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

• Attendance Letters

  Wed 11 Jan 2017 Mrs Lee

  Dear Parents,

  You child should come home with their Attendance Letter for Autumn 2016 (Sept-Dec) this week. This will detail your child's % attendance for the term.

  Please keep an eye out for it within book bags. Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school.

  Best regards,

  Mrs Lee

• Artists at GBP have been busy...

  Tue 10 Jan 2017 Lois Finnimore

  Miss Finnimore and Miss Lyddon worked with some artists from each year group today, in order  to create some 'Masterpieces' for a part of our new build! See if you can spot them in school....

   

  It was a great to see the children persevering when they found it tricky. The children were great at reminding each other about 'Growth Mindset' and were so proud of themselves when they saw the finished products. 

   

  The children used classic story books as a stimuli. See if you can guess which books they were inspired by from looking at the pictures!

   

   

  

• Active Kids Taster Session for Early Years

  Tue 10 Jan 2017 Miss Lemar

  This morning all the children in Early Years attended  Active Kids, a sports taster session, ran by Premier Sports. Coach Nicky started the session off with a fun warm up, she called out an animal and the children had to move around in that style. They then moved onto a pirate ship activity, which linked very well with our current topic. Everyone had to listen carefully to the instructions the Captain gave. These included Captain's coming (saluting the captain), scrubbing the decks, climbing the rigging, walking the plank (jumping) and lifeboat (getting into groups of the three and pretending to row). The children listened very carefully to the instructions and this activity certainly got their hearts beating faster!

  The session ended with a game of Buckeroo. Everyone was put into teams and one member from the group was chosen to be the donkey. Taking it in turns the rest of the group had to balance PE equipment on them, such as; cones, sports vests, balls etc. On the first go the 'donkey' had to stand up, which made it more challenging to balance the objects and then on the second go they could lay down, which was much easier! A great time was had by all and the children left with red faces and beaming smiles. 

  Premier Sports will be running similar sessions to this after school on Fridays (there is a monetary cost for this). The children have bought home a leaflet today, with  more information about this. 

• After School Care Provision

  Mon 09 Jan 2017 Mrs Worgan

  Dear Parents

  I have emailed you all attaching a questionnaire from SCL regarding a possible after school provision at Great Binfields.  I would be grateful if you could return the reply slips by Friday 13 January as we now need to gauge how many parents would be interested in using this service before we can finalise our negotiations with them.

  Kind regards

  Mrs Worgan

• The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch 2017

  Sun 08 Jan 2017 Miss Lyddon

  The RSPB - Big Garden Bird Watch :

   

  Click on the link below to download your 'Big Garden Bird Watch' pack and get involved. The weekend for this event is 28th-30th January 2017.

   

  https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch

  

• Deadline for Christmas Reading Challenge

  Sat 07 Jan 2017 Miss Rogers

  Thanks to all of you that have returned your Christmas Reading Challenge sheets to date. We have had lots in, which is super to see.

  We would like to remind you that the cut-off date for returns is Tuesday 10th January.

  Prizes for participants will be sorted out from Wednesday 11th.

  Best regards,

   

  Miss Rogers

• Happy New Year

  Thu 05 Jan 2017 Miss Rogers

  Happy New Year everyone - I hope that 2017 brings you all much happiness. 

  Just a quick post to say that our children have all settles back into school really well after their Christmas break. It has been lovely hearing about their holiday stories and they are eagerly getting into their new topics for the Spring term. 

  Our first newsletter of 2017 will be published late next week but watch out for a New Build newsletter before our normal school one. 

• INSET DAY

  Sat 31 Dec 2016 Miss Rogers

  Happy New Year everyone.

  Just a little reminder to say that we have an Inset Day on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. See you all at 8.40am on Wednesday 4th January.

• Christmas Jumper Competition

  Fri 16 Dec 2016 Miss Rogers

  Our Vice Chair and Chair of the School Council judged our Christmas Jumper Design Competition. They said it was a tough job and I can well believe that because the standard was brilliant again this year. We also had more entries which was super. Thank you to Mrs Sheers for organising it again for the children.

  So to the winners:

  EYFS - Indie-Joi

  KS1 -O'Shea

  KS2 - Eva

  Well done to you all. They received a small prize for their super efforts.

   

  

• Carol Singing at Tescos

  Wed 14 Dec 2016 Miss Rogers

  Our 18 strong choir sang beautifully at Tescos this morning and thanks to them they have helped to raise funds for the Tescos Toy Bank, where toys are bought and donated for children that are less fortunate than ourselves in the local area.

  Thank you to our school community who came to support and for the local community who donated. It is really appreciated.