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Weekend Residential - St Michael's Environmental Education Centre

Thu 14 Jun 2018 Mrs Blackman

On Friday 8th June, 29 intrepid explorers and three mad leaders, set off for an adventure in the Peak District. What an adventure it was.

The weekend started with a 'gentle walk' by the River Derwent to explore the area and get used to our walking boots and equipment. We met a few cows along the way and encountered many bugs. Our explorers were fascinated by the river and this helped us to decide on some additional activities for both Saturday and Sunday. We headed back to the centre for a late tea of pizza, wedges and salad to fuel up for the adventures ahead.

Saturday dawned and what a beautiful day it was for a hike. With backpacks loaded full of lunch we set off. The aim was to walk to the top of Stanage Edge and then finish at the ice cream farm. It was a massive undertaking for us all so we set a steady pace. We had a snack stop at the Mill Ponds and Stepping Stones, where we decided to cool our feet in Hood Brook. Then it was lunch at the Plantation before our final ascent of Stanage. The view was breath-taking and we rested at the top to take it all in. From there it was mainly downhill to Thorpe Farm for a tour of the ice cream farm and to sample the goods. Sophie's strawberry and cream ice-cream was a definite favourite. We finished the short walk back to St Michael's and a well earned rest. A super achievement for all.

We spent Sunday orienteering and boat racing in the grounds of Brookfield Manor. The weekend was rounded off with a final picnic lunch by Hood Brook and then a very tired group travelled back to school.

A selection of photos from the weekend are included with this report, please take a look.

I'm already looking forward to next year!

Careers Assembly

Tue 13 Mar 2018 Mrs Blackman

Our thanks this week go to Mrs Bratherton who led a very interesting careers assembly all about becoming and being an engineer. She told us that there are many different types of engineer and how important they are to all areas of industry. I feel we may have a few budding engineers in the school who have been inspired to find out more.

Careers Assembly

Tue 06 Mar 2018 Mrs Blackman

A huge thank you to Mr Nuttall this time. Mr Nuttall is one of our parent governors and has also been in the police force for a significant number of years. He came along to assembly today to let us know a little more about what a career in the police force entails. the children were very interested and had lots of thought provoking questions to ask.

Careers Assembly

Tue 27 Feb 2018 Mrs Blackman

A huge thank you to Mr Poyzer for coming along and giving us a talk about the fire service. We were fascinated to hear how he became interested and the amount of training and learning he has had to do over the years. We found out lots of amazing things which our fire fighters do to keep us safe and how they help us when we find ourselves in danger.

A huge thankyou!

Sun 05 Apr 2015 D Blackman

New books for the school....and it's all down to you. Our recent book fair was a huge success and this means that we can now buy £565 worth of books to add to our library.

Thank you for all your support.

Spring Festival

Sun 05 Apr 2015 D Blackman

After a very busy term, our very first Spring Festival was a fantastic way for all the children to get together and celebrate the arrival of spring. Every child made a spring decoration to hang on our Spring Tree and each class shared a poem, story or song with the rest of the school. We sang some of our new favourite songs like "Clever Little Bulbs" and "New Day" and finished with a rousing rendition of "Holidays are here again!"

Enjoy your break everyone, see you on the 20th April ready for lots of learning and fun.

Hogwarts Online Survey

Mon 23 Mar 2015 D Blackman

Please could you take a few minutes to follow the link and complete our short online survey. We will use the data gathered to help us to make the next curriculum week even better....thank you for you continued support.

http://goo.gl/forms/j84K6aAcbD

Hogwarts Comes to Gateford

Sun 08 Mar 2015 D Blackman

What a fantastic week. #TeamGP proved yet again what an amazing group of people they are. From magic workshops to Hogwarts Fair, from storytelling to spell writing, from book fair to murder mystery evening....it was all happening at Gateford.

Follow the link to see what the Worksop Guardian has to say about our amazing school.

http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/local/worksop-hogwarts-comes-to-gateford-park-1-7142247

To every single person who helped with arrangements, everyone who attended the events, everybody who bought a book or some Hogwarts treats...thank you!

Christmas Fair

Sun 30 Nov 2014

A huge thank you goes out to our amazing PTFA for arranging and organising yet another fantastic event. Our annual Christmas Fair was well attended and there were lots of happy faces strolling around the many stalls and attractions. We will update you with how much money was raised as soon as we can.