Last week at Gainsborough…

Summer Fair Fun, Friendship and a Full on Water Fight!

Thank you to our school community for taking time to prepare and come together and celebrate the end of the school year together. A huge thank you to our FRoG’s team, the office and admin team for organising the raffle, to Tricia and Vic for their delicious food and finally to Charlotte for her incredible organisation, and to DJ Debs for hosting the evening! Thank you Gainsborough community.

Reception Wrens Assembly

Families were treated to a wonderful ‘first’ this week, Wrens class first sharing assembly! The children retold the story ‘No Dinner!’ They had learnt the story and retold it using makaton signs. They were brilliant! Even with a technical hitch- no music system- they sang their class song beautifully and showed us all they are ready for Year 1! well done Wrens.

Year 5 Trip to

Year 5 visited the British Museum to be historical investigators and research artefacts from the Ancient Greeks! The children also revisited the Rosetta Stone, as they had learnt about it in their Ancient Egyptian topic, and still had some questions as to whether it should be in the British Museum or returned to Egypt…

Year 4 Trip to

Year visited the Natural History Museum this week and spent their time looking at research about earthquakes and volcanoes. They rode the elevator into the Earth’s core and stood in the earthquake simulation. They enjoyed the trip and shared how it had made some of their learning in class come to life!

Keeping Healthy 

Each half term we focus on a different Gainsborough Keep: kind, connected, safe, healthy, green or giving. This half term we are looking at Keep Healthy. We are focusing on healthy eating this half term. Children will get the opportunity to try new herbs and vegetables in an attempt to encourage us all to make healthier choices. We will also look at what healthy endings look like as we say goodbye to this academic year.

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

River was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for great mark making and building your confidence in communicating your ideas with your peers! Well done River!

Nursery – Geese

Nehemiah was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for joining in carpet discussions and sharing what you would like to do in your new class! Well done Nehemiah!

Nursery – Swans

Chiara as nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award. You have been confidently sharing your knowledge during carpet sessions and shown great partner talking.

Reception – Wrens

Teya was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for trying her best each day in phonics, and for using her phonics knowledge to complete sentences. Great Work.

Year 1 – Owls

Vasil has been awarded a Gainsborough Gold this week for his excellent maths learning and achievement in his tests scores. Well done Vasil!

Year 2- Hummingbirds

John has been awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award for his incredible progress that he has made in Year 2. Well done John, keep up the good work, ready for year 3!

Year 3 – Herons

Chelsey has been awarded the Gainsborough Gold Award this week for her progress in all subjects and in particular writing. We are very proud of you Chelsey, well done!

Year 4- Skylarks

Romario has been awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award for some incredible work this week and making excellent choices all week. Well done Romario!

Year 5 – Magpies

Barrington has been awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award for working incredibly hard this week and making some excellent choices. Well done Barrington!

Year 6 – Doves

Bridget has been awarded the Gainsborough Gold for her incredible effort and commitment in learning her lines in the year 6 play. You are a star!

Next week at Gainsborough…

WAMH’s Transition Workshops at Gainsborough in Summer 2 

We have access to a WAMH’s clinician at Gainsborough. This service supports both school and home and identifying and supporting pupil’s well being and mental health. Alice Zacharia is our dedicated WAMH’s worker, she is in Gainsborough every second Monday, and she is able to meet parents to discuss any aspect of pupil well being. Please email admin@gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk if you would like to meet with Alice.

• Monday 24th June, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in the Reception to Year 1 Transition
• Monday 8th July, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in Transitions for Children with ASD
• Monday 22nd July, 2.30-3.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in Transitions, drop in session
• Monday 22nd July, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in the Year 6 to Year 7 Transitio

Transitions for September 2024

We have started a comprehensive transition plan this term to ensure that children all: spend time in their new classrooms, spend time with their new teachers, spend time with their new support staff team. To make this less daunting, and a safe and secure experience, we are doing each of things and with one change at a time. Please see the below information about your child’s new class teacher and the days they will visit their new rooms. Please ask your children about their new rooms and adults and please do feedback to us any worries the children may have:

New Nursery Swans, Ms Hillary Lau, weekly transition to the Nursery class in small groups on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

New Nursery Geese, Ms Emma Kelsall, weekly transition to the Nursery class in small groups on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

Reception Doves, Ms Rebekah Anderson. Ms Anderson is new to Gainsborough and Ms Anderson will work in Nursery every Thursday for the rest of the term. Nursery will visit Reception class on Tuesday mornings in small groups.

Year 1 Wrens, Ms Kelis Dillon, weekly transition to the Year 1 classroom on Wednesday, Ms Dillon will teach Reception every Friday.

Year 2 Owls, Ms Aysha Ahmed, Ms Ahmed will teach Owls every Friday and complete one to one sessions with children.

Year 3 Hummingbirds, Ms Kayleigh Kee, Ms Kee will teach Hummingbirds every Tuesday afternoon.

Year 4 Herons, Ms Rebecca Carhart. Ms Carhart is new to Gainsborough and has completed 2 days in Year 3 in June. The children will see her again in September.

Year 5 Skylarks, Ms Lara Dempsy. Ms Dempsey is new to Gainsborough and will teach Skylarks on 22nd, 23rd and 24th July.

Year 6 Magpies, Ms Muganga, Ms Muganga will teach Magpies every Tuesday.

Year 6 Doves are being supported in their secondary transition through the borough wide transition day on Thursday 4th July. We are also preparing workshops through Kooth, an online mental health support tool, our school MHST worker and offering parents a session through our WAHM’s lead. If you are concerned about your child’s transition to secondary school please come and speak to us.

Sports Day at Gainsborough – rescheduled to Monday 22nd July 

Much to everyone’s disappointment, our wonderfully unpredictable weather, spoiled our sports day plans in Years 1 -6. This has now been rescheduled to Monday 22nd July, at the London Marathon Community Track.  Years 1 2 3 4 5 will be at 9.30-11am with Year 6 completing their final primary school sports day from 11-12.30pm. All children will return to school for lunch. Please come and support us!We are very excited to be heading to the London Community Marathon Track https://www.london-stadium.com/community-track.html with Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 for Sports Day this year. The sports, layout, activities and preparation have been created with the children in mind so there is an element of competitiveness, reward for good teamwork and sportsmanship and the opportunity for all children to shine! Please come along and support us.

Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5   London Community Marathon Track     Tues 22nd July        Leave school at 9am, 9.30-11am Sports, 11.30am return to school

Year 6                      London Community Marathon Track     Tues 22nd July        Leave school at 9am, lead Years 1-5, Year 6 Sports day 11.30-1pm

Attendance at Gainsborough

We are working hard to ensure good attendance at Gainsborough. To help you understand the importance in having good school attendance, we will be informing you about how we teach cycles of learning at Gainsborough in each week’s newsletter. We want families to understand the impact of absence on well being, the progress in subjects, friendships and the work load absence has on the school work force. We are doing this to help families be more mindful about taking days of school.

The last few days of term include some really important parts of the school year. This is a time when children are able to reflect and celebrate their learning, there are awards and certificates and children are able to reflect on their achievements. It is also a time when we ensure transition work can be undertaken.  New staff members are in school over the last 3 days and have time to get to the know the children. Please ensure your child attends all 3 days of the last week of term.