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

• Headteacher blog w/c 6th May 2019

  Fri 10 May 2019 Mrs Bills

  What a fantastic week it has been and what a lot we seem to have squeezed into 4 days. Our lacrosse team played their final tournament of the year winning their final game 3-1. They gave an excellent match report in our fantastic Friday assembly and spoke about how they felt everything came together being able to work as a team, defend well and be able to score. Well done for never giving up!

   

  On to our brilliant book...

  Infant 1- Writer of the week- Seb- for using his phonics when writing independently. He has been using the writing area lots and has enjoyed making signs for the classroom this week. My favourite were ' you must be good' and 'don't tread on the toys'.
  Autumn- Mrs Findley was really impressed with Autumn's can do attitude all this week. She has been really concentrating on her reading and writing especially.

   

  Infant 2- Writer of the Week- Zac- for his fantastic use of vocabulary in his writing about an under the water adventure!

  Toby- For always understanding the importance of telling the truth and following rules to help make good choices.

  Lucy- for great maths work reading scales with missing numbers

   

  Junior 1- Kai- excellent independent maths work followed by brilliant spellings. You have been working so hard all week Kai. Well done.
  Carla- for progress and and taking care more recently. You are writing neatly, spelling well and checking all the way through your writing! Keep it up!

   

  Junior 2- Lukas - for making super progress with his reading 
  Hannah- for 50 out of 50 on our most recent GPS (Grammar) test. No easy achievement as all the teachers will testify!

   

  We just want to take this opportunity to wish all our year 6s good luck for next week and we know they will do brilliantly!

   

  

• New Website Launched!

  Sun 05 May 2019

  Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!

• Head Teacher Blog w/c 29 April

  Fri 03 May 2019 Claire Bills

  What a fantastic week it has been! We started the week looking at our value for this half term of Determination and our Always try your hardest petal. We heard from Will Smith who puts his success down to his work ethic not his natural talent.

   

  Our boys football team played showing Determination on Monday. Whilst they lost 3-0 they played a very strong team from Orston and defended magnificently never giving up. Well done for representing our school so well boys!

   

  On to our brilliant book...

  Infant 1- Frankie- for some fantastic handwriting. Frankie pressed really hard with his pencil and used strong writing fingers. Your writing really is getting brilliant now Frankie so keep it up!
  Alex- for showing real determination and a can do attitude when writing her Jack and the Beanstalk story. Well done!
  
  Infant 2- Freddie- for super independent maths showing all possible + and - number sentences for his number bonds to 10
  Lucia- for fantastic phonics when doing hold a sentence using split diagraph 'e-e'
  Lyla M- for excellent effort with her homework both in presentation and creativity. We were all very impressed with your Octopus!
  Writer of the week- Cameron- for great use of facts to write a letter to explain why a Blue whale couldn't possibly be in a garden pond. A* for presentation!

   

  Junior 1- Sophia, Ali, Oliver and Jiamin- for their high quality writing using fronted adverbials, word choices and conjunctions in good sentences.  We read one of their diary entries out and it really was superb!

  
  Junior 2- Hannah- super maths work using algebra to find rules for number sequences.

  Ben- for writing a really good newspaper report on Flying pigs

  Erica- for her excellent attitude and always striving to produce high quality work.  Erica is always happy to help and is a model of good behaviour.

   

  

• SIAMS report

  Fri 03 May 2019 Claire Bills

  We are delighted to be able to share out our latest SIAMS report. The inspection took place before the Easter holiday and the school was judged to be Good in all areas.

  Gunthorpe SIAMS Report

  We are particularly proud that during the inspection it was noted that Gunthorpe was found to have “a culture where everyone is valued for whoever they are or whatever they want to be”.  It was also commented that “Pupils flourish in the school, demonstrating progress academically, socially and spiritually”.  

  Thank you to all parents who spoke to the inspector we were very pleased with all his findings and agree with the areas of development for how we can take the school forward.

• 90kg Fair Trade Rice Challenge

  Fri 03 May 2019

  As mentioned in the newsletter that went out just before half term, we are supporting fair trade fortnight at Gunthorpe launching this week with the 90kg rice challenge. This challenge is taken by over 800 schools, churches and fair trade groups across the county.

   

  It is an opportunity to think of innovative ways to sell the rice and to encourage and inspire children to understand what fair trade means. 90kg is the amount of rice a farmer in Malawi has to sell to enable him to send a child to secondary school for a year. This is an opportunity these Malawian children would not otherwise get and one which we, working together as a school, can provide. We have ordered 90 1kg bags of rice and these will be available to purchase directly from school.

   

  You are welcome to come into school and pay via cash or cheque or you can order via parent pay. Each bag costs £3.05 and there is no limit on how many you can purchase until they are all sold! We will be having a competition to see which class can sell the most bags and the individual pupil who sells the most will win a fair trade Easter egg.

  

• Momo challenge

  Fri 03 May 2019

  You will probably already have heard news reports or seen links via social media about the Momo Challenge. Although this is now being reported as a hoax, the reports and warnings could still cause distress to children – there are so often things that happen online that can be misleading or frightening and some things that are specifically designed to get a lot of attention! Should you require any further information or advice, I have attached a ‘Top Tips for Parents’ guide published by National Online Safety which relates to this challenge.

   

  In school, we have answered some questions about this subject with our older children as a number of them have heard news reports or spoken to older siblings or parents about it. More generally, we are using this as an opportunity to remind children about basic online safety advice and making sure they know to talk to an adult about anything they see or are asked to do that makes them feel scared, worried or uncomfortable. 

   

  As parents, you could take the opportunity to review privacy settings on devices and consider how your child accesses the internet. Parents of younger children may also want to install YouTube Kids, a more controlled version of YouTube intended for families, for better control of what young children may come across online. 

  

• Family Photography Session

  Thu 01 Feb 2018
  

• Top 1% Primary School in England for Reading

  Thu 11 Jan 2018

  We were delighted with the excellent results for end of KS2 last year especially in Reading. Today we were very pleased to see this recognised with a letter from both the Secretary and Minister of State for Education.