This weeks winners are the ‘Red’ team.

Nursery person of the week - Jessica Greenwood

STAR BADGE WINNERS:

LI - Katie Atkinson (9)

FI - Ursula Depledge-Miller (8)

FII - Rhys Newman, Anna Hayward (6)

FIII - Ruby O’Hare, Lisa Paul (12)

LIV - Ameera Zaman (12)

MIV - Lucy Buckley (11)

UIV - Alex Jessop, Ted O’Hare, Georgina Nielsen, Annabel Smith- Moorhouse (11)

Children banking colours this week

UIV - Abigail Wilde (11)

Kindness Cup

Mr O’Rourke

We knew you could do it

Ellis Milner

This weeks winners are the ‘Blue’ team.

Nursery person of the week - Aubrey Hall

STAR BADGE WINNERS:

LI - Rajdeep Palit (14)

FI - Olivia Cliffe (23)

FII - Jonny Seagrave (9)

FIII - Angus Wood (13)  - Banking

LIV - Ameera Zaman (14)

MIV - Lucy Hutchinson (17)

UIV - Alex Jessop (12)

Kindness Cup

Mrs Armstrong

Sports person of the week

Billy Duffy

This weeks winners are the ‘Yellow’ team.

Nursery person of the week - Kassim Zaman

STAR BADGE WINNERS:

LI -Ella Cowell (21)

FI - Jayden Sutcliffe (24)

FII - Georgianna Smith (13)

FIII - Billy Duffy (9) 

LIV - Sabah Ashraf (6)

MIV - Riya Palit (17)

UIV - Ted O’Hare (8)

 

Kindness Cup

Mrs Kitson

We knew you could do it

Emily Hanson

Sports award

Georgina Nielsen

Mrs Berry writes:

The Gleddings has been twinned since 2004 with a primary school in France, L’ Ecole Sacre-Coeur in Meyzieu, on the outskirts of Lyon.

Many, many years ago, when I was still a teenager at university, I spent a year working as an English language assistant in a secondary school in Lyon.  Lyon is a very big city, and it was rather daunting to be sent there alone.  However, I hadn’t been there very long when a little girl, aged ten, who must have been one of the youngest children in the school, came to me at the end of a lesson and said that her mother (whom I had never met) would like me to join her family for a meal.  I have never forgotten that act of kindness, and I have kept in touch with that French family for three decades now.

The kind little girl grew up to be a primary school teacher, and that is how we come to be twinned with L’Ecole Sacre-Coeur, the school where she teaches.  So, now you have the opportunity to make friends with children in another country.  It just goes to show that you never know where a little act of kindness will lead!

You can find L’Ecole Sacre-Coeur on their website, www.ecole-meyzieu.com.

You might be especially interested to follow the links to ‘Nos liens’ and ‘Vie des classes’.

This term, Form 3 have been learning songs and playing games with a little French clown called Zozo, who travels in a hot air balloon with Moustique, his cat, and Fleur, the flower who sits in his hat.

On Thursday May 22^nd, the children proudly performed ‘Zozo’s French Party’ for an invited audience of parents and grandparents.  They had learned their parts well, and performed with confidence and enthusiasm. It was a lot of fun for everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some UIV boys have been doing a spot of gardening this term.  They’ve used the raised beds in the wildlife area to grow a selection of vegetables and salad crops, all from seed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunflowers, lavetera, nasturtiums, gladioli, iris and sweet peas were planted into individual pots so that they could be sold or planted out in the garden areas around school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A kind parent donated some old tyres which have been planted up with runner beans, peas and dahlias.  Supports were made from pruned branches off the willow structure.

The plants were nurtured and finally the boys held their first plant sale.   They have designed their own logo and all of the plants were labelled and came with care instructions.

 

 

 

Now all we need are the customers.

 

 

 

 

 

It seems to be going well.

 

 

 

 

 

The boys were very pleased at the end of the sale as they made just over £45.00; a £5.00 profit.  Fantastic!  Profits are going back into the gardening club and wildlife area.  There will be another sale after half-term, so if you missed out on the last sale, no need to panic.

 

 

 

We used spring greens from our raised beds within the wildlife garden to make a Colcannon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cooked spring greens, spring onions and bacon were combined with mashed potato and placed into an oven-proof dish before being topped with cheese and baked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Mmm! Quite nice for cabbage!

 

 

 

 

Rhubarb muffins were on the menu this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finished product.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lots to do this week as we prepared two salads and a lemon dressing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making the lemon dressing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fennel, radish and cucumber are sliced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then combined with a little dressing to make our first salad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jersey Royal potatoes are cut into chunks.  “Watch out!  They’re hot!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our lemon dressing is mixed with horseradish, Dijon mustard and garlic then this is used to smother the hot potatoes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, most of us liked them!

On May 6th we took part in the Calderdale Schools’ Gymnastics competition.
Our team wore their new leotards; they looked fantastic and performed superbly.

On April 25th our team participated in the Sowerby Bridge schools’ netball tournament. We went through to the semi-finals and won our match against Sacred Heart School. We reached the finals and, after a very tough match, we became runners-up of the 2009 tournament. Well done team!

This weeks winners are the ‘Red’ team.

Nursery person of the week - Charlie Rushworth

STAR BADGE WINNERS:

LI -Ted Grogan (17)

FI - Tayyibah Merali (9)

FII - Evie King (10)

FIII -Imaan Munir, Emily Hought (9) 

MIV - Lucy Hutchinson (15)

UIV - On a residential

Children banking colours this week

LIV - Jason Loh (9)

Kindness Cup

Charlotte Bingham