21 October 2016

Cress Championship!

 

Earlier in the half term the children were set the challenge of growing the longest cress! Children returned to school with their plants today for the final measuring.

 

Here are the top 3 results –

 

1st Place – Max – 18cm

Joint 2nd Place – Louis and Grace – 17cm

3rd

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20 October 2016

Welcome to Outdoor Learning at Gillibrand

After two very successful outdoor learning weeks, the feedback from children and parents has been fantastic!

Children enjoyed all sorts of lessons outside from science to English to maths to art and geography. Most children were enthusiastic about their learning and were excited to learn about…

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18 October 2016

Stone Age Find

Year 4 loved looking at the artefacts that were dug up on our school field at the weekend.

We will be learning a lot more now about Stone Age life.

Watch this space!

 

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18 October 2016

Y6 Pals training

Yesterday we completed our Play Leaders training (PALs). We had lots of active fun exploring and developing our leadership skills.

 

 

 

 

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17 October 2016

Rainwater Challenge

We have all enjoyed designing and making a rainwater harvester to try and catch as much rain as possible. 

This was after we learned in our RE lesson about the importance of water, and how and why some people in parts of Africa harvest their rainwater.

Year 4 really enjoyed this challenge.…

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14 October 2016

Harvest

We all took part in the Harvest Service at Trinity Methodist Church.

Well done Year 4.

You all spoke very well at the Harvest Service today.

There are more photos on the News section on the web page. 

 

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14 October 2016

Harvest Festival at Trinity

 

Harvest Festival 

Year Two took part in the whole school Harvest festival at Trinity Methodist Church today.

It was lovely to see so many parents there to support us and joining in with the singing!

 

Well done Year Two.

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14 October 2016

Harvest Festival

Today we celebrated the Harvest Festival at Trinity Methodist Church.  We had a great time and all the children did exceptionally well,  Many of the children had speaking parts and they spoke using lovely, clear voices.  It was also so lovely to see so many parents joining us for the Harvest…

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13 October 2016

A Professional Manner!

The children in upper KS2 are encouraged to take on responsibilities; distributing registers, playground buddies as well as phone duty.

Recently, a number of callers have commented on the professional manner of the children, in particular:

Molly Wignal Smith

Holly McNulty

Joshua…

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12 October 2016

Fire Safety

On Monday 18th October we held our first Fire Drill.

The children and staff all evacuated the building quickly and well within the specified 3 minutes.

Reception and Pre-School did exceptionally well and were so sensible. Mrs O'Hanlon was very proud of them.

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12 October 2016

Silver Birch Log Pile

A big thankyou to Mr Buckett for making our new sign! 

We have added leaves and some twigs around the logs now, so hopefully lots of animals will now make their home there. 

We will let you know next year which animals we find living in our log pile.

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11 October 2016

Times Tables Rockstar Challenge

Last week Miss Baker set us the challenge of completing 15 studio games on TimeTables Rockstar. These are the children who completed this challenge with some children doing even more! Well done! 

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