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Steyning Grammar School Year 8 Art Project A group of year 8 students are taking part in an exciting art experience. The project has been developed by the Marine Conservation Society and involves several local schools. The aim of the project is to raise the awareness of the environmental issues of our local coastline through artwork and photography. During the session the pupils worked with various media from photography shoots, sewing, drawing, printing and painting to create amazing mixed media collages. There was a lot of energy in the room and Mrs Modder and Mr Huffman loved all the enthusiasm! The resulting artwork will be displayed at The Ropetackle Art Centre, Shoreham on 21st March. Year 8 pupil artwork

A massive thank you to Friend of Steyning Grammar School (FoSGS) for their very generous contribution towards our new equipment. Our cheerleaders and gymnasts have loved using them this week!

Dogs Trust visit The Dog’s Trust visited recently to talk to children about safety with dogs and how to be a responsible carer and owner. It was great to hear how much the children already know from their experiences with Teddy the school dog and also family dogs. Young Voices Concert

A group of children from across key stage 2 travelled to London last month to take part in the young voices concert. They have been rehearsing for the concert over the two last terms. Storrington joined over 6,000 other children from schools across the country to perform alongside Tony Hadley, The Shires and other amazing musicians and dancers. As a result, tens of thousands of pounds Storrington Primary News & events

Steyning cheerleaders

Year 7 Football Huge Congratulations to the Year 7 Rock Road team who won the District title.

Year 7 Rock Road football team

Luke Talbot Assistant Headteacher, www.sgs.uk.net

have been raised for cancer charities across the country. Thank you to parents for supporting us and joining us on our trip and also staff for making this possible by giving up their own time. Library visits & World Book Day - 5th March Years 3 and 4 have library visits taking place in March and April. The classes will walk to Storrington library where they can borrow books and find out about the other useful services available. World Book Day is on Thursday 5th March. The theme this year is ‘share a story’ and the children will be sharing their favourite books with others across the school. Rather than dressing up this year, the children can come in wearing their own comfy clothes or pyjamas. Each child can bring in a book to share, it might be a story, a poetry book or an information book. They can also bring in a cushion or pillow to sit on whilst sharing their book during the day. Parents and carers are also invited to join the school between 8:40 and 9:10am when there will be a giant ‘share a story’ time. Parents can join their child’s class and pre-school siblings are also welcome. 01903 742047 www.storringtonprimary.co.uk

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Thakeham Primary

By Year 6, School Reporter, Emilia Flitney All of the classes have started learning about new topics. When we start a new topic we do a Stunning Start, this is when we learn all about our topic through doing something fun.

Acorn class (Reception) Acorn class are learning about dinosaurs. In their classroom they discovered mini dinosaur eggs. Their task was to make nests for them so that they would hatch. They used all sorts of materials such as: paper bowls, for the base of the nest; cotton wool, to keep their dinosaur eggs warm; tissue paper, to also keep the eggs warm, feathers, to keep the dinosaur comfy when they hatch. Over the weekend, the eggs started to hatch, and when the children came in on Monday the dinosaurs were sleeping in their nests. Oak class (Year 1 and 2) Oak class are learning about penguins. On the first day of school, the children came in to see penguin footprints all over the classroom floor. The footprints made a little trail to led them to a penguin. This penAcorn class

guin is the main character in their new book; they found the Little Lost Penguin! Maple (Year 3 and 4) Maple class are learning about the Stone Age. The children of Maple class went on an expedition to find items they used in the Stone Age. They were items that people used for survival. The items were all over the school. Survival in this age was incredibly important as not everybody had a house and food. Elder class (Year 5 and 6) Elder class are learning about the Saxons and Vikings. They are starting with the Saxons. The children of Elder class went outside into the forest school area to do Saxon cooking. Our forest school instructor is Matt and he is also a year 6 teacher, who has done the topic of Saxons at his school. The first group of children made a Saxon vegetable stew. Instead of a stock cube, the Saxons would boil up a pig and then use the juice for flavouring. The second group made Honey cakes. The Saxons used honey for sweetness because they didn’t have granulated sugar. In the afternoon everyone went back out to taste our stew and honey cakes. Matt told us a story: that’s what the Saxons would do at mealtimes. We all sat around the fire and tried our food. www.thakehamps.co.uk Elder class

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