The Greneway School News What’s coming up

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Fri 10 October 2014
The Greneway School News
Printed every Friday. Articles may be written by our pupils, with editorial assistance from Mrs Piper
What’s coming up
October 2014
Year 5, 6 & 7 Form Teacher Thur 16
Interviews 4.00—7.00pm
FoGS Whole School Disco Fri 17
6.30—8.30pm
FoGS AGM Mon 20
7.00—8.00pm
Year 5, 6 & 7 Form Teacher Weds 22
Interviews 3.40—5.40pm
Inset Day Fri 24
Half Term Week Mon 27
Thought for the week
“The mind is everything. What you think, you
become”
(Buddha)
Open Day
Thank you to everyone for helping to ensure the Open
Morning and Evening were such a success. Particular
thanks must go to the Year 8 'Tour Guides' who played a
key part in the event and our visitors were very
complimentary about their role. The Years 5 and 6 choir
must also be congratulated on their first public
performance which was an excellent opening to the
evening. A number of pupils gave up their time to help in
the evening and were great ambassadors for the school.
Working together as a TEAM, we were able to show
prospective parents/carers the opportunities and
facilities Greneway has to offer. As Headteacher, I felt
proud and privileged to be part of the
Greneway Team.
House Assemblies
This week, the prospective House Captains met their
House teams to deliver presentations about why they
felt they would make good House Captains.
All pupils had worked hard to prepare for their presentations and the results were impressive.
Pupils in each House voted and congratulations go to the following pupils who will lead their Houses this
year:
House Captains:
Vice Captains:
Freddie Ball
Daisy Needham
Chloe Mills
Rebekah Timms
Aman Yohannes
Hadyn Morgan
Emily Pendrick
Lucy Holden
Sam Newland
Kathryn Ealand
Josh Leighton
Amelie Anderton
Zara Bonfield
Sophie Dodds
Owen Wood
Mackenzie Cramman
Charlotte Mayhead
Callum Tompkins
Crow
Ermine
Rose
Stag
We look forward to hearing from the House Captains in future editions of the newsletter and learning
which charities we will be supporting this year.
Mrs Rawlings
Open Day by Report Josh Clark-Radford
On Wednesday 8th October, Greneway children witnessed Year 4 parents from
First and Primary Schools walking around our school.
The parents have to make a hard decision, they have to decided whether to
choose Greneway, a decision that will lead to their future.
As I was walking around, I saw them taking a lot in and all their children really
enjoyed the tours.
Some adults said:
The children
are so positive.
Greneway is a
lovely school
which helps the
community.
I have enjoyed the
tour. The cookies
were amazing!
It’s big!!
The pupils were
polite and
helpful.
School Jumpers
We have a number of second hand school jumpers available.
Please contact the school office if you would like more information about available
sizes.
£2.00 donation per jumper
Do you have a ‘family’ email address?
It might be useful to create a family email address
that is used when signing up to anything online. This will help you
to monitor what your child is accessing online.
Friends of Greneway School
Charity number 1074844
Disco
For all pupils
Friday, 17th October
6.30pm-8.30pm
Tickets £3.00
Tickets can be purchased from the Crush Hall at Break time on the following days:
Year 5 Monday 13th October
Year 6 Tuesday 14th October
Year 7 Wednesday 15th October
Year 8 Thursday 16th October
If you are able to help serve drinks and sweets at the disco, we would love to
hear from you. Please email [email protected]
Please note this event is for Greneway pupils only
Friends of Greneway School will be holding its AGM on Monday,
20th October at 7 pm in the Information Centre (enter by the
East Door and go up the stairs just before the doors to the
office and the information centre is right in front of you). All
parents, staff and friends of the school are very welcome to
attend this meeting and we would be delighted to see you.
During this meeting, we will have a review of our activities, funds raised and money
spent on resources for pupils over the last year. We will then look forward to how
we will be spending our funds this year. We always welcome new faces at our
meetings, no matter how much time you have to offer. We also love to hear new
fundraising ideas and suggestions for activities to take FoGS forward.
We really hope to see you at our AGM; refreshments will be provided and we hope
to keep our meeting as brief as possible. If you have any queries or suggestions
that you would like to put forward, please email [email protected] or
contact the school office.
Save the date:FoGS Christmas Market—Sunday 16th November
Basketball:
35 Year 5/6 players
4 x year 8 YSL
TAG Rugby:
44 Year 5/6 players
8 x Yr 8 YSL
3 Meridian Sports leaders - referees
= participation and enjoyment.
#TEAM
Gymnastics Balances of the Week:
This week, we have 8SP boys 5 ropes balance, 8SP 3 ropes balance, 8SP
7 rope balance and 8SP 4 rope balance: