Godstowe News - Spring Term 2021 05/03

Spring Term 5 March, 2021

Headmistress' Letter Dear Parents, I would like to start by congratulating all of our musicians for such a wonderful spring concert last Friday, I very much enjoyed listening to it on Sunday afternoon. Well done girls, and thank you very much to all of the music teachers for their hard work and dedication to our young performers.

Back at school we have been very busy conducting all the tests for the staff and for the girls in the uppers and fourths. The whole school Is now most definitely ready and waiting for everyone to come back on Monday: we are so excited to see everyone.

In the meantime I wish you a happy and relaxing weekend.

Clemency D Gracie B Georgie P

Emily W Amayah P Katie H

Oraia D Hattie C-S Grace C

The Friends of Godstowe would like to invite all parents to an online event on Zoom on Wednesday 17th March at 8pm - ‘Hello & Introductions: An overview of Friends of Godstowe and introduction to the committee' We have not been able to hold normal events for over 12 months now and normally we would have cake sales, parent talks, FoG coffee mornings, and more to introduce you to our parent community, and have a chat!

I know we are all ‘onlined out’ but hopefully you can grab a cup of tea, coffee, beer, wine, .. whatever takes your fancy and join in! We do hope to see you on March 17th – please share amongst any parents you know who don’t regularly look at Classlist. Read more here....

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it has been refreshing for them to enjoy some time away from the screens.

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Paige Macy & her brother Max

I do hope your children have enjoyed taking part in the Virtual Activities day today and that

Thank you, The FoG committee.

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Music The following girls are awarded a Music Certificate for their participation in the ‘Haileybury Prep School Young Strings & Pianist of the Year 2021’ music competition Susie Y Chizuru Y Georgina E Jasmine S Alexandra L

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Claire Gillett, Head of Lodge , Hannah Smart, Head of Nursery We are really looking forward to seeing everyone back in school next Monday. Congratulations to everyone for their hard work and perseverance during this term, in such unusual circumstances!

Remember that Friday 12th March is our wellie walk in aid of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, so please bring your wellies that day and try to encourage friends and family to sponsor you! It was lovely to see so many children wearing their book character costumes on Thursday for World Book Day, and we hope everyone enjoyed the book related activities.

This week the theme in Nursery has been ‘books’ again. Some of the favourite activities have been Dear Zoo Counting, baking Owl Baby cupcakes and Dinosaur Stomp dancing. It’s been a very busy and active week. The children really enjoyed dressing up on Thursday too. The sound of the week was l for lollipop and we made some lollies using our fine motor skills.

Kindergarten children have been using their powers of imagination to invent aliens and planets this week, as part of their Literacy topic based on the book The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers. Their journey into the Milky Way continued with their project on The Solar System, which has concluded with each of them designing and producing their very own Planet Booklet. The children embraced World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book characters and then presenting to their class mates, a description of their favourite book and an explanation about why they had chosen it. A fun and busy last week of Virtual Learning but now we are all excited and looking forward to returning to the classroom and seeing each other properly.

Transition have had a dragon focus this week, looking at various stories about dragons in Literacy and working on their descriptive writing. In their Art lesson, they drew pictures of dragons and decorated them in colourful ways. In Geography, we have been finding out different facts about each continent to make our own continent leaflet. We were very impressed with the range of book characters in Transition on Thursday, and we had fun describing book characters and matching characters with their books. We hope everyone enjoyed their chosen activities on Friday.

This week in Beginners we have been learning more about plant growth, and we have been focusing on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

We have done some fantastic writing all about the story, describing our favourite characters, and we have been using our creative skills to imagine what our beanstalks might look like if we had some of our own magic beans. Lots of imaginary rainbow sparkly beanstalks made out of marshmallows! In Maths, we have been doing more work on subtraction, using real objects and a number line to help us to find the answers. We also really enjoyed World Book Day this week! It was a lot of fun to dress up as our favourite book characters and tell our friends all about them.

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Thank you for all the amazing entries for the World Book Day Potato Competition. You have obviously had great fun making them and there have been some fantastically creative ideas. The results will be announced next week, but in the meantime here is a selection of the entries.

Here is a link to a digital version of the World Book Day £1 Book Token. You may need to print it if you are taking it to a supermarket. You will receive a paper version on Monday.

1. Monday 8th March is our first day back in school, but it also celebrates something else. What?

2. Who was the first female Member of Parliament in the UK?

British Science Week starts on Friday 5th March and the theme is ‘innovating for the future’. This week’s Young Climate Warriors challenge encourages children to ‘zap the lights’ at home and also to think creatively about how technology and innovation can help tackle climate change. We include a great 3 minute SolarAid film about an 11 year old Tanzanian boy and his

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric lightbulb

new solar light, and a short Bill Gates interview where he moves from his ‘wild ideas’ innovations related to computers, to his belief that is it our power to invent that makes him hopeful about tackling climate change.

Please remind your children to HIT THE RED BUTTON on the Young Climate Warriors website when they have completed the challenge.

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#VirtualGodstowe Showcase Thank you so much for sending in your photos and videos, we love seeing what Godstowe pupils have been getting up to as part of their remote learning! Please keep sending in your photos to marketing@godstowe.org, or tweet using the hashtag #VirtualGodstowe

Macy's (UIII) artistic 'make-up' look for Activities afternoon!

When Tinker Bell (Tayma Bg) met Fantastic Mr Fox (Fifi Tr) for their World Book Day prep!

Learning origami with Mrs Scragg after school this week!

Charlotte (Kg) dressed up as Winnie the Witch on Thursday the world book day. She also completed her book of “The Solar System”. Space is one of her favourite topics!

Isabella (LIII) doing a PE challenge with support from her four-legged friend!

A collage of girls doing PE with their animals this week!

Tomi (UIII) focussing this week while in one of her online classes

Alayna (FII) enjoying time away from the screen during her breaks this week Girls enjoying the After School Activities Pop-Up - 20 Questions with Mrs Rycroft!

Here are a couple more amazing Book Day creative outfits!

Sophia & Isabella P (FII) enjoying the last week of remote learning this term!

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Jasmine (FII) playing the piece she is learning on the piano this week

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