Revised school dinner menus were sent home before the Easter break. The new menus will begin with Week 1 on Monday 9th April. Click here to view the new menus. School meals cost £2.10 per day: please pay for meals in advance or on the day. Any credit balances will be carried forward on your child’s account. Payment for lunches should be sent in
The Online Privacy Guide: How to Stay Safe on the Web provides parents with lots of general advice and specific tips about different sites. Online Privacy Guide: How To Stay Safe On The Web in 2019 The information below was shared with parents and carers in our February 2017 Newsletter. Leaving Children at Home Alone The NSPCC has created a tool to help
This week we launched the start of our Pupil Premium Packs. Each year, schools receive an amount of money for each child that is on (or has ever been on) the Free School Meals register. Historically, this has been spent on funding booster groups, teachers and resources. At Gayton, this year we are able to spend some of the money more directly on the
The School Council asked if Gayton could take part in Wig Wednesday this year – and we are! On 25 May thousands of Hair-os across the UK will be wearing a wig for the day to support children and young people with cancer. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading charity for children and young people with cancer: the money raised from Wig Wednesday 2016
We’re having lots of fun this week working in mixed groups and moving round the school. This gives the children the chance to work with all of our teachers and experience some new things from all aspects of the arts, including art activities based on artists such as Mondrean and Kandinsky; drama; technology based creative projects, including Stop Motion Photography; artistic gymnastics; dance; poetry
Congratulations to our school football team, who were confirmed as winners of the Derby 7-a-side League last weekend – before the season had even finished! The boys will be attending an awards ceremony with their parents (who have supported them from the touchlines all season) at the iPro Stadium after an all expenses paid trip to Pizza Hut with Team Managers Mr O’Donnell and
Parents will soon receive a letter about “Teddy Aid” which is a charity which collects unwanted toys and sends them to children of migrant families in Kos, Hungary and Croatia. This is a great way for children to help other children so please support it if you can. The children will soon be involved in an assembly to explain what to do and you
Recently we hosted a heat of “The Big Quiz” Ten teams from about 5 other schools attended and Gayton entered two teams. It was organised by Mr O’Donnell and the children had to answer a range of general knowledge questions. At one point the two Gayton teams were in the lead! In the end we achieved joint 4th and 6th and we were very
Last week as part of the annual Rolls Royce Day, our Year 6 children were joined in school by ten aspiring Rolls Royce apprentices. The children took part in four challenging activities linked to STEM and building on team working values. They had great fun learning about electromagnetism, lift and thrust and air resistance.
Our Christmas celebrations ended with a big assembly to say ‘goodbye’ to Mrs Wilson who retired on Friday 18th December. The children performed a ‘Gayton’ rendition of her favourite Christmas song, The 12 Days of Christmas, summarising all of her many achievements whilst at the school. Of course, there were plenty of presents: the children put their fingerprints to paper, making a book of
