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In year 1, we had a fabulous time going 'GREEN FOR HALLOWEEN'! There were some truly amazing outfits and costumes and the children had a great time and raised money for the NSPCC and Cash for Kids.

Thank you also to all the parents for their efforts and supporting on this special…

Go Green for Halloween

Wow look at Year two all dressed in green for Halloween.

Thank you to all the parents who took the time and effort to create some wonderful outfits. 

This week we have had a poetry competion. There were 3 rounds and we had to write our own poems on the themes of:

Autumn, Outdoor Learning and Aspirations.

Our winners were: Faith with Weather; Eessa with Outdoor Learning; William with Your Goal.

Well done :)

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Yesterday morning Year 5 had great fun carrying out different science investigations.  We used our skills of prediction to think about what was going to happen.  We also discussed what we needed to do to make our investigations fair.  The children then presented a short report on their…

This week the children built a Stone Age shelter.  They had to decide on the best place to build it then work as a team to create the structure.  We managed to fit 6 children in at a time.  We talked about what it would have been like in Stone Age times and compared it to our lives today.

Ask…

On Monday we learned more about the Hindu festival of Diwali when Helen and Adam from Tesco came into school.

We created some amazing Rangoli patterns on the playground using chalk, rice, lentils, split peas and pasta.

Key stage one children have had lots of fun this half term in outdoor club. They have been on scavenger hunts, created natural art pictures, played conkers and craeted an a-z of natural things in our school grounds. 

Tammy Finlayson visited school last week to talk to the children about looking after our environment.

She popped in again this week to talk about caring for our pets and being responsible animal owners.

Tammy has kindly arranged for Bingu to come to Gillibrand to help us keep our school free…

We have been exploring the story of Goildilocks and the Three Bears in Reception Class and it has been a lot of fun. All the children have been engaged in a variety of small world and role play activities to retell the story. We have explored the number three and the language of size and…

We loved building a Stone Age shelter this morning.

It wasn't very big but we managed to fit four children inside it.

I think there was a lot of learning taking place this morning in year 4.

Ask your child what they learned about Stone Age life.

This half term every Monday morning we have walked a mile. This has been great exercise and has really woken us up ready to learn. 

Today was our last Mile Monday walk and we all wanted to celebrate. Well done!

On Monday we started our Stone Age topic.  In order for the children to get a grasp of just how long ago this was we used a toilet roll to represent the years.  Each sheet of toilet roll equalled 30 years of time.  The children discussed events from the all the different time periods they could…