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Nursery & Reception places still available!
All new starters to our
Reception class will receive a
free royal blue sweatshirt,
complete with our new badge! We still have places for nursery and
reception, but they’re going fast. To secure your place, please
contact Mrs Minto at the school office (call in or ring 5537647).
Prospective parents are welcome to come and visit us. All parents
and new children will get the chance to visit school in June, to
meet our Early Years staff. Our Nursery and Reception offers your
child a safe and happy start to school – our talented and hard
working staff will ensure that your child settles in quickly and
makes great progress in their learning. We were recently inspected
by Ofsted, and they were full of praise for Early Years at
Grangetown:
“Children can work
independently, are happy and increasingly confident in all areas of
the provision and their behaviour is good”.
Ofsted, March 2011. |
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Daisychain – the best Daycare available!
Do you need a daycare place for your child? Daisychain is open 51
weeks a year, from 8.00 a.m.-6.00 p.m. The fees are very
competitive, and offer excellent value. Our daycare staff are
hardworking, caring and skilled – they will ensure your child is
happy and safe. As an added bonus, Daisychain can offer a wonderful
outdoor environment, recently built at a cost of £40,000 – nothing
but the best for our children! If you’re interested in a place in
Daisychain, please speak to Catherine Heslop, our Daycare Manager.
Pop in, or ring her on 553 7652. You can also discuss your childcare
needs with Mrs Minto in the school office (5537647), or Miss Booth
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Easter Discos rock the school!
Our two discos this week were a fantastic success! Everyone loved
the DJ, the dancing, the food, the games…and of course the chance to
try out our circus skills! We’d like to say a huge WELL DONE to our
new Parents & Friends Group – their hard work certainly paid off –
and the event (including the raffle) raised over £300!
“I enjoyed the music, dancing and the toys”: Elise (yr2)
“I liked the circus games”: Miya (year 2)
“I liked the nice sweets”: Peter (year 2)
“The disco was mint! I especially enjoyed the circus activities.”
Olivia (year 6)
“The DJ was fantastic – he put on all of the songs that I asked for”
(Connor year 6)
“I had a great time hula hooping” (Melanie year 6)
“I taught Mrs Millican how to spin a plate on a stick” (Liam year 6) |
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Our Amazing Easter Concert!
The hall was packed for our Easter Concert earlier this week. The
huge audience of parents, carers and children were amazed at the
talent on display, and everyone had a thoroughly entertaining time.
Reception, year 1 and year 2 sang their selection of Easter songs
beautifully. We were all impressed with the Indian (year 3), Spanish
(year 4) and Greek (year 5) dancing – well done to Danielle, our
dance teacher. Our violinists and chalumeau players were superb, and
of course our choir was (as ever!) simply incredible. We’d all like
to thank Mr Preston (chalumeau), Miss Hanson (violin) and of course
Mrs Davies who leads our choir. Well done everyone! |
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We meet a Modern-Day Robinson Crusoe
On Tuesday 8th March 2011 year 6 had a visitor - Chris
Connaughton, author and actor. He acted out a modern day version of
Robinson Crusoe - stuck on an island for twenty-seven years. After
the play, we wrote a journal entry as if we were Robinson, a
description of a setting, and we wrote a letter home to be sent in a
bottle! Our favourite part, however, was when we drew a map of what
might have been on the Island. By Tamara Rea and Neve Buford year 6. |
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Egg-cellent Egg Creations!
On Thursday this week our children had the opportunity to create a
character or scene, using a hard boiled egg, art and craft materials
…plus their imaginations of course. There were lots of amazing
entries, all of which were placed on tables around the hall. Our
School Council judged the eggs, and we announced the following
winners in assembly today:
Nursery: Dominic: "Pig in a sty". Reception: Chloe Richardson for
"An Angel".
Year 1: Connor:"A Bumble Bee"
Year 2: Elisefor "Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from the film Tanlged".
Yr 3: Alicia: "Spongebob Eggpants & friends"
Year 4: Kenyafor "Dancing Show"
Year 5: Baileyfor "Eggsplosion"
Yr 6: Tia:"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
And...Miss Grainger won a special prize for "Rapunzel" |
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Bailey the Beagle!
On Monday 4th April Year 1 ended their ‘Animals’ topic by inviting
Louise from the Dogs Trust to talk about how to look after pets. The
children met Bailey the 5 year old Beagle dog, which they all got to
stroke and groom. The children talked about the things a dog needs
from its owners to be safe and healthy. All of the children have
thoroughly enjoyed the animals topic and are looking forward to
starting their new topic after the Easter break. Miss Hough. |
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KS1 Craft Eggstravaganza!
Our KS1 children and parents took part in a craft afternoon to help
celebrate Easter. Parents and carers were invited into school to
work alongside their child. We had a selection of Easter craft
activities including making Easter cards, chick door hangers, Easter
baskets and chocolate nests and much, much more! A lot of parents
and carers took part and along with the children thoroughly enjoyed
the afternoon. Due to the success of the event we would like to
organise more family activities like this one. Thank you once again
for your continued support, a great afternoon had by all! Happy
Easter, KS1 Team. |
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Easter Fayre Success
The Foundation Stage Team would like
to thank everyone who attended the Easter Fayre last week. The
event was a huge success and all parents and children had a great
time! It was very well attended by children and parents from
Foundation Stage and Key Stage One. Everyone had fun pinning the
tail on the bunny and hooking ducks. There was also delicious
chocolate crispy cakes that the children had made and a chance to
win lots of prizes. We are very pleased to announce that we raised
£200 for the Foundation Stage unit and this will aid us in
developing our outdoor environment. |
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A Big Thank You!
We would like to say Thank You to all who donated prizes for the
Easter Raffle, which was very well organised by our Parents Group.
The many prizes included chocolate Easter eggs donated by
Sainsbury’s, swimming vouchers for Raich Carter Centre, a meal at
The Sandcastle and many more. Local historian, Matty Morrison
donated two of his latest books about the history and characters of
the local area, which we found very interesting. Thank you all once
again for your continued support! Mrs Cole |
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Just Dance!
Grangetown Primary School has benefited from a dance family learning
course over the past term. Sarah from Sunderland University had our
parents, children and even staff strutting their stuff every Friday
after school! They mastered a routine to Singing in the Rain
complete with umbrellas as props. Well done in completing the
course, Britain’s Got Talent watch this space! Miss Booth |
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Year 4 say ‘Hola’
to Vicente!
On Tuesday 5th
April Year 4 had a visit from Vicente, a student originally from
Valencia, Spain. During this session we told Vicente all we know
about Spain, and he was very impressed with our extensive knowledge
and facts! He told us about his life in Valencia, played some games
with us and taught us some Spanish. We can now ask: ‘Hello, how are
you?’ ‘What is your name?’ and are able to respond to these as well
as being able to count from 1 – 10. We all thoroughly enjoyed the
afternoon and it really helped to bring our topic of Spain to life.
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World Maths Day
recently, we took part in World Maths Day. Key Stage two all took
part in this by completing maths tasks on Mathletics – racing our
maths speed against children from all around the world. There were
191 nations involved and 32,513 schools playing. When we were sent
the results, they showed that 1,180,272 children participated and we
all helped to correctly answer 428,598,214 questions correctly. By
Katelynn, Tamara, Neve - Y6. |
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New badge to launch in September!
You will receive an order form after Easter, setting out what is
available from our new uniform suppliers (ICE Sportswear, Ryhope
Rd). As you know, we now have a new badge. You are also welcome (if
you wish) to buy uniform from any shop or supermarket, and we can
arrange to have the badge embroidered by ICE. Some children are
already wearing uniform with the new badge, - it looks fantastic!
Though the official ‘launch’ will be September, you’re welcome to
start wearing uniform with the new badge as from now. We’ll be
making further announcements about PE shirts soon. |
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Keeping your child safe!
We are still concerned about cars parking outside of school at the
start and end of the day. Please use the spaces at the bottom of
Spelterworks Road for parking – it takes less than a minute to then
walk to the school gates. Please note that no parking, picking up or
dropping off is permitted on the road immediately outside of school.
Several parents have pointed out that the situation had become
dangerous and chaotic. We are making these requests to ensure that
the children remain safe. Thankyou. |
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This
month’s Quote:
"Those who do nothing are never wrong."
Theodore de Bouville |
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