As part of our Big Walk Week, Gastrells welcomed the chance to engage the children in some scooting skills! Ospreys class embraced the challenge and managed to perfect some rather impressive tricks!….
Scooting Fun!
Viking History Day…
Ospreys class invited a historian into school for a full day of exploring all things Viking! From settlements and social structures, to longboat voyages and battles, the children fully immersed themselves in understanding this period of history. We were also lucky enough to have the opportunity to handle some fascinating artefacts and role play some of the experiences that may have taken place in Viking times….a super day of learning….
Tom Percival at Stroud Book Festival
Ospreys Class visited Stroud Subscription Rooms to listen to a reading from the wonderful local author Tom Percival about his new book Finn’s Little Fib. Tom is such an engaging speaker and soon had all the children getting creative and enthusiastic about exploring character ideas. The children LOVED this event and we can’t wait to get back to school to start our new writing unit…..just the inspiration we needed!
Merry Christmas from Ospreys!
From Osprey’s class, we wish you all a beautiful Christmas and look forward to seeing you in 2024! xx
Science Experiments
Amongst the various science experiments so far this year, the designing of an enclosure to protect a creature from the elements such as wind and rain has to be a highlight. The children worked in pairs to design and make their enclosure then we tested their effectiveness at being wind and water resistant. We had some fabulously intuitive and ‘outside of the box’ thinking’ which we aways love to embrace. 
Fantasy Planets
What better way to embrace collage than imagining our very own fantasy planets. From fiery chasms, to ice kingdoms, each child explored texture, pattern and warm/cool colour combinations to create their artwork. 
We love these creations – well done Ospreys!
Spooky Times
Always ready for fancy dress, Ospreys have once again embraced their inner spooks and have created some lovely chalk x-ray cats influenced by the incredible Frida Khalo.
It’s a sticky business!…
Our Ospreys families know how much we love our Nature Studies lessons and this term one of our children brought in their pet stick insects for us to hold and hear all about….such a treat…and very brave children!
A Dazzle of Zebras!
What a fabulous collective noun! A Dazzle! Ospreys children fully embraced this art project, with a focus on blending techniques with oil pastels. So much character and personality in each of these… we love them!
Conker Chaos…
In Autumn term, Ospreys enjoyed exploring Horse Chestnuts seeds and the variation of conkers we found…. different shapes, sizes and multiples in many cases. Great fun!
Ospreys @ Gastrells 