WELCOME
FROM THE HEADTEACHER
Welcome to Gillespie Primary School’s website.
We want our children’s primary school experience to be an unforgettable and inspirational journey with us. We believe the journey for adults should be equally motivating, hence our school’s motto ‘Growing Together’.
I am very proud to be Headteacher of this vibrant and diverse school community. Our children come from a range of backgrounds and cultures and thrive in our unique school environment. The whole school and our partners work together to develop an innovative and creative learning culture for our children.
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Latest News from Twitter
Year 4 had a great historical day @britishmuseum looking at artefacts from Ancient Greece. They looked at them carefully to find clues about life long ago and enjoyed drawing some of the things they saw.
#History
The Eco-Committee♻️are keen to hear if anyone has achieved the 6 Cut Your Carbon challenges yet. Please let Meg know.
We're very proud of Gillespie pupil Olivia who wrote to @MayorofLondon regarding the important issue of smoking and the dangers it poses. As you can see she was ecstatic to receive a response acknowledging her efforts in tackling the issue!
The Eco-Committee♻️are keen to hear if anyone has achieved the 6 Cut Your Carbon challenges yet. Please let Meg know.
SO proud of our girls football team this week who gave it their all in their first match of the season ⚽️🤩
#CutYourCarbon
During #AntiBullyingWeek , every class had a go at activities based around the theme: 'Choose Respect'. We spoke a lot about what the word respect meant to us and why this was important especially when talking about bullying. #ChooseRespect
Thank you so much to families for their generosity so far raising over £300 for @BBCCiN . There is still time to donate here https://tinyurl.com/4dyybmyj.
Children were dressed in spots, stripes or pjs for today's #childreninneed
In their class assembly, Year 1 shared the fantastic work they have been doing in their #Geography Fieldwork lessons on the local area. They talked about what an aerial view is, shared the aerial views they had drawn and the maps they had made of the classroom and the playground
#STEM Committee are really enjoying trying out activities for the Science Magic Show they will be putting on in Spring!
STEM Club learnt how GPS works and that a Bee-Bot is not a robot as it does not respond to data gathered from sensors and make decisions to move in response. They programmed a Bee-Bot to reach a destination on a Shop-a-Bot challenge mat whilst avoiding obstacles.
Eco-Committee♻️ members are keen to hear which families have completed 6 carbon cutting actions. The checklist can be downloaded from last week's newsletter or results can be sent electronically to Meg or the office.
Huge thanks to the Gillespie community for their generosity and putting together a big haul of goods for Food Bank Aid.
See the amazing community work they do here: https://foodbankaid.org.uk/
We are fundraising for BBC Children in Need next week. Check out our @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving
Gillespie's fundraiser for BBC Children in Need
Help Mark Owen raise money to support BBC Children in Need
www.justgiving.com
To celebrate #Diwali our Reception class made diva lamps
#STEM Club have been designing robots. Here are some designs for robots that will serve you in a restaurant or will deliver food to your door. Watch this space for more designs.
Year 5 went into Lab_13 and learnt about the importance of separating materials. They created their own 'polluted' water and then used different filtering methods to try and get the clearest water. #STEM #Science
Y4 travelled back in time to Athens in 490BC: the time of The Battle of Marathon. During the course of the morning, they got news of events down at the Bay of Marathon while making items in the Agora, such as clay pots, mosaics, wax tablets and silver necklaces. #History
In Maths, Reception class have been learning about different ways to sort objects.
We can sort them by colour, shape, size and number! #EYFS #Earlyyears #Maths
Last week was Space Week so we made our very own alien spaceships in Reception class! #EYFS #earlyyears #STEM #SpaceExploration
