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All the children in Year 4 now have a user name and password to log on to Times Tables Rock Stars. I want all the children to be fluent in all multiplication facts up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4.

Times Table Rock Stars will help the children learn these facts. 

Watch this space to see…

To celebrate Roald Dahl day, in Design Technology we created Fantastic Mr Fox masks.

Fantastic Mr Fox is our current class novel and the class are really enjoying it!

To create the masks we had to cut carefully around the template and the cardboard, then we used poster paint to paint the…

The children in Year 5 have started to be trained as PALS.  Mrs Smith from Southlands worked with them for the afternoon, showing them how to support the younger children with their games.

 There will be another session next week.  Some of the children will then work with the infant or junior…

Year 6 have started their geography topic of North V South. After studying the physical features of Alaska, they have created their own messy maps showing these. We also looked at how maps show land height and some children have used this mapping skill adding a key to their 3D map. Geography can…

Welcome back! I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable summer.

We have lots of exciting things planned for the autumn term.

It's going to be a very busy and enjoyable term.

Have a great summer holiday.

I look forward to seeing you all in September ready for another new and exciting year at Gillibrand.

Well done to Ellison and Elise. 

Thank you to all parents who returned the parent comment slips sent with the end of year reports. 

It was lovely to read all the positive comments about the staff and children and the many words of thanks. 

" I absolutely adore this school and the teachers and I thank you from the bottom of…

Year 5 have been looking at irreversible changes in science.  Today we baked some cakes so that we could see what happens to some materials when you heat them.   The children realised they were unable to get the ingredients back to their original state once they had been mixed together and…

Our current topic in Science is: Animals including Humans. 

Yesterday the children worked in small groups to explore the digestive system in a human body. The children created a model of how the digestive system works to show what happens to food when it enters the mouth all the way through to…

Well done to the PTFA.

I have just heard that nearly £1000 was raised at the summer fair.

All the money raised will be used to support the children in our school.

After reading 'Mandy's Story', a fictional story about a girl who befriended a stranger in a chatroom thinking it was a famous person from her favourite band, we discussed ways to keep ourselves safe online. The children then designed posters, for pupils their age, to advise and give safety tips…