A new structure has appeared in the grounds of Gateford park.  No, it's not an alien spacecraft but it is amazing all the same. 

Jim from Greener Places (who helped to design and build the wildlife garden last spring) has been working hard for us again.  Gateford Oaks very kindly agreed to fund a willow sculpture and today saw Jim and the children preparing the ground, arranging the willow rods and weaving them into place.

The finished sculpture is beautiful and will provide a quiet area of shade during the warmer months.  During the winter - well, let your imagination run wild...

Come along and see the Willow Dome for yourself.

Space week is over.  We had a fantastic competition day to end the fun and were joined by lots of parents, carers and friends to celebrate all the achievements of the week.

Balloon rockets

1st - Joshua Rowland
2nd - Harry Leicester
3rd - Charlie Cooper
Best Decorated - Max Bowskill

Space Art

FS2 - Freddie marks
Y1 - Charlotte Ayton
Y2 - Martyna Bajorek
Y3 - Ben Wilcox
Y4 - Emily Moger
Y5 - Ella Woodhouse
Y6 - Logan Larkey
Overall Winner - Lucy Conroy

Build a spaceship

Will Howard
Sophie Spencer
Lucy Waspe

The fancy dress creations were amazing, well done everyone.

Thank you for all the support throughout the week.  We look forward to seeing you again soon.

What a fantastic afternoon of cutting, sticking, designing, making, changing, sticking again, falling apart, sticking yet again!  We have an amazing range of rockets and spaceships which will all be entered into the competition and judged by our anonymous judge tomorrow. 

1st to 3rd will be announced in the Mission Complete assembly on Friday at 2.45pm.  Come along and find out all the winners of all the fantastic competitions taking place on the final day of Space Week 2014.

Today was Space Academy day.  Every child, and most of the teachers, became space cadets and went on an amazing journey through the universe. 

After the initial training and safety talk we fearlessly entered the spaceship and set off for the outer reaches of space.  There were a few close calls with sun, asteroids and a black hole but we made it back, you will be glad to hear, without casualties.

Thank you to all the children, parents and friends of Gateford who came along to gaze at the stars with the Bassetlaw Astronomical Society on Tuesday evening.  With beautiful clear skies we were treated to an amazing spectacle of moon craters, nebulae and Jupiter with its moons. 

After an informative talk about the night sky we all filed outside and queued up to have our chance to look through one or more of the powerful telescopes brought along by the society members.

Then it was time for a tasty rocketdog and planetcakes!  Yummy!

We hope to see lots of you at the next space event on Thursday.  Come along and help your child/ren to build a junk spaceship in the hall from 1.30pm.  See you there!