Great Coates Primary School Newsletter

Newsletter

Friday 26th April

Message from Miss Emson

Welcome to our first newsletter of the summer term - well summer is putting it mildly. Please remember to ensure children do have coats as the weather is so temperamental and cold at the moment.

Can I take this opportunity to politely remind parents about the parking outside of school. The yellow zig-zags are there for a reason and a number of complaints are coming in from the public regarding parking and dropping off children. The council have been informed and will be doing spot fines as this is a recurring issue. Ultimately we have to safeguard all children and adults in and around the site and this is just not safe. Cameras could be installed by the council which take the registrations of cars and issue automatic fines.

Cones will be placed there to stop this from happening but in the meantime, please refrain from parking directly outside of school.

Please read the diary dates below as there are lot of additions.

Miss Emson

Principal

Star Of The Week

Nursery - William

Mrs Watson – Micky

Miss Tutty -Vinnie

Mrs Pollard - Lyla

Miss Woolliss – Phoenix

Miss O'Neill - Jaxson

Mrs Brown – Lexi

Miss Baxter - Lilly

Mrs Wood - Lexi

Mr Roberts - Kye

Mrs Cox - Ava

Mrs Bradley - Oscar

Mr Baxter - Evie

Reading

Reading Ambassadors

Our reading ambassadors for the past year have done a fantastic job and we would all like to thank them for giving up their time. Pupils have now given applications to Mrs Wood, our reading lead, and she is in the process of picking new reading ambassadors. These pupils keep the reading area tidy, they read to younger children and help in different ways to help all pupils in our school develop a love of reading. The new reading ambassadors will be announced next week.

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

Cross Country

Teams of girls and boys from Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in cross country on Tuesday 16th April. It was a wet and windy day but the amazing athletes persevered, running around the course at Weelsby Woods. The staff who took our children were so proud of their incredible behaviour and attitude on the day.

New Age Kurling

On Thursday 18th April, a team of Year 6 boys took part in New Age Kurling at Oasis Acadmy Winteringham. We didn't win but came very close and throughout the afternoon the team demonstrated incredible focus, skill and determination. They even won the award for the most passionate team! Once again, our pupils made us so proud.

Trashion Show

On Friday 3rd May, the Year 1 and 2 children will be showing off their incredible design and technology skills in a "Trashion show". Miss O'Neill will be modelling a dress that the children have designed and created with the help of local artists, Rachel Mc Williams and Elizabeth Hullatt-Richardson. The dress is made completely of recycled materials. The whole trust fashion show will be held at Projekt Renewable beside the Heritage Centre from 11 am to 1pm. Parents are welcome to attend to see creations from the whole of Harbour Learning Trust.

Safeguarding

Please read this poster about Energy Drinks

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

Miss Woolliss's class and Mrs Wood's class have achieved 100% attendance last week. Well done. Keep it up.

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