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OPAL Launch
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are about to launch our exciting new project to make our playtimes even better, in conjunction with Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL).
In 2018, OPAL won the best active schools’ programme in Europe award and has been cited in two parliamentary reports as delivering outstanding practice. OPAL is working closely with Sport England to promote more active childhoods, which is one of the many reasons we are improving our playtime, as well as to improve opportunities for socialisation, cooperation, coordination, resilience, creativity, imagination and enjoyment for your child. We are hoping to foster many different types of play and I have attached the poster to show different types of play.
We strongly believe that:
“Play is freely chosen, personally directed, intrinsically motivated behaviour that actively engages the child. Play can be fun or serious. Through play children explore social, material and imaginary worlds and their relationship with them, elaborating all the while a flexible range of responses to the challenges they encounter. By playing, children learn and develop as individuals, and as members of the community.”
(Children’s Play Council 2001)
The project will start at the end of April and our hopes are that it will change the way we think and how we play together. To facilitate this project, we will need to buy some new resources, move some things around on the playground and require some loose parts. Loose parts are any materials that can be easily moved, combined, and incorporated into children's free play. The items we are looking for will enable us to enjoy a wider range of play experiences during playtime (see the Bingo Cards for some examples).
We have sent out Bingo cards for each class and when resources are brought in these will be checked off per class. The first class to get a line will get 10 minutes extra play and the first class to complete the Bingo card will get 20 minutes extra play.
We will be holding a collection week beginning Monday 18th March. The sooner we do this, the sooner the children will be able to play with the items! Please do not bring your donations in before this date as we will have nowhere to store them. If objects are oversized, we will ensure that there is someone available to help you carry them into school.
In addition, we will soon be asking all the children to have a pair of wellies in school to allow them to access all the outdoor areas all year round. Children will also need a waterproof coat in school as we will still be going out even if it is raining. If you have any spare wellies that you could donate, we would be very grateful. Please do not bring wellies in until we let you know that the wellie storage is ready. If anyone has the time and skills to assist us in making welly storage we would be extremely grateful.
We are really excited about this project and hope that you will support us in our efforts to improve playtime for all children.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Barrowcliffe (Curricular lead for play)
Additional members of the OPAL team are as follows:
Miss Dyer, Miss Leame and Mrs Pailing (Play coordinators)
Mrs Poxon (Play governor)
Mrs Bainbridge (Play parent)
Mrs Bates (Supporting as the Head Teacher)
Mrs Parnell (Supporting through the use of Sports Premium Funding)
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Wow, what an afternoon of great football, the girls' team did themselves proud with their positive attitude, team spirit and support.
They played as a team and together they played some great football.
Unfortunately, it just wasn't our day! It was great to see the team come away from the tournament with big smiles on their faces and saying how much they enjoyed it.
Well done girls you represented Greasley Beauvale with enthusiasm, and support - never giving up.
⚽ Mrs Pailing ⚽
Head Teacher Awards this week so far...
Indigo 2 - Ava M - For her fantastic poster on the causes and effects of deforestation and solutions. she took a very creative approach and visually showed how important protecting the forest is.
Priya and Ivy - Orange 1 - for fantastic partner work using a categorising frame to decide if a sentence needs a full stop or a capital letter. Great team work and discussion.
Good Morning,
Please see this weeks Newsletter:
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Have a great week!
Head Teacher Awards this week go to...
Maxim - Reception - For fantastic effort during phonics; Maxim joined in with our new routine 'My turn, our turn, your turn'. Well done!
Hadley - Reception - For giving 100% effort in phonics. Hadley joins in enthusiastically and always knows where to find the sound on the wall.
Jude - Green 1 - For creating wonderful sentences in English today! He presented his work beautifully with finger spaces, capital letters and great letter formation. Well done, Jude!
Archie - Green 1 - For creating fabulous sentences in our English lesson today. His imagination was in over-drive. Excellent learning, Archie.
Head Teacher Awards this week:
Aristos - Orange 2 - For the independent work he has done with 1 less and 1 more. He did question 4 - fill in the missing numbers on his own, with hardly any help.
Benjamin - Orange 1 - For his amazing writing about the alligator hatching out of the egg. He concentrated really hard and remembered his full stops.
Elliott - Red 2 - For having a super start to the school day. He welcomed me into his classroom, with beautiful manners and politeness. He then told me all about his learning on growing plants and what a seed needs to grow well. In addition, he used his phonics well to read through his instructions with me. I was very impressed this morning.
Emily - Violet 2 - For persevering with a really tricky maths problem. She even gave up her own time to complete it - working systematically to find all options.
This school website now has its own pages for the new and upcoming Rainbows Nursery.
Please use the following link to view the relevant pages:
https://www.greasleybeauvale.co.uk/topic/rainbows-nursery
Thank you,
Mrs Bates
School Newsletter for the week ahead:
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Have a good week everyone,
Mrs Bates
I had the pleasure of seeing our football team compete on Saturday morning in the Nottinghamshire Schools competition. They were truly incredible in their attitude and team effort, equalled only by their precision in passing the ball. Below is the write-up of the morning's events from Mrs Pailing the team manager and coach. Well done to everyone involved, including all the parents and supporters who were noticeably very vocal in their support from the side lines! ⚽⚽⚽ Mrs Parnell
Saturday morning saw Greasley Beauvale's football team compete in the 7-a-side regional finals at Sutton Lawns. The team started their campaign within the group stages in all three games the team played great football, our keeper was on top form with some amazing saves, defence were solid and battled well with fantastic runs down the wings and great battling in midfield which lead to some great goals from our strikers.
With two draws and a win we finished winners of our group.
Onto a tense semi-final where a late equaliser came from Greasley who never gave up. This saw us go into a penalty shootout successfully hitting the back of the net with every penalty taken 4-2 to Greasley Beauvale.
On to the final. We took on a very good side from Newark. Again, Greasley stepped up and gave everything they had left seeing us take the lead but it wasn't meant to be, with the game ending 3-1 to Coddington. This meant we were runners-up. What a great achievement!
I'm so proud of the team and honoured to be part of this.
Goal scorers: Thomas, Rowan and Lucas.
Penalties: Harrison, Jake, Thomas and Henry J.
I would just like to thank the parents for all your support and taking time out of your weekend to bring the team along to represent Greasley Beauvale, the cheering and encouragement from the side lines was amazing.
Mrs Pailing.
Head Teacher Awards this week:
Albert and Remi - Orange 2 - For independently doing their maths and using appropriate resources to help them. Well done, boys!
Ronnie - Reception - For amazing independent writing. WOW!
William - Yellow 2 - For demonstrating the Rainbow Value of 'Inclusive yet Individual' so well in PSHE, when learning about people who are deaf. William confidently shared his own experiences with his dad and best friend with pride. He even taught the whole class some sign language.
Sophia - violet 1 - For showing fabulous resilience and determination when completing tricky work with decimals. It was great to see how proud she was of her efforts.
Ella Andrews - Indigo 2 - For going above and beyond with her homework and creating a fantastic 3D model of a Murakami flower in less than 24 hours. What a super star!
Toby - Orange 2 - For his independent writing that he has done about the red egg that got delivered on Monday. A huge well done!