Today the school celebrated Harvest Festival. We had many very generous donations of food for the local food bank from our parents. The Vicar, James Cartwright, from the Generations Church on the Willows estate, came to visit the school and watched our Year 6 children lead the celebration and speak to the school about what harvest means. The children learnt about the importance of the potato and each child was even given a packet of crisps! Thank you to Mrs Brown and the year 6 children for organising the celebration.
Today we have celebrated National Poetry Day with many of the children learning and reciting poems. Please watch the videos on Twitter.
On Tuesday 17th September, the Year 5 and 6 boys football team demonstrated their impressive skills in the Grimsby and Cleethorpes District ESFA tournament. They played 6 matches against schools from all over Grimsby and came second overall. We have qualified for the Humberside Tournament in Hull in November and the Ramsden Cup in March. The tournament was well supported with parents and the boys were models of sportsmanship. Mr Baxter coached the team on the night and was extremely proud of the team.
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.
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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!
