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Thank you to all the parents who were able to come along to our learning afternoon on Tuesday of this week. It was fantastic to see so many of you there and to see everyone getting involved with such enthusiasm! I hope you enjoyed the afternoon and gained an insight into the PE learning your child…

Today Year two visited the Hindu Temple in Preston. Year Two have been looking at Puja and the many different Gods and Goddesses within the Hindu religion.

What an amazing place to visit!  We looked at the different shrines within the temple, the paintings and freezes of all the Gods and…

Year 5 have been practising their sewing skills.  They have learnt running and back stitch so far.  Next we are moving on to cross stitch.

In class this week, we have been learning all about pulley systems.  We explored different pulley systems, designed and created our own drawbridge.

Here are some photographs of our pulley operated drawbridges.

WWBBA: Fieldwork - Mapping

S.C: I can use fieldwork to observe and record the human and physical features in the local area. 

I can record geographical information using a range of methods including, sketch maps, plans and digital technology. 

Yesterday, Silver Birch Class went on a walk…

The school handball team won the competition at Southlands! They played 3 games, winning two and drawing one, scored lots of goals and played superbly well throughout.

Congratulations to the team!

This week in Science, Year 3 have been learning why different plants need different amounts of water, heat and light. To understand this, we are going to investigate it by planting seeds in different conditions. Some of the seeds are outside where they will have access to light, heat and water and…

In RE we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Rakshan Bandham. The celebration is all about family, love and unity and Hindus give each other Rakhi bracelets as a gift to symbolise the love they have for each other. We made our own Rakhi bracelets using wool and card.

To our amazing Year Sixes,

Over the past few weeks (okay, possibly months), you have put a lot of effort into preparation for your SATs. You will nail them! We know you will.

At the moment, you’ve been doing lots of English and Maths, but we all know that you’ve all got lots of other skills.…

Our Year 6 children have worked very hard preparing for their SATS. 

I am very proud of them all as they are all amazing children and have achieved great things in their time at Gillibrand. 

Reception Class were visited by Miss Hesketh's pet tortoise Rosie this week. It was an an exciting opportunity to observe, feed and learn about tortoises and the children loved the experience. They were interested to find out that tortoises are a very ancient type of animal and that they have many…

This week, we have been learning all about Ganesh and what he represents.  He represents power, strength and the overcoming of barriers.

The children used plastercine to make models of Ganesh, here are some of the models.