GISBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

FRIDAY, 19TH JULY 2013 www.gisburn.lancsngfl.ac.uk

MY SKILLZ WORKSHOPS

Well done to Mia, Florence, Oliver & Max, who have visited the Grand in Clitheroe on Monday afternoons throughout May & June. They were part of the My Skillz project which at developed their self confidence and performance skills.

They were split into teams and made friends with lots of other children from local primary schools.

Professional singing and dancing coaches taught each team a song and dance routine and the children were able to use the recording equipment in the studio!

The My Skillz project concluded with a Dress Rehearsal on monday, 1st July in the afternoon, where our four stars wowed their Yr 5 peers with a wonderful performance which they then repeated at night for their parents.

• Max said he enjoyed meeting new people.

• Oliver commented that he enjoyed all of it!

• Florence particularly liked recording in the studio and using the equipment.

• Mia enjoyed recording our voices in the studio and liked doing the dance warm-ups, especially the mirror exercise.

GISBURN SCHOOL PUPILS FOLLOW THE MAP TO SUCCESS! A group of Yr 6 children became Lancashire’s orienteering champions when they represented The Ribble Valley at Lancashire Youth Games in Blackpool last week. The team joined the yellow army of Ribble Valley competitors in a procession with over 2000 children from other Lancashire boroughs before an enjoyable opening ceremony which included Blackpool circus performers. The competition was held in Stanley Park and the orienteerers worked in pairs to follow their map and locate twenty control boxes hidden around the grounds in a time limit of 45 minutes. The children did extremely well and, with their combined scores, the Gisburn team won over all and Lucy Pilkington and Hayden Atkinson came first out of thirty other pairs of children. In the afternoon, the children had time to play on the fantastic playground and have a go at rock climbing as well as watching some of the athletics competitions before receiving their trophy and medals in the awards ceremony.

YRS 5 & 6 ATHLETICS

On Friday, 12th July the Yrs 5 & 6 Athletics team competed against 10 other Ribble Valley primary schools and took 2nd place! Well done to Sean Bargh, Chris Moore, Hayden Atkinson, Jack Watterson, Aimee Carroll, Lucy Pilkington, Claudia Humberstone and Tiffany Skinner.

Be Seen in Green Day 2013 –

In Support of Manchester Children’s Hospital

On Friday, 5th July pupils and staff wore non-uniform with something green to school for the day and paid a donation of just £1 to take part. By wearing green, we were donning the colours of the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital charity for the day! A fantastic £93 was raised!

THIS TERM, IN CLASS…

Robins have thoroughly enjoyed learning about different types of habitats, and animal & plant environments. They have also been learning about religions and on Wednesday, 26th June they went on foot to look around St. Mary’s Church and investigate its artefacts. They had a great time exploring the various aspects of the building. Thank you to Mrs. Jenny Gornall (church warden) for showing everyone around.

Owls have been learning science and topic work on rainforests; learning where these are situated in the world and what the weather is like there. They have created a classroom display, showing the four different layers of trees and plants in the rainforest, and included insects, colourful butterflies and animals too! The children have…

• Had a great time in the role play area, which is a 'Bug Laboratory' where they have pretended to be scientists, and found out about different mini-beasts.

• Enjoyed sampling a selection of rainforest fruits; they looked at and tasted Pineapple, Mango, Avocado, Carambola, Passion Fruit and Papaya. They described the fruit using many adjectives and produced a pie chart to record their favourites!

• Studied tropical birds and made Macaw masks.

• Created rainforest pictures.

• Baked spicy biscuits.

Doves have been learning about the Vikings, their gods and goddesses, what kind of homes they built and much more! They have…

• Made Viking shields and helmets!

• Put together some Viking menu cards by looking at the sort of household rubbish that was discovered by archaeologists in York. (Jorvik).

• Leant how many Vikings earned a nickname, which distinguished them from others with the same name and related to their character, appearance or deeds.

Eagles have been very busy working on their enterprise project. They have been researching, designing and making products out of recycled materials; hair ruffles, picture frames, pencil holders, bird feeders, bottle top jewellery and book marks, which were sold today at the coffee afternoon! All money raised from this will go to Manchester Children’s Hospital. Well done!

The children have also been discussing different careers and long term goals – from this parents and governors kindly came into school to talk to about their jobs and the children interviewed them with questions they had prepared.

‘PORRIDGE’ – YRS 5 & 6 SUMMER PERFORMANCE

Many thanks to all who came to see the Eagles production ‘Porridge’, a mystery comedy involving nursery rhyme characters and blundering police who try to solve a series of crimes! A great time was had by all! Well done to all the children! Thank you to Mrs Helen Robinson for helping with costumes and to Mrs Watson and Mrs Holmes for their support.

THIS YEAR’S FANTASTIC RESULTS!

I would like to thank staff, parents, governors, helpers and members of the local community for all their dedicated support throughout the past year. Above all I would like to thank our children for working so hard, which is reflected in their fantastic results! See below… KS1

Level

Reading Writing Maths

2 100% 100% 100%

3 50% 17% 17%

KS2

Level Reading Writing Maths

4 100% 100% 100%

5 61% 33% 33%

6 - 11% 22%

SPORTS DAY

On Wednesday, 17th July, the children had a fantastic time competing at sports day in the sun! Well done to the winning team - Yellow Team, and congratulations to Claudia Humber stone & Lucy Pilkington, Hayden Atkinson & Sean Bargh who were joint winners of the Yr 6 cups!

FOGS END OF TERM DISCO Thank you to FOGS for organising a fantastic end of term disco; the children had an amazing time! Yrs reception, 1 & 2 disco ran from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and the Yrs 3, 4, 5 & disco, from 7:15pm to 8:30pm, when a brilliant Bowland High Rock Band performed live!

‘TOY DAY’ – TUESDAY, 23RD JULY

‘Toy Day’ (which is a non-uniform day) will be followed by an end of term service, which will take place at 1.15pm in the school hall. All parents, governors and friends are most welcome to attend. School will close for the summer holiday at 2:00pm. Buses are scheduled to collect at 2:00pm. ‘GOODBYES’

As you already know, after 15 years of dedication to the children of

Gisburn School, Mrs. Clements will retire on Tuesday; she writes….…..

To the Children, Staff & Parents of Gisburn SchoolTo the Children, Staff & Parents of Gisburn SchoolTo the Children, Staff & Parents of Gisburn SchoolTo the Children, Staff & Parents of Gisburn School

My last day has almost arrived – I can’t actually believe I am saying it. I have loved working at Gisburn and seeing all the

children grow up. They come into school as nervous four year olds and leave as confident eleven year olds. I am proud to say I have worked at Gisburn and proud of all the children who have been

and are at school. Keep working hard! Jackie Clements x

We say ‘goodbye’ and ‘good luck’ to our Yr 6 Pupils and also to Tom Ashby who is also leaving us.

CLITHEROE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL Claudia Humberstone, Lucy Pilkington, Emily Pilkington, Abbie Frankland & Libby Smith. BOWLAND HIGH SCHOOL Jacob Thomason, Christopher Moore, Annabel White, Megan Harper, Tom Sutcliffe, Jack Watterson, Charlie Weare, Tiffany Skinner, Sophie Joyce, Phoebe Moore, Aimee Carroll & Hayden Atkinson. GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL Sean Bargh

ENTRY TO CLITHEROE ROYAL GRAMMAR

The CRGS Admission’s Handbook, Policy, and Timetable for entry in September 2014 is available at www.crgs.org.uk. Alternatively, parents may collect an Admissions Handbook from the Open Evening on Thursday, 5th September, which will run from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The closing date for receipt of completed Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Application forms is 12:00 noon on Wednesday, 18th September 2013 and the Entrance Examination will take place on Saturday, 28th September 2013.

SCHOOL LUNCHES

We are delighted to inform you that over the summer holiday, the school kitchen is being upgraded to enable fresher meals to be served! From September 2013, the price of school lunches will be £2.10 per day/£10.50 per week.

PROGRESS UPDATE ON THE FOOD GROWING GARDEN PROJECT

On Saturday, 29th June parents, staff, governors and other members of the local community worked hard together again and managed to build and install 8 raised beds! Thank you to all who helped. The next step will be to put the greenhouse in place...

Wanted The children, staff, parents and governors have been very busy this spring transforming the overgrown land behind the old school house into a garden with raised beds for the children to learn about growing their on food and getting in touch with nature. The Children have already made a start with planting out the raised beds but now we need your help with the next stage, you could help in a range of different ways.

• Do you have any old gardening equipment that you would be

willing to donate?

• Do you have any plants that you could give?

• Do you have any fruit trees or bushes that you could donate?

• Would you like to get involved in our next volunteer day?

• Have you a few hours per week to help out with the garden?

• Would you like to buy a child sized gardening kit? (£20)

o Hand held trowels and spades

o Gloves and aprons

o Small buckets and watering cans

• Have you got any other ideas for making our garden bee and mini

bug friendly?

• Would you like to donate to the Friends of Gisburn School fund?

If you have any of the above or would like to help in anyway, please contact Christine Fish on christinegisburn@hotmail.com or telephone 07711527781

GISBURN GORILLAS REMINDER:

Gisburn Gorillas after school session will not run on Tuesday, 23rd July. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. From September, Breakfast Club will run daily from 7:45am. The cost for a child to attend will remain at £4 per session (including a wholesome meal). After school club sessions will run as usual from 3:30pm to 5:20pm, at school, 5 days a week, at a cost of £6 per child (including snack). However, there will be an option for children to stay until 5:45pm at a cost of £7 per child. NB. Parents, who are late for collecting their child/ren at 5:20pm, will be charged £7.00 for the session.

Dates for Your Diary!

5th Sept - School Opens for the Autumn Term 9th Sept - Reception Children 8:55am – 1:15pm 10th Sept - Reception Children 11:30am – 3:25pm 11th Sept - Reception Children Start Full Time 23rd – 25th Sept - Yrs 5/6 Trip to Borwick Hall

REMINDERS:- Royal Mail’s Christmas Stamp Design Competition All entries for the Royal Mail’s Christmas Stamp competition must be in school by noon on Monday.

100 Year Celebrations Please forward your favourite family recipe, to be included in the FOGS recipe book by Tuesday, 23rd July.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Catherine Grimshaw

Headteacher

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PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITIONPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITIONPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITIONPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

From 25th July, Craven Herald will be in full colour and to celebrate, they are inviting readers and residents alike to take part in a photographic competition, by sending in their favourite photograph taken within the circulation area of the Craven Herald. So if you want to show off your photographic talent and have your work published in the Craven Herald & Pioneer, the closing date is 24th August after which the entries will be judged and a short list of entries published in the Craven Herald for readers to vote for their favourite. Entries should be sent to the Craven Herald Photographic Competition, 38 High Street, Skipton, BD23 1JU or by e-mail, to matt.cornish@cravenherald.co.uk. (Pictures must be below 5MB in size). The winner will receive a fabulous Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ35 camera worth around £250, along with a 20x16 inch canvass print of their winning photograph worth £55. Two runner’s up will also receive a 20x16 inch canvass print of their photograph.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!