Happy New Year and welcome back. We all look forward to a busy term with many musical and sporting opportunities; and new challenges.
We are delighted that Ms Cozens has joined us to teach class music throughout the school on Thursdays. Our children have enjoyed their class music lessons with her today. Ms Cozens is a talented musician on the violin, viola and piano. She is also an ABRSM examiner, with many years of teaching experience. We are delighted that she has joined us at Grantham Prep.
Enjoy the weekend Kinds regards
Mrs K.A Korcz
Calendar & Events
Spring Term 2019
Term Starts:
Monday 7/1/19
Half Term:
18/2/19 - 22/2/19
End of Term:
Friday 5/4/19
Summer Term 2019
Term Starts:
Tuesday 23/4/19
May Day:
Monday 6/5/19
Half Term:
27/5/19 - 31/5/19
End of Term: Wednesday 17/7/19
ISSUE: 358 10th January 2019
IMPORTANT PARENT INFORMATION
Cool Cats Uniform Supplier: TGPS website - Please access the Uniform & Equipment heading on the home page there is a direct link to the Cool Cats website.
WEEKLY EVENTS
Thursday 10th January 2019 Junior Club sign up morning
Monday 14th January 2019 Mrs Keen's Speech & Drama starts
Wednesday 16th January 2019 U11/U10 Netball v Ranby (a)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
4.2.19 Hamlet - performed by Young
Shakespeare Company
14.2.19 Uppingham Music Day
15.2.19 School finishes for half term
25.2.19 Back to School
Bag 2 School drop off
3.15pm - 4.30pm
The donations collected for the tea and coffee at our School Nativity performances totaled £40.61.
Thank you to all, and this money has gone towards the Oasby Music Group Tour this year.
St Wulfram's Church
We are pleased to say that the total of donations collected for tea and coffee at our Christingle service was £111.82. This will go towards St Wulfram's Church.
Welcome
A very big Grantham Prep welcome to Elsey who has joined us in Nursery!
Elsey has two cats at home called Daisy (who is very well behaved) and Ivy (who is very mischievous!) She enjoys watching Trolls, Pepper Pig and Horrid Henry on TV. Her older brother, Albert is currently in Y2 here.
New music teacher to Grantham Prep
Hello, it's lovely to be here and I am looking forward to getting to know the children. There are lots of enthusiastic, super young musicians in the school!
Our emphasis will be on practical music making and ensemble skills within the class settings - focusing on listening, teamwork and co-operation.
The children in Year 6 and Year 5 have already come up with some ideas. Year 6 suggested that they could do some composing and Year 5 are very keen to have a solo spot where they perform to the rest of the class at the end of the music lesson.
That being the case please can any child who plays an instrument bring it to school on Thursdays, regardless if they have a lesson that day. or not. Instruments can be left in the Music Room.
I am really looking forward to meeting you all and becoming part of this lovely community.
In December 2018 the children joined our fun filled Christmas Holiday Camp for lots of festive treats. All we wanted for Christmas was a good old traditional pantomime. Oh yes, we did! We were very excited to go to the Guildhall Arts Centre in Grantham and join "Dick Whittington" on his adventure of finding his fortune in London. It was perfect storytelling, filled with magic, fairy dust and festive cheer. Oh yes, it was! Christopher from Pre-School was lucky enough to get a special mention from the cast as it was his first Christmas pantomime since he joined the school.
Back by popular demand, Martial Arts coach Mrs Jo Copeland returned with some more of her martial arts techniques to balance the children's confidence and discipline.
Finally, we celebrated the end of the festive Christmas Camp with the Christmas party. Fun and games were had by all and by the end of the busy week we were all ready to welcome Christmas into our homes with family and friends.
We wish you all the best for 2019 and hope to see you again during Easter Holiday Camp.
Class One have been honing their skills on the school's iPads. The children have enjoyed numerous mathematical, geographical and Art activities on these wonderful devices. As part of their Andy Warhol Art topic, individual class members used the 'Photo Booth' Application to create their own version of his Pop Art genre. It was great fun to see everyone's changing appearance. Class One are a really good looking group of children but these images depict them differently! The iPad is an excellent tool to create cross-curricular links, encourage further independent research and what's more... a great hit with the children.
After a magical break, Class Two have returned to school with enthusiasm and positive working attitude. This week they have been studying instructional texts, as well as reading lots of examples. The children have discovered 'What makes instructions effective?' and have been incorporating this into their own work.
One of the main focuses is: 'collaboration', in which each member of the Class works in a team to build a Lego model and then write instructions for someone else to recreate it.
I am so pleased that everyone has engaged with the task and had a lot of fun! Look out for the finished pieces of work which will be displayed in the classroom with photographs.
Since I was 11 years old, I have attended the Models of the United Nations. Slowly, I started to fall in love with the arbitration process and the debates themselves. My goal was to someday be the Secretary General of SEKNUVA, and the day finally came on December 12th. After months of organization, SEKNUVA VIII was a 4 day-long MUN that I will always remember. Not only because it was something I worked really hard for, but because I know that every delegate enjoyed the experience that we created at SEK Los Valles.
Sometimes, on the MUN one has to defend political positions that one does not agree with. I saw a lot of this situations during the Model, while the delegates of Venezuela or North Korea defended to death each of their policies. What I can really say about SEKNUVA, as a former delegate/chair/Secretary General, is that it was a great opportunity for everybody to improve their debate skills, and understand the world and its conflicts, as we offered a safe place where every delegate could develop and improve themselves.
Micaela de la Torre, Secretary General – SEKNUVA VIII
Aktiv im Deutschunterricht!
German as an all-round learning experience!
It is important to study a language actively by making meaningful experiences that are possible in real life situations in order to consolidate learning.
Grade 6 students have learnt to introduce themselves and have created their own Identity card in German. They learnt about the school time-table, school subjects and have completed a project about school.
Grade 7 students have learnt to talk about different shops and how to buy fruit and vegetables at the market.
Grade 8 students learnt about the most read German newspapers, the different parts of an article and then wrote an article practising the perfect tense.
If you are selecting your child's lunches on a weekly basis, it must be done by midnight Thursday of the previous week. Once you have made your choices, unfortunately, you are unable to change them. However, if your child would like to change a meal, please email the school office (contact.grantham@iesmail.com) with the date and meal choice that you would like changing and we will make the changes for you.
The Wise pay booking system for hot lunches is available through the TGPS website.
Thank you.
School Bus Collection Points & Times
Bookings for this week:
Please contact the school office to book a place for your child.
8.10am Normanton on Cliffe
8.20am Ancaster
8.25am Wilsford
On Fridays the bus will run 15 minutes earlier to ensure pupils arrive in time for the *Music Machine" School Band rehearsal.
Access to the School Building after 4.30pm
As you are all aware there is now a gate which has a key code access to the Creche in the evening. If you do not have the code, please call 01476 593293 and your call will be answered by Creche.
