Last week at Gainsborough…

Class Photographs

Your child will have come home with a slip and QR code to enable you to order your child’s class picture. Please follow the instructions on the order from slip to place the orders.

Year 6 Bikability 

Year 6 children learnt to cycle at level 1 and 2 this week under the guidance of Cycle Confident, a Hackney Education funded programme that supports children to learn to cycle safely. Huge well done to the children who battled the heat, and on occasion their nerves, as they learnt to navigate our local area on bikes. We hope you take this skill with you and use it on your new journeys to secondary school in September!

Hackney Music Festival

We attended the annual Hackney Music Festival this year to show off our incredible singing and dancing talents. A group of Year 1 and 2 children attended the Key Stage 1 dance performance, they smashed their dance and were really proud of themselves. It was so lovely to see them grow in confidence in the weeks leading up to the performance. Years 3, 4 and 5 attended the Key Stage 2 singing afternoon, they sang with gusto and really enjoyed the performance. They had learnt all of the words and it was wonderful to see so many of them shine in the Round Chapel. Reception attended the Early Years singing event on Friday. They were incredible! They remembered all of their words and, although a little shyer than in our rehearsals, made our hearts melt, well done Reception, it was a huge venue for your tiny souls to fill.

Keeping Healthy 

Each half term we focus on a different Gainsborough Keep: kind, connected, safe, healthy, green or giving. This half term we are looking at Keep Healthy. We are focusing on healthy eating this half term. Children will get the opportunity to try new herbs and vegetables in an attempt to encourage us all to make healthier choices. We will also look at what healthy endings look like as we say goodbye to this academic year.

Each week we celebrate an amazing achievement from each class. Children are celebrated in assembly, receive a gold certificate and their name in the newsletter. Please celebrate their learning at home too!

Nursery – Ducks

Oscar Bell was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for using your imagination during play with your peers, actively sharing your toys and taking on responsibilities in looking after your environment. Well done Oscar!

Nursery – Geese

Oscar Phillips was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for using new vocabulary to share your ideas on the carpet sessions. Well done Oscar!!

Nursery – Swans

Jaxx was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award. You been trying so hard during phonics to produce the focus sounds, recall the previous sounds and write the grapheme. You have been amazing!

Reception – Wrens

Reception Wrens were nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for their great performance at the Hackney Music Festival! You were great, well done!

Year 1 – Owls

This week Tallulah has been nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for her fantastic effort in rehearsals and brilliant performance at the Hackney Dance Festival! You were amazing Tallulah!

Year 2- Hummingbirds

This week the year 2 dance performers have been nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for their fantastic effort in rehearsals and their brilliant performance at the Hackney Dance Festival! Well done to you all!

Year 3 – Herons

Caoimhe was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for performing so wonderfully at the Hackney Music Festival and having a great positive attitude in school. Well done!

Year 4- Skylarks

Hackney Music Fesitval participants were nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for representing our class and school so incredibly well at the Hackney Music Festival. They sang wonderfully, and were a delight to listen to!

Year 5 – Magpies

Hackney Music Fesitval participants were nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for representing our class and school so incredibly well at the Hackney Music Festival. They sang wonderfully, and were a delight to listen to!

Year 6 – Doves

Kamran was nominated to receive a Gainsborough Gold Award for great participation during our history lessons. Really focused and supporting other people in his team. Well done Kamran keep going!

Next term at Gainsborough…

Summer 2 Priorities at Gainsborough  

We will focus on the following next term in a bid to improve outcomes, teaching, our engagement and well being at Gainsborough:

• Assessment – all staff will look at assessing pupils through: lessons, observations and tests, to ascertain progress for the end of the year and set targets for next year
• Transition – we will ensure good transition for all pupils to their next year group
• Science – we will be developing our practical approach to science lessons
• Maths – we will be embedding the use of Maths – No Problem in our maths lessons
• Sustainability – we will be running our family cooking programme, selling our home grown fruit and vegetables, cooking our home grown fruit and vegetables in our school kitchen
• Attendance – we will be supporting families to remove barriers that prevent good attendance
• Keep Healthy – we will focus on healthy eating. We will address packed lunch contents, suggest healthy snacks to bring and promote more eating of fruit and vegetables in the dinner hall

WAMH’s Transition Workshops at Gainsborough in Summer 2 

We have access to a WAMH’s clinician at Gainsborough. This service supports both school and home and identifying and supporting pupil’s well being and mental health. Alice Zacharia is our dedicated WAMH’s worker, she is in Gainsborough every second Monday, and she is able to meet parents to discuss any aspect of pupil well being. Please email admin@gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk if you would like to meet with Alice.

• Monday 24th June, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in the Reception to Year 1 Transition
• Monday 8th July, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in Transitions for Children with ASD
• Monday 22nd July, 2.30-3.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in Transitions, drop in session
• Monday 10th June, 3.30-4.30pm WAHM’s Workshop – Information on how to Support your Child in the Year 6 to Year 7 Transitio

Transitions for September 2024

We have started a comprehensive transition plan this term to ensure that children all: spend time in their new classrooms, spend time with their new teachers, spend time with their new support staff team. To make this less daunting, and a safe and secure experience, we are doing each of things and with one change at a time. Please see the below information about your child’s new class teacher and the days they will visit their new rooms. Please ask your children about their new rooms and adults and please do feedback to us any worries the children may have:

New Nursery Swans, Ms Hillary Lau, weekly transition to the Nursery class in small groups on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

New Nursery Geese, Ms Emma Kelsall, weekly transition to the Nursery class in small groups on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

Reception Doves, Ms Rebekah Dinh. Ms Dinh is new to Gainsborough and Ms Dinh will work in Nursery every Thursday for the rest of the term. Nursery will visit Reception class on Tuesday mornings in small groups.

Year 1 Wrens, Ms Kelis Dillon, weekly transition to the Year 1 classroom on Wednesday, Ms Dillon will teach Reception every Friday.

Year 2 Owls, Ms Aysha Ahmed, Ms Ahmed will teach Owls every Friday and complete one to one sessions with children.

Year 3 Hummingbirds, Ms Kayleigh Kee, Ms Kee will teach Hummingbirds every Tuesday afternoon.

Year 4 Herons, Ms Rebecca Carhart. Ms Carhart is new to Gainsborough and has completed 2 days in Year 3 in June. The children will see her again in September.

Year 5 Skylarks, Ms Lara Dempsy. Ms Dempsey is new to Gainsborough and will teach Skylarks on 22nd, 23rd and 24th July.

Year 6 Magpies, Ms Muganga, Ms Muganga will teach Magpies every Tuesday.

Year 6 Doves are being supported in their secondary transition through the borough wide transition day on Thursday 4th July. We are also preparing workshops through Kooth, an online mental health support tool, our school MHST worker and offering parents a session through our WAHM’s lead. If you are concerned about your child’s transition to secondary school please come and speak to us.

Year 3 and 4 Family Composting Workshop, Friday 3.30-4pm 

Please come and work alongside Ana, our Circular Economy link teacher, to learn how to compost at home. All of the children will receive a food waste caddy to take home to support families to reduce their food waste. The children will then be asked to track the improvements in their food waste reduction at home. Please come along!

Tender UK – Pupil workshop, Year 6 Monday 1st July 

RE:SET – Relationships Education: School’s Equality Toolkit

Gainsborough Primary School is proud to be working towards becoming a Healthy Relationships Champion Setting this year. We’ve partnered up with Tender Education and Arts (www.tender.org.uk) to complete RE:SET; an online toolkit and whole school campaign to award our school for promoting a culture of healthy, equal and respectful relationships. Since September 2020, it is statutory for all schools to teach relationships education and it’s a fantastic opportunity to acknowledge the incredible work we already do as well as ensuring the whole school community takes on the responsibility of preventing gender-based violence and keeping our children safe, healthy and prepared for the modern world.
During this year, Tender will deliver training, workshops and creative campaigns alongside our children and staff, and offer sessions to families and parents. We are excited to start this journey with the RE:SET team, and to see how it will benefit both our school culture and our
children’s futures. We are keen to hear the perspectives of parents and carers, and we are inviting you to take part
in a short survey (below), so Tender can create bespoke parent/carer sessions for Gainsborough Primary.

Click on the weblink below. Unique ID Code: 04529

https://forms.office.com/e/jrzy93Am2F

Attendance at Gainsborough

We are working hard to ensure good attendance at Gainsborough. To help you understand the importance in having good school attendance, we will be informing you about how we teach cycles of learning at Gainsborough in each week’s newsletter. We want families to understand the impact of absence on well being, the progress in subjects, friendships and the work load absence has on the school work force. We are doing this to help families be more mindful about taking days off. This link highlights one local authorities research and reasons fro improving attendance comes from https://www.iow.gov.uk/schools-and-education/school-attendance/why-high-attendance-is-important-for-education

As a parent or carer you want the best for your children. Having a good education is an important factor in opening up more opportunities in adult life. Did you know that:

• a child who is absent a day of school per week misses an equivalent of two years of their school life
• 90% of young people with attendance rates below 85% fail to achieve five or more good grades of GCSE and around one third achieve no GCSEs at all
• poor examination results limit young people’s options and poor attendance suggests to colleges and employers that these students are unreliable
• poor school attendance is also closely associated with crime a quarter of school age offenders have truanted repeatedly
• at least 1 million children take at least one half day off a year without permission
• 7.5 million school days are missed each year through unauthorised absence