Gorse Hall Primary School, Stalybridge

Last day of term fun! School has closed now for the festive break and will open again on Tues 3rd Jan 2022. We wish you a happy Christmas, thank you for your ongoing support, and look forward to seeing everybody in the new year. 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Christmas nurture sessions have been much enjoyed. ♥️

KS2’s Celebration Christmas was a wonderful service at Holy Trinity Church this morning. ♥️

All classes have enjoyed Christmas parties this week. The younger children were visited by a very important person too! 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Moments from one of our fabulous Reception and Year One Nativity performances last week. ♥️

Well done to a selection of our choir who sang at The Lakes Care Centre earlier this week. Great singing! ♥️

Nursery had a fabulous time at My Wendy House this morning decorating Christmas cup cakes.🧁🧁

6GB’s fantastic fairground rides 🎡🎠

4OH have enjoyed making ancient Greek pottery 🌈🐝

4OH enjoyed making Christmas pop up cards ♥️

6WR enjoyed making Christmas tree cards 🌲🌲

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Media Cubs Children have produced a video highlighting how we can save energy in school and celebrating our green commitments to saving the planet. 🌎💚♻️ The budding reporters, interviewers and film directors were given accreditation certificates for their work at the after school club. Well done to all! 🎬🎤🎥

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We’ve been busy, busy, busy! Christmas Jumper Day, PTA Sponsored Nursery Rhyme/ Singalong/Spell, PTA Raffle and Christmas Lunch too! Thank you to everybody for your support. £1014 raised in raffle ticket sales and £1230 (so far) in sponsor monies- absolutely brilliant! 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Dances in The Woodlands - Autumn Term 2022

Dances in the Woodlands 🦌🍁🍄🍂🌲

Dances in The Woodlands - Autumn Term 2022 Creative dance pilot project with Children from Gorse Hall Primary School. Woodland animal - Deers. Royalty free music The Wooded Trail - DeskantBeneath the...

5BL and 6WR have enjoyed taking part in the cultural pilot project ‘Dances of the Woodlands’. 5BL created a unique, nature themed dance based on landscape and woodland animals, with costumes and accessories created by 6WR. Thank to Sarah England for working with our pupils to deliver the project. and for the use of the Dance studio for the dance workshops too. ♥️

A super Nursery Nativity performance this morning ❤️

Santa, Rudolph, star decorations and elves too! Chatter, smiles and creativity in nurture sessions. 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Two wonderful Nativity performances yesterday by Reception and Year One ❤️

The children in 3EC explored what muscles were used when doing certain movement/exercises. Firstly, they predicted what muscles were used, then they carried out the exercises and used a diagram to correctly identify the muscle groups used. 🌈🐝

5JC receiving their Arts Award certificates this morning for taking part in the Arts & Community project 'Our Day’. 🌈🐝

Year 5 enjoyed designing and making their own bread this morning using healthy ingredients for a special occasion. We worked safely and hygienically by washing our hands, tying our long hair back and keeping surfaces clean and tidy.🍞🥖🥯

Year 6 had a visit from Safe Squad and took part in four workshops: Digital Safety, Antisocial Behaviour, First Aid and Fire Safety. They were really well behaved and demonstrated good understanding of how to stay safe. 🌈🐝

This Fri- Christmas Jumper Day 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Christmas Jumper Day- Fri 9th Dec. We do not expect any monetary donations but do kindly ask that any spare jumpers are donated to School to give to any families who may need them. 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Please learn your spellings for the PTA’s Sponsored Spell and try and raise some sponsor money. 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Don’t forget to learn your spellings for the PTA’s Christmas Sponsored Spell on Fri 9th Dec. Any small amount of sponsor money will make a difference. Thank you in advance for your support with all of our Christmas events. 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Tickets can be bought up until 4pm on Thurs 8th Dec 2022 🌲🎅🏻🌲

Our PTA Christmas Raffle is on Fri 9th Dec- first prize is a Microsoft Xbox Series X Console. Tickets can be purchased via Parent Pay or from the School Office 🌲 🎅🏻 🌲

An artist study of Barbara Hepworth in our sketchbooks where 4KS looked at and created sketches of abstract art inspired by nature and the outdoors. 🌈🐝

In our Design and Technology lesson today, 3EC made a healthy sandwich. This pupil ate his and said it was the best sandwich he's ever tasted! 🌈🐝

A selection of our Choir sang beautifully this evening at Willow Wood Hospice’s Garden of a Thousand Lights. Well done children and Mrs Cunliffe too. ♥️

An excellent weekend of swimming- gold in backstroke, silver in freestyle and bronze in breaststroke at a swimming competition; and a Stanley 5 swimming badge in her lesson too. 🌈🐝

Super writing in 6GB 🌈🐝

Christmas has officially arrived at Gorse Hall. Thank you to the Mums who decorated the tree this afternoon ♥️

1JW enjoy playing pairs in phonics. This is a game we have really grown to love. We can get quite competitive too! 🌈🐝

1JW have been fantastic scientists this week, identifying different types of leaves. We used a dial with a variety of leaves and we had to look very closely at the leaves to identify them. 🌈🐝

Here is a selection of the poetry work in 1JW this week. The children first thought of adjectives to describe a worm and then created their own poems using their adjectives. They had lots of fun thinking of the adjectives and then using loud, clear voices to read their poems out. Most children used lots of expression and their friends were very impressed and so was Miss Welsh! 🌈🐝

This sums up the magic of today’s trip to Tatton ♥️

Games and puzzles are great for concentration and turn taking. 🌈🐝

Festive nurture sessions 🌲🎅🏻🌲

In year 5 this week we have been looking at persuasive writing. I had written a letter to you asking you to ban playtimes and the children had to write reasons why they needed their playtimes using persuasive language and including the modal verbs we had practised in Spag. 🌈🐝

Reception classes enjoyed their trip to Tatton Park today. 🌲🎅🏻🌲