Great Coates Primary School Newsletter

Newsletter

Friday 10th May

Message from Miss Deans

We have had a great few weeks in school since the last newsletter, with sporting events, the Trashion Show, lots of exciting learning in and out of the classroom and finally some sun-shine.

We are now enjoying the weather but please can parents apply suncream to pupils on sunny days before they come to school or provide a sun hat.

Next week is Year 6 SATs week. We hope this weekend the pupils can relax, enjoy the sunshine and not be worried about the tests. The pupils are very well prepared for the tests and before they know it they will all be over. We look forward to seeing Year 6 pupils in our special SATs breakfast club.

We have many exciting events coming up this term which are detailed below. Please can parents read this carefully and start putting important dates in their diaries. Letters will be coming out about all of these events in the near future.

Miss Deans

Vice Principal

Star Of The Week

Nursery - Kyron

Mrs Watson – Noah

Miss Tutty - Ralphy

Mrs Pollard - Lucy

Miss Woolliss – Catherine

Miss O'Neill - Bobby

Mrs Brown – Arwen

Miss Baxter - Noah

Mrs Wood - Tyler

Mr Roberts - Emily

Mrs Cox - Lillie

Mrs Bradley - Victoria

Mr Baxter - Shae

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 - JULY 5TH

Please note the school will be closed on 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 Events

Cricket Festival

Some Year 3 / 4 children was selected to represent the school in a fun morning learning cricket skills. Held at the Linden club and hosted by The Schools Sports Partnership and Dynamo Cricket. The children were taught the fundamental skills of playing cricket and had lots of fun at the same time. They were a credit to the school and the staff were extremely impressed with the effort they put in.

Olympics Learning Day

On Friday 24th May, the whole school will be learning about the Olympics. We have Leon Baptiste, 100m and 200m Commonwealth Gold Medalist visiting, we are taking part in the Sponsored Fitness challenge and each class will be learning about a different Olympic sport. On the day pupils need to come to school dressed in their PE kits.

Sports For Champions Sponsored Fitness Challenge

Last week pupils brought home sponsor forms for the sponsored fitness challenge on Friday 24th March. Pupils can take home a range of rewards based on how much money they raise.

Sports for Champions raise funds so that sports men and women can train, take part in comptitions and educate young people in health, fitness and sports. Some of the money which is raised will go back into our school so that we can fund visitors and events which happen in school without asking for contributions.

Please note, sponsor money must be brought into school before the sponsored event. This can be brought to the front office, handed to staff on the gates or the doors or given to the child's class teacher. Please make sure you send in the sponsor form so we can make sure your child gets any rewards.

Parent Questionnaires

We want to send a big,'Thank you' to all parents who completed a parent questionairre on Parent's Evening. We are busy collating the responses and will be taking your view into account in the future.

SAT's Week

Year 6 SAT's

The SAT's week is now upon us and we would like to remind parents that we have breakfast club open for all Year 6 pupils starting at 8am from Monday to Thursday next week. Please arrive promptly to allow the children time to relax and have something to eat before their test. The staff will all be here to support the Year 6 children through what can be a stressful time . Let's keep reminding them how great they are!

Below is a SAT's test timetable for the week. Any questions please contact the school.

Next week, Years 3,4 and 5 are taking part in a different activities including Forest School and PE. On the day the children's class are having these activities they need to come to school dressed for the activity, with their school uniform in a bag to change into.

The days for the activities are as follow:

MONDAY

PE - Mrs Wood’s class

FOREST SCHOOL - Miss Baxter’s class

TUESDAY

PE - Miss Baxter’s class

FOREST SCHOOLS - Mrs Brown’s class

WEDNESDAY

PE- Mrs Brown’s class

FOREST SCHOOLS - Mr Robert’s and Cox’s class

THURSDAY

PE - Mr Robert’s and Mrs Cox’s class

FOREST SCHOOLS - Mrs Wood’s class

Thank you for your support with this.

Trashion Show

On Friday 3rd May, the Year 1 and 2 children faced the elements to showcase their creation for the Trashion Show. Using Miss O'Neill as their model they stood in the rain and cheered her on. Unfortunately, we did not win the competition but the children had a great morning - despite the conditions!

Thank you to the support from the artists involved who also helped the children to create their dress. The dress was made from upcycled materials to recreate the four seasons. Well done to all involved, and well done to Ermine for winning the event!

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 (opt 2) If you wish to contact reguarding your child's attendance please call 01472 808608 (opt 1) .

Alternatively, 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/

Safeguarding

Road Safety

In the next few weeks parents will see that we are putting in place new road safety meaure. We will be positioning road safety awareness bollards on the yellow lines outside of school. This will mean that no-one will be able to stop on the yellow lines. at dropping off and picking up times.

Attendance

Mrs Wood's class recieved their treats for their class achieving 100% last week.

Huge well done to Miss Tutty's class for also achieving 100% last week!

Good attendance is classed as 96% or more.

Nationally attendance for Primary Schools is 94.6%. Our school is above this at 95.5%. Thank you to parents and pupils for your support with attendance.

Follow Harold our school attendance mascot on Twitter to find out more.

https://twitter.com/HaroldHERO

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