TranslateWe all thoroughly enjoyed our Christmas lunch this year! 🎄
On Thursday 17 December we had some special visitors in school! The Grinch, Elf of the Shelf and Santa visited! The boys and girls were so excited, a perfect end to the term..
From all at school we wish all of the children and their families a very merry Christmas!
Children in Mrs Gliddon’s class created this amazing pop art inspired by Roy Lichitenstein.
They are so lovely – well done everyone!
As part of Harvest Festival celebration, children could come to school today in their autumn colours by donating a food item(s). And look what happened – nearly 154kg of food!
Thank you to all children and parents who have made donations.
Here is a thank you note from Foodbank.
A Thank You Note from Foodbank
Have a lovely half term!
Please find below a letter from Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership.
Day 1
- Home Learning Timetable
- Activity
- Handwriting
- Y3 Spelling List
- Y4 Spelling List
- Spelling Sheet
- TeachRex Day 1
- Y3 Word Of The Day
- Y4 Word Of The Day
- Writing Challenge
- Writing Challenge Recording Sheet
- Magic Number
- Times Tables 7 Table Guide
- Times Tables 7
Day 2
- Activity
- Handwriting
- Spelling Sheet
- TeachRex Day 2
- Y3 Word Of The Day
- Y4 Word Of The Day
- Writing Challenge
- Writing Challenge Recording Sheet
- Challenge Max
- Magic Number
- Time Tables 7
Day 3
- Activity
- Handwriting
- Spelling Sheet
- TeachRex Day 3
- Y3 Word Of The Day
- Y4 Word Of The Day
- Writing Challenge
- Writing Challenge Recording Sheet
- Magic Number
- Times Tables 7
- Wellbeing
Day 4
- Activity
- Handwriting
- Spelling Sheet
- TeachRex Day 4
- Y3 Word Of The Day
- Y4 Word Of The Day
- Writing Challenge
- Writing Challenge Recording Sheet
- Magic Number
- Times Tables 7
- Mindful Colouring
Day 5
For more information regarding this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, please read a below letter from Arts Council England.
Summer Reading Challenge 2020 Lincolnshire Libraries
Happy Reading!
Is your home ready for a herd of cows and 100 farmers to visit?
We are really pleased to announce the launch of our first Virtual Food and Farming Day on Friday 3rd July 2020 with over 100 farmers and educators from local and national farms, food businesses, and much more streaming directly into your home or classroom with tractors, combine harvesters, cows, pigs and much more – all for free!
The day will also include a video from CBeebies presenter, pop star and farmer JB Gill, who attended the event in 2019. Speaking last year JB said: “This is my first time at the Food and Farming Day, but I have already seen how vital and unique it is in communicating with the next generation, not only to have more care and understanding for where their food comes from as consumers, but also to really consider the agricultural industry as a potential future employer.”
The new online event is in place of what would have been the eighth Food and Farming Day this year, which annually inspires up to 5,000 Key Stage 1 and 2 children (age 5-11) at our base at the East of England Showground, Peterborough, to connect with all things food, farming and the countryside.
Whilst our physical events went into pause as soon as lockdown hit, we immediately went into lockdown learning mode and have now produced over 100 free online learning resources published on our website to help parents with home-schooling and engage with the curriculum in inspiring ways you can find all of our online resources here (https://www.kids-country.co.uk/home-activities-resources/)
With the enthusiasm, dedication and passion from within the agricultural industry we are proud to launch the Virtual Food and Farming Day, which we actually hope will enable even more children than normal to take part and learn.
This will be a great stepping stone to what we hope will be the biggest Food and Farming Day on Friday 2nd July 2021, back at the East of England Showground.
The Food and Farming Day will be hosted on www.kids-country.co.uk as well as being posted across Instagram (@kidscountryuk), twitter (@KidsCountryUK), and Facebook (Kids Country UK). The event is free to access and will be live from 9.30am to 11.30am on Friday 3rd July 2020. The footage will remain available on the website for those that cannot make the event on the day and with everything from countryside skills to field to fork, and the global marketplace to all about animals, there will be a wide range of fun and inspiring footage!
As always, if there is anything that we can help you with your learning journey then please do let us know – we are always happy to help you facilitate inspiring, memorable and creative learning experiences within the classroom and outdoors, and that stands now more than ever.
Best wishes
Sandra Lauridsen
Education Manager
Please post your Art Work in the Post Box on the fence by the main entrance.
All Art Work is welcome!
During the lockdown, Kacey in Y6 put together two amazing presentation pieces on Islam and Titanic. Super well done, Kacey!
If you would like to share your work with us, please let your class teacher know!
Some of our Year 6 children have been busy!
Well done, Aliyah, Amelia, Cameron and Katerina! They all look utterly DELICIOUS.
What have YOU been up to?
Keep safe!
Wednesday 25 March 2020
On Wednesday afternoon at school, your amazing children went on a learning walk and collected leaves, twigs, feathers and anything else natural that they could find. We all then returned to create this amazing artwork. Mrs Lindley and I were particularly impressed how all children were helping each other and how engaged they were in the activity from EYFS to Y6. Thank you so much!
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Hope Community Café, much loved by local residents and businesses, has stopped by with a box full of latte and hot chocolate and their delicious cheesecakes for the members of staff!
We were absolutely touched by their act of kindness under the current difficult circumstances.
Thank you Hope Community Cafe!
What a busy week it has been! In just two days we held five Christmas performances on both sites.
EYFS Christmas Carol Concert saw children in Nursery and Reception singing some of their favourite songs including Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Jingle Bells and When Santa Stuck Up the Chimney in front of their parents. KS1 children narrated Christmas Story and sang songs such as It Was A Starry Night, Away in a Manger and Little Donkey. On the upper site, KS2 children also sang some new Christmas songs and classic carols in the hall packed full of their parents and siblings.
They all worked very hard and all of their performances were a huge success!
Well done to all children and thank you to parents/carers for coming along to support them.
Have a lovely Christmas everyone!
We bade our farewell to six members of staff in Leavers Assembly on Tuesday 17 December. Children sang songs and presented their gifts to say a huge THANK YOU to each one of the leaving members of staff.
Mrs Bullimore and Mrs Smith were with us for many years and will now enjoy their well-earned retirement. Mrs Bullimore said, ‘I worked with amazing people and it has been like an extended family. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.’
Miss Harriss, Miss Perez, Mr Pettener and Mrs Hodson are moving on to pastures new. They will all be very missed by children and members of staff of Bluecoat Meres Primary and we wish them all the very best in their future.
On Thursday 21 November the children from Nursery to Year 6 celebrated World Hello Day by saying ‘Hello’ in the language of their choice.
How wonderful it is that at The West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy there are 13 different languages recognised as their first language for some of our children!
What is World Hello Day?
November 21, 2019 is the 47th annual World Hello Day. Anyone can participate in World Hello Day simply by greeting ten people. This demonstrates the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.
World Hello Day was begun in response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the Fall of 1973. Since then, World Hello Day has been observed by people in 180 countries.
People around the world use the occasion of World Hello Day as an opportunity to express their concern for world peace. Beginning with a simple greeting on World Hello Day, their activities send a message to leaders, encouraging them to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts.
(excerpt from World Hello Day website: www.worldhelloday.org)
On Friday 15 November children came to school dressed in yellow and/or as a rock star to show their support for Children in Need!
Yearn 1 children invited their parents in on Tuesday 12 November for a Gruffalo Tea party. They had prepared food to represent different parts of Gruffalo and wrote labels to tell the parents what the food was.
We all had a lovely time celebrating our topic ‘Where will Julia take us?’ and we look forward to reading more books by Julia.
On Wednesday 9 October 2019, we had a fantastic time building houses out of biscuits, icing and sweets. We persevered, even when the buildings collapsed two or three times. It was great to see everyone getting involved and helping each other.
