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Head Teacher blog w/c 14th Oct
Fri 18 Oct 2019What a brilliant week we have had with such a buzz around school for our Ethiopian Day. Well done to all the children for presenting such interesting information on art, geography, history, sport, religion, cotton and coffee trade and dance!
A special mention this week to Joshua for his amazing achievement winning the Tristage Triathlon Champion for the East Midlands! He spoke very clearly telling us all about each of the events. A brilliant sportsman!
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Henry- for doing so well with his reading. Henry has really tried hard with his blending and always does his best. He was so keen he has taken 2 books home for the holidays!
Bella- for an amazing mendi pattern this morning during Diwali day. Bella was so careful and precise with her work and took time to copy and reproduce patterns.
Ava- Super Sentence writer of the week! Ava used her phonic knowledge to write our sentence all by herself. Well done Ava!!
Infant 2- Anders and Lillie-Mae- for brilliant agility work in PE. They were determined to show their talents and really impressed Miss Bottrell.
Writer of the week- Ben and Lyla. For their fantastic recounts of Ethiopia day. They were so clear and precise especially writing in the past tense accurately.
Junior 1- Frankie- for great independent work in all lessons this week and not being afraid to ask if unsure about anything.
Carla- for her resilience, hard work and for being such a supportive, listening and caring buddy!
Junior 2- Jiamin and Aleena- for their superb follow up work to their Blitz morning with Mr Hammond. Mr Tyler was very impressed with the standard of writing that they produced!
*Photos to follow*
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Head Teacher Blog w/c 7th October
Fri 11 Oct 2019What a brilliant busy week it has been. Mrs Brown and Miss Bottrell had a fantastic day in Sheffield on Wednesday learning all the songs and actions for our Young Voices concert in January. All the places are now full and children will be learning the songs during singing assembly - if your child has come home singing in Swahili the song Kusimama you now know why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZdUwI4SRmY
Next Tuesday we are very excited about our first Ethiopian Day where the children can come in the colours of the Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, blue or red) and bring in £1. We are raising money to help them purchase a donkey library! The children will be doing a range of different activities from all aspects of the curriculum themed around this. We will also be presenting their work on Thursday morning in the hall from 9.15am which we hope you can join us for.
The boys football team played their second match of the season this week sadly losing to Langar 5-0 however they discovered a secret weapon of needing someone with a long throw in. Mr Tyler spoke of how the boys didn't give up and continued to play with determination to the end. Well done boys.
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Niamh- for telling the class (and the whole school in assembly!) all about the fruit she knows in spanish! Amazing work.
Rupert- for his fantastic clay hedgehog he spent a lot of time adding more and more spines. He was very careful and precise using his brilliant pinchy fingers.
Infant 2- Lillie-Mae - for excellent work in English identifying nouns and verbs. Lillie-Mae really impressed us this week with her energy and enthusiasm. Willing to try and have a go even if she wasn't sure.
Freddie- for great independent work in maths when identifying shape names and properties. He even had a brilliant attempt at saying quadrilateral!
Writer of the week- Lyla Mullins for her fantastic writing based upon Olivers Vegetables.
Junior 1- George- for always being polite and having a willingness to learn. He has really shown what he can do this week and taken such pride in his work.
Max- for becoming a gigger by achieving a rock speed of 7.06 seconds per question on TT Rockstars. He got a special certificate and is the first person in the school to have achieved it! Well done for your hard work.
Junior 2- Kai- for excellent work in his maths using stem sentences to help with his place value. Both Mr Tyler and Mrs Dewick have been incredibly impressed.
Oliver S and Jack- for great maths work this week using decimals. They worked accurately and consistently to show what they had learnt.
Melissa- continuing the maths theme has done some fantastic work on rounding decimals to the nearest tenth and whole number. Keep it up!
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Open Day
Fri 11 Oct 2019If you are looking at school places for September 2020 please join us on one of our open days to see our fantastic small school in action. If you know of anyone who is there are flyers avaliable from the school office please do take one to share.
Friday 8th November 9.30-10.30am
Tuesday 12th November 1-2pm
If you are unable to make these dates please do call the school office on 0115 9663481 and Mrs Bills (head teacher) will arrange a tour for a mutually convenient time.
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Head Teachers Blog w/c 30th September
Mon 07 Oct 2019We had a brilliant week looking at Determination and throughout the week our British athletes worked hard to demonstrate this value superbly. We watched in collective worship Dina Asher-Smith winning gold in the 200m and then the following day the incredibly efforts of Katrina Johnson-Thompson also achieving gold in the heptathlon (an amazing seven events not six- thanks Joshua!) I hope you have all seen us signing our bible verse for determination but if not to check it out on twitter
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Ava - for brilliant reading this week. Ava is beginning to read some simple sentences on her own, using her phonic knowledge to sound out. Well done!
Bella- For working really hard in phonics and beginning to sound out simple words all by herself! What a phonics super star!!
Infant 2- Dylan- for excellent attention to detail when drawing an aerial map of the school grounds- we particularly liked the boat!
Lissie and Heidi- for showing friendship during PE when others were 'out' they were supportive and encouraging. Well done girls!
Junior 1- Megan- for excellent determination in maths this week, not giving up when her answer might have been wrong!
Harrison- for his excellent presentation and stamina in maths. You have set the bar really high and worked hard all week!
Junior 2- Kyle- for drawing excellent circuit diagrams using the correct symbols in science.
Ali- for writing a really good recount based on the book 'The Day of Ahmed's secret'
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Link Ethiopia
Tue 01 Oct 2019Today we have sent home letters about a new charity we are going to be linking with https://www.linkethiopia.org/
We have a new page on our website dedicatied to this project so please do keep checking back to see out more about what we are doing and how this link develops this year.
https://www.gunthorpeschool.co.uk/link-ethiopia/
