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Well done Henry! You are a star!

I am so proud of your effort and deterrmination to succeed.

On Thursday the children ran in the Cross Country Competition at Southlands. Despite the pouring rain and gusting winds they all ran really well and all came in the top 25! Congratulations to Josef, Harvey, Matty, Toby and Will, you did the school proud!

Mrs Smith (from Chorley Schools' Partnership Programme) came to visit us on Friday.  She told us all about making healthy food choices and we looked carefully at the amount of sugar in the foods we eat.

Did you know, it is recommended that a child in Y1 should have no more than 6 cubes of sugar…

Year 2 have been working hard, learning how to play 'Old McDonald' on the Ocarina.

We have been practising playing the high D, low D, G and A notes.

Today the children in Year 4 have been learning how to play their recorder. We have learnt how to hold our instrument correctly, sing songs and copy rhythms with our instruments. 

Yesterday two headteachers and a deputy head from three local schools visited Gillibrand.

The feedback I received from them is wonderful. 

" Thank you for a lovely day. It was both a pleasure and a privilege to come to Gillibrand and spend some time in your classes."

"School, staff…

Year 4 took advantage of the windy weather this morning and they got to fly their kites outside in the wind. 

The children all enjoyed this experience and were so excited to finally get to fly their kites. 

After flying their kites,the children then evaluated how well their kite flew in the…

Year 3 have started to learn how to play the ukulele. So far we have learnt to hold the ukulele correctly and play  ‘C’. We look forward to improving our skills over the course of the year. Children will need to bring in their ukuleles on Fridays.

Well done Michael.

You are a very polite and well mannered boy and I am very proud of you.

Mrs Smith came to teach us all about making healthy lifestyle choices.

  We looked at food choices in particular and learned that we can eat 19g of sugar per day but that some foods contain almost our whole sugar allowance!

In Year 3, we have been linking science with DT. Currently our Science topic is ‘Light and Shadows’ and we have been learning that a shadow is formed when an object blocks the light. To show our learning, we made shadow puppets of characters from our current class novel - Fantastic Mr Fox. We made…

Meet the School Council for 2017-2018.

The minutes of their meetings can be found in the School Life section of the web site, where you will also find out more information about them and their work in school.