School Blog: July 2013

Tuesday 23 July 2013

Whole School Awards and Leaver's Service

This Service was dedicated to Archie Hall who would have been a Y6 Leaver had he lived.

We had a fabulous afternoon - the Y6's asked if they could do something different and they certainly did! We flew with Marston Air and the whole service was hilarious - demonstrating how grown up they all are. It will be a difficult act to follow next year.

The Chair of Governors, Helen Walton helped me to present the awards and Reverend Lilian presented all the Y6's with personalised Bibles - a gift from the church.

Year Group Progress Award Winners were:
Reception - Holly Walker for great academic progress this year and also for conquering her fear of swimming;
Year 1 - A joint award for Alex Van-Tam and Jake Jeffery - a great double act as Mrs Sutcliffe said!
Year 2 - Another joint award for Nathan Bravo (for settling down to serious work this year) and Matthew Ross for not being phased by being a Year 2 and attempting to answer Y4 maths questions and very often getting them correct!);
Year 3 - Tyler Wright for working hard, making good progress and being a fantastic role model to everyone in the class;
Year 4 - Conor Dunbar for his creative writing which is a pleasure to mark and for his excellent art work;
Year 5 - Veranika Bravo for trying her very best, for handing in every piece of homework and for being a great role model;
Year 6 - Sam Tattersall for making the most sub level progress in Y6

Every one of these awards is well deserved and we are all proud of the children.

Headteacher's ACE (Attitude, Conduct, Effort) Award - Amelia Peters (Y6) - she excels in everything she does and we could have given her any of the awards!

Governor's Award - Isaac Carley (Y6) for being cheerful and smiling, trying hard, supportive of others and being a caring big brother;

Sportsperson Award - Sam Wright (Y6) for being in every school team and being the best runner we have ever seen!

Musician Award - Veranika Bravo (Y5) - trying hard although she doesn't find it easy and for getting over her 'wobble' at the recent music concert and performing a solo in front of a large audience;

Exemplary Behaviour Award - Matthew Jagger (Y6) - no loss of Golden Time in two years, excellent behaviour at all times;

Empathy and Helpfulness Award - Amy Rimmer (Y4) - for being a great diplomat 'pouring oil over troubled waters' as Mrs Kearsley said and for regularly asking myself and Mrs Kearsley if there was anything she could do to help us. This wasn't to get a raffle ticket or housepoint, it was a genuine request showing concern for us;

Children's Choice - Oliver Howgill (Y6) for being kind to others, helping others and encouraging others.

Photos to follow!

Saturday 20 July 2013

100m World Record Attempt

On Tuesday we took part in the 100m World Record Attempt (along with other Grantham schools). Every one took part (including most of the staff - I even had a go:)). I'll let you know if we were successful.

Archaeology Assembly

We have a big hole in our school grounds! It started as just a few boys just digging and has led to whole school excitement and involvement in what they have found!

Just a selection of the discoveries...

And more...

The boys have found keys, bones, glass bottles, a full ink bottle, lots of pottery pieces, lots of bits of iron and an almost complete milk pail!

The original archaeologists - Matthew, Rory, Leon, Vincent, Thomas and Conor.

They delivered a whole school assembly about what they had done and found. The assembly overran because they were so excited and everyone had lots of questions for them.

On Tuesday we have the Lincolnshire Community Archaeologist vising us to talk to the children and look at our finds.

Keeping digging boys and keep washing those hands!

Sunday 14 July 2013

Summer School Music Concert

Our summer school music concert took place on Friday and was the best attended ever by parents and grandparents! We also had more children performing than before and with a wider range of instruments.

Everybody performed excellently and I was very impressed by the couple of children who asked if they could start again and one child who said she couldn't perform and then said she could - it takes a lot of courage to do this in fron of an audience.

Courage is one of our Values for Life and this demonstrates our learning about this Value!

Thank you Ben Jessop for performing 'Any Deam Will Do' - one of my favourite songs and you sang it almost as good as Lee Mead!

We had a drummer in school - Conor - who performed 'Road to Nowhere' - your streed cred has gone up 100% Conor! Mrs Kearsley and me have already had several requests for music lessons on the drums and I have agreed to buy to drum kit for school.