This week at Gainsborough…
Summer 2
This half term we are focusing on:
As Summer term. Our reflections on our current learning tell us we need to focus on the following:
- Improving the academic achievement in maths, for both children finding maths hard and those who work really efficiently in maths
- Developing our music curriculum and wider music offer for children
- Developing a play strategy for children and families
- Applying the teaching and learning policy to all areas of the curriculum
- Developing the application of SCERTS at Gainsborough to support children with communication and language needs
Year 6 Swimming
We are very proud of the progress year 6 pupils have made this week at swimming. Each day this week, and next week, Year 6 are walking to the Aquatics Centre to take part in a one hour swimming lesson. The children have already conquered some of their fears around water and have already progressed through the first few stages of the swimming course. We hope this intensive approach gives the children the confidence and we hope to inspire them to take up swimming outside school. Well done Year 6!
ABBA Voyage
Gainsborough Primary School has forged a strong partnership with ABBA Voyage over the last few years. This year Chef Rab has been providing catering for their corporate events, while Chef Rab provides incredible catering and brings in money to fund our gardening and cooking programmes, ABBA Voyage provide educational experiences for our children. Year 5, and our school choir, attended the ABBA Voyage schools concert on Wednesday. The children sang along with the ABBA Voyage show, alongside 3000 other school children., learning the 70’s and 80’s classics such as ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.’ The school choir were then invited to a meet and greet hosted by Vernon Kay. The children asked 2 original members of ABBA, Frida and Benny, about their love of music and their favourite songs! Thank you for the music ABBA Voyage, we shared a wonderful experience!
Eat Club Resumes
We have relaunched eat club every Friday after school. Eat Club are a charity organisation raising awareness of cooking with fresh ingredients, bringing communities together and learning from one and other. This is our third Eat Club group and each time the cooking, food and meal time gets better and better. This week the children picked a range of herbs and different salad leaves from our garden and added these to their meal. Chef Amir led the cooking sessions this week, they made rice, daal and raita and a bannoffee pie for dessert! Eat Club is every Friday 4-6pm.
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 Samuel
Year 2 Milan
Year 3 Vasil
Year 4 Talisa
Year 5 Lola
Year 6 Latina
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 Henry
Year 3 Asya
Year 4 Yacine
Year 5 Shaun
Year 6 Kiy-Ahra
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
Frankie was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for working really hard in maths and trying his best. Well done Frankie!
Nursery Geese
Jah’Khari was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for trying his best during carpet times and working hard in maths. Well done Jah’Khari!
Nursery Swans
Shia was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for communicating really well all week Well done Shia!
Reception Magpies
Lillian was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for working really hard in phonics. Well done Lillian!
Year 1 Doves
Netsuh was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for settling back into a new term really well. Well done Netsuh!
Year 2 Wrens
Kimberly was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for working exceptionally hard in all lessons. Well done Kimberly!
Year 3 Owls
Jasmin was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for settling back into the new half term really well and having a positive attitude to all lessons. Well done Jasmin!
Year 4 Hummingbirds
Alex was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for .working really hard in all of her lessons and having an excellent attitude to learning. Well done Alex!
Year 5 Hummingbirds
Evelyn was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for showing great enthusiasm during the ABBA Voyage concert this week. Well done Evelyn!
Year 6 Skylarks
Ivan was awarded a Gainsborough Gold award this week for showing great resilience and determination in swimming. Well done Ivan!
Coming up at Gainsborough:
Gainsborough Food Co-Op Opportunity
Saul has set up a further online meeting to ensure we can start the food co-op running from Gainsborough. We need 20 people to get this going, please share and encourage others to join.
Gainsborough Play Strategy
The children have fed back that they are enjoying the new additions to the playground and enjoy having a larger variety of different things to do at playtime. We are collecting loose parts play items to build further play opportunities for children at Gainsborough. The weekly donation suggestions last half term did not yield much for us to put into the playground. We have put together a half termly request and would like to ask families to all donate ONE item over the half term, just ONE! If everyone donates one unused item from their home we will build a really useful set of play resources. We have labelled 3 large boxes in the office area for families to drop in donations as and when they can. We are collecting buckets and spades and sand play, dressing up clothes (bags, hats, outfits, accessories) and utensils for sand and mud kitchen play.
Recruitment at Gainsborough
We are recruiting! We need to strengthen our kitchen team to be able to provide more catering and run a hub kitchen for other schools. This means we are able to offer 3 kitchen roles to our community and will be able to strengthen our food strategy work. Chef Rab will lead this team. We are looking for people who love food and would be inspired by our growing work and seed to plate initiative.
As we have increased our range of spaces over this year to meet the needs of all children, and to make the most of all of our spaces, we now use every inch of Gainsborough! This means we need to recruit another cleaner to support our current cleaning team.
We are also recruiting 2 teachers to join us in September. We are looking for teachers who are exceptional, who of course love learning and are passionate about real inclusion that works for everyone.
Please see here for a range of roles we are recruiting for at Gainsborough Primary School https://www.gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk/about-us/about-gainsborough/current-vacancies/
