On Friday 6th November, we will be holding a Sikh and Hindu Diwali celebration day in school to celebrate the upcoming festival of Diwali (Bandi Chhor Divas). The children will have the chance to participate in a range of activities related to the way in which people from Hindu and Sikh faiths celebrate Diwali, such as making a diya (diva) lamp. We would love
Our school football teams have started the year off in style! The boys’ team remain unbeaten, having won their first 6 league games and getting through to the second round of the cup. The girls’ team have been similarly successful, with four league wins and a cup win under their belts too! We are looking forward to a winter break now and carrying on
We launched our new menus for Autumn/Winter 2026/27 at the start of this half term. Dinners continue to cost £2.90 per day and can be ordered daily by children in the classroom. Children can change between having school dinners and a packed lunch from home day by day if they wish, depending on what is on the menu. Dinners must be paid for in
School dinners MUST be paid for, ONLINE, IN ADVANCE using your School Money account. In line with increases in charges made by Mellors, our catering providers, we are having to increase the cost of school dinners from 13th April to £2.90 per day (£14.50 for a full week). Our new menu for the Summer/Autumn Term 2026, which the School Council have helped us to
We have been made aware this morning of a case of Strep A in Year 3. Please be alert to symptoms in your own child. It is important that you inform school if your child has a confirmed case of Strep A or Scarlet Fever, even if they have been absent from school for some time as we have to report cases. Thank you.
A huge thank you to all of you who returned the recent parent questionnaire. We received over 250 questionnaires back – which is over 2/3 of the school. Your views are really important to us and help us to make changes or tweaks to current practice to ensure we are providing the very best for our children and their families at Gayton. Please click
We are pleased that we have a new school dinner provider to provide us with our school dinners from November 2021. Nottinghamshire Council are the company who will oversee this, with meals being cooked at a local Derby school in a similar arrangement to that we had previously with Derby Moor. They are providing us with a great menu full of different daily choices
We are beginning to receive information regarding secondary school open events regarding transitions to Year 7. Remember that the deadline for making an application for your child is Sunday 31st October 2021. As we mentioned in our first newsletter, please make sure that you select more than one school. We will continue to update this page as we get information from other secondary schools.
We have sent out information to all parents with all the information needed ready for a return to school on Monday 6th September. Please note that our start and finish times return to normal and there is no longer the provision in the hall before and after school that we operated to support parents with siblings whilst we had staggered start and finish times.
You may have read or heard this week about rapid testing for COVID-19 being rolled out to include parents and carers of school-age children, including adults who support as part of a childcare bubble. This type of rapid testing allows for more asymptomatic COVID-19 cases to be detected and can help to break chains of transmission. These are the same tests that staff at
