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17 October 2016

Rainwater Challenge

We have all enjoyed designing and making a rainwater harvester to try and catch as much rain as possible. 

This was after we learned in our RE lesson about the importance of water, and how and why some people in parts of Africa harvest their rainwater.

Year 4 really enjoyed this challenge.…

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14 October 2016

Harvest

We all took part in the Harvest Service at Trinity Methodist Church.

Well done Year 4.

You all spoke very well at the Harvest Service today.

There are more photos on the News section on the web page. 

 

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14 October 2016

Harvest Festival at Trinity

 

Harvest Festival 

Year Two took part in the whole school Harvest festival at Trinity Methodist Church today.

It was lovely to see so many parents there to support us and joining in with the singing!

 

Well done Year Two.

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14 October 2016

Harvest Festival

Today we celebrated the Harvest Festival at Trinity Methodist Church.  We had a great time and all the children did exceptionally well,  Many of the children had speaking parts and they spoke using lovely, clear voices.  It was also so lovely to see so many parents joining us for the Harvest…

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13 October 2016

Silver Kitemark Award!

 

 

Fantastic News! Gillibrand have been awarded a Silver Kitemark award from the School Games Organisation! The award is a recognition of the hard work of children and staff in teaching and learning a wide variety of different sports and taking part in a range of competitions over the…

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13 October 2016

A Professional Manner!

The children in upper KS2 are encouraged to take on responsibilities; distributing registers, playground buddies as well as phone duty.

Recently, a number of callers have commented on the professional manner of the children, in particular:

Molly Wignal Smith

Holly McNulty

Joshua…

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12 October 2016

Fire Safety

On Monday 18th October we held our first Fire Drill.

The children and staff all evacuated the building quickly and well within the specified 3 minutes.

Reception and Pre-School did exceptionally well and were so sensible. Mrs O'Hanlon was very proud of them.

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12 October 2016

Silver Birch Log Pile

A big thankyou to Mr Buckett for making our new sign! 

We have added leaves and some twigs around the logs now, so hopefully lots of animals will now make their home there. 

We will let you know next year which animals we find living in our log pile.

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11 October 2016

Times Tables Rockstar Challenge

Last week Miss Baker set us the challenge of completing 15 studio games on TimeTables Rockstar. These are the children who completed this challenge with some children doing even more! Well done! 

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11 October 2016

Netball Qualifier

Yesterday the Netball Team played the first round of this year’s competition. They played very well. In the first game they were narrowly beaten by Christ Church Charnock Richard 4-3. In the second game, Gillibrand beat Coppull St Johns 7-0, with a Player of the Match performance from James who…

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11 October 2016

Rock Heroes

 

 

Congratulations Harvey and Isaac. 

You are Rock Heroes

These boys are the only two children to have completed all four session challenges that have been set for the class.Well done.

Come on Year 4!

You can all be Rock Heroes.

 

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7 October 2016

Teddy Bears' Picnic in Reception

If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise because today's the day the teddy bears had a picnic!

Oak Class were very excited this morning as they brought their favourite teddies to school for a picnic. We spent the morning designing faces for teddy bear biscuits and then…

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