In Friday's assembly children talked about what Harvest Festival is and the importance of it; with Reverend Stephen Coles from St Thomas's Church. Families kindly donated lots of dried and canned foods which were given to a local Food Bank....
In year 6 we have been learning about Victorian life. Workhouse Punishments If you refuse to work you will be committed to prison for 28 days. If you were disorderly at prayer time you got locked up for 24 whole hours on only bread and water. Fighting in school...
In year 3 we have been busy writing our stories set in Stonehenge and we will be editing and improving them over the next week to put into a book. In Maths we carried out a place value investigation where we had to try and write...
In the first few weeks of being in Reception we have been exploring our classroom and playground and making new friends. Here are some of the activities we have been doing. In our home corner we have lots of different cloaks and pieces of material to...
In maths we learnt about chips (tens) and peas (ones) and practiced showing the value of each digit in a number. We then used this knowledge to add....
In Year 2 we have been making models of Tower Bridge out of different materials - we were testing to see which material was the most suitable for making the bridge....
Hello and welcome back. I am delighted to say that there are lots of sports competitions coming up this term and I can't wait. There's football, cricket, athletics and netball and I am looking forward to taking Gillespie to all of them. Angela Rugby Festival: Friday 18th September After...
Come along to our upcoming parent workshops: – What do you know about Shisha and e-cigarettes/e-shisha – Tuesday 29th September – Growing up and Changing – Wednesday 30th September – Relationships and Social Media – Wednesday 7th October...
In the Spring Term children from year 4 and 5 took part in the nationwide BBC music project 'Ten Pieces'. The project started with the children watching a film which brought to life ten pieces of classical music. The children then collaborated with a dancer...