Christmas Fayre

Our Christmas Fayre was held after school tonight and we had a fabulous attendance - thank you tp everyone who came and supported us in this.

Thanks to the parents who helped us run stalls, clear away and to every one who sent a cake, a tombola item and so on.

We also had an enormous of help from the children with setting up and a special mention needs to go to Leon Mapletoft for being my 'gofer'!

Wendy is busy counting the money raised and I will post on Monday to let you know!

Certificate winners this week

Our certificate winners this week were:

Alex Van-Tam (year 1).  He was awarded his certificate for getting all his spellings correct in autumn term 1.  A fabulous achievement Alex - you should be really proud of yourself!

Hollie Mae Robertson (year 2).  She was awarded her certificate for being a super right hand person to Mrs Sutcliffe.  All teacher' need super right hand people as it makes their job so much easier - thank you Hollie!

Elise Khoo (year 2 but working in Class 2 with years 3 and 4 and some other year 2s).  Elise got her certificate for producing a brilliant newspaper report which showed she had listened to the teaching and acted upon it.  You are a star Elise!

I will post a photo as soon as the system lets me!

Children In Need Day - Football practice!

A fabulous day was had by all of us!  Please see Mrs Chadwick's class 3 blog for full information.

Our year 5 and 6 boys have been practising hrd for their recent football tournament and just to show that we take it very seriously they even wanted to practise in their PJs!

 

 

I did make them take their slippers off and put their trainers on!

 

 

The football team - in their PJs!



Book Week 2

As part of book week we had a whole day visit from Blizzard the barn owl.  All classes worked with Blizzard - on writing poems using WOW words and excellent description!  Our English display outside my office has a selection of some of the super writing produced.  If you want to look - talk to Wendy!

Blizzard.

Book Week

First of all - apologies for not posting for a while - I've got a new laptop and it's taken me some time to sort it out!

We had a super book week the week before we broke up for half term.  Our sale of books raised over £400 and gave us £160 of commission to spend on books for school - thanks for supporting us!

We had our usual dressing up day and house captain activities - it was great to see the children working in their house groups - 4 year olds through to 11 year olds all working together!

The dressing up theme was 'I am a reader and writer' and we had a brilliant range of costumes - see the photos below!

Whole school dressed up!

 

 

Mrs Clarke, Mrs Cowling and Mrs Ballaam

 

Mrs Kearsley - she won't thank me for this!  One child asked her who she was and she answered a vampire, no he replied - which member of staff are you?  Good disguise!

 



Grantham Cross Country races

16 schools took part in the annual cross country races. Marston Thorold's girls came 8th with Georgie Burns coming 19th and Chloe Tyler 22nd out of 75 girls.  Well done both of you!!!  The other team members were Veranika Bravo, Amelia Peters, Jordan Bean and Chloe Johnson - well done for trying your best for the school!

The boys team came 1st out of 17 schools - for the second year running!  What an achievement - I am so proud of all of you!

Sam Wright came 3rd, Anthony Bravo came 4th and Oliver Howgill 6th.  Also in the team were Isaac Carley, Sam Tattersall, Daniel Tattersall, Matthew Jagger, James Morley and Jay Rogers - well done for supporting the team and representing the school!

The boys team were presented with medals and they had their photo taken for the Grantham Journal so look out for that!

The boys team.

 

 

 

Sam Wright with his medal.

 

Thank you parents for helping us with transport - without your help this event wouldn't happen.  Likewise, thank you to Mrs Chadwick for all her hard work in organising this and training the team!

House Captains and Vice Captains

Last week was a big week for the Year 6 children.  The week that all the school selected the house and vice captains for their houses.  In preparation for this the Year 6 children had to prepare a speech saying why they should be house (or vice) captains and why people should vote for them.  This was then presented at whole school assembly.

Because we have 17 children in Year 6 this year we had to stress that there would some disappointed children but that there would always be other ways to get involved (school council, office monitors, Class 1 buddies, play leaders, and many more).

Our house captains - chosen by children and staff are: Oliver Howgill, Amelia Peters, Kesri Barber and Matthew Jagger.

Our vice captains are: Anthony Bravo, Pippa Jessop, Maddy Faulkner and Sam Wright.

Here's to another good year for all the groups!