Well done to team Gastrells, who played well together on Monday afternoon at the Kick Off football tournament at Park Junior School, Stonehouse. Gastrells played four games against four different schools’ teams. They drew all their games.
Month: March 2017
Year 3/4 Football
Gastrells Year 3/4 football team today had a friendly match in bright sunshine against a strong Callowell School team. Gastrells played well, with two great goals, but could not match four in the net by Callowell.
Gastrells take top 2 places at this years Mock Trial!
Art
Sparrowhawks today continued their learning from last weeks lesson about abstract, geometrical painting. We looked at paintings by the Russian artist Kandinsky, which use shapes, straight lines and blocks of colour. We used 2D shapes from Maths resources as stencils to create interesting patterns. Pupils explored using lighter and darker shades of the same colour, to create different contrasts in their painting. We will finish our paintings next week, and discuss what we like about each others’ paintings so far.
Sensational Gymnastic Performances
Since Christmas Eagles have been developing their gymnastics skills. This unit culminated in the children working in pairs to choreograph their own sequences and share these with the parents on Friday.
I was incredibly proud to watch how far the children had come, developing their control, balance and key skills, as well as this they all showed a huge amount of courage to perform their 2 minute long sequences  in front of a packed audience.
Check out the video below to see some of the highlights.
Mr M
(Thank you to Imogen and Tom for filming)
Year 3/4 Outdoor Football Tournament
On Monday, 13th March 2017, Gastrells Year 3/4 football team travelled to Park Junior School to play four matches in an 8 a-side tournament against other local schools. Everyone played very well: we drew three of our matches 0-0, and lost only one game 1-0.
Year 3/4 football
Gastrells Year 3 and 4 football team all played well this afternoon, in three games against other school teams at Leonard Stanley Primary School.
Year 3 and 4 cross country
Well done to all the Key Stage 2 children who represented Gastrells at the cross country at Archway School. They braved the cold weather and the muddy course and all determined to get to the end! A special well done to Alana who came first and Joe and Laura who both got medals.
World Book Day 2017
Eagles class was full of a whole range of book characters today including Skullduggery Pleasant, Gansta Granny, Willy Wonka, Harry Potter, a boy in a dress and Billionaire.
Danny the Champion of the World
In a cross curricular Art lesson today, Sparrowhawks looked in detail at the drawings by Quentin Blake that illustrate Roald Dahl’s story, which we have been reading together in class this term. We looked at illustrations from different scenes in the story, and discussed how Quentin Blake uses just a few simple lines to create a picture. Pupils then chose their own scene or character from the story to depict, using a pencil sketch coloured with water colour paint. The finished paintings will be displayed in class for World Book Day next week.
Gastrells Community Primary School 