This week at Gainsborough…
This week at Gainsborough we launched our Black History Month celebrations. Years 4, 5 and 6 worked with TARU arts to create a small carnival procession. The children worked really hard to learn some choreography, a drumming routine and worked collaboratively across year groups to deliver an incredible final performance. Thank you to TARU arts and the staff for the support on Friday to pull this celebration together. We saw some wonderful retelling of an Anansi story in Years 1, 2 and 3 on Friday. Parents came in to see the children finalise and publish their sections of the story and complete story maps, story webs and story trees. We hope to display our BHM work in a final exhibition next term.
Reader of the Week
Each week we will award one child from Years 1-6 with a new book, as the Reader of the Week. The award is for commitment, reading progress, engagement or sharing their love for reading. Please support your child with reading at home! After all, reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Year 1 Amelia
Year 2 Tamiya- Lily
Year 3 Dontay
Year 4 Ibrahim
Year 5 Barrington
Year 6 Daniella O
Keep Kind
Each half term we focus on a different Gainsborough Keep: kind, connected, safe, healthy, green or giving. This half term we are focusing on Keep Kind. We still require a number of glass jars to begin our seed bank. Please donate glass jars to the school office.
Keeping Connected in our Community…
Next week Year 2 are visiting Ridley Road Market next week to buy some tropical fruit and vegetables. They will have a budget per group and come back to school to eat their goods. Let’s see what they find.
We are also preparing next week for the Gainsborough Annual Halloween event. Children are invited to come back to school from 5-pm on Thursday 19th October. We will fund raise for school equipment. We will work with school council this week to decide what the children would like to fund raise for. We have planning permission for a large climbing structure on the grass area, the children would also like to upgrade our i pads (which are really old) and we always want more playground equipment and games! The Halloween event is for all families and all ages. Children are asked to pay £10 for entry and will access 10 activities for £10. These activities are spread out around the playground and include: bouncy castle, chocolate apple decoration, Halloween cakes, what’s in the box, a photo booth, pin the heart on the skeleton and a variety of Halloween games. Children will leave with a goody bag of prizes, cake and a drink. We will also have hot dogs and other food and drinks on sale for adults. The children can dress up as whatever they want and families are welcome to bring others with them. We hope to see you there!
At Gainsborough Next Week…
We would like to ask all families to ensure names are written clearly or labelled in children’s jumpers. We seem to be having a jumper pandemic with jumpers vanishing from classes. If jumpers are labelled we can solve this problem, if they are not staff, and children find it very hard to return.
On Tuesday classes will develop some giant portraits of the famous black scientists they are looking at for Black History Month. The children will make collaborative portraits, in which they all contribute a section of the portrait. Let’s see how we do!
