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On Monday we learned more about the Hindu festival of Diwali when Helen and Adam from Tesco came into school.

We created some amazing Rangoli patterns on the playground using chalk, rice, lentils, split peas and pasta.

Key stage one children have had lots of fun this half term in outdoor club. They have been on scavenger hunts, created natural art pictures, played conkers and craeted an a-z of natural things in our school grounds. 

Tammy Finlayson visited school last week to talk to the children about looking after our environment.

She popped in again this week to talk about caring for our pets and being responsible animal owners.

Tammy has kindly arranged for Bingu to come to Gillibrand to help us keep our school free…

We have been exploring the story of Goildilocks and the Three Bears in Reception Class and it has been a lot of fun. All the children have been engaged in a variety of small world and role play activities to retell the story. We have explored the number three and the language of size and…

We loved building a Stone Age shelter this morning.

It wasn't very big but we managed to fit four children inside it.

I think there was a lot of learning taking place this morning in year 4.

Ask your child what they learned about Stone Age life.

This half term every Monday morning we have walked a mile. This has been great exercise and has really woken us up ready to learn. 

Today was our last Mile Monday walk and we all wanted to celebrate. Well done!

On Monday we started our Stone Age topic.  In order for the children to get a grasp of just how long ago this was we used a toilet roll to represent the years.  Each sheet of toilet roll equalled 30 years of time.  The children discussed events from the all the different time periods they could…

Earlier in the half term the children were set the challenge of growing the longest cress! Children returned to school with their plants today for the final measuring.

Here are the top 3 results –

1^st Place – Max – 18cm

Joint 2^nd Place – Louis and Grace – 17cm

3^rd…

After two very successful outdoor learning weeks, the feedback from children and parents has been fantastic!

Children enjoyed all sorts of lessons outside from science to English to maths to art and geography. Most children were enthusiastic about their learning and were excited to learn about…

Year 4 loved looking at the artefacts that were dug up on our school field at the weekend.

We will be learning a lot more now about Stone Age life.

Watch this space!

Yesterday we completed our Play Leaders training (PALs). We had lots of active fun exploring and developing our leadership skills.

Yesterday afternoon Gillibrand’s Netball Team played in the finals at Southlands. After three hard fought games against good opposition, Gilliband were declared the winners! All the players displayed a fantastic attitude, played well as a team and gave 100% effort!  Well…