We are really proud that we have received an award for our Equal Access in Curriculum and Extra Curricular activities awarded by the Football Association. We always try to get as many children as possible into our clubs and sports events and want to say ‘Thank you” for their support with this.
On Friday May 24th, all the pupils took part in an Olympics Day.
Each class learnt about a different Olympic sport and shared what they had learnt in an assembly, in the afternoon. We had impressive displays of karate, break dancing and rhythmic gymnastics and lots of other work based around many sports. The children learnt so much about Olympic Sports in one day.
The whole school also took part in a sponsored fitness challenge, run by double Commonwealth Gold medalist and Olympic Coach, Leon Baptiste. Leon also gave an inspirational assembly to the school telling us about his highs and lows in Athletics.
The total sponsor money raised was £1969.60, with £1178 going to Sports for Champions and £791.60 going to the school. We will be using the funds for playground equipment and other enrichment activities in school.
We would like to say a massive “Thank you,” to all of the pupils, parents and their family and friends for supporting the school with the fundraising.
Please read the Reading Round-Up newsletter from the spring term by following this link.
This week, Great Coates pupils took part in two inter-school sports events.
On Tuesday 16th April, Year 4,5 and 6 pupils took part in the inter-schools cross country tournament at Weelsby. The weather was cold, wet and windy however the children took part enthusiastically in the event and made the staff there very proud. On Thursday 18th April, a team of pupils took part in New Age Kurling event at Oasis Academy Wintringham. It was a very close competition and our team won the award for the most passionate team. They did incredibly well with a sport which was new to them.
On Friday 8th March, the school took part in World Book Day activities. We all came dressed as Villians and studied the wonderful book ‘Inside the Villains’ by Clotilde Perrin. The children created some amazing work and really enjoyed the book. At the end of the day, the childen visited a different teacher to listen to a book. Thank you to the parents for supporting the day. The children looked fantastic in their outfits.
Follow the links below to see some videos of the incredible work our Year 3 children did for World Book Day.
Some of our classes got the chance this year to take part in video calls with popular children’s authors. Year 2 spoke to Joseph Coelho, Year 3 and 4 spoke to John Green the illustrator.
Harbour Learning Trust have created a fabulous video with children from all over the trust, showing why our children love reading so much. We think our children are the best!
On Friday 15th March, for Red Nose Day, the children raised money by taking part in an assault course in the hall. There were quite a few red faces by the time they had finished but everyone enjoyed themselves, all for a good course. Thank you to the parents and children for their donations and thank you to the student ambassadors, Mrs Brown and Mrs Omon for making it happen.
We are really proud at Great Coates Academy that we are in the top 10% of similar schools for our attendance. Thank you to everyone for the effort they are putting in getting their children to school.
Nursery, Reception and Key Stage 1 performed marvellous Christmas Nativity plays to their parents, grand-parents, relatives and friends in the last week of term. They did incredibly well and the shows were a big hit. Thank you to everyone who attended and well done to the children for their amazing performances.
The choir had a very exciting time with their Christmas performances. On Wednesday 7th December they visited Chatteris House Residential Home. The children sang their hearts out and the residents loved the performance. We can’t wait to go back again at Easter for a spring time performance. On Friday 9th December we visited the Bishop King Centre for a nativity performance. The choir stole the show with their performance of Calypso Carol. The children were very well behaved, even though it was very cold.
This year school results for end of KS1 and KS2 SATs were not published by the government, due to the Covid crisis, but we would like to share our incredible results because we are really proud of them.
The progress and attainment of our children was significantly above the national outcomes in all areas in Key Stage 2. In Key Stage 1 our results were in line with the national outcomes for reading and maths and above for writing. Unfortunately, league tables have not been published this year but these outcomes would make us one of the top schools in the area for our attainment and progress. We are really proud of the effort the children put in and would like to say ‘Thank you,’ for the support given by parents as well. Our dedicated team of teachers who ran the booster groups, also need to be credited for their efforts which have given us some of the best results the school has ever seen.
