Monthly Archives: June 2019

EYFS, PSHE, Visitors

The Life Education Caravan

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This week the children visited the Life Education Caravan at school. There they met Harold the giraffe.

The children in Nursery helped Harold to get ready for school, using the items in his wash bag and talked about the importance of washing, cleaning our teeth and brushing our hair.

The children in Reception spoke to Harold on the phone and told him what sort of things made them feel happy. Some of their ideas included ‘smiling’, ‘going to the park’, ‘playing with my friends’ and ‘eating ice-cream’. 🙂

Art, Curriculum, Fun Stuff, Sport, Year 6

The Lion King Y6-1

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Today, as part of our world of work week, UKS2 were visited by West End Schools who talked to them all about the theatre industry and also worked with them to produce a short musical version of The Lion King, which they performed to each other. They worked incredibly hard and threw themselves into it – as you can see from the photos below. Well done everyone who took part.

Curriculum, EYFS, Visitors

Nursery Cake Sale

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For World of work week this year in Early Years we decided to learn all about chefs and bakers. We were lucky enough to have a chef come in to bake with us. Thanks again Mr Ball!

The children enjoyed baking and decorating cakes, writing recipes, counting cakes and guessing how many we could bake. It was a very busy week! Nursery ended the week with a fantastic cake sale!​

We would also like to thank all the parents and carers who supported us in coming to our cake sale on Thursday. The children absolutely loved preparing for it and the great turn out was fantastic!

 

Curriculum

KS2 Sports Day

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The weather behaved perfectly for our Key Stage 2 Sports Day yesterday.

The children had a fantastic time – working together to earn points for their team.  They participated in a range of disciplines, including hurdles, long jump and javelin.

We would like to thank Premier Sports for organising such an enjoyable day and well done to ‘Team France’ who were the overall winners!

Visitors, Year 6

Year 6 fire service talk.

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Greater Manchester Fire Service came into school on Friday to speak to the pupils about summer safety. They discussed the dangers of open water swimming and the potential consequences of swimming in open water. Also discussed were the effects of antisocial behaviour on their neighbourhood. The pupils found the talk very informative and were shocked at some of the real-life scenarios they discussed. At the end they summed up what they should do: think about the consequences before you do something.

Year 6 also enjoyed watching Mr. Cronin dress up in their water rescue gear.

Is it hot in here… or is it me?
Curriculum, PSHE, School Council

School Council visit to Wentworth House Care Home

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At Grosvenor Road Primary School, we are very keen to make links with people of all ages in our wider community. One way in which we are doing this is through a link with Wentworth House – a local residential care home for the elderly. On Thursday 13th June, members of our School Council visited the residents there to help them to celebrate their ‘Alzheimer’s UK Cupcake Day’. The children helped to judge the cupcakes which had been decorated by the residents, played games, chatted to the residents about our school, presented prizes and enjoyed refreshments. Our visit was very well received and we look forward to visiting again next month with our choir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curriculum, Fun Stuff, School Council, Sport

New Playground Equipment June 2019

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The equipment which we were able to purchase from funds raised by our Sponsored Pancake Flip has arrived!

Our final sponsor money total was £3,199.00!

The School Council have been very busy completing a survey to find out what equipment our children would like and they were responsible for placing the substantial order with our school suppliers. Equipment was purchased for ALL playgrounds in school and included: basketball hoops; football nets; a rebounder net; playground games such as Connect 4, Chess, Twister and Jenga; a nature hunt set; badminton sets, bats and balls, balance boards, skipping ropes, frisbees, ribbon wands, all types of balls, stilts, hula hoops, beanbag boccia sets, scoops, skittles and croquet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you once again to all our families for supporting our sponsored event. Here are some photographs of the children enjoying our new equipment