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

• Welcome Mrs Harvey

  Thu 12 Sep 2019

  This year Mrs Perry will not be teaching every week at Gunthorpe. She has worked at the school for many years and has been fantastic at supporting music and gardening within the school. We are all so grateful for the amazing enthusiasm and energy that she has brought to the school especially with the superb concerts and productions she has been involved with. We are all going to miss her but hoepfully she will continue to be able to continue to teach, all be it less frequently - I know Junior 2 loved seeing her yesterday!

   

  Today Mrs Harvey started as a music specialist for the school. She will be teaching Junior 1 and Junior 2 on a Thursday afternoon for this Autumn term. Mrs Harvey is a very experienced primary teacher with a specialism in music.  I know that the children will make her feel really welcome and I hope she feels part of the Gunthorpe team straight away.

   

   

   

   

  

• Aldi's Kit for Schools

  Fri 06 Sep 2019

  This term we’re collecting Team GB stickers with Aldi’s Kit for Schools for the chance to be one of 20 primary schools to win £20,000 to build a health legacy at our school!

   

  From 6 September–3 November, when you spend £30 or more in any Aldi store, you’ll receive a special Team GB sticker – if our school works together to collect 300 stickers, we will automatically receive an exclusive school sports kit, in addition to entry into the £20,000 prize draw!

  Please send any stickers you receive into school with your children, or bring them in yourself  to add to our collection box in the school office, and we will add them to our Aldi’s Kit for Schools sticker poster.

   

  The Aldi’s Kit for Schools campaign supports the aims of Get Set to Eat Fresh, Aldi and Team GB’s award-winning school’s programme, which has already beaten its target to reach 1.2 million young people in the UK by 2020, reaching over 1.5 million young people since its inception.

   

  Throughout the autumn term, we will be trying out Get Set to Eat Fresh’s fun and engaging resources to create healthy moments in assemblies and the classroom, alongside setting occasional take-home tasks and challenges. We appreciate your support in helping pupils to complete these activities and hope you will enjoy finding out more about the campaign and the healthy challenges we complete.

  We hope everyone will enjoy collecting Team GB stickers and exploring healthy eating this term. Remember, Aldi’s Kit for Schools Team GB stickers are available until 3 November when shopping in any Aldi store. We will keep everyone up to date with how many stickers we have collected, and how many we have to go!

  If you want to find out more about Aldi’s Kit for Schools you can visit getseteatfresh.co.uk/kitforschools, or get in touch with the school for more information on our plans. 

   

  Thank you so much for your support on this project – we look forward to receiving any stickers you collect!

  

• Head Teachers Blog w/c 2nd September

  Fri 06 Sep 2019

  What a fantastic first week back it has been. All the classes have been so settled and it has been such a pleasure to walk around school and see children so enthusiastic and excited about their new topics.  I hope by now you have recieved the class newsletter from your childs teacher, do please feel free to speak to them at the start of end of the day on the playground if there is anything you are unsure about! We have a very exciting term coming up. 

   

  On Saturday 14th September please don't forget our Gunthorpe Gala which is always a fantastic event  organised by FoGS and always raises an incredible amount of much needed funds for school. A big thank you for all those who are working so hard in preparation for the day. Ducks and raffle tickets are still avaliable to purchase on the playground.

   

  On Sunday 15th September we have been asked by Rev Simon Jones if as a school we would like to be part of the OneLIFE Songs of Praise service they are holiday at the church.  OneLIFE is a group of Bishops and church leaders from the North of England, led by the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. I would love to be able to bring a group of children to sing one or two of the schools favourite songs. If you are free to attend please sign up so we know if we have enough children free here https://forms.gle/EqBUTddyoLwVAPhs9

  More details about the event can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/342866083259408/

   

  On to our brilliant book!

  Infant 1- Henry and Eleanor- for making a fantastic start in reception. Showing great listening and following our rules and routines!

   

  Infant 2- Frankie- for having confidence in the classrom and a great attitude to being in year 1!

  Heidi- for clearly doing lots of reading at home and making huge progress over the summer. 

   

  Junior 1- Harrison and Isobel- an extra energetic start to the year. Thank you for supporting others in your group work and thinking well to solve problems in science.

   

  Junior 2- Orla and Evie B- a really good start to the year in maths. Showing a great understanding of place value.

   

  A special mention to Jessie and Rupert for working really hard and passing their martial arts grading over the summer. Jessie even scored 6+ (out of 6!) for effort and attitude- what a super star!

   

  If any children completed the Summer Reading challenge at the library please do bring your certificates and medals in for next Friday as we would love to celebrate this acheivement together. There is also still time to hand in the School Summer Reading challenge bingo card to Mrs Brown for a prize!

   

  

• Welcome back!

  Wed 04 Sep 2019 Mrs Bills

  Welcome back to school!

   

  We hope you have had a fantastic summer, it has been so lovely to welcome all the children back and hear all about what they got up to in the holidays. Thank you for sending your children in to school with smart uniform and positive attitudes. We would like to give a warm welcome to our new children Dax, Kitty, Isobel, Sebby, Jimmy, Joshua, Noah, Elenor and Leon. We also welcome Mrs Shipman our new School Buisness Manager in the office.

   

  Class newsletters will be coming out this week and a whole school newsletter by next Monday with a dates list for your diary- we will also be endevoring to ensure the calendar on the new school website is kept up to date this year!

  

• Headteachers blog w/c 15th July

  Fri 19 Jul 2019

  What a fantastic week. Year 6 had a brilliant time at Southwell Minster on Monday, both Infant classes had a super seaside day on Tuesday and our Beauty and the Beast production was on Thursday! All of that is then topped of with our year 2 and 3 sleepover tonight!

   

  On to our brilliant book..

  Infant 1- Frankie and Seb for some fantastic 'rock friends' this morning. They added lots of detail and used their imagination to describe what their rock friend might do

   

  Infant 2- Cameron & Toby- for showing true friendship and consideration to Dax on his early years visit and playing with him so nicely.
  Ella S and Heidi- for a beuatiful letter and card of thanks for the sea side day. Miss Bottrell was very touched by them both so thank you!

   

  Junior 1- Evie B and Amber- for excellend work at swimming during water safety, they both listened well and followed the process accurately and enthusiastically.

  Leon- for settling in so well and being a great friend. Mrs Nolan is looking forward to helping him learn and work hard next year. You've fitted in so well to the class already.

  Kai- for professional, methodical approach to serving at dinner time. What a star! Keep it up!

   

  Junior 2- Harriett- for excellent work this morning completing a very complicated scorecard for their cricket match. New Zeland vs Australia. Well done to New Zeland team!

   

  More photos from the sleepover will no doubt follow on Monday when the teachers have recovered! Have a lovely weekend and we will see you for the final 3 days next week!

  

• Beauty and the Beast

  Fri 19 Jul 2019

  A huge well done to all Juniors who took part in the fantastic performance of Beauty and the Beast. A big thank you to Linda and Donna who helped with costumes and too Ms Perry and Mr Tyler for the brilliant set, acting, singing and bringing the whole thing together. 

   

   

  

• Headteachers blog w/c 8th July

  Fri 12 Jul 2019

  We had a fantastic week and it has been brilliant to see the production come to life this week, you are in for a real treat next Thursday! We also had the Junior Masterchef final on Tuesday- big well done again to Erica for winning but also to all who took part!

  Thank you also to all parents who joined us Thursday evening for the FOGS Disco and leaving BBQ it was a fantastic event and we were very lucky the rain stayed away for the main event. A huge thank you to all those parents who organised and ran such a superb event.

   

  On to our brilliant book..

   

  Infant 1- Alex- for spotting a toddler in the outdoor classroom during the Disco and very gently going to get them out. She showed the values of friendship, respect and service.
  Rhys- for making some brilliant fish this morning for his sea picture, Rhys cut his shapes out carefully and really thought about the shapes he needed. 

   

  Infant 2- Ella S- for going the extra mile at home and producing a canvas beach scene for our topic.
  Jacob - for creating a lego landscape using lots of geographic features of a costal town.

  Heidi- for speaking out and being confident to do the right thing and respecting the rules of school.

   

  Junior 1- Ali- Mrs Shaw nominated Ali for his fantastic technique swimming. Beautiful straight arms when doing backstroke and for really listening in order to improve.

  Summer- for her quick learning of her lines for the production. Thank you Summer and well done!

   

  Junior 2- All of year 6 for their brilliant SATS results. We are incredibly proud of all of you!

  

• Masterchef Final

  Fri 12 Jul 2019

  On Tuesday our final 5 contestants went to Tom Browns for our Junior Masterchef competition.

   

  They had a fantastic time and had 2 challenges to complete. The first was to create a plate of perfectly scrambled eggs. They were presented with eggs, cream, milk, butter and salt and given no further instructions! They all did a splendid job and it was very close to judge.

  
  The second challenge was plating up a desert that Tom Browns recently served at an Alice in Wonderland event. They were each provided with a piece of strawberry cheesecake and had to plate it up after watching the head chef demonstrate.  All 5 of their desserts looked, and tasted, delicious!

  
  It was a very close final but the winner was Erica! A huge well done, to Oliver, Jaby, Hannah and Orla who all did incredibly well and should be very proud of themselves.

  

• Headteachers Blog w/c 1st July

  Fri 05 Jul 2019 Claire Bills

  We have had a fantastic week with Sports Day on Tuesday and Junior 2 taking part in a play in a day all about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle- do watch the video on Junior 2 class page to see how brilliant they all were!

   

  On to our brilliant book..

  Infant 1- Alex and Jake for their fantastic observtional drawings of leaves. They looked really carefully and took their time including lots of detail

  
  Infant 2- All of year 1 were nominated for being so well behaved and sensible at swimming especially this week. They beat all the juniors getting changed and were a pleasure to take.

  Ella J- For her fantastic use of sentence stems to explain her thinking in maths.

   

  Junior 1- For all year 4s who went to Walesby for representing our school so well. So many of them recieved their values certificate today because they showed how well these were engrained and lived out when they were away. It was fantastic to hear about all the fun things they got up to- especially the water fight!

   

  Junior 2- Mr Tyler wanted to put all the class in the book for 2 fantastic reasons. Firstly for all their help running sports day, it would not have been so smooth without their service. Ensuring others were able to have a go at all the sports rather than taking part themselves the whole time.  Secondly for their fantastic performance in the play in a day.  They all demonstrated great determination to learn all their lines and directions!

   

   

  

• Sports Day

  Wed 03 Jul 2019

  Sports day yesterday was absolutely fantastic thank you so much to all the parents who joined us. 

   

  Well done to all teams the results were:

  1st Blue 895

  2nd Yellow 834

  3rd Red 812

  4th Green 768

   

  It was great to see every child joining in and doing so well and a big thank you to Mr Tyler and Junior 2 for all their help making it run so smoothly.