Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Annual Harvest Festival

  Mon 26 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers

  On Thursday 29 September we are walking to St Mary's Church in Old Basing for our annual Harvest Festival Celebration. Our children will be giving thanks for the food that we receive and thinking about everyone involved in ensuring we have lovely food to eat. We also spend time thinking about those people who do not have enough food both in our own country as well as around the world. 

   

  If you are able to help supervise our children whilst walking to and from the church on that afternoon please contact either your child's class teacher or the office staff as we need some additional adults to walk with the children.

   

  We will be leaving school at 1.00pm so you would need to be in school by 12.50pm.  We aim to be back in school by 3.15pm.

  Thank you

   

   

• Year 3 Listen 2 Me

  Thu 22 Sep 2016 Miss Wright
  This week Year 3 had the first of their Listen 2 Me ukulele lessons. They learned the different parts of the ukulele, how to strum and the names of the strings. They had lots of fun!

  

• Collecting your children

  Wed 21 Sep 2016 Mrs Worgan
  Dear Parents

  We have noticed that quite a few parents are now arriving at school before 3.00pm to collect their children.  As you can appreciate some classes are still involved in lessons, eg PE and other outdoor activities.  It is becoming difficult to ensure they all return to their classrooms safely and, in the case of some of our younger children, they find it upsetting to find their way through groups of parents to return to their class.

  Could we please ask that parents do not enter our school site until 3.10pm, by which time all children should be in their normal classes.  Your cooperation with this would be much appreciated.

   

   

• Our EYFS Children Make a Fab Start

  Mon 19 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers

  It has been great meeting our new EYFS children again and they have all made a terrific start. Playing nicely and trying their hardest when tackling the activities on offer for them. We are proud of you all as you are settling in to school routines well.

  Our older children are being super stars too by ensuring that they are well looked after. It has been lovely seeing our existing children welcoming our new EYFS children.

   

• School Council Elections

  Thu 15 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers

  Our School Council Elections have taken place where each class has 2 new representatives. They will meet with Miss Khan weekly to discuss important school issues. They are all looking forward to their new roles. Well done to all of you.

  In addition to this, we all voted for a new Chair and Vice Chair of the School Council. It was a very close contest and there were only a few votes between them. Our new Chair is Sarah and her Vice Chair is Jasper. Congratulations to you both. We look forward to working with you throughout this academic year.

  I know many of our children who didn't get a seat on the council were disappointed. This is only natural but please do think about trying again next year. There will be other opportunities for you to go for throughout your time at GBP.

  A list of the whole council will follow in our next newsletter.

• A great start to the new year for our children across school.

  Wed 14 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers

  Well we have 330 children in school today - we are definitely growing! I have been so proud of them all as they have settled into our school routines so beautifully. I hope that this continues and that they try their hardest to do as well as they can do.  

  Hope you enjoy the photos below. 

  

• A message for children in Hawthorn and Hazel

  Fri 02 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers

  Dear Parents

  We will need to have a slightly different arrangement for entry and exit from school for children who will be in Hazel and Hawthorn classes next week.  As we now have all classes in occupation at the office end of the school, Hazel and Hawthorn classes should use the courtyard area to access their classrooms.  Children who try to enter using the door to the shared area outside Pine Class will be redirected to the courtyard area.

  We hope this will help ease congestion at the start and end of the day.

  Kind regards

  Mrs Worgan

• We went on a site visit

  Fri 02 Sep 2016 Miss Rogers
  After getting all kitted out so that we were safe, we went onto the actual site. The new build is really taking shape. It was really exciting. 

  

• Some exciting staff news

  Wed 31 Aug 2016 Miss Rogers

  Just some great news for you all...

  Miss Collins got married over the summer to the lovely Mr Liam Osborne. Her dress was absolutely amazing and the day was very special. The newly weds have not long got back from a lovely honeymoon in Italy - on the Amalfi coastline. I'm sure she will be sharing some wedding photographs over the next coming weeks. I expect you will join us in wishing the happy couple a long and happy marriage. Congratulations to the both of you - you deserve every happiness. 

  Miss Grainger, has as you all  know been to New Zealand to represent England in the Indoor Nets World Championships and I am so excited to announce that the team won - yes, she is coming home with a gold medal!!! How exciting is that? We will be getting Miss Grainger to share and talk to our school community all about her experiences in more detail. A super well done Lou! We are so proud of you. 

  

• School build update

  Sat 27 Aug 2016 Miss Rogers

  Lots has been going on over the summer holidays internally in our existing school and on the actual building site.

  In addition to this, our adventure play is being built which is starting to look fabulous.

  Please remember, you are not admitted to go on to our school grounds when school is closed as it is not safe to do so.

  We hope you enjoy your last week of the holidays. Members of our staff will be working hard next week, trying to get our school back to normal before our Years 1-6 arrive on Monday 5th September.