ISingPop - An amazing event!

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Two schools became one as all the children of Prestbury St. Mary's C of E Infants and Juniors came together to celebrate their Christian distinctiveness through song. The afternoon and evening concerts were an amazing success and a big thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Y4JM Visit to Welsh Bicknor

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Year Four’s residential visit to Welsh Bicknor has once again been a highlight of the year. Our three days were packed from morning ‘til night with exciting adventures, fun activities, delicious food and brilliant team work! To support our Science work on Living Things and their Habitats, we became animal detectives searching for signs of wildlife and investigated the effects that rising water levels could have on their habitat. We also took time to explore our values of Peace through sensory activities in the woods and Creativity with a natural art project. A demanding hike took us up into glorious sunshine on top of the hill where we built some rather impressive shelters. Our evenings were filled with very enjoyable, if a little sticky, bread making and a well-earned movie night. We finished our visit with challenging teamwork games like the Giant Marble Run and an archery session, both brilliantly run by the YHA staff. There were many weary-looking, faces on the return journey, but every one of them was wearing a big smile.

Y4PD visit to Welsh Bicknor

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Year Four’s residential visit to Welsh Bicknor has once again been a highlight of the year. Our three days were packed from morning ‘til night with exciting adventures, fun activities, delicious food and brilliant team work! To support our Science work on Living Things and their Habitats, we became animal detectives searching for signs of wildlife and investigated the effects that rising water levels could have on their habitat. We also took time to explore our values of Peace through sensory activities in the woods and Creativity with a natural art project. A demanding hike took us up into glorious sunshine on top of the hill where we built some rather impressive shelters. Our evenings were filled with very enjoyable, if a little sticky, bread making and a well-earned movie night. We finished our visit with challenging teamwork games like the Giant Marble Run and an archery session, both brilliantly run by the YHA staff. There were many weary-looking, faces on the return journey, but every one of them was wearing a big smile.

Japanese students visit Y6

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Year 6 were very excited to have 28 Japanese students come to spend a morning with us. They gave us a presentation about school life in Japan and then our children had a go at different activities such as origami. We were so proud of how welcoming and friendly our children were and they certainly deserved their reward of different types of Japanese sweets and chocolate!

Prestbury goes back in time!

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Join us on a journey back in time as we become Egyptians, Vikings, Greeks and Victorians......

Pancake Day was 'fliptastic'.

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On Tuesday 9th February the whole school celebrated Shrove Tuesday by having a sponsored pancake flip in the school hall. The PTFA arrived at school armed with frying pans and pancakes and every pupil had the chance to see how many flips they could do in 1 minute. Even the teachers had a go! We all had a ‘flippin’ fantastic time whilst raising money for the school.

Sounds like a lot of fun!

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As part of our science, Year 4 took part in sound workshops. Mrs Follis, a science expert from STEMworks visited us and led some fascinating activities. We played sound bingo and then set off around the school using data loggers to measure sound levels in different places (it was a perfect chance to show our Christian value of trust, too). Back in class we used computer software to look at the ‘stories’ that line graphs could tell us about what we had recorded and asked our own questions about our graphs. We learnt lots about what sound is, how it is made and how it can be measured.

Romans Attack!

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What do you do if you are a Roman general hunting down your enemy the Rebel King Caractacus and you eventually track him down he has prepared for battle in a well-protected hill fort? Use your technology to build roman siege engines, of course! Year 4 have been researching, testing and building their own model roman onagers (catapults) ready for a final assault on the King’s defences.

Y4 Experience Christmas

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Year Four sought refuge from the heavy rain in St Mary’s church where the ministry team had put together a range of activities, from role play to creating model gifts for the baby Jesus, to help the children ‘Experience Christmas’. Everyone enjoyed moving from station to station around the church and exploring the Christmas story from new perspectives. By the time we headed home, the children had so much to talk about they barely noticed the downpour at all.

May the force be with you!

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Y5CT investigated the effects of air resistance and realised that it’s not just liquids that push against you when you move through them. Air does too, even though you can’t see it. We battled with the force of air resistance as we tried to run across the playground with large sheets of card. It was hard work!

Y3 Christmas production of

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Year Three have been working really hard on their Christmas Production, ‘Silent Night’. The children take the audience back to 18th Century Austria, where the people of a small village prepare their Christmas Eve pageant, only to discover some naughty mice have nibbled on the church organ! The children go on to tell the audience the story of how the carol, ‘Silent Night’ came to be, through comedy, wonderful acting and uplifting music and song. Congratulations Year Three on a captivating, heart-warming production.

Paper Spinners – x marks the spot!

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On Wednesday 9th December, Y5CT planned a fair test to investigate how paper spinners fell to the floor. We decided which variables we would change and which ones we would keep the same. Once we had decided what we would measure, it was time to get on with the investigation. Most of us decided to change either the weight or size of the paper spinners and to measure the speed with which it fell to the floor. Some of us decided to investigate the accuracy with which the paper spinner fell by observing how close each spinner came to landing on an ‘X’ on the ground. We will be using our results to talk about the effects of air resistance.

Y4 visit Chedworth Roman Villa

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Year Four’s day at Chedworth Roman Villa proved to be rather busy. We worked as archaeologists, sorting and classifying genuine artefacts (bones, tiles and shells and more) from Roman Britain. Our work had just begun as we were temporarily enslaved, given tunics and slave tags to wear and forced to grind the herbs needed to make medicine bags for our Roman masters. On a guided tour of the Villa, we took in the beautifully mosaic dining rooms, the baths, a scared spring and the impressive hypocaust heating system, before finishing with the ‘pleasure’ of viewing a Roman latrine. It was a fantastic chance to show off our impressive knowledge of life in Roman Britain and discover even more about this fascinating part of our local history.

Y6 visit to Chepstow Castle

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We really enjoyed our visit to Chepstow Castle. As part of our history topic, we studied how to defend and attack a castle, why William 1st built Chepstow Castle and what it was like to live in a castle on a daily basis.