Stroud Valley Community School

We were extremely lucky to have a visit from Jim’s Little Dragons this week. Jim brought a menagerie with him and everyone had a chance to handle the exotic creatures, which included bearded dragons, snakes, tarantulas, geckos, frogs and millipedes. What a fantastic experience!

This week, despite the cold, we did some more team building activities during our Mini Marines session. After building a working aqueduct we took part in some trust games.

We had great fun on World Book Day dressing up as our favourite characters from books and guessing which books people had created in jars. Can you figure out the titles of the books from looking at the contents of the jars?

This year, the children (and parents) made an incredible effort with an amazing array of costumes. We held a’Book in a Jar’ competition. The entries were so imaginative, and a child from each class won a book token. All week ‘Shelfies’ had been displayed around school (photographs of members of staff’s bookshelves), and the children had to guess who they belonged to. We revealed the owners in assembly. A great day celebrating the joy of books.

Imagine (if necessary!) that you love and enjoy chocolate and want to have as much as possible. There’s a room in school that has three tables in it with plenty of space for chairs to go round. Table 1 has one block of chocolate on it, table 2 has two blocks of chocolate on it and, guess what, table 3 has three blocks of chocolate on it. Now…outside the room is a class of children. Thirty of them all lined up ready to go in and eat the chocolate. These children are allowed to come in one at a time and can enter when the person in front of them has sat down. When a child enters the room they ask them self this question, “if the chocolate on the table I sit at is to be shared out equally when I sit down, which would be the best table to sit at?”
This is the challenge we faced today, and we had to use all of our knowledge about fractions to help us. It was tough, although we did get to eat chocolate, which definitely made it easier!

This week in our session with the Mini Marines we learnt about nutrition and what types of food we should and shouldn’t be eating as part of a healthy diet. We also did a quick boot-camp session, with some of us even managing clap-pushups. Impressive!

This week with the Mini Marines we learnt some valuable first aid skills, including DRAB (ask us what this means), how to put people in the recovery position and CPR.