The children are settling in to their new classes well this September in anticipation of another exciting term at Great Gaddesden School. We warmly welcome our new children and their families from the village and further afield as we look ahead to the next academic year.
The end of last term finished with many of our traditional school events. Sports Day was quite eventful with lots of fun races to take part in for pupils. Races included sprint, the obstacle race, egg and spoon, and sack race. There was some fantastic racing from the children, with perhaps some future Olympic runners judging by how fast some of them were!
As governors we were also privileged to watch a lovely performance of Oliver Twist by the juniors. Every one worked very hard learning songs and scripts and their hard work all paid off as they were absolutely wonderful!
Over the summer holidays the school had some building work done internally to extend the years five/six and one/two classrooms. This building work will provide a better environment for our staff to teach in and improve the learning of our pupils. We know that the children were excited to see what it looked like!
As a school we promote "values based" learning to promote a sense of community and citizenship. Each month we have a school value which children focus on. These include qualities such as honesty, courage, respect, determination and compassion. Pupils nominate each other when they see their peers displaying these qualities, and staff also nominate children. They are celebrated in our Thursday "celebration assembly'" where one child each week has their handprint printed onto our values tree.
We hold a weekly "church assembly" each Friday during the term. Parents and carers are welcome to join us at these assemblies which are kindly hosted by either our Vicar or a Lay Reader of the church.
As always we have a busy term planned and we look forward to sharing news of our activities with you in future parish news. "
