Christmas Steel Drum Performance by Year 3

This term Year 3 have been learning how to play steel drums in their music lessons.

Yesterday, they gave a fantastic perfomance to an anticipatory Key Stage 2 audience, the amazing results can be seen in the video below.

Christmas Celebrations

Lots of extra fun things have been going on at school this week in between the usual fun learning.

The whole school had a very special visitor; Santa took time out of his busy schedule to pay us a visit here at Easton Primary School.

Santa and his Elf visit Reception

Early Years and Key Stage 1 both performed amazing Christmas Nativities for parents and the rest of the school.

Key Stage 1 Nativity

Yr 6 Topic trip to M Shed and Arnos Vale Cemetery

The Year 6 topic this term is World War Two. To enhance the learning of this topic we were lucky enough to visit two different learning locations.

M Shed gave us insight into what life was like during the second World War.

School during WW2.

Arnos Vale Cemetery allowed us to learn about and pay respect to some of the events of the war.

Quiz (please answer below in the comments box):

1. What year did World War 2 start and what year did it end?
2. Can you name the leader of the Allied Army in Britain - extra point for his or her nickname?

Yr 4 Ancient Egypt Topic Trip

Year 4 are studying Ancient Egypt this term. Yesterday both classes visited Bristol Museum to discover more about this fascinating topic.

An Ancient sarcophagus



 Quiz:
What are the above jars called, and what were they used for?

Did you know? - The Egyptians used to mummify their cats to take to the afterlife.

Movember Team Easton 'taches

The hirsute gentlemen of Easton Primary School have been growing rather powerful top-lip warming moustaches in aid of mens health. Here they are on the penultimate day proudly displaying their efforts.

Thanks to all those that have donated so far. If you can hold your laughter for long enough and would like to donate please see the office or click here to see our team page and press the 'Donate to team' button:
http://uk.movember.com/team/584897

Book Week 2012.

The sun has set on another fantastic book week here at Easton Primary School, Bristol.

The week started with a brilliant assembly announcing two competitions to win vouchers for our book fair; which starts the week beginning 19th November. In the assembly we saw inspirational reading positions from a few teachers:

Later in the week we held a fancy dress competition and a 'University Challenge' style quiz about our book-week book - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.

Finally, on Friday afternoon, we witnessed the jewel in the book-week crown. A professional drama troupe came to school and performed their version of 'The Happy Prince', with the help from a few brave Easton volunteers.

The show was amazing by all accounts.

What was your favourite part of book week? Please feel free to comment in the box below.

Eid Mubarak!

On Friday we had a very special celebration of Eid here at Easton Primary School.

We had a brilliant, informative and entertaining assembly from Key Stage Two children in the morning, and in the afternoon we held a huge, school-wide Eid party.

Celebrations in full swing!

"The assembly was interesting" said R from Year 6

"I really liked the dancing" - A from year 4

What was your favourite bit?

Read, Write Inc. spooky hat making...

Mrs C's Read, Write Inc. group have been reading 'The Spell' all week.

We made a scary witch's hat on Friday and here is the class looking magical.

Upcoming INSET days.

School has two INSET days coming up:

Wednesday 24th October
Monday 5th November

The school will be closed to children on these dates for staff training.

Fri 12th Oct. Black History Day.

Today, we had a very special day here at Easton Primary School. Working in our home language groups (e.g. Bengali, Polish, Arabic etc.) we learnt about lots of different countries and cultures, to help celebrate Black History Month.

Learning and then presenting about Uganda

Year 1 treated us to a rousing rendition of a very famous song by a Jamaican singer, can you research and tell us what it is in a comment below?

Steel Drum Lessons at Easton.

This term Year 3 are learning how to play the steel drums in a steel drum band. It sounds amazing! Other classes will be learning too, throughout the year.

Do you know a song that has Steel Drums in it?

After school art club...

Here are a few examples of the fantastic, creative pieces children have produced at Simon's art club.

As you can see we have some very talented artists at Easton Primary School.

School is closed today - Monday 24th September.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, and for health and safety reasons, Easton Primary school is closed today - Monday 24th September. Please call the school on 0117 377 3070 for more information. Apologies for any incovenience casued.

Welcome back! We have a new school vision...

Hope you all had a good break. We've now had our first full week back after the summer holidays, and everyone is ready to learn and have fun. What an inspirational summer it was!


Our school now has a new vision:

'Learn and Believe; Inspire to Achieve'.

We also have six values that will be explored throughout the year:-
Term 1 - Thanks
Term 2 - Respect and Reverence
Term 3 - Responsibility and Justice
Term 4 - Trust
Term 5 - Excellence
Term 6 - Courage

Thu 19th July. Olympic Closing Ceremony.

To culminate a fun and active week organised by Miss Scott and her team, we held our Olympic Closing and Medal Ceremony.

What a great last week we've had at the end of an excellent year!!!

Thu 19th July. Year 6 leavers assembly.

Our brilliant and talented year 6 children put on a fabulous show for the entertainment of the other children, staff and parents. There wasn't a dry eye in the house!

Comedy, drama and dance!

Graduating in style...

Tue 17th July. Early Years Sports Day.

We were blessed with great weather for our Olympic themed sports day this year. Children participated in fun old favourites such as the sack race and egg & spoon...

Fun in the sack race.

Mr McCarthy and Treloweth School Year 3 camp with us.

Last week, Year 3 children from Treloweth school came to visit us all the way from Cornwall. They camped in our playing field for a few nights, sharing learning and good times with the Easton Year 3 children who also camped over as part of the Easton Under Canvas project.

 A great time was had by all and by all accounts, one of the highlights was the roaring camp fire...

Mr M showing us how it's done.

Campfire time.

Tue 17th July. Easton Tae Kwon Do club.

Today some people moved up a grade in Tae Kwon Do club after 3 years of very hard work!

TAE KWON DO CLUB.

"Easton primary is a school that has lots of different activities."

Blog post by Mason

Tue 17th July. Olympic Opening Ceremony.

We held our Olympic Opening Ceremony today. Children have been learning about different countries in multi-age classes, and made national dress and flags for our parade of athletes.

The Chinese Athletes.

The Pakistan Athletes.

We had two very special visitors at our parade. Firstly Darren Hamilton an ex-Easton pupil and professional boxer gave us an inspirational and informative talk.

Darren Hamilton and his Trophies.

Secondly, we had a real Olympic Torch at the school. What an honour.

The Olympic Torch!





Wed 11th July. Bristol Speaking and listening competition.

Superb speakers from all over Bristol performed at a special competition, attended by the Lord Mayor, at St Teresa's Primary school in their outdoor ampitheatre.

We're very proud of the brave orators.

Year 4 Camp to Longnor Primary School Shropshire.

Our friends at Longnor Primary school in beautiful Shropshire welcomed our Year 4 camp again last week.

We had an amazing time learning all about the interesting history of the area, hiking in scenic countryside, map reading, den building, talent show performing and meeting new friends.

Map reading skills.

Enjoying some well deserved 'down time'.

Chess club in full effect.

Mr Nutting's chess club was in full swing this Friday lunchtime.

Learning some advanced manoeuvres.

To play chess online why not visit http://www.chesskid.com/ and create an account, but remember, be Cyber-Safe. See you there...

Fri 15th June. Early Years Pirate Day.

Today, the Reception and Nursery classes held a children initiated Pirate Day.

Children and teachers came to school in pirate fancy dress and the children all participated in sea-dog based learning activities.

We made skull & crossbones flags, periscopes, eye patches, bandanas and swords. We also completed a pirate number treasure hunt.

Aaaaaaarrrrrrrr.

Year 6 camp 2012. Gorran Haven, Cornwall.

This time it was Year 6 who benefitted from Easton Primary School’s policy of providing as many children as possible with an outdoor camping and learning experience.

At the end of last term, children got to try their hand at lots of new and exciting activities; kayaking, fishing, rock pooling and coasteering all in the beautiful countryside of South Cornwall.

Fri 1st June. The Queen's 60th Jubilee celebrations.

We had a very special visitor at Easton Primary school today. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!

We rolled out the red carpet and held a red, white and blue street party in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Her Royal Highness arrives!

Much fun was had by everyone.

Year 5 camp 2012. The Forest of Dean.

Year 5 have returned from this year's camp in Parkend; The Forest of Dean equiped with lots of new skills - teamwork, survival, map reading, climbing, problem solving, shelter building, science and nature detecting to name a few.

A good time was had by all, even if a few of us fell into the river while kayaking!