Please read the newsletter for April.
Please read the newsletter for April.
Year 4 and 5 were treated to a visit from Nurture Nature last week, with all Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils taking part in Forest Schools activities. The pupils took part in den building, making bug hotels and made wooden pendants from logs.
At Great Coates, we are committed to ensuring all of our pupils have a love of reading. The school has been awarded the Bronze Lincolnshire Reading Pledge. To get the award the school needed to demonstrate a strong commitment to reading for pleasure and provide a supportive environment for developing confident and enthusiastic readers.
Today we raised money for two charities, St. Andrew’s Hospice and The Millie Wright Children’s Charity at Leeds Children’s Hospital with our Easter themed Sponsored Run. The school would like to say, ‘Thank you’ to all of the parents who made an outstanding effort today with costumes for their children. The field was full of Easter bunnies, superheroes and springtime colours. We had great fun raising money for charity and every child put their heart and soul into running up to two kilometers around the school field.
Thank you to everyone who has donated already for their generosity. Don’t forget to donate if you haven’t already done it.
To donate to the Millie Wright Charity please follow this link:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/greatcoateswalk
To donate to the St Andrew’s Charity please follow this link:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/great-coates-2
Look out for a write up on Grimsby Live and a full page in the Grimsby Telegraph!
CHARITY FUN RUN
On Friday 4th April we are inviting all the pupils to take part in a sponsored fun run. One of our school values is community and the fun run will help the children think about people in our wider community. We will be having an assembly about the two charities and the fun run.
All children are invited to dress up as heroes or in an Easter themed outfit for the day and the child with the most interesting outfit in each class will win a prize.
Here are the links for the two fundraising pages.
To donate to the Millie Wright Charity please follow this link:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/greatcoateswalk
To donate to the St Andrew’s Charity please follow this link:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/great-coates-2
PLEASE BE AWARE, the Just Giving page will automatically ask you to donate some extra money to them. Scroll down and remove your donation to Just Giving if you don’t want to pay an extra pound!
Thank you in advance for any support you are able to give to the charities.
Mrs Wood has made a brilliant video of World Book Day at Great Coates School.
Check it out!
On Friday 7th March, we invited all the girls from Reception to Year 6 to take part in a football session over lunchtime. We were taking part in the Biggest Ever Football Session run by England Football. The girl’s loved using the football pitch and goal posts to practise their football skills or just have a go at something they haven’t done before.
On 12th March, 42 of our key stage 2 children took part in a Cross Country competition at Weelsby Woods. The teams of six ran up to 2 km against 21 other primary schools from North East Lincolnshire. The children were fantastic role models for the school and all of our pupils showed incredible determination and pride. We did really well as a school coming in the top half of the rankings in almost every year group. Well done all the children who took part.
On 28th February, we were visited by the author Isabel Thomas, who has written the book, ‘The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions.’ In the autumn term, the pupils entered a competition to create their own impossible questions. Mrs Brown’s and Mr Robert’s class won a visit from the author. The winning question was, ‘Why is water wet?’ The children were enthralled by the experiments Isabel carried out for the school and came up with even more excellent questions for her. After the assembly, Isabel officially opened our reading shed. Since then, every lunchtime the Reading Ambassadors have been in charge of helping the children to use the reading shed and they are all loving reading at lunchtime.
On the 7th March, the school celebrated World Book Day. The theme for the day was ‘Who inspires us?’ The children and pupils dressed as inspirational people.
Some children had zoom meetings with Jim Smith, children’s author and illustrator and Mr Mc Grammar, who teaches rapping. Another class matched parents with their favourite books. Many children sent in fantastic photos of themselves ‘Extreme reading’ in the most incredible poses. All the children completed work based around inspirational books and shared their work in an assembly at the end of the day.