A Fond Farewell

Well what can we say? What an end to a difficult week! The whole of Year 6 showed great maturity and resilience. They also wished Mrs Wrixon a very happy Birthday.

Hopefully, this is not the end of Freshwater Class for our current co-hort but just a small bump in the motorway of life…

Practical Mathematics Lesson

Our Mathematics focus this week, was working out the volume of cubes and cuboids.

Bearing that in mind, Mrs Wrixon gave Freshwater Class the challenge of constructing a metre-sized cube from paper straws.

The class divided into groups, with each group making a right angle and then working together to construct all twelve edges.

It was a challenge that they all relished…

Miss Hicks was incredibly impressed with their hard work and organisational skills.

World Book Day!

This is the 23rd year there’s been a World Book Day – the aim being to encourage children to explore the pleasure and joy of books.

Today particularly, all of Gurnard will come together to appreciate reading and knowing Freshwater Class – with a great deal of enthusiasm…

We had a quite a collection of book characters – from Winnie the Pooh and the Mad Hatter to Katniss Everdeen and the Little House on the Prairie…

Superheros Mufti Day

Available both day and night, 365 days a year, the Air Ambulance Critical Care Team is called out many times a day to attend to road traffic collisions, sporting accidents, collapses and many other incidents. Highly skilled crews of doctors, paramedics and pilots can be at the scene of an incident within minutes, ready to deliver the same level of care that you would expect from a hospital emergency department.

It currently costs £15,000 a day to maintain our life saving service, and it is only thanks to the generosity of the communities that we serve that we are able keep the Air Ambulance flying and saving lives.

Knowing that every member of the Air Ambulance crew and all their support staff are superheroes, we decided to show our appreciation of this amazing charity by holding a Superheroes Mufti Day!

We had some very interesting superheroes….

Isle Dance 2020

On Tuesday 11th February we will be competing, along with many other Island primary schools, in “Isle Dance” at Medina Theatre.

Today, we were extremely lucky to watch the rehearsal of our entry – “Alice in Wonderland”…

WOW, what a performance!

Well done to our Year 6s and Year 5s, particularly to those children taking part from Freshwater Class: Alex, Ellie, Erin B, Erin G, Evie, Isaac, Lizzie and Polly.

Wishing you the best of luck for Tuesday!

Inclusive PE

William and Kody took part in an inclusive PE event held at Medina Leisure Centre on Wednesday afternoon, along with some of their friends from Ventnor Class.

There was a round-robin of activities – including wheelchair basketball, table cricket, shuffle rugby and kurling.

Both boys really enjoyed the event and participated to the full!