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• Young Voices

  Fri 17 Jan 2020 Mrs Bills

  For the first time ever this year Gunthorpe joined in with “the largest school choir in the world” in a concert organised by Young Voices.  On Monday 13^th January we took a choir of 20 children, from year 2 to 6, too Sheffield arena for a singing extravaganza. The children had worked incredibly hard practising and rehearsing 14 different songs complete with dance moves.  It was a very long day, with the children not returning home until 10.30pm but they only have incredibly positive feedback with 100% of them agreeing they would love to be a part of it again. Here is what some of them said:

   

  “It was a great experience to sing with other people from so many different schools” Toby (year 3)

   

  “I made new friends with people from the choir. It was amazing to sing with everyone and I loved doing all the actions” Georgie (year 2)

   

  “It was such a wonderful opportunity to do something so special. I met wonder people, even from afar. There was a real community around all the schools. One school started a Mexican wave with their torches and it spread all around the arena!” Aleena (year 5)

   

  “I am so glad I got the experience as I am in year 6 and won’t get the chance again. It was the best time of my life. Singing, dancing alongside other schools and famous singers. It really boosted my confidence because I knew even if I made a mistake it wouldn’t matter and if people laughed it was because we were all having fun together” Harriet (year 6)

   

  “It was so funny, especially dancing alongside Andy. He was so enthusiastic and made everyone laugh- he was just like a big kid. I loved the lights and think everyone should do it next year!” Lyla P (year 3)

   

  Big thank you to Mrs Brown and Miss Bottrell for organising, rehearsing and all your hard work to make it happen!

  

• Head Teachers Blog w/c 6th January

  Fri 10 Jan 2020

  What a fantastic first week back for the term. We welcome several new families to our school and we know their children have settled beautifully so well done (they are all in the brilliant book!). We also say a sad good bye today to Kelsie-Mae and Gracie who are leaving and will be missed. Good luck at your next school.

   

  We invited all the year 6 parents to join us for our fantastic Friday assembly and presented the children with their leavers hoodies. They can wear them in school from Monday and they know that the whole school will be looking up to them to set the example for how amazing Gunthorpe children can be!

   

  On to our brilliant book...

  Infant 1- Rupert and Pheobe- for their fantastic stick men. They both put a lot of thought into what they were doing and took a lot of care with their work (photos to follow!)
  Claudie- For brilliant sentence writing today. Claundie wrote all by herself- even having a go at writing corn flakes!

  Cole- For a brilliant start to school. He only joined yesterday and he has joined in with everything. Well done!

   

  Infant 2- Rhys and Seb- for excellent work reading contractions (eg. I've and we'll) and matching words.
  Cara- for settling in so well and being a great friend. You have shown such enthusiasm for everything you have done!
  Georgie- for her fantastic RE Epiphany work- she thought carefully about the gifts within her and reflected on our school values beautfully.

   

  Junior 1- Callum and Oliver- for a great first week! Lots of hard work, good listening and learning what we do. You've made friends well and joined in with many things.

  Frances- for your excellent knowledge of "Can you catch a mermain?" In addition you are now a rock star on TT rockstars becuase of your work over last half term!

   

  Junior 2- Kelsie- for really good English work this week on modal verbs and punctuating speech.

  Oliver B- for writing a good summary of a chapter from Carries War.

  

• Head Teachers Blog w/c 16th December

  Fri 20 Dec 2019

  What a fantastic week it has been please do see the December newsletter and look at the twitter for some fantastic photos and updates on this last week of term. Far too much to mention here!

   

  This week in the brilliant book we have...

   

  Infant 1- Henry for building a fantastic sleigh out of a cardboard box for all his friends to play in.
  Niamh then made shiny noses for all her friends who wanted to be reindeer! Oh what fun!

   

  Infant 2- writer of the week - Freddie for a great letter to Santa explaining why he has been good all year!

  Seb- for enthusiasm and asking lots of questions at white post farm!

   

  Junior 1- Hudson for his extraordinary achievements in taekwondo. He brought in his trophy to show us as he was chosen as fighter of the year 2019 after only starting just over a year ago. He is doing so well, concentrating and working hard. He just skipped a belt in his grading- what a star!

  Harrison- for his service at all time’s to school. He shows real integrity when being his best even when no one else is around. From helping new people settle into school to going the extra mile when someone dropped out and learning extra lines in the concert. You truly are an example of our school value!

   

  Junior 2- for all year 6s showing service in our senior song-a-long.

  Athletics team- a brilliant effort in the Rushcliffe final. 9th out of the whole of Rushcliffe and 1st out of all the small schools. What an achievement we are really proud of you all.

   

  To all Junior 1 and Junior 2 in the carol concert a big well done from Mr Tyler and Mrs Nolan!

   

  All that remains is to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

  

• Head Teachers Blog w/c 9th December

  Fri 13 Dec 2019

  What a brilliant busy week we have had at Gunthorpe:

  Our lacrosse team playing brilliantly on Wednesday- well done to Oliver, Benjamin, Joshua, Orla, Erica and Harriet for being so determined and not giving up.  They played against a very good side but demonstrated resilience and got better with every game. Joshua also took part in a cross country final last weekend and placed second overall which was an incredible achievement. He brought in his silver medal which he wore with pride. Well done Josh!

  All the infants sang their hearts out on Wednesday during the Nativity and we hope you enjoyed their performance. We were incredibly proud of each and every one of them.

  The 2 rock bands performed brilliantly on Tuesday morning - they have been having lessons with Rock Steady and have made excellent progress!

  Our year 6 pupil parliament representatives decorating our Christmas tree for the festival at St Marys on Thursday morning and our "While Shephards Watched" tree looks brilliant.

  And next week is set to be even busier with the Infants visit to White Post farm, the Junior carol concert, the senior sing-a-long, christmas dinner day and party day! 

   

  On to our brilliant book..

   

  Infant 1- Ava and Eleanor- for both trying really hard with their reading. Eleanor has been getting quicker with her blending and Ava has been trying to read quickly and blend words in her head. Well done to you both!

   

  Infant 2- Writer of the week- Rhys for his brilliant first 3 pages of his christmas story. He remembered lots of detail, used great language and really tried hard with his handwriting well done!

   

  Junior 1- Leo and Jacob- for their kind and friendly discussions in GOSH this morning. They included everyone in the group and made sure everyone was able to play their game. This meant everyone was happy before they started the day.

   

  Junior 2- Amber- really good maths using a number line for subtractions involving decimals.
  Kai- for 18/18 for his spelling test - a real testimony to his hard work and practise.

  Rosie- for her fantastic work on a maths reasoning SAT scoring 35 out of 35!

  

• Head Teachers blog w/c 2nd Dec

  Fri 06 Dec 2019

  What a busy and fun filled week it has been! We had our Christingle service on Monday, Nottingham Forest bring the Champions Cup in on Tuesday and Framework visit on Wednesday to share where our Alternative Advent donations are going! Amongst that the Infants have been busy practising their nativity and Juniors their carol concert. Both are sounding brilliant- you are in for a real treat!

  
  On to our brilliant book...

   

  Infant 1- Bella and Pheobe- for their fantastic Starry Night pictures. Both girls took their time and added details. They then decided to make another Starry Night picture all by themselves, collecting everything they needed. Do have a look at them below!

   

  Infant 2- Lyla Mullins- for being really helpful. A kind and caring member of the class and a great role model.

  Jake, Lauren and Seb- both Mrs Brown and Mrs Shaw were blown away with their vocab and maths knowledge.

  A bonus mention to Freddie for his beautiful Big Freeze art work- absolutely stunning.

   

  Junior 1- Year 3/4 girls in the Futsal team played really well and even managed to score a goal which is a fantastic achievement. They lost one game 1-0 and drew the other 1-1. Well done to all involved!

  Carla- for always getting on with her work and being sensible in all situations, and for always listening!

  Krishan- for trying his best and successding in maths this week despite missing many lessons through illness. Excellent listening and hard work.

   

  Junior 2- Massive well done to both Jacob and Joshua who represented the school at the Rushcliffe Cross Country Championship on Wednesday. Out of 70 boys Jacob came 14th and Josh came 2nd. Amazing achievement from both boys.

  Jiamin- a fantastic performance in a maths arithmetic test scoring 32 out of 32!

  Katy and Harriet- Great maths work calculating differences between 2 amounts of money.

  

• Alternative Advent Calendar

  Fri 06 Dec 2019

  Many thanks to all families who have joined with us to support Framework in supporting the homeless this winter through our alternative advent calendar. We have been overwhelmed by your generosity once more. We had Kris come and visit us to share all about the work Framework do. 
   

  Each day children from every class bring in items which make such a difference to the lives of those who have much less. This helps teach the children about our value of service and appreciate how much they have.

   

  A big thank you to Melissa and Amy who have gone the extra mile and made raindeer food and hot chocolate raindeer which are for sale in the entrance with all donations going to Framework.

   

   

  

• 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.