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Week Ending 17th December 2021
The whole school’s attendance is currently slightly under national averages at 94.64%, but is very consistent during difficult circumstances
Classes currently in-line with national averages (96%) for attendance are as follows:
Red 2, Yellow 1 and Blue 1 and Blue 2
Head Teachers’ Awards this week have been awarded to:
Harris – yellow 1 – For believing in himself and overcoming obstacles when completing his learning about the Nativity story independently. Keep believing in yourself – You can do it!
Evelyn - Orange 2 – For using different conjunctions in her super sentences, predicting what will happen in our story
Ivy and Reggie – yellow 1 – For their well organised story map. They worked brilliantly together to discuss, plan and record their story, using symbols. Well done to them both!
What a truly wonderful week in school. I started my week, Monday morning, by teaching both Year 3 classes. I loved every single minute and they worked hard on their times tables. We also enjoyed the Christmas clues during morning maths.
Monday then ended superbly with the performance of ‘Seven lessons and carols’ from the Year 5 and 6 children at Greasley Church. It was a very awe-inspiring, peaceful and atmospheric event and I enjoyed every single minute of it. Tuesday afternoon was much of the same! Thanks to everyone who sent messages of thanks and support. Well done to all the children and staff, who put it together during difficult times.
On Wednesday, the Reception children performed their Christmas event and WOW! What a show! Their first of many to come and already Greasley has some talented performers. The singing was beautiful and there were a few tears in the audience.
Parents and carers will have now received their child’s autumn term report. The one-page profile gives an insight of their child’s ‘Behaviour and conduct’, ‘Attitude to learning’ and their ‘on-track’ predictions for reading, writing and maths based on their attainment during the autumn term assessments carried out last week. Any questions on the report then please do get in touch and we can answer any queries, and have conversations, if required after the Christmas holidays.
On Thursday, we had Christmas lunch cooked by Steph and all the ladies in the kitchen. What a delight and we could hardly move in the afternoon! I personally love Christmas dinner day as I get my apron and serving tongues at the ready and help to serve over 400+ dinners. I don’t know how the ladies do it on a daily basis…it’s hot work! Thank you to all the ladies! DELICIOUS!
Today, we parted for Christmas wearing our sparkly and jingly jumpers, whilst celebrating all our new books for the library. When we set up the Amazon wish list, we never imagined the level of generosity we would receive. We can’t thank you all enough for the array of books selected from the wish list and we can’t wait to share the full photo collection with you after Christmas. THANK YOU and MERRY CHRISTMAS.
KEEP SAFE, EVERYONE and see you for the school return on Tuesday 4th January 2022. I will of course be in touch over Christmas if there are any changes to the school plans based on COVID restrictions.
Enjoy the holidays everyone!
Festive Wishes,
Mrs Bates
Week Ending 10th December 2021
The whole school’s attendance is currently slightly under national averages at 94.67%, but this is a slight increase on last week :)
Classes currently in-line with national averages (96%) for attendance are as follows:
Red 2, Yellow 2 and Blue 2
By next Wednesday, you will receive your child’s autumn term report. The one-page profile will give you an insight into your child’s ‘Behaviour and conduct’, ‘Attitude to learning’ and their ‘on-track’ predictions for reading, writing and maths, based on their attainment during the autumn term assessments carried out last week.
What a super ‘Christmassy’ week in school! The week started for me with three mornings at Mansfield Palace Theatre to watch the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ pantomime. What a delight to see the whole school experience the theatre over the three days. A mixture of songs, dancing, acting and ‘The Arts’ finally being celebrated once again in front of the children. It was a delight to join all year groups for this whole-school event throughout the week, and I was proud of the children – the way that they conducted themselves was admirable on the whole. The ice-cream was a great treat too!
Throughout the week, I was also very excited to watch the Year 1 to Year 4 children perform their very own Christmas events. From all four year groups, we were pleased once again to see a selection of Christmas songs, carols and readings. Last year, Christmas was ‘very’ different, and despite Covid still posing its own challenges upon us, this year we have been delighted to open our doors to parents, carers and visitors to join us.
Well done, everyone! It warmed my heart this week to see so many of you perform to an audience, and you all did yourselves proud!
Next week, The Christmas festivities continue, and I look forward to seeing our youngest and oldest children perform their Christmas events. In addition, we have Christmas dinner to look forward to on Thursday and Christmas jumper day on Friday.
Enjoy the weekend everyone! ... one more week to go :)
Mrs Bates
Week Ending 3rd December 2021
The whole school’s attendance is currently slightly under national averages at 94.64%
Classes currently in-line with national averages (96%) for attendance are as follows:
Red 2, Yellow 1, Yellow 2, Blue 1 and Blue 2
Head Teachers’ Awards this week have been awarded to:
Hunter – yellow 1 – For very impressive work in maths and an improved attitude towards his work. He did a whole page of calculations, whilst using a number line very effectively
Hope – Green 2 – For her superb efforts in home learning. Hope regularly puts 100% effort into her homework, and we especially love her Ancient Greek Temple
Bethany – Orange 2 – For retelling our class story completely independently and for presenting her work so beautifully
Arthur – Red 2 – for working so hard in his phonics lessons and making amazing progress. He can write CVC words and is letter formation is ace
As we approach the Christmas countdown, we get busier and busier. Last week, the children completed their autumn term assessments, whilst squeezing in extra practise sessions for their Christmas events. This year, the events are low key as we were concerned with the prospects of further lockdowns, bubble closures or outbreak management procedures being forced upon us. We have everything crossed that the events go to plan and to get to enjoy the carols and readings performed by the children.
We have had a few incidents over the past week or two with parking around school and risky driving. There is very little we can do to police the way in which parents drive and park around school. However, there was a near miss on Friday, whereby a child was nearly knocked over by a car reversing at speed on North Street by another one of our parents. Apparently, a car spotted a parking space and slammed on its brakes and reversed at speed towards the space. This could have been dangerous, and I would urge all parents to be mindful of their driving and parking behaviours around school please.
In addition to this, I was also told by a staff member that parking on the school driveway (near the staff entrance on Greasley Avenue) is once again becoming an issue. Please can I ask that parents do not use the staff entrance for school drop off and temporary parking as this is preventing staff from getting through the gates to park ready for their shift. Teaching assistants generally start work at approx. 8.45am and therefore, this is causing a few of them some issues. Thanks for your consideration in advance.
On a brighter note, the highlight of my week was visiting the Year 5 children on Thursday for their 3-day residential to Castleton in the Peak District. Mrs Clarke, Mr Khan, Mrs Stevenson, Mr Smith and Mrs Lowe took the children on Wednesday to Castleton YHA, where they spent the three days with the children and YHA staff. Activities included:
Next week, we have the pantomime and we cannot wait…, ”Oh no, we can’t!” A reminder that the start time to the day of your child’s pantomime visit will be much earlier so get those alarm clocks ready and don’t be late! :)
Have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs Bates