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
We had a great time during Book Week in November! Year 6 based their activities around The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, while Tuesday by David Wiesner was Year 5’s chosen book. Year 4 had fun taking part in lots of different activities based on the story of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and Year 3 read George’s Marvellous
