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

• Scarecrow Compettion

  Fri 06 Oct 2023

  Well done to all our infant children who worked together to create a Little Miss Muffet Scarecrow for Maxey's farm shop's scarecrow competition. If you are visiting Maxey's don' forget to vote for us!

  

• Harvest Festival

  Wed 04 Oct 2023

  What a lovely celebration! Thank you to Rev Anna for sharing the service with us and all the parents for supporting their children. We had singing, poetry, facts and prayer. Well done Gunthorpe, all the donations were sent to The Friary in West Bridgford,

  

• Sports day

  Tue 18 Jul 2023

  We managed to have a mini sports day on Monday morning with all children taking part in at least 2 races!

  

• We are a take care school

  Tue 18 Apr 2023

  Today we launched a new relationships policy replacing our behaviour policy. Part of this was to become a take care school - we take care of ourselves, take care of each other, take care of God’s world and take care of our work. 
   

  We talked to the children about how green cards would now be replaced with take care points which children can earn by showing themselves taking care in any of the 4 ways mentioned above.

   

  Through the afternoon children had the opportunity to think about how they could show our take care approach and how these were already embedded at Gunthorpe through our whole school values and habits. Taking care of Gods world is one of the habits of respect for example!

   

  The children were amazing and nearly every child earned themselves a take care point in the first day - please do speak to your child about what this looks like at school!

  

• Aspire science day

  Tue 14 Mar 2023

  We had a fantastic Aspire wide science day today building index card towers. There were 3 different levels of challenge undertaken by children age 3-11 across the school. We also had a zoom meeting to East Bridgford to share what we had found out!

  

• Anti-bullying week

  Thu 17 Nov 2022

  The theme for this weeks anti-bullying week was about reaching out. We have encouraged all children to be the change they want to see in the world. We spoke about how this links into the golden rule as part of our friendship value to love one another and treat each other like you would like to be treated.

   

  Children came into school on Moday in odd socks to remember that everyone is different and that is something to be celebrated not a reason to be unkind.

   

  We define bullying as hurting someone repeatedly or when there is an imbalance of power such as two or three children against one child. We have spoken about how there are different ways to hurt someone:

   

  Physical bullying – includes pushing, shoving, biting, pinching, hitting and kicking. It could be damaging or taking someone's belongings.

   

  It can be easier to spot physical bullying. People might see it happening and it can leave bruises.

   

  Verbal bullying – includes name-calling, saying nasty things about someone, teasing and threats.

   

  It is harder to tell if someone is being verbally bullied. It can be done more secretly and doesn't leave visible marks. It hurts people’s feelings and emotions and is very harmful.

   

  Social bullying – includes spreading rumours about someone, leaving someone out on purpose, telling others not to be friends with someone or embarrassing someone in public.

   

  We encourage all children to tell an adult if they see anyone being unkind to anyone else or if someone if being unkind to us.  We would ask that if your child ever tells you about something that concerns you, you come and speak to a member of staff. We work hard to watch children in the classroom and at playtimes but do not always see everything. If we don't know something has happened we can't do anything about it.  We would not encourage parents to use open spaces such as social media to discuss this between themselves but come and talk to us so we can help.

  

• Diwali Day

  Wed 09 Nov 2022

  Infant 1 and Infant 2 joined together last week to celebrate Diwali.  Here are some of the fantastic activities that they got up to:

  

• Values Day 2022

  Wed 09 Nov 2022

  We had an amazing values day last week where we shared a biblical story based on each of our values.  These were:

   

  Determination- The lost sheep

  Respect- Creation

  Forgiveness- Joseph and his technicoloured coat

  Friendship- The Golden Rule - treat others as you would like to be treated

  Service -- The Good Samaritan

   

  Here are some photos of the children having an amazing time!

  

• Rotary Club Dictionaries

  Thu 29 Sep 2022

  A huge thank you to the rotary club for the dictionaries provided for all our year 5 pupils. They are always so helpful and well used for their 2 years in Junior 2.

  

• MasterChef semi final

  Wed 13 Jul 2022

  A huge congratulations to Noah, Jacob, Daisy, Lyla, Megan, Seth, Jessie, Ella, Isobel and Carla for a hugely successful master chef semi final. The guest judges from The Old Volunteer were blown away by the quality of the dishes. How delicious do they look?
   

  Our 4 finalists for next week to cook at The Old Vol are Jacob, Ella, Jessie and Lyla!