On 13th November, the school took part in Anti-Bullying Week. Children came to school  dressed in odd socks and learnt that everyone is different and that we need to be accepting of each other’s differences.

On November 9th, we had a visit from the Imagination Theatre company who performed Wind in The Willows. The whole school watched a wonderful performance and some of the children even took part in the play, playing rats and the police.  The children loved the performance and then completed some amazing work about the story.

On 10th October, the whole school celebrated World Mental Health Day. We all dressed up in something yellow to mark the day. The children took part in many activities and discussions, including what makes us unique, how to talk about mental health to others, how to improve our mental health and who you can go to for help.

We would like to say a big ‘Hello’, to our new attendance mascot, Harold. Harold will visit classrooms in the school when they have great attendance. Children who improve their attendance will have a chance to visit Harold.

We have also been promoting good attendance with lights outside each classroom door. Every day the light will be turned to red, amber or green according to the attendance for the class. All of the classes are trying hard to be green every day and Harold is visiting them when they are green.

The pupils have voted for their new student ambassadors. The student ambassadors allow the pupils in school to have a say on many issues and make an impact on school life. This week they have already been thinking about ways to improve playtimes and lunchtimes.

Mrs Wood has chosen new reading ambassadors to support pupils throughout the school with reading. The reading ambassadors visited the beautiful, new reading shed which is located near the playground. The children will be using the reading shed to enjoy reading during lunchtime and playtime.

Nursery have had the cutest visitors this week. Eggs arrived on the 24th April and by the end of the week we had eight chicks in the nursery. The children have enjoyed watching them grow and change and learning all about them. We sadly had to say goodbye to them today but have loved having them with us.

This week the children have come back to an awesome surprise. We have got new playground markings on our play ground. We hope the children are enjoying playing with them.

We had a fantastic time at the end of last term celebrating Easter. We had some amazing entires to our Easter bonnet competition and to our egg designing competition.

We visited St Micheal’s Church On Thursday 30th March  for an Easter celebration. The children sang beautifully, read the Easter story,  prayers and poems. We were joined by Reverend Jenny Camm.  We were very proud of the children and had a lovely celebration.

KS2 at Great Coates are currently in an Accelerated Reader Word Count Competition! The children read books and are then quizzed, electronically using the Accelerated Reader Programme. For every book quiz passed the children’s word count is added to the class total! The children in the winning class will each win a prize the child with the highest word count in each year group will win a large Easter egg! The teachers will also nominate a student who has made the most effort in their class.  So far most of our Key Stage 2 classes have read over 1 million words and one class has read 3 and a half million. The children are getting very competitive.