Coney Hill Community Primary School

Cultural Capital at Coney Hill

Coney Hill Community Primary School are committed to ensuring children's education and experiences are rich in Cultural Capital.

The Department for Education defines Cultural Capital as "The essential knowledge that pupils need to be educated citizens, introducing them to the best that has been thought and said and helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement."

Our curriculum is intertwined with our PREACH values: Purposeful learning, Respect, Enjoyment, Aspirations and Achievements, Community and Health and Well-being. These 6 core values also allow our children to enrich their Cultural Capital.

Our rich and broad curriculum provides opportunities for children to experience a rich cultural capital.

Opportunities include:

Exploring and understanding the value of money, whilst learning about financial and money management.
Participating in a broad and balanced PSHCE curriculum.
Supporting a charity organisation.
Learning and experiencing how to grow a plant, fruit and vegetables.
Learning how to play a musical instrument, both tuned and untuned.
Visiting a museum / exhibition to learn more about an area I am focusing on in school. This includes Local and National museums.
Visiting a religious place of worship, for example a Church or a Mosque.
Understanding how history has shaped my future today (World War Two and Roman Legacy)
Reading and listening to stories by a diverse range of authors.
Writing a letter, addressing an envelope and posting it in the post box or at the post office.
Visiting a farm or zoo
Learning how to navigate the internet and how to send an email.
Learning how to say key phrases in another language.
Taking part in a live concert or performance
Visiting a stadium or theatre to watch a live sports event or performance

Rotary Children's Fun Day

What an AMAZING and rewarding day seeing all the children from multiple schools in Gloucestershire attend our Rotary Children's Fun Day hosted at Cattle Country Farm Park .

Wow! Year 5 had a brilliant time at the ‘Rude Science’ festival today! They learnt all about: farts, poo, wee and snot! It’s safe to day they had a fantastic time and laughed all day long!

Rocking our PJs today raising money for the wonderful charity ‘The Pied Piper Appeal’!

Cookie and Oreo enjoyed some sunshine and cuddles this afternoon! We've been learning how to look after them and what they can eat.

Year 3 learnt lots about the Ancient Egyptians today at their visit to the Bristol museum. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who came too!

Thank you to all of our families and friends of the school, who braved the chilly afternoon, to attend our special VE celebratory Coney Community Picnic. It was wonderful to see so many of you there!

Our Young Voices choir performed with 5,000 other children at the BP Plus Live arena in Birmingham. They then performed to the school, their parents and the Rotary Club this morning! A big thank you to the Rotary Club who helped fund the trip for the choir!

Year 5 had a wonderful morning today with Jungle Johnathan’s Roadshow! They were very brave!

A huge thank you to the Rainbow Theatre, who came into school and performed the pantomime ‘Cinderella’! It really got us all into the Christmas spirit!

Some of our school council visited Hash this morning to drop off our collected donations for his Christmas Appeal.

Well done to our Young Voices choir who went to Brunswick Nursing home and Park View Nursing home to sing carols and songs to the residents.

Gloucester lantern festival!

We’ve had some very exciting visitors in school this morning - the Mayor and Sherif of Gloucester! In anticipation of the Lantern Festival on Saturday, these special guests are visiting some of the schools taking part!

We can’t wait to show off Year 4’s amazing lantern work, alongside our incredible artist, Dee!

We have also had BBC Radio Gloucestershire in too, talking to our children and staff about the event - we were on the BBC!

Year 2 had a fantastic time at the Cheltenham museum yesterday finding out all about explorers from the past!

Our 10 mini police officers from Year 5 did an amazing job on their litter pick yesterday afternoon!

Year 4 had a wonderful time at Caerleon, learning all about the Romans!

We are delighted to announce that we have been selected again to take part in the Gloucester City Lantern Parade this Winter! This week, our artist Dee, began work on our lantern with our Year 4 class! We are so excited!

Our school community came together to make World Mental Health Day brighter by wearing yellow and showing their support for young people’s mental health.

GSP Really Wild Reading Festival - the author Petr Horacek visited our school! He read some of his stories to the children and illustrated some of his famous characters! Thank you to the children and staff from the other schools who hosted authors and events and who also joined us!

Pupils invited someone special to join them in school for 'Special Person's Lunch' - we loved welcoming community members into school to socialise, have plenty of talking time and enjoy our school dinners.

Year 4 enjoyed a 24 hour residential trip at 'The Wilderness' - they took part in a wide range of activities such as archery, potholing, climbing and camp fire activities.

Reception and Preschool pupils took part in a nativity performance!

Our school pupils supported the charity organisation 'Gloucester Feed The Hungry CIC' by donating and delivering food donations.

Our school has a brilliant partnership with Gloucester Feed The Hungry CIC! Our school collected donations of food, chocolate selection packs, shoe box gifts and hand made Christmas cards to donate. Hash Norat met our pupils at Smiles cafe to receive the donations. The handmade Christmas cards will be given out with all hot breakfasts being delivered on Christmas morning

Year 4 were proud to take part in the Gloucester lantern procession and Christmas lights switch on.

Our Happy Hillers Preschool celebrating Children In Need!

#preachvalues

Gloucestershire Healthy School award!

We were thrilled in assembly to receive our official award from Hayley from the GHLL, as a Gloucestershire Healthy School! This plaque will take pride of place in our foyer.

We have been very lucky to have the Deputy Mayor of Gloucester, Justin Hudson, visit Year 4 today to look at the lanterns we have made for the Gloucester lantern procession and Christmas lights switch on.

World Kindness day and Anti-bullying week

As part of World Kindness day and Anti-bullying week, Hash from Gloucester Feed the Hungry came to visit us and held an assembly about how we can support our local community and vulnerable people. He also held a meeting with our School Council to discuss what we can do this Christmas to support our community.

Remembrance Day reflective assembly

The children took part in a very special, moving and reflective assembly, to mark Remembrance Day.

A huge thank you to our wonderful Open The Book team from St Oswald’s Church for leading us. Peter and Tony proudly showed us their medals and Peter told us about serving in the Navy.

We are immensely proud of how seriously the children took this opportunity to remember those who have fought and continue to fight in wars around the world.

Lest we forget.

Our Year 6 classes had a fantastic day today in Winchcombe experiencing what it would have been like to be a child in WW2 and evacuated. They really looked the part too!

Year 4 had a brilliant trip to Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths

Year 6 trip to Gloucester prison

Exploring and learning in our outside learning environment.

We walked in the woodland, watched how to make a fire, popped popcorn on the fire and looked for insects.

Celebrating the Coronation!

We celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III at our community picnic.

Coronation competition!

Well done to our winners of the King’s Pants competition and to Evie for her super story writing!

Gloucester Fire Brigade visit

Wow! Our Year 2 class had a super special visit today from two Fire fighters from Gloucester Fire Brigade. The children amazed them with their knowledge of the Great Fire of London! The children were then able to explore a real fire engine, dress up and even have a go on the hose!

Year 4 residential

Year 4 had a brilliant time on their residential and ticked off lots of their Cultural capital passport!

Walk through a forest
Take part in a new sport
Stay away from home overnight
Make a meal

Year 2 Easter experience at Gloucester Cathedral

Year 2 had a wonderful time on their 'Easter experience' trip to Gloucester Cathedral.

School fundraising - designing Little Miss and Mr Men characters for a competition - look at our Little Miss Hiller and Mr Wheelie Cool entries!

We wore odd socks to raise awareness of Down Syndrome.

World Down Syndrome Day is celebrated on 21st March and our school pupils helped to raise awareness of Down syndrome by wearing 'Lots Of Socks' for the campaign and we also wore odd socks to 'Rock our Socks'! The odd socks campaign was conceived as the 3 strands of Chromosome 21 just happen to look like socks. We also had a whole school assembly.

Read for Good Readathon fundraising!

We raised money for a local Gloucestershire charity 'Read for Good' that encourages children to read more, inspires reluctant readers to give reading a go and keen readers to read more widely - the money we raised helps children in hospitals get books. We took part in a Readathon and raised £621.50!

Red Nose Day

Our school supported the Red Nose Day charity - the money we raised helps people who are facing the toughest times of their lives, both here in the UK and across the world.

Year 6 have had a very moving and thought provoking morning visiting the Knife Angel at Gloucester Cathedral. This included a special talk led by Hollie Gazzard’s Dad, Nicholas. #KnifeAngel #ProudToBeAHiller #PREACHvalues

Our pupils made Christingles for the Christingle service.

Coney Christmas Choir

Our Coney Christmas Choir visited Park View Nursing Home to perform Christmas Carols for the residents. The residents joined in and thoroughly enjoyed the performance!

Year 2 met the author of 'Monster! Hungry! Phone!', Sean Taylor, at the Really Wild Reading Festival in Gloucester.

Year 5’s Cultural Capital Experience with Cyber First using Drones, Programmable Lego (Spike) and ClassVR Virtual Reality Head Sets.

Reception class have watched their chicks hatch and grow; it has been a very exciting time in our class.

Year 6 explored the River Avon on their end of topic Boat trip.

Pupils have been planting fruit trees and learning how to care for them. We've planted over 40 so far!

Our Year 4 classes took part in team building games and confidence boosting activities on their 'Wilderness' residential.

Year 5 are progressing well with their Brass instrument music lessons.

Our Year 6 class performed and sang in their Grease production!

Year 6 had a fantastic time today at their end of term Spanish party! Tasting Spanish food and trying out some Spanish dancing!

Our pupils read books written by lots of different authors whilst celebrating World Book Day 2022.

Our Reception class had a wonderful Winter walk in Barnwood Arboretum on Friday!

Year 3 are learning how to play the Ukelele and are planning a concert!

Some of our Young Voices choir went to Park View Care Home to perform and share some kindness on our 'Be Kind' day!

Supporting a charity organisation - We supported Children in Need by dressing up as 'What we want to be' or in Pudsey colours.

To mark Anti-Bullying week the children wore odd socks to school!

They also had special assemblies.

Year 4 Rubies had a wonderful trip to Caerleon Roman fortress, learning all about the Romans!

Emeralds class making yellow biscuits on 'Hello Yellow' day, raising awareness of children's mental health.

Congratulations to our winners of our Community Art competition! Here are the winning portraits! #proudtobeaHiller

Year 2 went to the Cheltenham Literature festival where we loved hearing the story 'Supertato' told live by the authors and some of us got to meet them afterwards!

Celebrating our achievements in school assembly.

Our netball team celeberating a great match which they won!

Having Gloop fun in Nurture, working together and taking part in group discussions.

Year 5 visited the arboretum today, collecting natural materials to make a class collage with.

Our School Council delivered Harvest donations to people in our local community.

We celebrated the Harvest Festival at St Oswald's Church

Year 5 sponsored walk - raising money to sponsor a Jaguar

In Reception class we learn about our local area and people in the community who help us

Celebrating World Book Day