Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Head Teacher blog w/c 20th May
Fri 24 May 2019This week has been a fantastic week with the building of our outdoor classroom taking shape in the field. This will be ready for use after half term as will a class set of ipads- lots to look forward to in the summer term!
Infant 1- Ava, Lillie-Mae, Alex and Lauren- for working together as a team to create their own Very Hungry Caterpillar story and then video it so that the whole class could watch it. They showed determination, service and friendship. Well done!
Infant 2- Megan and Daisy- for being great friends and showing our new pupil Lissie what it's like to be an infant 2.
Ella S- for showing great attention to detail when making our clay starfish during topic.Junior 1- Florrie- for her beautiful picture of lillies- coloured with detail and care! An excellent representation of real life!
Ali- for excellent Greek myth writing including his recently improved handwriting!Junior 2- Ben Ba and Jack- for effort and attitude towards maths. This week they have really stood our as being exceptional. Well done boys!
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Headteacher Blog w/c 13th May 2019
Fri 17 May 2019Firstly a big well done to all our year 6 for their incredible example to the whole school of how to complete their SATS with a big smile on their faces (or maybe that was just relief that it was over!) They showed such determination throughout and certainly rose to the challenge. Mr Tyler put them all in the brilliant book for their calm, mature attitudes working so hard. They showed friendship to support each other throughout especially if someone had run out of time or felt frustrated after. We are incredibly proud of them all!
We also had a large team of juniors compete in a tri golf event learning how to put, chip for distance and chip for accuracy. They all enjoyed it and are looking forward to learning more golf skills in Junior 2 after half term. Finally this week Florrie, Jiamin and Melissa all from year 4s - went to Nottingham High School for a murder mystery challenge. They conducted some scientific experiments and told all of us in assembly about what happens when you put fire near hydrogen and helium- why not ask your child to see if they can remember?
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Well done to Alex for showing the value of friendship. She helped Autumn and Lauren to be friends again and help them to say sorry- also learning about our value of forgiveness.
Seb- for making a fantastic bug book. Seb chose to make a book and wrote a sentence for each bug. Well done!Infant 2- Leo- for super careful art work when painting a rainbow fish.
Laci- Mai- determination to complete lots of extra maths work plus completing extra challenges!
Heidi and Hudson- for beautiful expressive reading especially during guided reading.
Writers of the week- Seth (yr1) and Amy (yr2) - have a look at their fantastic rainbow fish writingJunior 1- Isobel- for her excellent effort in everything this week- especially maths assessments and tennis!
Evie H- for a positive attitude and approach to everything! Working hard, thinking and being a great tennis partner this afternoon!Junior 2- Ben W- for great maths work this week especially rounding decimals. Ben explained he did over 60 sums! Great concentration and determination!
Jacob- for really good work subtracting decimals.
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Sharewear Charity Family Music Festival
Fri 17 May 2019Please support this Nottinghamshire based charity fighting to combat clothing poverty.
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Headteacher blog w/c 6th May 2019
Fri 10 May 2019What a fantastic week it has been and what a lot we seem to have squeezed into 4 days. Our lacrosse team played their final tournament of the year winning their final game 3-1. They gave an excellent match report in our fantastic Friday assembly and spoke about how they felt everything came together being able to work as a team, defend well and be able to score. Well done for never giving up!
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Writer of the week- Seb- for using his phonics when writing independently. He has been using the writing area lots and has enjoyed making signs for the classroom this week. My favourite were ' you must be good' and 'don't tread on the toys'.
Autumn- Mrs Findley was really impressed with Autumn's can do attitude all this week. She has been really concentrating on her reading and writing especially.Infant 2- Writer of the Week- Zac- for his fantastic use of vocabulary in his writing about an under the water adventure!
Toby- For always understanding the importance of telling the truth and following rules to help make good choices.
Lucy- for great maths work reading scales with missing numbers
Junior 1- Kai- excellent independent maths work followed by brilliant spellings. You have been working so hard all week Kai. Well done.
Carla- for progress and and taking care more recently. You are writing neatly, spelling well and checking all the way through your writing! Keep it up!Junior 2- Lukas - for making super progress with his reading
Hannah- for 50 out of 50 on our most recent GPS (Grammar) test. No easy achievement as all the teachers will testify!We just want to take this opportunity to wish all our year 6s good luck for next week and we know they will do brilliantly!
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New Website Launched!
Sun 05 May 2019Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!
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Head Teacher Blog w/c 29 April
Fri 03 May 2019What a fantastic week it has been! We started the week looking at our value for this half term of Determination and our Always try your hardest petal. We heard from Will Smith who puts his success down to his work ethic not his natural talent.
Our boys football team played showing Determination on Monday. Whilst they lost 3-0 they played a very strong team from Orston and defended magnificently never giving up. Well done for representing our school so well boys!
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Frankie- for some fantastic handwriting. Frankie pressed really hard with his pencil and used strong writing fingers. Your writing really is getting brilliant now Frankie so keep it up!
Alex- for showing real determination and a can do attitude when writing her Jack and the Beanstalk story. Well done!
Infant 2- Freddie- for super independent maths showing all possible + and - number sentences for his number bonds to 10
Lucia- for fantastic phonics when doing hold a sentence using split diagraph 'e-e'
Lyla M- for excellent effort with her homework both in presentation and creativity. We were all very impressed with your Octopus!
Writer of the week- Cameron- for great use of facts to write a letter to explain why a Blue whale couldn't possibly be in a garden pond. A* for presentation!Junior 1- Sophia, Ali, Oliver and Jiamin- for their high quality writing using fronted adverbials, word choices and conjunctions in good sentences. We read one of their diary entries out and it really was superb!
Junior 2- Hannah- super maths work using algebra to find rules for number sequences.Ben- for writing a really good newspaper report on Flying pigs
Erica- for her excellent attitude and always striving to produce high quality work. Erica is always happy to help and is a model of good behaviour.
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SIAMS report
Fri 03 May 2019We are delighted to be able to share out our latest SIAMS report. The inspection took place before the Easter holiday and the school was judged to be Good in all areas.
We are particularly proud that during the inspection it was noted that Gunthorpe was found to have “a culture where everyone is valued for whoever they are or whatever they want to be”. It was also commented that “Pupils flourish in the school, demonstrating progress academically, socially and spiritually”.
Thank you to all parents who spoke to the inspector we were very pleased with all his findings and agree with the areas of development for how we can take the school forward.
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90kg Fair Trade Rice Challenge
Fri 03 May 2019As mentioned in the newsletter that went out just before half term, we are supporting fair trade fortnight at Gunthorpe launching this week with the 90kg rice challenge. This challenge is taken by over 800 schools, churches and fair trade groups across the county.
It is an opportunity to think of innovative ways to sell the rice and to encourage and inspire children to understand what fair trade means. 90kg is the amount of rice a farmer in Malawi has to sell to enable him to send a child to secondary school for a year. This is an opportunity these Malawian children would not otherwise get and one which we, working together as a school, can provide. We have ordered 90 1kg bags of rice and these will be available to purchase directly from school.
You are welcome to come into school and pay via cash or cheque or you can order via parent pay. Each bag costs £3.05 and there is no limit on how many you can purchase until they are all sold! We will be having a competition to see which class can sell the most bags and the individual pupil who sells the most will win a fair trade Easter egg.
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Momo challenge
Fri 03 May 2019You will probably already have heard news reports or seen links via social media about the Momo Challenge. Although this is now being reported as a hoax, the reports and warnings could still cause distress to children – there are so often things that happen online that can be misleading or frightening and some things that are specifically designed to get a lot of attention! Should you require any further information or advice, I have attached a ‘Top Tips for Parents’ guide published by National Online Safety which relates to this challenge.
In school, we have answered some questions about this subject with our older children as a number of them have heard news reports or spoken to older siblings or parents about it. More generally, we are using this as an opportunity to remind children about basic online safety advice and making sure they know to talk to an adult about anything they see or are asked to do that makes them feel scared, worried or uncomfortable.
As parents, you could take the opportunity to review privacy settings on devices and consider how your child accesses the internet. Parents of younger children may also want to install YouTube Kids, a more controlled version of YouTube intended for families, for better control of what young children may come across online.
