Great Coates Primary School Newsletter

Monday 1st July

Message from Miss Deans

We are having a wonderful summer term so far in school. The children have all been really enthusiastic about the topics they are learning and are still working hard. We have had loads of special events and we still have more to come. Thank you to parents for your support with the various events. It is very much appreciated and brings us all together as a community.

Please can parents be aware of the changeable 'summer' weather. There are days forecast with sunshine and showers so it is helpful if pupils can still bring a jacket on those days.

Miss Deans

Vice Principal

Reading

Please encourage your child to read at home at least three times a week. It only needs to be 15 minutes at a time.

The table below shows the percentage of children in each class who have read three times last week. Green means the score has stayed the same or gone up. Orange means the score has gone down.

News

HARBOUR LEARNIING TRUST TRAINING DAY - FRIDAY JULY 5TH

Please note the school will be closed this Friday, July 5th for the Harbour Learning Trust Training Day.

Term dates can be found on our website at : https://gca.harbourlearningtrust.com/our-academy/term-dates/

Sports Days

Nursery, Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 have all had sports days this week. All the pupils had practised hard, we were blessed with excellent weather and everyone enjoyed the activities. Red team got the most points in the Foundation Stage and KS1 Sports Day and Blue team got the most points in the KS2 Sports Day.

Thank you to all the parents who came and supported the day and cheered their children on.

Key Stage 1 Singing Festival

On Monday 10th June, the Year 2 pupils visted the Auditorium for the Key Stage 1 Singing Festival. They had learnt 4 songs around the theme pf kindness.

Please click on the links to see the children on the Auditorium Stage. Well done Year 2.

https://x.com/GCPYEAR2/status/1800112688393326645/video/1

https://x.com/GCPYEAR2/status/1800112688393326645/video/2

Special Invite to Starbucks Opening

A new Starbucks has opened next to Beechwood Farm and we were invited to the opening! Miss Emson had the special privilege of cutting the red ribbon to open the restaurant. Thank you to the pupils and parents who were able to come out at short notice early in the morning.

Key Stage 1 Quad Kids Athletics Tournament

A group of Year 2 pupils took part in the NEL Schools Sports Partnership Quad Kids Athletics Tournament on Thursday 13th June. The pupils represented the school brilliantly, winning lots of races and taking part with excellent enthusiasm. Well done to all of them. Congratulations to Louis C who was the top scoring boy across all of the schools in the events.

HSBC Visit

On Monday 10th June, HSBC visted the school and spoke to the pupils about the very important subjects of money, banks, saving and borrowing.

Water Safety

All pupils have learnt about Water Safety in the last few weeks. They have found out about the dangers of playing around water how to keep safe and have made water safety posters.;

Book Sale and Cake Sale

Thank you to all of the parents that supported the cake sale and book sale last Friday. We really appreciate the support given by parents for events like this.

Mrs Fowler sends a big 'Thank you' to everyone who bought cakes to support participation with her dogs, Clover and Promise, at the Agility Open World Championships in Opglabbeek, Belgium.

Thank you also to all the parents who bought a book at the Usbourne book sale for helping raise money for books for school.

Year 6 transition to secondary school

Year 6 will be visiting their Secondary Schools next week for their transition days. The children need to attend their secondary school in their Great Coates uniform. Please read instructions that have been sent out be secondary schools for what you need to do on the day. We wish all of our pupils good luck.

Year 5 Healing Secondary Taster Days

Year 5 visited Healing Secondary on 21st June for a French and Geography Taster Day. On Tuesday 16th July , they will have the chance to go to Healing Secondary again and take part in a Science Day. We hope this will help pupils to have a smooth transition and have an idea what secondary school is like.

Year 6 catch up swimming lessons

Letters are going out this week about Year 6 catch-up swimming lessons. The children in Year 6 will be visiting John Whitgift Academy in the last two weeks of term for cathc up swimming lessons. They completed swimming lessons way back in 2022 and we are giving them the chance to revisit and improve those skills before moving on to Secondary School. Lessons start the week beginning 8th July.

Internet Safety

Communication with school

If you wish to speak to a member of staff, or pass on information, you can contact the school by telephone on 01472 808608. Our school email address is :- gcaenquiries@harbourlearningtrust.com .

This email address is monitored constantly, every day and enquiries on this address will be dealt with promptly. Please do not use any other Harbour Learning Trust email to contact school as this will not be picked up by school promptly. You can also speak to staff on the school gates or on the doors. You can also use the messaging system on Class Dojo, but bear in mind that, as teachers are teaching all day, they may not read Class Dojo until the end of the school day, or the next day, therefore important messages need to be sent to the School Office on the above email address.

We pride ourselves on the safe and friendly atmosphere in and around our school. Parents who are aggressive or abusive will be asked to leave and the police called if necessary.

School website: - https://gca.harbourlearningtrust.com/

Attendance

Pease read the posters below to see the effect of poor attendance.

Follow Harold, our attendance mascot at https://twitter.com/HaroldHERO to find out all about attendance at Great Coates.

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN LEARNING THIS WEEK?

What have we been learning this week?

Please keep up to date with what the children have been learning with Twitter. The teachers share the pupils' learning so that you are kept informed. There are some marvellous achievements celebrated on our Twitter pages that the children are very rightly proud of.

https://twitter.com/PrimaryGreat

https://twitter.com/gcpfs1

https://twitter.com/GCPFS2

https://twitter.com/GcpYear1

https://twitter.com/GCPYEAR2

https://twitter.com/GCPYEAR34

https://twitter.com/year5GCP

https://twitter.com/GCPYEAR6

https://twitter.com/HaroldHERO

https://twitter.com/SydandBridge

https://twitter.com/GCPreading