Peter Heaton-Jones MP came to Georgeham this afternoon to see our lovely school and hear our views on the issues facing schools right now. The older members of our School Council lead a tour of the school. Isla, Malakai, Sunday and Daniel highlighted various things as they walked round the school: The wonderful resources we have, but are struggling to [...]
Interesting piece about when you should use 'hands up' in the classroom. We're right behind this; already doing what they describe. It ensures that many and different children are expected to answer, it promotes children's discussions and as Professor Wiliam says, it gets some children surprised that the quiet ones (who don't like putting their hands up) do know quite [...]
It's the start of the school year... welcome back to those returning and hello to our new parents! Each term we focus on an aspect of our SEAL curriculum which is based on Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning. This term we start with 'New Beginnings.' This theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community, [...]
We made it. phew. Well done, congratulations and we hope you have a lovely summer. Because we need to keep it quiet right until the last minute, the newsletter couldn't have details of the three annual trophy winners so we thought we'd blog them! The school's Rose Bowl trophy goes to Lottie Cunliffe! The Tony Fletcher trophy goes to Molly Elliott! The Spirit [...]
Given that it's going to be warm with sunny intervals tomorrow... the cycle ride is on. :-) Please make sure you're there promptly for your route's departure time otherwise they may have to leave without you. Remember to drive slowly in Tesco's car park and park close to the top corner (by the recycling) and away from the front doors; [...]
We're going to keep monitoring the weather over the next 24 hours to see if there are any developments, since Tuesday's got some mixed weather to it according to the Met Office this morning. We know we have some hardy folk who would cycle in all weather but we also have some not-so-hardy-folk, oh and some young children, who wouldn't like to spend [...]
Georgeham Primary School is one of twenty two ‘Solar Schools’ in the UK. This is the name given to us by the organisations supporting our crowdfunding fundraising for the solar panels we’re hoping to install by summer. We’ve done well in our fundraising so far, but don’t worry, this isn’t a request for your money. We’ve entered a photo competition [...]
Thanks to Louise Shaddick, we have some great photos of our Christmas Productions! Fancy downloading one of these for yourself? I think this link will take you to the Dropbox folder where you can download these, and many more. Louise and I (and some other parents) thought you'd like to donate to FROGS for the photos you download (50p each [...]
Getting ready for our Solar School Launch night next Monday (10th November at 6pm) Class 3 have designed the Totaliser and in true Blue-Peter style, well without cardboard boxes and egg cartons, I have made it over half term! Millie, Maia, Jessica, Isabel and Rudi all designed their Totaliser with the beach at the bottom and the sky at the [...]
Class 3 had lots of ideas for our Solar Totaliser. They knew it should contain some sort of scale; that zero should be at the bottom and £15,000 should be at the top. They also had to plan how it would look; what it should be made from, what it should be decorated with and how to show the movement [...]
