The Goosnargh Gazette

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1 Summer Week 6 18th May 2018 The Goosnargh Gazette Composer of the Month: Wilhelm Richard Wagner atch?v=4i0tnni6u-w Artist of the Month: Michelangelo Christian value of the month: Forgiveness THIS WEEK S STARS Wonderful worker Reception: Lucie Gornall Year 1: Tommy Slater & Harriet Townley Year 2: Hannah Clark Year 3: Jack Keighley Year 4: Millie Cornall Year 5: Alfie Sutcliffe Year 6: Year 6 Super Citizen Reception: Jacob Eason Year 1: Willow Tyson Year 2: Yasmin Siddiqui Year 3: Natasha Evans Year 4: Liam Pollard, Dylan Kitchen & Tom Barton Year 5: Ruby Snape Year 6: Year 6 Published Writer Reception: Alexander Baines and Max Fox Year 1: Hamish Young Half Term We break up for half term on Wednesday at 3:15pm/3:20pm and return on Monday 4th June. Red Non- Uniform Day Congratulations to Red Team who earned the most team points this half term - you can wear non-uniform on Wednesday! Raffle Tickets A reminder that these should have been returned to school today. Please could any that haven t been returned be brought in on Monday - sold or unsold. Thank you. Royal Wedding What a lovely celebration we had on Thursday lunchtime with our party lunch provided by Mrs Cornall and her team! Everyone looked

2 Year 3: Ryyan Awad Year 4: Charlie Fletcher Year 5: Katie Simpson wonderful dressed in red, white and blue. SATS We are incredibly proud of our Year 6 pupils calm and mature approach to their SATs this week. They almost seemed to be enjoying them!! Maybe it was the Nutella for breakfast that did the trick! Well done children! TRAILER WANTED! If anyone has a trailer (just the right size to carry a bath!) please could you get in touch with Sophie Banks as soon as possible as we desperately need one for our float for festival day. Also if anyone has a spare bath (!) that we might be able to borrow, please let us know! Thank you to those who have said that they will dress up and be a part of our float. We could do with more children taking part so if you are able to, please return the slip to the school office or let Sophie Banks know. It would be fantastic to see those wonderful Paddington Bear costumes from World Book Day on show once again. ANY KNITTERS OUT THERE? We need hundreds of poppies knitting or crocheting for our Longridge schools cluster Armistice event taking place in November 2018 at Preston Guild Hall. If anyone can knit or can crochet, or knows of anyone who can, please could you contact Miss Shepherd who can provide a pattern. We also need donations of red wool for this. A massive thank you to all those who have already knitted poppies, especially Chloe and Daniel Ferreira s family who have contributed 60 poppies. Follow us on Facebook to keep up with what we re doing on a daily basis. Charity Club s Royal Wedding Event Thank you so much to everyone who supported our event last night. We all had a wonderful time and managed to raise an impressive for charity. Congratulations to our winners too: Winner of Guess the Weight of the Cake - Joint - Rory Potts and Willow Tyson who guessed 1kg (it was 1.2kg!) Winner of Throw the Bouquet - Ryaan Awad with an impressive 5.2m Winner of Design a Suit - Oliver Banks Winner of Design the Dress - Tia Galbraith Library Book Sponsorship We are very excited about our new library plans and work will be commencing soon. We are restocking the shelves with new authors, old favourites, classics, fiction and non-fiction. If you would like to sponsor a book (and have a bookplate in the front of it stating that it was given to school by you!) then please see Mrs Rhodes. She has a full list of our new stock; you can choose which book to sponsor and pay for it via her. Your book will then sit proudly on the shelves of our new library at the grand opening! Celebration Concert Pilling Jubilee Silver Band Saturday 19th May at 7pm St Mary s Church 10 including buffet (family ticket 25) Grand raffle

3 Sports Update Yesterday, Key Stage 2 took part in the cricket league. Unfortunately we didn t win, however the standard of our play was fantastic. Today, KS1 took part in a gymnastic competition. They performed their routines excellently and did our school proud. We look forward knowing what position we came in a few weeks time. Tickets available from Bushell House (Susan Barr) ; Eileen Roberts ; Fliss Pemberton COMING UP NEXT WEEK. Reception Next week, in our Literacy we will continue to work on our own story about a very hungry minibeast so far we have The Ravenous Beetle, The Famished Spider and The Peckish Fly. I can t wait to find out the ending to these wonderful stories. In maths we will be continuing to look at numbers to 100 and place value. If your child has not read their book by Friday, they will read with the reading buddies in year 6 during Friday lunch time play. Please could all slips for Beacon Fell be returned on Monday, thank you to those who have already returned them. If you have any junk / recycling, please send it in with your child; Reception would love to upcycle it! If you would still like to be linked to Tapestry, please just let me know; it really is a wonderful way to stay connected with your child s learning and progress. As a reminder, my is hleech@oliversons.co.uk Show-and-Tell Show-and-tell next week will be about THE ROYAL WEDDING. Monday - Red AND Blue Tuesday - Yellow Wednesday - Green Library Please bring the books back to change on the following days. Monday - Yellow and Green Tuesday - Blue Wednesday - Red Year 1 Year 2 Class Novel: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Thank you for all of the junk materials for our DT - I think we have enough now and will make them in the first week back after half term! Please can we ask for your old jam jars?! We are entering the Longridge Show again this year and every child in yr1 needs to do a craft activity involving a jar. Any shape / size would be great, than you! We will be writing riddles next week to complete our poetry Class Novel: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory MyMaths: Next week, the children will be doing some exciting work on riddles which will result in them entering a national competition with their entries! In maths, the children will be carrying on looking at shape. For our topic work, the children will be finishing off their animal puppets and also concluding our topic based on Kenya and how it is different to England.

4 unit and they will be entered into a Young Writers competition so fingers crossed we have a winner! Year 3 Year 4 Class Novel: The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence Thank you to all the parents who came out last night to the SRE meeting. I hope you found it informative and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Next Week: Next week we will be finishing our fractions topic and writing our adventure stories. We will also be coming to the end of our Romans topic. Homework: Mymaths homework is on this week to support our fraction work in lessons. We also have our weekly spellings and daily reading. If anyone wishes to do a little extra, there is the learning log with some suggestions on the class page of our website. Thank you for your continued support with this. Junk Modelling: Please could we start saving items that would be suitable for junk modelling: yoghurt pots, cardboard tubes, boxes etc. We are going to need them for our Longridge Show entries. Thank you. Class assembly date: 29th June Class Novel: The Incredible Billy Wild by Joanna Nadin We ve had a super week following on from our adventures at Robinwood where the children have enjoyed reminiscing about their favourite and funniest memories. From this, they have written some delightful recounts. Next week English: Debate/arguments Maths: Decimals Topic: Hunted Homework Reading every day including the written responses Times tables- 12s including the inverse Spellings- random selection My maths every Friday. Please check the website for our new learning log. Thank you for your continued support with all the homework elements! Have a lovely break - we all deserve a rest. Year 5 Year 6 Class Novel: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Class Trip: Blackpool Zoo, 22nd May Next week: English: We will be finishing off our adventure stories and be writing them up in best to create a class set. Maths: We will continue looking at how to use protractors to measure angles (If you have protractors at home it would be really helpful to get in practice over the weekend). Topic: We will be continuing our history timeline and our research on the Anglo Saxons. Blackpool Zoo: The weather should be nice next week so it is unlikely the children will need to wear their coats, however please can you make sure they are protected from the sun as we will be outside all day. Please also make sure that you send your child to school with a packed lunch that can be thrown away afterwards. Thank you for your continued support with homework. I have sent home paper sheets this week and these are due in on Tuesday. Leavers Assembly date: 19th July Class Novel: The War That Saved My Life Wow Year 6. You have all worked extremely hard with this with your SATs and have had such an excellent attitude towards them. I couldn t be more proud! We have finished our week with our Marble Treat, which consisted of making cakes, pizzas and dens. To see some fabulous pictures of today, please see our Facebook. Year 6 Play Yesterday children found out what our end of year play will be - We ll Meet Again - a musical set in WW2. We have read through the play and children have informed me of which parts they would like to perform. They have been given a copy of the script and are to practice a section with the character they d like to be over the weekend, ready for auditions on Monday. Next week Monday - Children will finish publishing their Murder Mystery Stories. In History children will be studying the race to the sea and the battle of the somme. Children will take part in auditions for the role they would like to perform.

5 Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gavaghan Tuesday - This day we are going on our school trip to the Lancashire Museum, Preston. Please remember to provide children with a packed lunch. Wednesday - Today we will be making our models of war memorials that we have designed in DT. Also, in RE, children will be identifying moments in the bible when Jesus was known by different names. Homework Rehearse the part they would like to audition for.. Main Office: bursar@goosnargholiversons.lancs.sch.uk Mrs Bowskill: gbowskill@oliversons.co.uk Miss Shepherd lshepherd@oliversons.co.uk Miss Gavaghan agavaghan@oliversons.co.uk Miss Shorrock ashorrock@oliversons.co.uk Miss Brown cbrown@oliversons.co.uk Mr Cannon hcannon@oliversons.co.uk Mrs McCulloch mmcculloch@oliversons.co.uk Mrs Houseman ehouseman@oliversons.co.uk Mrs Leech hleech@oliversons.co.uk DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Date Event Action Who? 22/5/18 Year 5 trip to Blackpool Zoo Letters sent out. Y5 22/5/18 Year 6 trip to Lancashire Museum Letters out soon Y6 23/5/18 Reception trip to Beacon Fell Permission slips Reception 23/5/18 RED team non uniform day Red team 23/5/18 Break up for half term at 3:20pm All 2/6/18 Goosnargh Festival Day Save the date All 4/6/18 School reopens at 8:50am All 12/6/18 Reception and Year 2 beach trip Letters out soon Rec / Y2 w/c 11/6 SRE week Y3-6 w/c 11/6 Phonics screening week Y1 7/6/18 Sports day Save the date and pray for sunshine! All 8/6/18 FrOGS cheese and wine evening Save the date All 14/06/18 Year 6 trip to Waddecar Letters out soon Y6 19/6/18 World War 1 Day Letters out soon Y4-5 21/6/18 New starters induction evening 7pm New Reception starters 27/6/18 Year 1 trip to Blackpool Zoo Letters out soon Y1

6 29/6/18 Year 4 Church Assembly 9am Please join us All 4/7/18 Musical Soiree Get Rehearsing All 11/7/18 Y6 production - 1:30 and 6:30 Save the date Y6 12/7/18 Y6 production - 6:30 Save the date Y6 17/7/18 France trip meeting - 6pm Save the date Y5 19/7/18 Leavers service and end of year awards - 9am Please join us Y6/All 19/7/18 Break up 1:30pm All Goosnargh & Whittingham WHITE DOVES FESTIVAL DAY 2018 SATURDAY 2nd JUNE Theme: Peace and Harmony, marking the centenary of the end of WW1 12 noon St Mary s Church Bells 12 noon SCOTTISH PIPERS Stags Head 12.30pm Paul Rigby s BWD BIG BAND corner of The Green 1.00pm ECLIPSE TRAD JAZZ Oliverson s playground 1.00pm KELLY AMELIA CIRCUS Outside The Grapes 1:00pm ALL FLOATS to be lined up on Goosnargh Lane 1:10pm FANCY DRESS REGISTRATION Oliverson s Playground (St Mary s if wet) 1:15pm Queens, Retinue Members, Maypole Dancers - Assemble in Oliverson s playground, (St Mary s if wet). Peace Children & Carol May s Dancers in St Mary s Church 1.20pm JUDGING of Fancy Dress. 1.20pm Children join their Floats 1.20pm PROCESSION LINES UP 1.30pm MAYPOLE & CAROL MAY S ACADEMY Outside The Grapes pm JUDGING of FLOATS 2.00pm FESTIVAL PROCESSION SETS OFF 2.45pm Welcome by MC Nik Birkby & Presentation of Doves of Life marking the centenary of the ending of WW1 3:00 pm approx CROWNING of Miss Romilly Taylor Dancing, Presentation of Trophies, Raffle Draw 4:00pm CELEBRATION TEA Certificates & prizes available for collection from the VILLAGE HALL Church Lane & Whittingham Lane CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC pm PLEASE JOIN US AGAIN IN 2019 FESTIVAL DAY SATURDAY 1st JUNE