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• Wraparound Care - Ace Sports Coaching

  Mon 12 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  During the holidays, you may be considering wraparound care at school, when we return.

   

  Please see the attached link for the external provider that we use - 'Ace Sports Coaching':

   

  https://www.acesportscoaching.co.uk/greasley

   

  This link will take you straight to their website and booking page. Their contact details are also on the website so you can get in touch with them if you have questions regarding their service.

   

  Have a great holiday,

  Mrs Bates 

• Lowering the Age Range to 3 year Olds

  Sat 10 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  Good news 🎉

   

  This week, we found out that Colin Pettigrew, the Nottinghamshire County Council Corporate Director of Children, Families and Cultural Services, has officially approved the report to lower our age range to 3. 

   

  We must now allow a 5 day period in which the decision can be called-in by councillors for scrutiny, after which the decision becomes effective - which is likely to be Tuesday 13 February 2024.

   

  At that point, our age range will officially be lowered to 3 years old and we can then update GAIS (Get Information About Schools) details to reflect our new age range. Following this, we will be able to take Foundation 1 age children and officially open our nursery to allow the 'Rainbows' classroom to commence and the younger children to join. 

   

  We are delighted...full steam ahead now 😊

   

• Online Safety over half-term

  Fri 09 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  As we head into half-term, and as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, I wanted to share information on staying safe online as part of supporting the good mental and emotional health of our children and young people.
  
  The online world is a big part of day-to-day life for us all. Parents and carers can help children and young people make it a positive space that is right for them and help them avoid things that they might find upsetting. NottAlone has some helpful tips and links to other websites that might be useful. 
  
  The NottAlone webpage includes information about what to do if you or your child is worried about something they have seen online, or if their online use is risky:

   

  https://nottalone.org.uk/browse/social-media-and-online-safety?a=pc

   

  Keep safe, children, and have a FABULOUS half term holiday.

   

  See you all again on Monday 19th February, 

   

  Mrs Bates

  

• Weekly Newsletter

  Fri 09 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  Please see the link to the weekly Newsletter:

   

  https://sway.cloud.microsoft/1a5TK6X2dfw9IVYi?ref=Link

   

  Happy weekend and half term

   

  Mrs Bates 

  

• Greasley Community Quiz

  Thu 08 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  🌟 Exciting News: Join the Ultimate Adults Only Greasley Community Quiz Extravaganza 🌟

   

  🎓 Calling all knowledge enthusiasts and trivia champions! However, the Quiz Master (Mr Paul Day, Governor) is adamant that the intellectual and educated team may not win! This is trivia and fun at its finest!🎓

   

  🔍 Unleash your inner trivia knowledge and let the competition begin! 🔍

   

  🏆Greasley Community Quiz Challenge March 2024 🏆

   

  📅 Date: 22nd March 2024

  🕔 Time: 7-9.30pm (Doors open at 6.30pm and close by 10pm)

   Venue: Greasley Beauvale Primary School 

   

  🌐 Proudly Sponsored by Caunton Engineering (who were part of the school build) 🌐

   

  ✨ Get ready for an evening of trivia, excitement, and fantastic prizes! This is our first school community quiz and we want it to be popular and a bit fun for the adults from the school and wider.

   

  🎁 Raffles And Prizes Await You! 🎁

   

  🎉 Special Rounds and Surprises 🎉

   

  🧠 Engage in thrilling rounds that challenge your trivia and wit. We have a licensed bar, raffle and prizes in store, courtesy of our incredible sponsor, Caunton Engineering. 

   

  🎟️ How to Participate? 🎟️

   

  * Assemble your dream team 

  * Purchase tickets after half term from the 20th February 2024

  * £5 per ticket including food - so will you choose pie and peas or a chip cob? * Brush up on your general knowledge, trivia, pop culture, and current affairs!

   

  📢 Spread the Word and Share the Excitement! 📢

   

  Tag your friends, share on social media, and let everyone know that Greasley Beauvale is about to host this Greasley community quiz event!

   

  Let the countdown begin!

   

  🚀 Are you up for the challenge?
   

• Parents' Evenings

  Thu 08 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  What a great way to end a half term, and officially celebrate travelling through a very successful half of the academic year! 

   

  We have had two very positive Parents' evenings this week! Lots of targets shared, areas of progress and improvement and exciting projects to share:

   

  - We are opening a nursery VERY soon 

  - We are becoming a Thinking School 

  - We are becoming an Opal School 

   

  Don't forget to have a look at the following poster about our pending community quiz 

   

  Happy holidays everyone. Enjoy the break and family time. 

   

  Mrs Bates 

  

• Matilda (Hall Park Academy)

  Wed 07 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  Yesterday, our year 6 children went to Hall Park Academy to watch their performance of 'Matilda'. 

   

  This was a great opportunity to see musical theatre in action (especially from our ex-Greasley children!)

   

  The children and staff had a great time and really appreciated the time, energy, dedication and commitment that went into the show. It was well-performed and the acting and singing was strong. 

   

  Our staff were very proud of the children and it was lovely to see an email today from the Deputy Head at Hall Park to the primary schools:

   

   

  Just wanted to say how impressed we were with your students yesterday. They were impeccably behaved and formed a brilliant audience for our cast and crew. The students are a real credit to your school.

   

  Thank you so much for visiting. 

   

  Regards,

   

  David Thompson (he/him/his)

  Assistant Headteacher

  

• Cross County Update

  Mon 05 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates and Mrs Parnell

  On Saturday , I had the pleasure of witnessing some superb runners from our cross country team who had made it through to the Nottinghamshire County Finals. Their place had been secured by the district event which was held back in October at Hall Park Academy. This time we had to travel slightly further afield to Worksop College and the competition ,as usual, was fierce! Each race had over 100 runners who took part.

   

  🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

   

  We had great support from our parents who had made the journey – thank you. It makes such a difference to the children to be able to hear you in the crowd.  

   

  A few special mentions:

   

  Maeve and Abigail who ran the whole course even though they were injured at the start when they and a few other children fell. I was so impressed with your resilience girls.   

   

  Denny and Thomas who came 4th and 8th respectively. Out of 100+ runners, this is super impressive.  🏅🏅 

   

  Enjoy browsing the few photos I managed to take.  

   

  Well done to all for being Broxtowe finalists!  

  Mrs Parnell

   

   

  What an AMAZING team and great efforts from all! Very proud of you all for very different reasons. A massive achievement and looking back at the photos sends me back to my youth! Lovely to see that the Greasley rainbow travelled with you too! :) A HUGE thanks to MR and Mrs Parnell this weekend, and to a fab set of parents. Well done, everyone! Mrs Bates :)

• Head teacher awards for the week...

  Mon 05 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  Luella - Yellow 1 - For confidently completing her maths work first after listening carefully and following instructions well.

   

  Libby - Yellow 1 - For completing some fabulous dictated sentences, remembering to segment and spell words carefully and to use sentence rules. 

   

  Lawson - Indigo 1 - For an excellent piece of descriptive wring, where he concentrated on sentence structures, descriptive language, speech conventions and editing to make his work the very best it could be.

   

  Charlie - Green 2 - For always showing 'Respect and Acceptance' to everyone! He is so kind and thoughtful without even realising it! Just keep being you, Charlie! :) 

   

  Martha - Yellow 2 - For absolutely AMAZING writing that far exceeds the writing standard of a Year 2 child. Martha's writing is well-crafted with a variety of sentence starts and lengths. Her vocabulary is well-chosen for purpose, audience and impact and adds an incredible imagery in the reader's mind. Not only this, but Martha really cares about progressing in writing and has used her target from her last writing conference to make progress and develop a new writing skill. I was WOWed by her writing and maturity today. As a result of this, I was able to discuss with her new skills that I have every confidence that she could develop. We even talked about paragraphs! WOW! Well done, Martha. Keep up that reading too because, as you said, the reading is helping you become a better writer :) 

   

  Jonah - Green 1 - For being absolutely inspired whilst learning about volcanoes. He has worked incredibly hard on his detailed and accurate model volcano, which has amazed us all! 

   

  Evie-Jade - Green 1 - For completing an incredible piece of writing describing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. She worked on this independently with so much pride! So much progress, Evie-Jade! Well done.

   

  Anessa - Orange 2 - Her amazing writing and using adjectives in her sentence. She independently wrote her sentence by herself. Well done :) 

   

  Summer - Orange 2 - For her determination with her phonics. She tried really hard to use her phonics to write the sounds to make the words. Well done, Summer :) 

   

  Priya - Orange 1 - For fantastic writing about her planet. She did a great job remembering her full stops and capital letters. 

   

   

• Weekly Newsletter

  Fri 02 Feb 2024 Mrs Bates

  Please see the link to the weekly Newsletter:

   

  https://sway.cloud.microsoft/IRJhxO6AEDjci1tU?ref=Link

   

  Happy weekend

   

  Mrs Bates