On Thursday 30 th January, our year 3 and 4 dodgeball team went to Oasis Academy Immingham for a tournament against 11 other schools. They finished 4 th in their group and were identified as the most honest schools. As a result, they were rewarded with medals and were complimented by Oasis Academy Immingham sport leaders. The team definitely improved as the competition progressed with Harry and Arlo in Year 4 standing out massively. All children thoroughly enjoyed the event and represented the school impeccably.

On Thursday 6 th February, our year 5 and 6 dodgeball team went to Oasis Academy Wintringham for a tournament against 11 other schools. They finished 3 rd in their group and were also identified as the most honest school. As a result, they too were rewarded with medals. The team did really well and on a few occasions, found ourselves one against 5. Ronnie and Demi from year 5 did excellently as they had to face an entire team by themselves at one point. Ronnie managed to eliminate 4 other players on his own before eventually being hit out.

Both teams were amazing and this was evident in the medals they took home for honesty. The leader of the event mentioned that it proves how amazing our children are to be recognised at both events by different schools. You have made Mr Dawes and Mrs Sargent very proud!

On Monday 3 rd February, our girls competed in a tournament ran by Grimsby Town with the opportunity to represent Grimsby Town at a regional tournament in Hull. The girls had their best tournament to date! In the first game, the girls lost the old-fashioned England way (you guessed it – on penalties) to the eventual winners Welholme Primary. The game was a stalemate and ended 0-0 with neither side threatening too much. We then had a game break where the girls regrouped with Mr Dawes and were given some instructions to follow by the manager. The instructions were clear: to press the other team more to win the ball back. In the second game, the girls did just that and Lilley scored the winner by stealing the ball from the defender and slotting the ball home past the opposition keeper. William Barcroft won 1-0. In the third game, the girls were becoming more confident with the instructions given and thrashed the opposition 4-0. Lola scored two from midfield and Ava scored 2. Fantastic display to get all 3 points. In the final game, the girls were rampant and won 3-0 with Ria scoring 2 and Ava scoring another. The girls pressed extremely well and didn’t give the opposition any chance on the ball. The tournament ended and the girls came 2 nd overall. They did get rewarded with free tickets to Grimsby Town vs Fleetwood Town on the 22nd February with opportunities to be flag bearers.

Overall, an excellent tournament, where the girls scored 8 goals and conceded 0 goals throughout the competition. A massive shout out to our defence of goalkeeper Savannah and defenders Anne and Esmai. Esmai won Mr Dawes’ player of the tournament with her excellent defending and bravery – especially in a new position under Anne’s wing. Thank you to our parents and carers, who spectated. It was massively appreciated and you were treated to a spectacle!

Year 3 had a wonderful time at Old Clee Church – the oldest building in Cleethorpes, its Saxon tower dates back to 1050. We were looking at its architecture as part of this term’s Art topic of sculpture. We spent time sketching and taking photos of parts of the church we found most interesting.

Year 5 attended a PE Festival at Cleethorpes Academy on Tuesday 14th January and it was amazing! We were taking part with Bursar Academy. Both schools participated in a variety of multisport activities led by Year 9 sport leaders from Cleethorpes Academy. This included a range of sports such as: gymnastics, football, badminton, athletics and handball. Everybody worked extremely hard and displayed excellent behaviour for the sport leaders and the Cleethorpes Academy staff. It was lovely to see the children interact with new people from other schools.

At the end of each term, our children love sharing their learning and school experiences with their families by delivering a learning showcase. Each year group discuss what they have been learning and share their work on the stage. This term’s learning ranges from new books in English, violin lessons in Music and portrait sketching in Art. Following the learning showcase, each child has the opportunity to share their work from the classroom with those from home and celebrate their fantastic achievements. Please see the pictures below:

On Friday 13th December the whole school visited the local church at  Old Clee. We listened to the Christmas story read by the Reverand Lynne and our volunteering children. This was followed by the children singing a variety of Christmas carols lead by Mr Blake. The acoustics in the church made their singing sound beautiful and we were immensely proud of their efforts during the afternoon.

This week, the Production Club performed three fantastic performances of ‘Cinderella the Pantomime’ (Oh yes they did!). This was performed to the whole school who loved joining in with all of the classical pantomime parts. We had special solo parts from some Year 6 children singing ‘Man I Feel Like a Woman’, ‘Perfect’ and ‘You’ve got a friend in me’ and all children thoroughly enjoyed joining in for ‘I’m a Believer’. The children in this club have been rehearsing for their Christmas show for months and it is clear to see how much they have all grown in confidence and how much they loved being part of this project. We ended with two performances to parents, one of which we had nearly 70 family members of children join us, making it a sell out!

This year our school has been taking part in supporting the Grimsby shoe box appeal to help those less fortunate. Grimsby shoeboxes are a small local charity who coordinate donations into shoe boxes to needy children and families around the world. They also support people in the North East Lincolnshire community.

Mrs Bowden and Mrs Culyer took 3 pupils along with all the generous donations (THANK YOU) to visit the Ice house on Wednesday 27th November to support making up the boxes which will be flying over to children in Eastern Europe in time for Christmas. 

Over the last week, we enjoyed a Scholastic Book Fair in school! This was a brilliant opportunity to broaden our personal vocabulary, look and explore at new books and releases and discuss books with our friends, teachers and parents. We also receive free books from Scholastic depending on how many books we bought; a huge thank you to parents and carers for supporting us with this! We will definitely be running another book fair in the future.

‘I bought Dork Diaries and School poems. There was lots of choice so it was very hard to pick!’ (Elsie, Year 6)

‘I bought a ton of books, they were amazing to read. I also bought a rock and minerals box which was really exciting. The notebook was very useful too – it’s not just books in the book fair, there’s all sorts!’ (William, Year 6)

Today we have celebrated and raised money for Children in Need. The theme this year is to challenge yourself. As a school we challenged ourselves to wear spotty clothing for a ‘SPOTACULAR’ look. Please take a look at our X (Twitter) page to see all of our fantastic activities from today.

Thank you to the lovely Mrs Munson (Mellors) who baked us some CIN inspired cookies!