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Welcome to the Gallery.
Here you will find pictures of just a small selection of the activities that Gastrells' children get up to in and out of class.
As you will see, we have a lot of fun !
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Red Nose Day 2009
To help raise money for Red Nose Day, children and teachers dressed up in as many red clothes as possible. Mrs Burbidge challenged children to come to school in their red pyjamas - and came in hers too! | |
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The Great Boat Race
Children from the Peregrines class (Y1&2) made wooden boats and attached sails. We then had our own Great Boat Race. Here they are, deciding whose is fastest... |
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Chinese New Year
To celebrate Chinese New Year, children were taught some traditional Chinese dances by a visiting artist.
Here the Sparrowhawks Class (Y2&3) are performing a ribbon dance. |
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Art and Design
Here some Y1 and Y2 children are designing Mendhi patterns on clay hand outlines. Children were visited by a local artist for this activity during the school's World Awareness Week in October. |
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Art and Design
Here, one of the Eagles class (Y5&6) is putting the finishing touches to her Fantasy Sky-Scraper. Our visitng artist worked with children from all age-groups in the school to produce some wonderful clay artworks.
The Goshawks class (Y4&5) made clay masks which are on display in the school entrance hall - do come in to see them! |
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Dance Festival
The Eagles class takes part in the Stroud Dance Festival each year. This year they danced to 'Fat Sam's Grand Slam' from Bugsy Malone. Here are three of the girls in their costumes at the festival. |
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Country Dancing at the school summer fair
The country dancing club is attended by children of all ages at Gastrells. As well as performing at the Stroud Country Dancing Festival, children perform their dances at the school summer fair. |
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Samba Club dancing at the Stroud Samba Carnival
Here the Samba club are performing the dance that they learnt last summer for the Stroud Samba Carnival. |
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Maths Investigations
Y3 children are using balances to investigate equivalent weights. Gastrells has been praised by Ofsted for embedding maths accross the curriculum; children undertaking this task are also consolidating their teamwork and co-operation skills. |
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Cookery Club
This is one of the most popular clubs at Gastrells and there is always a waiting list of pupils eager to join! Children learn how to slice and prepare food safely, and make a variety of healthy dishes that can be easily re-created at home for the whole family. Here the children are creating a vegetable stir-fry. |
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Cookery in the curriculum
Children at Gastrells learn to prepare and cook food from when they enter school in the Owls class, right through to the Eagles. They learn how to choose balanced meals, and as well as making fun treats at Easter and Christmas, children undertake cookery in the curriculum. This means that their Design and Technology topic might be to design a healthy sandwich, which the children would research, design, prepare and then evaluate (yum yum).
Here children are preparing a traditional Indian salald dish as part of their Wolrd Awareness Week activities, alongside local chef Idris Caldora. |
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Where does our food come from?
Here childen from the Owls clas (YR&Y1) are enjoying a visit to Over Farm to find out where our food comes from and how it is grown. Each class at Gastrells has its own raised vegetable bed, and children plant and grow their own vegetables which are eaten in the summer term. |
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Fresh!
Here are two more of the Owls class enjoying tomatoes eaten straight from the vine at Over Farm. |
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The Wilderness Centre
The Goshawks class (Y4&5) on their residential trip to the Wilderness Centre. Here children enjoyed many outdoor activities, including wooland walks, campfires and pond-dipping (shown here). The children learnt about animals and plants growing in their environment, as well as teamwork and co-operation. |
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Up, up and away!
Here are two more of the Goshawks class, tackling the indoor climbing wall at the Wilderness Centre. |
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Getting Connected
At Gastrells we have a collection of wireless laptops that can be used anywhere in the school to support children's learning in all areas of the curriculum. Here children from the Sparrowhawks class are using internet sources to reseach their history topic. |
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Design and Technology
Every Spring Gastrells holds a Design and Technology Expo, celebrating the acheivements of our pupils in projects that can involve sewing, woodwork, modelling, cooking and more! Here you can see some of the skills needed and the hard work that goes into making the projects.
Woodwork in Sparrowhawks. |
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Sewing and threading in the Owls. | |
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Finished!
Two Sparrowhawks show off their completed design and technology project - a working Roman-style Ballista. | |
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