This week at Gainsborough…
Spring 2
This half term we will be focusing on:
Improving school punctuality and attendance
Launching a school food initiative
Striving towards being a more sustainable organisation
Improving our academic outcomes for pupils at statutory checkpoints
Eat Club Resumes
We are very fortunate to be working with Eat Club again this term. Eat Club offer cooking sessions to families, engaging in healthy family cooking weekly at Gainsborough. We are looking for 15 people (made of 5-7 families) to cook with us weekly for 5 weeks, the sessions will take place each Friday from 3.45-5pm. The feedback from the first cohort, that took part in the Eat Club sessions, was fantastic, we hope this group will love it as much as well. Please email admin@gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk if you are interested in joining the group this half term.
Welcome back to Spring 2
We hope everyone has had a wonderful, restful half term. We are super excited for Spring 2 as we focus on Keep Connected. March and April bring a welath of cultural and religious celebrations, awareness days and a whole heap of fun.
Week 1 Keep Connected Launch
Week 2 DT Week – we will make pop up books
International Women’s Day
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
Week 3 Science Week
Parent’s Evening for Nursery to Year 6, Tuesday 10th and Thursday 12th March
Week 4 St Patrick’s Day – wear green on Tuesday 17th March
Red Nose Day – wear red on Friday 20th March
week 5 Eid
Parent’s in Class – join us in class to read our pop up books! Friday 27th March, 1.30pm
Easter Egg Hunt – Friday 27th March, 2-4pm
TT Rockstars Battle
Children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 were challenged to a TT Rockstars battle against Coach Terry this week. The children triumphed and beat Coach Terry, in possibly one of the greatest battles we have seen at Gainsborough. The children have decided to face Ms Clark in this week’s battle. Will any of the children be able to beat Ms Clark in this week’s battle?
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 Netsu
Year 2 Lucinda
Year 3 Asya
Year 4 Maria
Year 5 Umaiza
Year 6 Malik
Most Improved Writer of the Week
Each week we will award one child from Years 1-6 as most improved writer of the week. The award is for those who have shown a significant improvement in handwriting or writing throughout the week.
Year 1 Shannon
Year 2 Caden
Year 3 Cheyanne
Year 4 Ruby-Anna
Year 5 Chelsey
Year 6 Romario
Golds!
Each week we celebrate an amazing achievement from each class. Children are celebrated in assembly, receive a gold certificate and their name in the newsletter. Please celebrate their learning at home too!
Nursery Ducks
Ayaz was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for exploring his new environment and making new friends. Well done Ayaz!
Nursery Geese
Aaron Presley was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for joining in carpet sessions well and working hard. Well done Aaron Presley!
Nursery Swans
Rye was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for showing great enthusiasm in maths this week. Well done Rye!
Reception Magpies
Rizario was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for working hard across all subjects and putting his best in to everything he has done this week. Well done Rizario!
Year 1 Doves
Antonio was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for his excellent work in writing and maths. Well done Antonio!
Year 2 Wrens
Ze’Jaune was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for making excellent choices and working really hard in all lessons, all week. Well done Ze’Jaune!
Year 3 Owls
Faith was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for having wonderful start back to school and being an excellent role model. Well done Faith!
Year 4 Hummingbirds
Inaaya was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for writing an excellent publish this week. Well done Inaaya!
Year 5 Herons
Richelle was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for writing an excellent piece of work as an astronaut, using fronted adverbials to make her writing more interesting. Well done Richelle!
Year 6 Skylarks
Frankie was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for striving to bring his learning log in every day. Well done Frankie!
Coming up at Gainsborough…
World Book Day
Come and join us to celebrate world book day at Gainsborough on Thursday 5th March. Children are invited to dress up as a character from a book. We will spend time reading in classes and also reading with other classes, sharing our favourite stories. At Gainsborough we usually celebrate world book day on a Friday, as with all awareness days and this is easier for families and for timetabling, however Years 1, 5 and 6 are all on pre booked trips on Friday 6th March and therefore we will celebrate on Thursday 5th March. Watch this SPACE for some OUT OF THIS WORLD costumes from the staff team!
DT Week
We will be completing our DT units during week beginning 2nd March. We will be making pop books using sliders, flip-flaps, pulleys and gears to create our pop pages. We will make our books to celebrate world book day and complete them, with our own stories and information, ready for Parents in Class on Friday 27th March.
International Women’s Day
On Monday 2nd March we will celebrate a very special women: Kalpana Chawla. Kalpana Chawla (1962–2003) was a pioneering Indian-American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut, becoming the first woman of Indian origin in space. She flew on two Space Shuttle missions (STS-87, STS-107), specializing in robotic operations and aerodynamics research. We will celebrate Kalpana’s successes and learn about her achievements.
Science Week
Throughout the week beginning Monday 9th March we will be completing our Spring term science units. We will use the learning from these units to display across the school, we will be able to share this with families during Parent’s Evening.
Parent’s Evening
Please sign up for parent’s evening on Tuesday 10th March or Thursday 12th March. We would like families to bring children with them to look at the science learning, their books in class and to talk about their learning this year. We will also have some school meals availble to taste in the community kitchen. We hope to see you there!
