It has been another amazing week in school. the children have continued to show how resilient and adaptable they are to any situation. There is a real 'buzz' around everything that they are doing. As I walk around school, it has been great t o hear the excitement in the classrooms as they settle back into routines and produce some superb work.
School life
It has been wonderful to begin to welcome Nursery back into school this week and look forward to welcoming even more of you into school next week. We are all excited! It has been amazing how well the new starters have settled into Galley Hill life, showing superb listening skills. Well done.
In Year 4 the children have been creating 'What a wonderful world' poems. They have produced some fabulous poems using rhyme, alliterations and wonderful vocabulary.
Reception have been exploring areas both inside and out. They have settle really well and it has been great so see and hear the amazing things they have been doing this week.
This week, year 6 have written some excellent poems which were inspired by a video involving being chased by a bear. They look fantastic on the display in the corridor.
They have also voted for house captains and deputies, which are:
Pinchinthorpe
Captain - Abbey
Deputy - Drew
Priory
Captain - Ryan
Deputy - Harry
Roseberry
Captain - Florence
Deputy - Olivia
Highcliffe
Captain - Jamie
Deputy - Ben
Key stage 1 have been doing lots of exciting work on Here I Am and talking about the environment and world.
head boy/ head girl
We are currently looking to recruit a Head Boy and Head Girl from Year 6. Further details can be found on the vacancies page on the school website here: https://galleyhill.eschools.co.uk/web/vacancies/351651
Drop off and pick up
Thank you for working with us on this. It is not ideal for any of us. However, safety remains a priority with Covid cases in the area still prevalent.
Nursery and Reception: 8:45am start - 3pm end
Year 1, Year 1/2 and Year 2: 8:55am start - 3:10 pm end
Year 3 and Year 4: 9:05am start - 3:20pm end
Year 5 and Year 6 : 9:15am start - 3:30pm end
Siblings can be dropped off at the earliest child's time and pick up is at 3:15pm from the main entrance, as last week.
Thank you for your support on this, I appreciate that it is not easy, but we can get there working together. If your child is feeling anxious, please do get in touch and we can have a discussion around alternative arrangements for drop off and collection.
School crossings
The school crossing times have been extended, which is a huge relief and ensures that all children and parents can safely cross the roads with the staggered start and end times that we currently have in place. It is also great to see the roadworks on the corner have gone, I have been in contact with them as I was made aware that one night last week both paths were blocked by either the roadworks, or the workers vans on the other side of the road, meaning that children, as well as yourselves, were having to walk in the road, which is unacceptable when there are two schools in the vicinity of the work that was being carried out.
wraparound - breakfast and afterschool club
I'm pleased to confirm that everything is getting ready for the opening of the breakfast and after school club on 21st September. There was a Parentmail that went out earlier today with further information.
contacting teachers
Whilst you may not see the teachers on a morning during these current times, please do phone school or e-mail office@galleyhillprimary.co.uk
General contact to school
If you need to contact school via e-mail please use office@galleyhillprimary.co.uk . We will no longer be using schoolclosure@ghs.rac.sch.uk.
School dinners
School dinner menu for next week:
If you would like to be on a packed lunch one day and dinners the next, that is absolutely fine. We are on a limited menu still at the moment and are looking at what we can do to offer more in the near future.
Finally
Thank you again for your flexibility as we all adapt to the new routines being establishing in our day to day. We are continuing to monitor and assess everything that we have in place at an operational level, ensuring the safety of everyone in school, as well as on the school site.
Next week, we begin to expand the curriculum a little further and will share with you some of the exciting things that we have planned. Also over this term, we will be producing some short videos showing techniques we use in school to help support your child at home. I will also be sharing parent evening dates for the year and how these will occur in the current situation.
I am also hoping to have some dates for parent forums next week, these will be held remotely and I will be sending a Parentmail next week to establish a popular, convenient time. Your voice is important in all that we do and I want to continue to build the home school link that we started to build last year.
Have a wonderful weekend and see you next week.
Mr McGeeney