Student Leadership… Do you have what it takes?

19th August 2025Kelly Overson

Are you interested in being a part of our GT Student Leadership Crew?

Would you like to be a part of:

  • Year 5/6 Ambassadors
  • KS1 and KS2 Crew Council
  • Digital Leaders
  • Reading Ambassadors
  • Active sports Ambassadors
  • Crew Stewards

If the answer is YES, we have a challenge for you!

Create a poster, Google Slides, a letter or a leaflet to persuade your crew and crew leader that you are the perfect person for the job!

Bring in your application to your crew leader or Mrs Spetch after the summer holidays or share them with [email protected] . We can’t wait to kick start the new school year with lots of new Student Leadership opportunities.

Extended Study – COMPETITION TIME!

23rd June 2025Sophie Myers

Throughout this week, there are lots of National Awareness days including:

  • National Children’s Art Week
  • Plastic Free July
  • Clean Beaches Week
  • International Plastic Bag Free Day

Use the following links to build your knowledge:

https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/childrens-art-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/plastic-free-july-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/clean-beaches-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/create-week-2025/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/international-plastic-bag-free-day-2025/

TO CELEBRATE THESE DAYS WE ARE GOING TO RUN A ART COMPETITION WHICH WILL BE DRAWN ON THE 14TH JULY!

THE CHALLENGE – Create a piece of art to celebrate plastic free and clean beaches etc.

Could you use plastic as part of your artwork, shells, sand etc.

Bring your completed artwork in to school and hand to Crew Leaders by the 14th July – Crew Council will pick a winner from each phase!

We can’t wait to see and display your final pieces!

Crew Council and Wizard of Oz – Chocolate Surprise!

19th May 2025Sophie Myers

After the children had performed and supported at the VE Day celebrations in Moorends, the children were surprised with a visit from a local veteran from the RBL. He was so impressed with their performance and the children’s behaviour that he wanted to give them something back. The children were so grateful for their bars of chocolate – they definitely went down a treat!

VE Day Celebrations – Moorends Community Centre!

8th May 2025Sophie Myers

This afternoon, we had the privilege of being invited to the VE Day celebrations being hosted by Thorne and Moorends Town Council at Moorends Community Centre. 20 children that are Crew Councillors, Ambassadors and some of our Wizard of Oz cast went to support and perform.

The children served 100 guests with their afternoon tea whilst enjoying a performance from The Bowkers. They then enjoyed their own meal before taking to the stage to perform a selection of songs from their upcoming production!

Every child was an absolute credit to our school and every member of staff was bursting with pride – some even shed a few tears! Hearing such lovely things being said about our children by members of the community, local MP’s and councillors was such a highlight!

Members of the community were so proud of our children that they even began a collection raising over £200 which will support us massively when preparing costumes and stage design – a huge, huge thank you from all the children and staff involved!

Here is a little taster video of just how special our afternoon has been!

Crew Council – Visit to the play park construction site!

24th February 2025Sophie Myers

Today, KS2 Crew Council visited the site to observe the construction process! The children engaged with the construction team, viewed operational machinery and interacted in discussions about the development. The children were even lucky enough to have their photographs taken on the diggers and we saw how deep the holes are by putting Reeva and Vinnie inside them!
We can’t wait until it’s finished at the end of March!

Crew Council / Extended Study- Kindness Week!

24th February 2025Sophie Myers

Before half term, Crew Council delivered some personalised kindness stones to show their appreciation for members of staff in school.

We spoke about how this links to our Character Trait of Compassion and how it was a rewarding experience for both those handing them out and for those receiving them.

Linking to Kindness Week – I wonder if you could show some compassion and kindness throughout this week?

You could:

  • Help tidy around the house
  • Be a good steward in the classroom
  • Shoutout for a crew member for something that they have done
  • Show your appreciation to someone in school or at home

I can’t wait to see lots of kindness and compassion around school!

e-Safety Orienteering!

12th February 2025Jake Taylor

Thank you to everyone who attended the e-Safety orienteering session yesterday afternoon. Although the weather wasn’t great and it limited the amount of space we were able to use, the children remained enthusiastic and did their best to make sure they could find every answer. A big thank you as well to some of our crew councillors and digital leaders who were able to help assist and capture photos from the event. Well done to everyone involved!

If you didn’t manage to attend yesterday, why don’t you have a go on here and see what score you get? You can access the questions and answer sheet from the slideshow below.