Clubs & Activities
Together with our award winning After School Club and Breakfast Club, children at Uley School also enjoy a wide range of additional activities and clubs catering for different interest areas and abilities.
In accordance, with our Healthy Schools Status, many children are involved in Netball, Boys Football
and Girls Football which are run during lunchtimes. We also offer a Games Club which enables the younger and older children to mix together in a caring and relaxed environment, developing their social skills and respect for one another through sharing and taking turns.
Please click on the links below to find out more about some of the clubs and activities available.
Our highly successful extended School facility, which the children refer to as their 'Fun Club', is open to all parents regardless of whether they are working or not. The club is open every day during term time with the morning sessions running between 8am and 9am and the afternoon sessions from 3:15pm until 6pm.
The children have access to a range of toys and games, including our latest additions; equipment for practising circus skills and a Wii Fit! With den-building, sledging on the snowy School field and a comfy area for reading and relaxing, Fun Club aims to provide children with a real home from home experience, enabling children to play and share together after their busy day at School. There are also supervised arts and crafts activities on hand, including cookery for children to enjoy in a safe and caring environment with their friends.
A healthy breakfast and tea-time snack fulfils the after school hunger pangs. These are sometimes themed on current events; such as Chinese New Year and enable children to explore a variety of cooking skills and tastes from around the World.
Our Fun Club achieved the nationally recognised Flying High Quality Assurance Award in 2008 and were graded 'Excellent'. The Club has also been inspected by Ofsted who graded us as 'Good' at every level and complimented the 'high standard of care and enthusiasm of the staff.'
The cost of each session is outlined below:
• Breakfast Club £2.90
• After School Club (up to 5pm) £5.65
• After School Club (up to 6pm) £7.75
Children at Uley school are very enthusiastic about music. Many children (over 25% of pupils) learn instruments taught by peripatetic teachers. Instruments range from guitar, violin and cello to flute, saxophone, clarinet – not to mention piano!
In March 2011, our school won a major music award - the 'Sing Up Gold Award' which took two years to achieve and we are one of only 11 schools in the county to get this level. See our certificate.
Music lessons are taught by a dedicated music teacher. Children access music from the wider community, by having visiting musicians who organise workshops; on other occasions, children go to venues to allow them to experience music from other cultures.
Uley has a Junior Orchestra and a Junior Choir. Orchestra perform in the local Church at special services and events. A Gala Evening Concert is performed annually by the Orchestra and Choir. Children choose the theme for the evening and the Charity they wish to support.
Each end of term, Uley School holds a service in St. Giles Church so parents and pupils can join together.
These special services are often planned, created and led by each class demonsting a broad range of talents and skills and encompassing dance, poetry, song, music and prayer.
A range of sports clubs are held throughout the year including Football, Netball and Athletics. Children also have the opportunity to go swimming at Dursley Pool.
Gardening Club runs after school on Fridays, until 4pm. We are open in terms 1, 5 and 6. As numbers are limited, we are allocating places on a termly rotation.
Gardening Club involves having loads of fun while learning about plants, flowers and nature: planting and caring for vegetables and flowers in the school grounds, finding out all sorts of things about wild plants and animals in and around our school, and enjoying craft activities linked to our work in the garden.
Gardening Club costs £1 per child per session.
To find out more, or to sign up, see one of the club's volunteer staff: Ailsa Todd, Libby Worsfold, Nic Kelly-Davies and Nic Rogers.
Theatre Fun provides children (Reception - Year 6) with opportunities to enjoy all areas of theatre life, including singing, acting, dancing, script writing, publicising and set building.
The club runs on each Wednesday from 3.15pm - 4.00pm.
There is a cost of £4 per session (or £5.50 if your child will then require a snack and afterschool club care until 5.00pm).
