Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Head Teachers blog w/c 25th November 2019

  Fri 29 Nov 2019

  This week has been a joy to be at Gunthorpe as classes start getting ready for our Christmas festivites. The stage has gone up and rehersals for nativity begun, the juniors are learning Christmas songs from around the world and sounding beautiful.   We had a fantastic stay and read event with lots of families joining us to share a book on Thursday. Junior 2 had a fantastic trip to the National Holocaust Centre were they all demonstrated such respect and asked such intelligent, mature questions. Mr Tyler, Mrs Dewick and myself were incredibly proud of them. Incase you aren't already in the festive mood we have the Gunthorpe Christmas light switch on tonight with a lantern walk and carols in the church. I do hope you will join us there.

   

  On to our brilliant book..

   

  Infant 1- Super Sentence Writer- Bella wrote a fantastic sentence independently and she even found the red word 'the' on our word mat to help her. Beautiful handwriting too!

  Eleanor- for leading the lunch time prayer so clearly. You showed real bravery and deterination. Well done!

   

  Infant 2- Heidi- for excellent enthusiasm during our nativity singing practise. Miss Bottrell, Miss Morgan, Mrs Brown and Mrs Findley all commented on how brilliant you were!

  Lyla- for determination in home learning and producing 3 brilliant homeworks!

  Writer of the week: Anders- for a great fact fle on Captain Scott.

   

  Junior 1- Zac- for his excellent maths, improving presentation and constant enthusiasm! Mrs Nolan could put you in every week Zac so keep on being brilliant!

  Hudson- for his hard work all week and positive attitude to everything. Keep thinking and impressing all your teachers!

   

  Junior 2- Chloe and Joshua- for super maths work this week on mental division with remainders. You were also able to express the remainders as fractions and decimals. Well done to you both!

  

• Head teacher blog w/c 18th November 2019

  Fri 22 Nov 2019

  What a fantastic week we have had, we found out our year 5/6 athletics team are into the top final and they are working hard to prepare for that in the final week of this half term. We had a company called now press play in to demonstrated a brilliant fully immersive audio experience to enhance their learning on climate zones and the arctic. On Thursday we held our rearranged parents evening and it was so lovely to hear such positive feedback from parents and staff. If you did have a feedback form it is not too late to return those. We love hearing from parents about how their child is getting on. Finally we had our book fair which started on Thursday and is running until next Thursday when we will also be holding our stay and read 8.15-9 in the hall. 

   

  We were incredibly proud of 2 junior 2 boys this week for out of school achievements. Ali has been selected to train as part of Notts County Cricket club- a huge well done and we look forward to hearing about future competitions. Also Oliver B wrote a beautiful poem reflecting on remembrance which he read for us all in assembly and was incredibly moving. Thank you for taking the time to write it and bring it in to share Oliver.

   

  On to our brilliant book...

   

  Infant 1

  Super sentence writer was - Henry. He remembered the sentence with great sounding out and used the red word card to write 'the'. Well done!

  Eleanor- Mrs Findley is so impressed with Eleanor. She has been trying really hard with both reading and writing her word time one words. SHe has shown a real 'can do' attitude. 

   

  Infant 2- Writer of the week- Seb and Georgie- for their fantastic non chronological reports on their arctic adventurer Captain Scott! They really are brilliant- do read below!

  Ben and Lillie Mae- were also in for their amazing maths when doing number bonds to 10. They showed excellent fluency writing their own stem sentences.

   

  Junior 1-Leo - for excellent planning of his Oktapodi story that included lots of detail and even onomatopieia! He has also been very focused in lessons completing high quality work.

  Thomas- for demonstrating his outstanding maths knolwedge and skills getting 100% in his test and completing column addition even with challenging decimal numbers.

   

  Junior 2- Jacob, Ben and Erica- for excellent maths work using long multiplication accurately.

  Ruby and Sam- for super wrok in science explaining the negatives of products made out of the wrong materials!

   

  infant 1

  

• Book Fair

  Tue 19 Nov 2019

  This wednesday 21st- thursday 27th we have a book fair at school. we hope you can join us and look at the fantastic offers avaliable just in time for Christmas!

   

  We are also running a stay and read event :

  Thursday 28^th November 8.15 – 9.00 am
  in the school hall

   

  Come and take shelter from the cold and have a warm drink and pastry while sharing a book with your children in our school hall. The book fayre will also be available on this day for your last chance to grab a bargain!

  Come and share a special treat with your children and promote the importance of taking time to read and embrace a love of literature.

  £1 donation for tea/coffee and a  pastry

   

  

• Head Teacher Blog w/c 4th November

  Fri 08 Nov 2019

  I hope you all enjoyed the 2 week half term, it was lovely to welcome the children back looking so enthusiastic and ready for a jam packed Autumn 2 term. This term is always one of my favourites in the lead up to Christmas but it is also particuarly busy!

   

  This week has been Anti-bullying week and all the classes have been looking particuarly at how to keep themselves safe online. I will be providing more details in the newsletter but leaflets will be avaliable during parents evening next week regarding how you can support children at home. All classes have also made a wreath this week in preperation for Monday when we will hold a minute silence at 11am for Remembrance Day.

   

  2 children who deserve a special mention in the blog this week are Harriet and Lyla P.

  Harriet didn't let us know that over the summer she won Lowdham librarys summer reading challenge with a fantastic goodie bag of prizes. Well done Harriet!

   

  Lyla spent her half term making excellent use of her artistic abilities to paint some beautiful pictures that she then sold to raise funds for our Link Ethiopia Charity. She made an incredible £44! We are so impressed with her act of service.

   

  On to our brilliant book...

  
  Infant 1- Super Sentence Writer- Niamh for working so hard to hear and write a lot of her sounds totally independently!
  Rupert- for really thinking carefully in maths  this week. He has been listening and concentrating which has shown in his answers. He was able to say which goup had more or fewer or the same! Super maths work Rupert!

  Eleanor- for the incredible progress she is making in her blending and spelling of words. Her writing is so clear now and she is trying so hard!

   

  Infant 2- Seb for lot of careful writing all week checking he is using his correct sounds.

  Ella S and Freddie- For brilliant maths this week showing the various ways of partitioning 2 digit numbers using concrete, pictorial and moving onto abstract methods. Their recall was superb and very fluent. Well done!
  Writer of the week: Seth for his superb letter including full stops throughout and even making use of retorical questions in his writing!

   

  Junior 1- Megan for sharing excellent maths knowledge with the class during lessons, as well as building up her resilience by trying her best and not being afraid to make mistakes!

   

  Junior 2- Connie and Florrie- for their fantastic sequels to the book "The Hurricaine" before half term. Well done girls for looking carefully at what you had to include but also making your writing so enjoyable to read.