Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Thy Kingdom Come
Mon 17 May 2021This week sees the launch of Thy Kingdom Come at Gunthorpe- this global prayer initiative sees Christians from all denomications coming together to pray for God's Holy Spirit to come.
In our Junior assembly we watched this launch video https://youtu.be/3k3pIwVqisA to find out more about it. The chidlren then created prayer flowers for 5 people they will be thinking about and trying to support this week.
In our Infant assembly we have been watching the Cheeky Panda videos designed for younger children. Today we looked at the Duck award and thought about how we can pray when we are happy and when we are sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUT00I7tZg
We have a range of exciting outside prayer activites that will be set up in the outdoor classroom all week for the children to enjoy.
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Marvellous Monday 17th May
Mon 17 May 2021Infant 1- Georgia for finding her voice and growing in confidence in school.
Florence- for such an improvement in confidence. She is now coming into school with a big smile on her face!
Infant 2-
Pheobe- for her enthusiasm with her Victorians topic and sharing her knowledge about households artefacts.
Cara- for writing a brilliant diary entry about a victorian child in the workhouse.
Junior 1- Zac - excellent improvement in your presentation, especially in Maths. Well done for taking time to set out your calculations clearly.
Georgie- for fantastic presentation and care when chunking in division.
Ella S and Scarlett- for an impressive improvement in your times tables challenge.
Junior 2- Chloe and Evie H - fantastic English work wiritng a scene from Romeo and Juliet as a playscript.
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Marvellous Monday 26th April
Mon 26 Apr 2021Welcome back to the Summer Term- it was so lovely to have all the children back last week and from our Marvellous Monday assembly this morning it was clear they have all come back and are working really hard already! Our April newsletter will be coming out today so do look out for that.
On to our Brilliant book...
Infant 1- Both Elodie and Eleanor really impressed Mrs Findlay with their writing all about the farm they designed.
Infant 2- Archie has been working really hard on his phonics and Mr Shaw was very impressed by the progress he made last week.
Frankie had been a super scientist really making use of his knowledge of materials and explaining his choices to design and make a fantastic paper air plane.Junior 1- A big well done to Freddy C and Toby for turning their proverb into a playscript. The proverb they were given was 2 heads are better than 1 and in this case it seemed to prove true!
Junior 2- Well done to Aleena and Thomas for their fantastic maths work last week converting between different units of measure.
Leon your english work converting formal text into an informal speech really impressed Mr Tyler.A big well done to Lissie, Lewis, Teddy and Molly for your values slips. Please keep submitting them virtually here https://www.gunthorpeschool.co.uk/whole-school-values/
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Happy Easter!
Thu 01 Apr 2021Please enjoy our whole school Easter service with contributions from every class across the school as we journey through Holy Week together and celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection
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Marvellous Monday 29th March
Mon 29 Mar 2021What a fantastic week we had at Gunthorpe last week. It was great to be able to start using the field as the weather improves.
Parents evening went really well using school cloud. We have provided an opportunity for you to feedback how it went from your perspective and comments on how your child is getting on this year https://forms.office.com/r/aXyQKV6DQU please do take a minute to complete this for us.
A big well done to those who got their values pebbles this week!
In our brilliant book this week:
Infant 1- Well done to Lewis for being a brilliant mathematician and not just in the maths sessions but when playing in the making area, outside and in his play. He was so confident in assembly able to answer some super tricky questions!
Well done to Kitty for you positive and happy attitude towards school. It is so lovely to see you being so much more confident when you are here.
Infant 2- A huge well done to Ben and Jake who met their writing targets and wrote some beautiful character description for the big bad wolf last week. I was so impressed with their writing both presentation and all the features they have included.
Henry was also in the brilliant book for his superb maths all week especially using his knowledge of halving and dividing by 2 to answer worded questions.
Junior 1-A big well done to Lyla P and Megan for their fantastic RE writing retelling the story of Holy Week.
Junior 2- Well done to Rhona and Kai. Rhona has been working really hard in maths to find the mean average and Kai really impressed Mrs Shaw with his presentation and effort for his flying pigs newspaper report.
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Red Nose Day
Mon 22 Mar 2021A big thank you to parents for all the donations on parent pay- we raised a fantastic £123.
Well done to all those children who were brave enough to enter our joke compeition we had some brillaint ones. You can watch the video of a selection of them here:
https://animoto.com/play/lmQwP1ZEKVCv1TOJSiziFA
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Marvellous Monday 15th March
Mon 15 Mar 2021What a fantastic first week back we had! All the children have returned to school and settled so well. A big thank you to all parents who were supporting children with their home learning- it has made such a difference and teachers have been able to continue the topics that they were teaching!
A big well done to Ava (Infants) and to Jiamin (Juniors) for winning the £5 amazon vouchers for world book day potatoes. There was some really tough competition- all the entries can be found on the world book day page here: https://www.gunthorpeschool.co.uk/world-book-day/
A big well done to Niamh, Florence and Henry for their values slips- 4 more pebbles in our jar. We are already planning what our whole school treat could be when we fill one up!
On to our brilliant book:
Infant 1- Rupert -for your fantastic butterfly observational drawing. You looked really carefully and included so much detail.
Cole- you were so determined to get back into the routine of school even though it was tricky to remember so much! Mrs Findlay was so proud of you!
Infant 2- Anders- for such a massive improvement in your red word spelling test over the time of school closure all that hard work really paid off!
Pheobe- we can really tell you were listening to Miss Bottrell's videos during maths as you came back and showed us how much you had learnt. We are all very proud of you!
Frances- you have settled so well into school and we are so impressed by how mature and confident you are. It is like you have always been a part of Infant 2!
Junior 1- Laci-Mai for working so hard on your writing especially your speech punctuation.
Liberty- for fantastic use of adverbs and conjunctions in your writing.
George- for your complex sentences including fronted adverbials.
Junior 2- Pollyanna and Melissa - fantastic maths multiplying franctions by whole numbers
Oliver-and Krishan- fantastic maths reflecting shapes on a coordinates grid
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Marvellous Monday 8th March
Tue 09 Mar 2021A very big welcome back to school to ALL our children. Monday was a joy filled day -my face was aching from smiling so much! School has been filled with noise, but when it's the happy chatter of children catching up with friends and teachers - that is just delightful!
Thank you all so much for being brilliant at remembering the staggered drop off and collection times. It means that school is never too busy and definitely keeps us all safe.
We held our first in person Marvellous Monday since December which was another real highlight of all being back together!
A big well done to
Infant 1- Marcel- for your determination last week and for continuing to try your best at all you do. Mrs Findlay had spotted how hard you had been working on riding a tricycle in school so a big well done!Oliver- you are the super sentence writer for last week. Mrs Findlay was so impressed with your hand control and how well you sounded out each word. Fantastic!
Infant 2- Ava you were also in our brilliant book for your determination and how hard you have worked throughout lockdown. Miss Bottrell was so proud of you and is so looking forward to seeing how good your work is in school.
Lauren- your work on World Book Day was what earned you your place in the brilliant book. Your room on the broom extra page was superb. Thank you for telling us all about how your Mum's pet rabbit inspired you.
Junior 1- Cameron and Lissie- you were both in the brilliant book for how hard you worked last week. Both of you were in school for some time and working from home for the rest of it. You always give 100% effort to all you do and impressed Mrs Stewart and Mrs Brown last week especially.
Junior 2- Jiamin and Chloe- you both wrote superb mystery stories in English last week. Mr Tyler thoroughly enjoyed reading both of yours so a big well done to you both.
We know many children, and teachers, were very tired last night. We hope that all children will really enjoy being back at work, we know it will take time for children to settle back into routines and we will work with them. Teachers will continue to check class emails however this may only be weekly so please do contact the school office for anything urgent.
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World Book Day
Wed 03 Mar 2021Thursday 4th March is world book day and learning both at school and at home will look different- the link to find all the activities is here https://www.gunthorpeschool.co.uk/world-book-day/
I have added some photos of the potato entries we recieved... winners to be announced this week!
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Encourage one another!
Tue 23 Feb 2021Over this half term and through lent we are going to focus on encouraging one another. We launched this with a live assembly on Monday - do have a look here
https://www.gunthorpeschool.co.uk/headteacher-vlog-of-the-week/
Throughout this half term we will look at how our story and Gods story are linked and how we can be encouraged from stories in the bible. We will use the big frieze picture to help us work through the bible starting with creation.
Please keep sending your footprints in!
