Staunton-on-Wye Primary School

Gallery Index

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Art work

Chefs into Schools Chefs into School

Class 1 Class 1

Class 1 - Houses and Homes

Class 1 and 2 Visit a Butterfly Zoo and Maze Class 1 and Class 2 Visit a Butterfly Zoo and Maze

Class 1 visit to a local farm

Class 2 Felting Class 2 worked hard to turn sheep's wool into felt.

Class 2 Visit to Hartlebury

Class 3 Wildlife Topic Class 3 produced some beautiful artwork on their Wildlife in The School Grounds topic. They continued the topic in science by researching their chosen animal and making a book using information they had found.

Concern Universal We are lucky to have visitors to our school from other countries. We are supporting the charity Concern Universal and have had visitors into school talking about their lives in Africa.

Cooking with Chef Caldora

Cycling to school Cycling to school – quite a few people have started cycling to school, especially in summer

Eco - flag July 2008 Eco-flag July ’08 – Some of our eco-committee with our third green flag.

Eco-committee The eco-committee wants to encourage people to stop using plastic carrier bags. They are selling recycled, fairly-traded bags printed with their own design.

Eco-schools Our Eco-schools take part in many different activities. Please click to see some of these in action.

Funky Foss The oldest children in the school have their very own fundraising group called Funky FOSS (Friends of Staunton School ). They have recently baked cakes to sell to the children and parents to raise money for Concern Universal, which is our chosen charity this year. It raises money for children in Africa .

Gardening We are collecting marigold seeds to sell. We will keep some to plant next year.

Harvest Lunch Every year the whole school take part in our harvest lunch. The children are responsible for growing, cooking and eating the food!

Our Whole School Trip to Borth The whole school enjoyed a day trip to Borth. We had a sandcastle competition, went rockpooling and visited the lifeboat station.

Outdoor Day - The Olympics Every year the whole school takes part in Outdoor day when all lessons are carried out in the school grounds. This year the day was based on The Olympics. After a very heavy storm which looked set to stop proceedings we resumed activities and had a very enjoyable day.

Ramadan The children in Class 2 have been learning about the festivals belonging to different faiths. We talked about how during the Festival of Ramadan Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. The children talked about all the different things they do during the day to try and understand what a long time it would be to go without food and drink.

Summer Fair Fun Mrs LLoyd our Head Teacher took a turn in the stocks and helped us to raise over £1000 by allowing the children to throw wet sponges at her!

The children in Class 3 visited the Architects Office The children are taking a very active part in working with the architects on the proposed plans of our new school.

We had a visit from a local craftworker A local craftworker visited Class 2 and showed us how to dye, card and spin wool. We had a go at using a loom to weave with wool.

World War II Workshop