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The bird boxes that the children in KS2 made, are up and about in the school grounds. Keep your eyes open for any comings and goings as bird nesting season is from February until August. I hope the birds like our boxes and have a safe home to lay their eggs.

Let's see what types of birds we can…

Today Year Two voted for the candidate they felt would be the best person for the role of class helper.

All pupils took part and placed their vote in the ballot box. The ballots were then counted and the winner was announced.

By a majority vote, the winner was... Esmee!

Well…

To reflect the UK General Election, we held our own General Election in class.

Each child voted on who they felt would be most suited to the role of 'Class Helper'.  The children posted their voting slips into the ballot box.  The votes will be counted and the successful candidate announced on…

I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday.

The next 6 weeks are extremely busy weeks and all the important dates can be found on the parent section of our web site.

Keep checking out all the class blogs for more information about what your children are up to in…

Well done to everyone! We have now achieved the Woodland Trust Green Tree School Silver Award! To achieve this we have been taking part in lots of outside learning. We all visited our local woodland area, showed we cared for our environment and the Outdoor Club have been completing lots of outdoor…

This week, year two designed their own pizzas for our Topic 'Food Glorious Food' and today we made them!  We made the dough ourselves and placed the toppings on to match our designs. I'm sure they will all enjoy baking and eating them at home, especially in this glorious sunshine.

Have a…

As part of our geography, Year 5 have been finding out about the causes and consequences of earthquakes.  To help them understand this, the children were given a challenge:

They had to build a stable structure on a base of jelly.  They used spaghetti and marshmallows for their construction.…

Isaac and Fran have written a sequel to their first book which they wrote a few weeks ago. 

Their new story is called 'King Kong's Revenge.' 

The boys enjoyed reading the story to the rest of the class. The children really enjoyed listening to it. 

Well done…

Our current Geography topic at the moment is all about Europe. ‘European Escapade’ Today the children enjoyed a food tasting session in class.

The children sampled food from Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Italy. The children tasted cloudberry jam, rye bread, cheese, fish paste, pickled herring…

This week, the children in year 1 learned to play the song 'Happy' on their glockenspiels and it sounded amazing!

I love singing with the choir on Wednesday nights.

This week the choir learned a new song, "Try, Try Again".

This is exactly what we teach all the children here at Gillibrand, and the choir all put a lot of effort into learning it, and trying their best, even though at the start some of them…