Today we were very excited to have The Gruffalo join the Year 1 forest session! Mrs Lloyd received a special letter from him in response to some writing the children had been doing. Whilst here the Gruffalo popped to see all of the children around school. A very exciting day!
This week we launched Black History Month with a whole school assembly. The true story of Rosa Parks was shared and the children were thinking about equality and fairness. We will continue to find out about significant people in history and the important changes they helped to be made.
As part of our Curriculum we teach the children really important life skills, such as how to keep safe. We also love to have real life visitors to bring experiences to life. Today year 1 had a visit from the fire and rescue service, which they really enjoyed. Lots of children now want to be
The year R children had a fantastic forest day experience delivered by the Fresh Air Learning company! They used lots of the skills linked to our aliens, including team work and perseverance! The children loved exploring, creating and cooking – such fabulous fun!
Today is Armed Forces Day. We celebrated this in school yesterday by having an assembly and a special visitor sharing his experiences, memories, photos and medals. We also invited our Service families in for a special lunch together. Thank you for all that you do for our country and to keep us safe.
Today we are celebrating World Music day. We launched with an assembly listening to music from around the world and throughout the decades! We are all very musical at Gomer We have weekly sessions delivered by Hampshire Music service, which includes whole school singing and learning to play the ukulele, recorder and bamboo tamboo! We
The Year R children have had a fantastic week improving their balance and bicycle skills as part of the Bikeability scheme. We are also really pleased and grateful to have several balance bikes being donated to us for the children to use in school.
We have had a fantastic time today celebrating the Platinum Jubilee with Gomer Junior school. The children played traditional games, had a picnic lunch and enjoyed a crown parade (with some special Royal guest appearances!). The day finished with a community cream tea event too, it was lovely to see families enjoying their cream teas
We love reading! The children really enjoyed meeting the fabulous local author, Kirsty Applebaum, today. They loved reading the Princess Minna stories and had a great time in their writing workshop too! Our author day ended with Kirsty signing books for the children. A brilliant day for all, thank you to Kirsty Applebaum and The Book
Last week was International Nurses week. Today we had an assembly thinking about people who help us and the wonderful jobs that nurses and medical professionals in the NHS do for us all. We also thought about important nurses in history like Florence Nightingale and Mary Secole.
