What a week! The last week of term was the most awesome, tiring and emotional one of the year. We started the week with our new Reception children joining us for a story time. They had a lovely afternoon and are ready to join us in September. Monday and Tuesday evening was our performance of […]
Congratulations to Mia (year 5) and Faith (year 2) who won our Eastcombe’s Got Talent 2019 contest! They will now be appearing on the main stage at Chlafest 2019 on Saturday 20th July 2019. In a hugely competitive event, a massive well done must be made to each of the 7 different acts that made it […]
Mrs Fowles accompanied a team of 12 KS2 children to the Stroud District swimming gala today. The children took part in a variety of single and relay races throughout the morning, against lots of other local schools. Overall, we finished in an amazing 7th place – well done to all of the children and a […]
This week a total of 10 year 3/4 children and 10 year 5/6 children represented our school at the local TK mini-olympics event. The afternoon was a great success and the special guest of honour was Jordan Howe, the current paralympic World Championship silver medallist in the 100m T35. Jordan spoke to the children about […]
Recently, two of our year five pupils (Alistair McCallum and Ben Hayes-Holgate) attended the Thomas Keble Sports Awards Ceremony. Alistair has kindly provided a write-up of what happened at the event…. Thomas Keble Sports Awards 2019 I received a letter from Thomas Keble (TK) School inviting me to attend their annual sports awards evening. I […]
On Tuesday 9th July, Eastcombe Primary School’s Head Boy, Head Girl and Year 6 School Council reps went to Eastcombe toddlers group in the village hall. We went to make new friends and do a messy activity with the children. We really enjoyed helping them make their pictures. We used paints, shells, rocks, paintbrushes, pipe-cleaners […]
On a sunny Tuesday in late June, we sent a team of 18 KS2 children to the annual small school District Sports running event at Stratford Court, Stroud. The children took part in sprint events, relay races and mixed relay races against 10 other local schools. We had tremendous support at the event from both […]
We sent a team of KS2 children to take part in the throwing and jumping District Sports events for local small schools. The weather was terrible and it rained for the entire duration of the event, but it was great fun and ran smoothly. All of our children represented the school brilliantly in the following […]
You can tell we are nearing the end of term; the pace has increased, the timetable is variable and the children are both excited and exhausted in equal measure!! Last week was a fantastic week for all children at Eastcombe Primary. We came into school on Monday morning celebrating the success of the weekends Gnome […]
Squirrel class loved their day out at Weston-Super-Mare earlier this week. They made sandcastles, had a donkey ride and enjoyed an ice-cream. The weather was perfect and the children behaved beautifully. A great time was had by all.
