Christmas preperation is underway at Sutton Valence Primary School and the children have been very excited to see the school looking festive - and of course, for the arrival of the elves!

Today the children dressed up for Children in Need in spots, Pudsey, yellow and crazy
hair, as chosen by school council.

All the children had a fantastic time at the Halloween disco last week!
Thank you to the PTFA for all their hard work organising this event.

Last week, Year 3 travelled to Kent Life for an exciting Stone Age experience.

The children took part in a range of hands-on workshops, including creating their own cave art using charcoal and grinding grain to make flour. One of the highlights was meeting Claw, a real Stone Age character who taught the children about how he survives.

The class also discovered how trading and early farming worked during the Stone Age. In the weapons workshop, the children even had the chance to try paper slingshots; much to their delight! It was a fantastic day full of learning lots of new information about the Stone Age.

Year 5 enjoyed a fascinating (although chilly!) day at Herstmonceux Science Observatory last week linking to our Science topic this term, which is Space.

We had lots of time to explore different exhibits in the centre including light, motion and solar system areas. A particular favourite of the children's was a lift chair powered by a hoover and seeing the gas planets swirling!

We were very lucky and were able to experience the roof opening and twisting in the main observatory dome giving us a real experience of being astronomers and the amazing pictures of the huge telescopes can take. 

Everyone had a great day, children and adults included, and the children were an asset to the school. We are now looking forward to writing our recount of the day in English.

Christmas preperation is underway at Sutton Valence Primary School and the children have been very excited to see the school looking festive - and of course, for the arrival of the elves!