Cheerleading
Today Mrs Smith started our new PE unit on cheerleading...with real pom poms! We created a dance in unison keeping in time to beats of 8. We then made up a canon sequence with groups doing their own routines one after another.
It was great fun! Next week we are going to add some cheerleading…
Trash
Class novel: Trash
After finishing this class novel, we have awarded Trash by Andy Mulligan 5 stars!
Discussing the story as a class, we decided the main themes are:
Courage and friendship
Here are some of the comments from Year 6 pupils:
"It was great. It was one of the…
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all the very best for 2018.
I will see you all again on Monday 8th January.
Christmas Cards
Phew! Now that the Christmas cards have gone home, I can share the photographs with you showing all the hard work that the children put into making the Christmas cards.
One of our DT objectives is to use a 'slider' mechanism and what better way to do it than to have the children sledging down…
Merry Christmas
I hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
I will see you all in 2018.
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Born in a Barn
the children put on a fantastic performnace of 'Born in a Barn' this Christmas and we are all extremely proud of them. Here are some photographs from the performances.
Christmas Dinner
What a wonderful time we all had tucking in to our Christmas dinner!
Merry Christmas from Year 1!
Shh It's a Secret Storyteller!
Over the last few weeks in Year 2 we have been surprised by some amazing secret storytellers.
Our visitors have shared a wonderful variety of quality texts with the children and we have all thoroughly enjoyed listening to their stories.
We are hoping for some more surprise visits in the new…
School Uniform
School uniform can now be ordered online and delivered for free to school.
Book bags and water bottles are still available to purchase in school.
Click on the link below to go to the Slater's online shop.
http://www.slaters-schoolwear.co.uk/product-category/gillibrandprimaryschool/
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Born in a Barn
Well done to all the KS1 and Reception children who performed their nativity this week for parents and also residents from 2 local care homes.
The children did extremely well and I was very proud of them all.
Watching them all sing and tell the Christmas story was lovely and seeing the joy…
Tasting foods in Year 5
This week in our healthy lifestyle session with Mrs Smith, the children got to taste a range of different foods. The aim of the session was to encourage the children to try something new and provide them with ideas for helathy snacks.
Nearly all the children tasted a food they hadn't…
Christmas Fun in Reception Class
Looking back at this busy week I just can't believe how much fun and how many interesting and exciting Christmas activities we have enjoyed. We started the week with snow on the ground and the children really enjoyed exploring the ice and snow in our outdoor area.
We have also completed several…