Last week at Gainsborough…
FroG’s Halloween Ball
We had a terrifyingly good time at our annual FroG’s Halloween Ball on Friday! Thank you to all of our staff and families who made it possible. The children ate hot dogs, made Halloween pesto pizzas, and drank our delicious Gainsborough hot chocolate with marshmallows. It was lovely to see the younger children playing in the younger children’s section, which was quieter and calmer. Our face painters have also honed their craft, improving on last years face painting! DJ Debs made an appearance and led everyone through a well choreographed thriller routine, thank you! Thank you to Charlotte, and the FroG’s families for setting up the party and supporting it throughout.
We are looking for more members to join the FroG’s (Friends of Gainsborough) please keep an eye out for their AGM to get involved this year!
Carol’s Community Kitchen Family Cooking
We will continue with our family cooking sessions every Friday in Carol’s Community Kitchen! Please come along and join us. Joyce runs the sessions weekly using fresh produce from our circular food economy project. Please come along!
Well done Reception Doves
Reception have moved into their new classrooms this week and the feedback from the children has been fantastic. It has been so lovely to see them enjoy the larger continuous provision areas. The children have really enjoyed a larger home corner and role play area in which to play in. They have accessed the construction area with real purpose; making huge towers, counting blocks and comparing their structures.
Year 5 Kew Gardens trip
Year 5 visited Kew Gardens this week. Year 5 cover a topic about different biomes across the globe. They visited Kew Gardens to see the tropical environment created there and what plants and wild life might live in a rainforest environment.
Reader of the Week
Each week we will award one child from Years 1-6 with a new book, as the Reader of the Week. The award is for commitment, reading progress, engagement or sharing their love for reading. Please support your child with reading at home! After all, reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Year 1 Lyra
Year 2 Cheyenne
Year 3 Aamilah
Year 4 Dovon
Year 5 Latina
Year 6 Barrington
Most Improved Writer of the Week
Each week we will award one child from Years 1-6 as most improved writer of the week. The award is for those who have shown a significant improvement in handwriting or writing throughout the week.
Year 1 Caden
Year 2 Riley
Year 3 Derek
Year 4 Zayden
Year 5 Shantay
Year 6 Macey
GOLDS!
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 Geese
Lillian was awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award for showing wonderful kindness to her friends in class. Well done Lillian!
Nursery Swans
Ludwick was awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award this week for contributing your ideas in really great sentences! Well done Ludwick.
Reception Doves
Antonio has been awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award this week for working really hard in group work, following instructions and tidying up really well. Well done Antonio!
Year 1 Wrens
Kruize was awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award this week. He has completed excellent learning in maths this week and added 3, 1 digit numbers. Well done Kruize!
Year 2- Owls
Faith was awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award for working really hard in all areas of learning and for showing really good subject knowledge in maths. Well done Faith!
Year 3 – Hummingbirds
Finley was awarded a Gainsborough Gold Award this week. Finley has made excellent contributions in geography. Well done Finley!
Year 4- Herons
Bobby, Alexis and Raiez were nominated for a Gainsborough Gold this week. They have joined Gainsborough this week and settled into Year 4 really well. Well done on a brave new start Years 4. You are brilliant Bobby, Alexis and Raiez!
Year 5 – Skylarks
Jonathan was awarded the Gainsborough Gold Award this week. Jonathan has shown a great attitude to learning and to school in general, inside and outside the classroom all week. Well done Jonathan!
Year 6 – Magpies
Donovan has been awarded the Gainsborough Gold Award this week. He has used expaneded noun phrases really well in his writing this week. Donovan, keep us the great work, it is very impressive!
Next week at Gainsborough…
It’s Pantomime at Hackney Empire- Oh no it isn’t!
We are taking Years 1 -6 to see Dick Whittington at Hackney Empire. After receiving our ticket allocation from Hackney Empire we have decided to change the dates of the classes going on each day, this is to avoid younger children having to sit upstairs. Children will be provided with snacks and arrive back to school at 5pm for collection. Please see your emails for further information. The new allocation is:
Tuesday 3rd December Years 1, 3 and 6
Wednesday 11th December Years 2, 4 and 5
Nursery and Reception Class Donations
Running the EYFS is an expensive business. We are always grateful for donations! This half term are are looking for second hand:
- dolls clothes
- wooden, plastic or fabric toy food
- toys, resources and packaging relating to pets
- pine cones, twigs, stones, conkers and leaves for our mud kitchens
Reception 2025 Admissions and Tours
If your child was born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021 you must apply for a reception class, place for a start in September 2025, by 15th January 2025. All families must apply via www.eadmissions.orh.uk If you would like help to apply for a place please speak to Charlotte Harris, our Children’s Centre Manager and Pastoral Support Officer. We are offering tours of the school for prospective reception class parents every Friday in the Autumn term at 9-10am or at 5-6pm. These tours are with the Headteacher and give families the opportunity to see the whole school, our specialist subject spaces, unpick how the school vision and values of the school are lived through. It is also a chance to ask any questions about the school and consider what sending your child to Gainsborough offers you.
Run Gainsborough Run – Sunday 17th November 2-4pm
Please join us for the fundraiser of the year! Run Gainsborough Run is organised by Run Kids Run https://runkidsrun.org/ They support schools to complete a fun and friendly run, to provide sponsorship from corporate sponsors and to provide an event the school can collect sponsorship for. Previously, these events have raised a whopping £6000 a year for the school. This huge amount was made up of £5000 from the corporate sponsors, when the school has over 30% of school turn out to run, and a whopping £1000 of sponsorship money from the children’s friends and families. We hope to have over 70 runners this year so that we access this huge funding pot again! This is our single biggest fundraising event of the year, and previously this has contributed to resources for the children to all enjoy, like the resurfacing of the football cage.
Please register here: https://forms.gle/h9ugQQeM3xXFgKAZ8
Please collect sponsors and ask families to sponsor via this account: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/gainsboroughprimary-school-1?utm_term=Wxzxvpy8d
Thank you Pines and Needles, Victoria Park
Gainsborough primary school has kindly been donated a Christmas tree by Pines and Needles and they would love to offer parents a discount on Christmas trees in their pop up stores! Our local pop up store is located in Victoria Park at : Victoria Park, Royal East Gate, Grove Road, London, E9 7HJ
DISCOUNT CODE: SCHOOL10
