Robinwood 2023 (Photos Part 2)
Robinwood 2023 (Photos Part 1)
Class Wear & Tees Christmas Party 2023 (Photos)
Lest We Forget – Remembrance Activities
Gainford CE Primary School & Pre-School have been remembering the fallen, creating displays for St.Mary’s Church and placing decorated stones on the memorial.
Fallen Tommie’s – a visit from our Local Historian
We were delighted to welcome Mr Pullen the local Historian into Class Tees to talk to the children about the fallen soldiers who served their country during the first and second world and sadly died as a result of the conflicts. The children where given the opportunity to hold items from that era and the children also saw the Men from Gainford who are remembered for their contribution during the wars. A collection of medals was also on show and the children asked lots of questions and were remind the importance of Remembrance Sunday, a time for reflection and for those who fought for our freedom.
Careers Day – Visit by Local Artist Jo Pickering
Local artist Jo Pickering came in to talk to the children about a career as an artist. She demonstrated various mediums that she uses to create her fabulous artwork and talked them though the process of how she creates her pictures. The children were inspired by the artwork she brought in to show them and we know that we have very creative in school already, who exhibited at the recent art exhibition.
Fire Brigade Visit Oct 2023
The crew from the local Fire Brigade visited the school to remind children of the dangers of bonfires and sparklers in the run up to Bonfire Night and taught them some life skills in the event of a fire.
Harvest Festival 2023
On Thursday morning we held our Harvest Festival service at St Marys Church, Gainford. Revd. Eileen Harrop welcomed all to church to share in this service of thanksgiving. The staff and pupils had worked very hard preparing their contributions for the service.
Class Swale shared their pictures of autumn and proudly walked down the aisle with their wonderful work on display for all to see. They sang their songs, ‘Picture of Autumn’ and ‘Thank God for Harvest ‘and it was a sheer delight to see our youngest children standing at the front of church and singing so well.
Class Wear had been learning about harvest around the world and shared their work all about about different countries and the food they produce. They didn’t look nervous at all.
Class Tees shared The Story of Ruth with all children reading their individual parts and through their thoughtfully written prayers they reminded us to be thankful for the food and produce that we have in our homes and to remember those less fortunate than themselves. Both of our junior classes delivered two wonderful songs Conkers a firm favourite!) and Harvest Samba which had been quite a tricky one to learn!
Sarah Fells, the Children, Young people and Families Missioner from church, worked with a new Worship Leaders group on a wonderful dramatization of the Parable of the Sower. They all performed so well.
I really must thank all of the adults who have worked with our children to prepare for the service and for all of our friends from church too. A huge thank you to all of our school families for sending in donations. For such a small school the tables in church were so full of your kind donations; these will be shared between Butterwick Hospice and The Well food bank.
Many thanks to Freddie’s granddad, John, for supplying us with an ENORMOUS onion from his allotment too!
Mental Health & Well-being Afternoon
On Tuesday afternoon, in their house teams (Oak, Sycamore & Willow), pupils took part in a wide range of activities to promote mental health and well- being.
Children enjoyed working along-side their older or younger pupils. Our house captains and vice captains were fabulous role models and some helped to lead activities such as making aromatherapy play dough and peg dolls. Other activities included painting, dancing, learning about emotions, mindfulness colouring and making worry monsters. We all enjoyed yoga – and some children said that they felt very calm and relaxed afterwards, others felt invigorated! Everybody agreed that it was a fabulous afternoon.