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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/
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Head Teacher Blog w/c 23rd Sept
Fri 27 Sep 2019This week has been particularly exciting for Junior 1 who went on a residential to Walesby with Langar Primary School. We try and work closely with Langar as they also feed into Toot Hill enabling the children to develop friendships that will last into secondary school. All the children have had a fantastic time doing a wide range of activities and have all tried something new. It was my absolute pleasure to join them today and see them in action there are some brilliant photos on twitter so I would advise you to have a look and see what they got up to: https://twitter.com/gunthorpecofeps
A special well done to Summer from Junior 2 who ran in the the Equinox 24h race over the weekend. She did incredibly well and raised money for the Hartley Joe Charity. I have challenged the staff to get involved next year and see if we can put together a team! https://www.equinox24.co.uk/
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Pheobe and Niamh- for some fantastic observational drawings of fruit and vegetables. Pheobe drew a fntastic pepper and Niamh a mushroom. Both girls looked really carefully at the vegetables and included lots of detail. They really are beautiful- have a look at the photo below!
Infant 2- Seth, Lyla, Jessie, Ella S- for their hard work and attention to detail when creating their this is me work as part of the topic. They made fantastic creative choices.
Lissie- for her interest and knowledge in the world around her over the last 2 lessons. She has brilliant geographical knowledge and is such a super star!
Writer of the week: Georgie- for great detail and description when explaining why beetroot is her favourite vegetable. She was really going the extra mile when editing and improving to ensure neatness and accuracy. Well done- you can read it in the photo below.
Junior 2- Riley - for good maths work using frog number lines to calculate subtraction number sentences.
Rosie and Chloe- for writing an excellent alternative verse to the poem The Highwayman- see photo
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Young Voices 2020
Wed 25 Sep 2019Limited places avaliable for our Young Voices Concert so do sign up if your interested. There is a fantastic website showing what the concert is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZpzNr2P7gs
It really is a very exciting opportunity for Gunthorpe Children. If you did have any concerns please speak to Mrs Brown or Miss Bottrell.
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Headteacher blog w/c 16th September
Fri 20 Sep 2019What a fantastic week we have had at Gunthorpe. It feels like a long time ago now but it was only last Saturday we held our most successful gala yet. A huge thank you to FoGS for all their hard work organising everything and we are delighted to let you know over £2,500 was raised on the day! In a time when school budgets are increasingly tight this money makes a massive difference to the opportunities we are able to provide for your children.
This week has been one of great sporting success for the school with all Junior 2 girls attending a Girls Physical Activity festival- they had to see how many laps they could complete in 25 minutes constant running and Summer did brilliantly to achieve a total of 5. They all told us enthusiastically how much they enjoyed it, especially those year 6s who had been last year as year 5s. Our boys football team (also from Junior 2) took part in their first match on Thursday night after only one training session. It was an incredibly tight match and only the last kick of the game meant that they eventually drew 3-3. Mr Tyler spoke so enthusiastically about how well all the boys played and especially their sense of team work throughout. I know there is already another match lined up so we look forward to hearing all about it!
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Dax and Rupert- both in the brilliant book because despire the fact that both boys are only preschoolers they have been joining in with the phonics sessions and can now hear and match rhyming words. They are also beginning to recognise some sounds. Well done boys!
Infant 2- Writer of the week - Alex B - for a fantastic character description of the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. Please do have a read below...
Autumn- for her fantastic mathematical understanding of teen numbers. She was able to explain the tens and ones in two digit numbers and once she had completed her work chose to stay and help her friends.
Seth- is in this week for his genius maths brain. He has showed real understanding of his place value and really impressed Mrs Brown and Miss Bottrell this week.
Lissie- Mrs Brown was so impressed by your enthusiasm. She described you as just a brilliant learner, always ready to listen and take in lots of new information!
Junior 1- Olivia and Freya- for their excellent fable writing using embeded speech, joined writing and powerful additions such as adjectives and adverbs.
Evie and Toby- for working independently for a sustained time on their online mathletics homework. Well done to you both, such mature attitudes towards learning.
Junior 2- George- really good English work adding adverbials to improve sentences.
Melissa- For excellent work in English adding relative clauses to your sentences.
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Summer Reading challenge
Fri 13 Sep 2019Over the holiday we held our own Summer Reading Challenge and we were absolutely blown away with the results. We had 39 children complete the challenge and an additional 6 children had a go and handed their forms in even though they did manage to complete 15 of the challenges. A big thank you to all those who joined in the fun they all got a prize in assembly today to say well done.
We also challenged the children to see how many unusual places they could find to read in and the top 3 entries were Connie- Harry Potter Studios, Rhys mid bounce at Planet Bounce and Jacob on a theme ride! All 3 children have won a £5 book voucher which they also received today in assembly.
We have exciting plans for Reading this year at Gunthorpe as we hope to develop some Reading ambassadors from each year group.
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Headteacher blog w/c 9.9.19
Fri 13 Sep 2019What a fantastic week it has been especially with the beautiful weather to end the week. It was great to see all the children in their own clothes today and there is a real buzz around school for the gala tomorrow. I hope you are able to join us. A big well done to Harriet, Rhys and Lissie who all completed the Summer Library Reading challenge and brought their medals and certificates in this week. We also held our own Summer Reading challenge- please do read all about that here
This week we were looking at our whole school value of friendship as we welcomed the children back to school and we learnt the bible verse that as a school we have chosen to go alongside this. James 1:17
’Every good and perfect gift comes from our heavenly father’
On to our brilliant book...
Infant 1- Rupert for showing the value of friendship and service by making sure that Jimmy was able to move around the classroom by moving toys out of the way
Bella and Claudie- for making a brilliant face out of natural materials in forest school today. They found the perfect stick to make a smile.
Infant 2- Dylan for showing the value of service and looking after the classroom to keep it tidy
Alex and Autumn- for great enthusiasm for their new homework launch and producing a superb poster on the human body. What a brilliant start to year 1 girls.
Writer of the week for the first time this year went to Jake. Well done for your superb character description and for remembering all your finger spaces. It is beautifully presented.
Junior 1- Megan and Scarlett- excellent presentation in independent maths work, it is so nice to see how much pride you have taken with it.
Krishan- for showing determination and detail in all his maths challenges this week. What a superb start to the year.
Junior 2- Summer for her superb maths work. Accurately rounding 5 digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000.
Rosie and Orla for their good recounts of a day from the summer holidays. Making Mr Tyler laugh out loud is no small challenge!
