school news Calling teachers, PTA members, pupils... Do you have exciting news at your school? If you would like to share your school news with the local residents please send details to editor@simply-spalding.co.uk. Sir John Gleed School For students and staff at the Sir John Gleed School term 4 is a short but busy term. Exams are taking place throughout March for GCSE students. On Friday 15th February the last day before February Half Term students took part in the Swimming Gala for local secondary schools in the area. Sir John Gleed School Year 8 & 9 boys came second in their race, with Year 10 & 11 girls coming third in their race. Year 9 students have taken part in the Dodgeball tournament and congratulations go to the Boys’ Team who came first and the Girls’ Team who came second and to the Yr11 sports leaders who officiated the games. On Tuesday 26th February the Sir John Gleed School held a memorial service at the St Mary and St Nicholas for Callum Pite, who sadly lost his fight to cancer on New Year’s Day. It was a fitting mark of respect and appreciated by all. We look forward to the fund raising day that is taking place on Friday 22nd March from 12 noon at the school to raise money for Cullum’s charity. The school is raising money for Callum Pite’s Smile Charity to support young people with cancer, on a special non-uniform and activities day on Friday 22nd March.
Ayscoughfee Hall School It has been a busy time for the children at Ayscoughfee Hall School particularly with lots of visits and visitors within the local community helping to enrich the childrens’ learning. The School celebrated World Book Day with the children and teachers dressing up as their favourite book character. There were some fantastic characters represented on the day – everything from Gangster Granny to Little Red Riding Hood. In the week leading up to World Book Day, the Year 3 class visited Spalding Library to see how a library works and took part in a fun book quiz. Years 4 and 5 visited Bookmark and enjoyed looking at the books and seeing how a bookshop is run as well as spending their book day vouchers. Year 6 visited
the newspaper offices to see how the local papers are put together and particularly enjoyed writing their own article whilst on the visit. Reception class had a visit from a local vetinary nurse and were fascinated to learn about her work. The children had great fun bandaging their own toy animal and the visit has added a whole new dimension to their role play in their own vets surgery in the classroom. They also had a visit from Molsons opticians and were intrigued to learn about the different glasses and instruments the optician uses when having an eye test.
Little Treasures Nurseries March was a fun packed month at Little Treasures Nurseries, the staff and children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite characters and sharing their favourite books and on Red Nose Day everyone took part in fun activities to help raise money. The fun continues into April, the children will be making links to their own community by learning about the upcoming Spalding Flower Parade and the changing season.
Weston St Mary CE Primary School Holbeach Bank Primary School Holbeach Bank Primary School entered 2013 with a new Head Teacher. Mrs Christine Wright is new to Holbeach Bank, but is no stranger to leadership. She has been Head Teacher at Fleet Wood Lane School for thirteen years and is currently providing Leadership Support to Holbeach Bank School as Executive Headteacher. We have reintroduced Breakfast Club from 8.00 am each morning and all year groups within the school have been to activity events at other schools including a theatre workshop, puzzle and lego days. 10 www.simplyspalding.co.uk SIMPLYSPALDING
Chinese New Year Day was held in school on 8th February and the children enjoyed a taster session buffet which was thoroughly enjoyed. The food was very good and was supplied by the Cyrstal Inn in Spalding. We would like to thank them again for their support. The inter-school Netball tournament on 12th February went very well with the school finishing in second place. Well done to all our players. To celebrate Shrove Tuesday, our breakfast club children enjoyed some home-made pancakes alongside their other healthy breakfast choices.
The children and teachers enjoyed a day out at Cadbury World on 27th February, and a very enjoyable ‘Come Celebrate Lent’ service was held in school on 28th February. Pupils March activities include: “Dress Up for World Book Day” on 7th, Red Nose Day fundraising activites on the 15th, a Holy Week Federated School s Service on 21st, and a Wildlife Show on 22nd.