big well done to the year 5s for organising such a great afternoon!!