Gilmour Junior School
Attendance: Children learn best when they are in school every day, at Gilmour Junior School we aim for a whole school attendance percentage of 97% - this is how we did this week:
Class
Percentage attendance
Percentage attendance
6D
Weekly 95.79%
For the year 96.70%
6S
100.00%
6M
Class
Percentage attendance
Percentage attendance
4T
Weekly 98.71%
For the year 95.43%
97.80%
4M
96.67%
97.15%
93.33%
96.45%
3L
79.33%
96.25%
5G
98.62%
97.08%
3T
93.00%
95.66%
5J
96.55%
94.10%
Gilmour Junior School Weekly Newsletter News up to 4.03.16 Our new news letter… Here is our news from another very busy week at Gilmour Juniors!
World Book Day Wow! There were some truly fantastic costumes on display yesterday. It was a great opportunity to celebrate our favourite books and have a bit of fun as well!
Whole School Weekly Percentage: 94.43% Whole School Yearly Percentage: 96.20.28%J (Last week:96.28% (Highest so far 96.98%) The class with the best attendance this week (Based on weekly attendance) is: 6S
4M’s class assembly
Attendance Leader Board:
Class
Wins this Year
Class
Wins this Year
6D
3
4T
0
6M
0
4M
2
6S
4
3L
2
5G
2
3T
1
5J
1
Punctuality: 8 children were late last week, some on more than one occasion, which meant we had 10 occasions were children arrived late to lessons.
An enormous well done to 4M for entertaining and informing us with a dose of Munshi magic! Thank you for their hard work and talking about online safety, a serious subject, in a light hearted way!
Mersey Travel—Safety Event Last Friday Mersey Travel ran a safety event at our school for Year 6. They enjoyed a day of drama, rapping and important safety messages. A huge thank you to Mersey Travel and our Year 6 for working so hard—it was a great day!
Parent Info Our school is working with CEOP and the Parent Zone to provide parents with useful and relevant information and advice about keeping their children safe online line. There are currently 79 articles on our website at:
Duncombe Road South Entrance For the 14th March we will no longer use the Berners Road entrance and will start to use the Duncombe Road South Entrance as we did before the building work started. As you know we had planned to do this from September 2015 but the delays in building work prevented this.
Www.gilmourjuniors.com/online-safety-advice/
Visit us at: www.gilmourjuniors.com for all of the photos in this newsletter
Looking ahead continued...
Year 4
10th March
English
Planning and writing own explanation texts.
9.15am 3T class assembly - parents are welcome to come along!
Maths
Read and convert 12 hour and 24 hour clocks using digital and analogue clocks. Progressing to solving problems involving time.
Homework
Spellings- Miss Kirby and Mr Shepherd – ‘ing’ suffix/ Mrs Tynan- ‘er’ suffix Mr Munshi- ‘ch’ spellings which sound ‘sh’ eg chalet Addition and subtraction word problems / Reading comprehension X3 times tables
Our News:
Running for fun will be on Tuesday and Friday lunchtimes. Can children who would like to attend the club, please bring spare socks, trainers and sports clothing (which you don’t mind getting dirty) for the club.
17th March 9.15am 3L class assembly - parents are welcome to come along! 17th—22nd March Book fair—our book fair will be at school. Children will be able to buy books at lunch time and after school.
Please check our website calendar for all of our forthcoming events
This week’s winning house team was….
Year 5 English
Stories from other cultures
Maths
Perimeter
Homework
Numeracy – measure problems Tables – We will do a tables test covering all tables up to 12x12. Playing ‘hit the button’ on the top marks website would be useful practise. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Literacy – write a recount from the plan completed last week It is important that reading books are read regularly. Please listen to your child read and encourage them to change their book.
Our News:
Year 5 will offered the chance to complete a cycle training course later this month. Letters to follow. 5G will have their next cookery session Tuesday afternoon.
Year 3
English
We will be planning and writing our persuasive healthy eating leaflet.
Maths
Telling the time and Roman numerals.
Homework
Times tables tests as usual. Reading homework as usual. Spelling homework will be given out on Thursday and the test will be on Thursday. We have new spelling groups with new names. Maths- Mixed addition and subtraction.
Our News:
We are looking forward to 3T’s class assembly on Thursday.
Black trainers Can you please ensure that your child has school shoes and not black trainers to wear for school. We allow children to change into their trainers at play and dinner time if they wish—but they must have shoes to wear. Thanks for your support over this!
Year 6 English
Revision of the language and layout features of writing a report.
Maths
Measuring and drawing angles using a protractor.
Homework
Literacy: Reading Test Practise. Numeracy: Arithmetic Practise
Our News:
Well done completing the tests this week. You have all worked really well. Good luck to everyone competing in the cross country race next week!
Rare Diseases charity event: Thanks to everyone who was able to support this event— so far it has raised a massive £700 for charity!!!!!!
Visit us at: www.gilmourjuniors.com for all of the photos in this newsletter
Class
Percentage attendance
Percentage attendance
6D
Weekly 95.79%
For the year 96.70%
6S
100.00%
6M
Class
Percentage attendance
Percentage attendance
4T
Weekly 98.71%
For the year 95.43%
97.80%
4M
96.67%
97.15%
93.33%
96.45%
3L
79.33%
96.25%
5G
98.62%
97.08%
3T
93.00%
95.66%
5J
96.55%
94.10%
Gilmour Junior School Weekly Newsletter News up to 4.03.16 Our new news letter… Here is our news from another very busy week at Gilmour Juniors!
World Book Day Wow! There were some truly fantastic costumes on display yesterday. It was a great opportunity to celebrate our favourite books and have a bit of fun as well!
Whole School Weekly Percentage: 94.43% Whole School Yearly Percentage: 96.20.28%J (Last week:96.28% (Highest so far 96.98%) The class with the best attendance this week (Based on weekly attendance) is: 6S
4M’s class assembly
Attendance Leader Board:
Class
Wins this Year
Class
Wins this Year
6D
3
4T
0
6M
0
4M
2
6S
4
3L
2
5G
2
3T
1
5J
1
Punctuality: 8 children were late last week, some on more than one occasion, which meant we had 10 occasions were children arrived late to lessons.
An enormous well done to 4M for entertaining and informing us with a dose of Munshi magic! Thank you for their hard work and talking about online safety, a serious subject, in a light hearted way!
Mersey Travel—Safety Event Last Friday Mersey Travel ran a safety event at our school for Year 6. They enjoyed a day of drama, rapping and important safety messages. A huge thank you to Mersey Travel and our Year 6 for working so hard—it was a great day!
Parent Info Our school is working with CEOP and the Parent Zone to provide parents with useful and relevant information and advice about keeping their children safe online line. There are currently 79 articles on our website at:
Duncombe Road South Entrance For the 14th March we will no longer use the Berners Road entrance and will start to use the Duncombe Road South Entrance as we did before the building work started. As you know we had planned to do this from September 2015 but the delays in building work prevented this.
Www.gilmourjuniors.com/online-safety-advice/
Visit us at: www.gilmourjuniors.com for all of the photos in this newsletter
Looking ahead continued...
Year 4
10th March
English
Planning and writing own explanation texts.
9.15am 3T class assembly - parents are welcome to come along!
Maths
Read and convert 12 hour and 24 hour clocks using digital and analogue clocks. Progressing to solving problems involving time.
Homework
Spellings- Miss Kirby and Mr Shepherd – ‘ing’ suffix/ Mrs Tynan- ‘er’ suffix Mr Munshi- ‘ch’ spellings which sound ‘sh’ eg chalet Addition and subtraction word problems / Reading comprehension X3 times tables
Our News:
Running for fun will be on Tuesday and Friday lunchtimes. Can children who would like to attend the club, please bring spare socks, trainers and sports clothing (which you don’t mind getting dirty) for the club.
17th March 9.15am 3L class assembly - parents are welcome to come along! 17th—22nd March Book fair—our book fair will be at school. Children will be able to buy books at lunch time and after school.
Please check our website calendar for all of our forthcoming events
This week’s winning house team was….
Year 5 English
Stories from other cultures
Maths
Perimeter
Homework
Numeracy – measure problems Tables – We will do a tables test covering all tables up to 12x12. Playing ‘hit the button’ on the top marks website would be useful practise. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Literacy – write a recount from the plan completed last week It is important that reading books are read regularly. Please listen to your child read and encourage them to change their book.
Our News:
Year 5 will offered the chance to complete a cycle training course later this month. Letters to follow. 5G will have their next cookery session Tuesday afternoon.
Year 3
English
We will be planning and writing our persuasive healthy eating leaflet.
Maths
Telling the time and Roman numerals.
Homework
Times tables tests as usual. Reading homework as usual. Spelling homework will be given out on Thursday and the test will be on Thursday. We have new spelling groups with new names. Maths- Mixed addition and subtraction.
Our News:
We are looking forward to 3T’s class assembly on Thursday.
Black trainers Can you please ensure that your child has school shoes and not black trainers to wear for school. We allow children to change into their trainers at play and dinner time if they wish—but they must have shoes to wear. Thanks for your support over this!
Year 6 English
Revision of the language and layout features of writing a report.
Maths
Measuring and drawing angles using a protractor.
Homework
Literacy: Reading Test Practise. Numeracy: Arithmetic Practise
Our News:
Well done completing the tests this week. You have all worked really well. Good luck to everyone competing in the cross country race next week!
Rare Diseases charity event: Thanks to everyone who was able to support this event— so far it has raised a massive £700 for charity!!!!!!
Visit us at: www.gilmourjuniors.com for all of the photos in this newsletter
