Gifford Friday Flyer - Gifford Primary School

Gifford Friday Flyer
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Friday 7th February 2014
Spring Term
www.giffordprimaryschool.co.uk
POP CHOIR AT THE O2 ARENA
On Monday, 27th January, the award winning Gifford Primary School Pop Choir performed
for the second year running at the Young Voices concert at the O2 Arena in London. Along
with nearly 7,500 other children from around 150 schools, the choir sang and danced their
hearts out to 17 songs that they had been rehearsing for months and performed with the
amazing X Factor star, Stacey Soloman, as well as other celebrated international artists.
The children had an incredible time and enthused that they had the best time of their
lives! When the doors finally opened to the public at 6pm after rehearsing all afternoon,
there was much excitement, waving, cheering and hunting for family and friends in the
audience! A lifelong dream of Sara Sullivan (Gifford’s Choir Director) has been to
perform at the O2 and this came to fruition. On the day she and Nimah Murphy (Dance
Co-Ordinator) sang on stage with several other music teachers as part of the Young
Voices Teachers Choir! A fabulous day all round for all that attended and we cannot wait
for next year’s concert! Watch out for us in the Ealing Gazette today.
GIFFORD GREATS
Well done!
3rd February 2014
Yuvraj Gill
Jana El Badawy
Kimiyah Mahoney
Matthew Li
Anas Abdikadir
Camron Hamflett
Olivia Krenzi
Tejal Sidhu
Kai Chambers
Maryama Hassan
Yusuf Mohamed
Guldasta Ahmadzai
Mohammed Abdulsattar Sana Rajpoot
Eliza Chaudhry
Ali Rezai
Loyal De Souza
Ayoub Elmiet
Faisa Mohamed
Gerard Wall
24th January 2014
Ibrahim Khan
Princess Fatima Zaffar
Jalal Chaudhry
Modaser Shirabganj
Oliver Hudgell
Ayesha Khan
Krish Khera
Andrew Shanks
Sharnia Di Pietra
Abdul Abbasi
Aisha Salah
Brooke Adams
Ladan Baris
Zamina Maftoon
David Omoregie
Sushant Gurung
Rashida Nazirahmad
Mohamed Suhail Raja
Zakeea Rahman
Barbara Chrzanowska
ATHLETICS
On Wednesday 22nd January our A and B athletics teams
took part in the indoor athletics’ competition held at
Greenford High School. Against stiff competition from
ten other schools the A team finished in first place in a
very exciting last race to win gold medals. The B team
performed really well and just
missed winning bronze medals by
finishing in 4th place. Well done
to everybody for such a fantastic
effort.
AND ANOTHER GREAT WIN!
On Tuesday 4th February the team competed against two other
Ealing schools; St Vincent’s School and Little Ealing Primary
School. In a very tense competition with lots of parents and
staff willing them on, the Gifford team was pronounced
‘winner.’ The team was presented with a shield and will now go
on to represent Ealing in the London Youth Games on March
3rd.This is the first time Gifford has represented the Borough in
any sport! A special thank you to the coaches; Mr Ratcliffe and
Mr Bennett and also to all the marvellous supporters.
SCHOOL LUNCHES
Halal meat will no longer be offered after half term
because the up-take has been so low.
New menus can be viewed on our website, noticeboards
and plasma screens after half term. Hard copy menus
are no longer being supplied.
Learning Today for a Better Tomorrow
JANUARY ATTENDANCE LEAGUE
Mrs Kaler
5G
98.7%
Miss Patel
6D
97.8%
Miss Halford
3G
97.7%
Mrs Jankowska
1D
97.2%
Miss Naeem
4D
97.2%
Mr Bate
5D
96.8%
Miss Chander
6G
96.6%
Miss Duong
5F
96.4%
Mr Klaasen
6F
96.4%
Miss Walker
3F
96.0%
Miss Hollyer
1G
95.6%
Miss Shah
Red
95.4%
95.1%
Miss Mancebo
Purple
95% is the national expectation
3D
94.5%
Miss Moss
4F
94.5%
Miss Murphy
4G
94.1%
Miss Mughal
2D
94.0%
Miss Khinda
2R
93.5%
Miss Headland
1R
93.1%
Miss Robinson
1F
92.8%
Miss Lovell
Yellow
92.3%
Miss Baran
2F
91.8%
Mr Tariq
2G
91.2%
Miss Thomas
Green
90.8%
Miss Johnson
SCHOOL NURSE
The school nurse will be visiting Gifford on Tuesday
25th February to measure and weigh children
in Reception and Year 6. Letters and leaflets
were sent home on Thursday 23rd January. If
you are happy for your child to be weighed
and measured, you do not need to do
anything.
REQUEST FOR OLD CATALOGUES ETC.
Please send in any unwanted catalogues,
suitable magazines and old paper files, that
could be used by our Reception classes for
art and craft activities. Please give to Reception
teachers or to the School Office.
UPLIFT COURSE
Please come to a coffee morning on Thursday 13th
February to find out more about the Uplift course that
is starting on Thursday 27th February and will run for
six weeks. The coffee morning will be in our parents’
room at 9:15am. All mums welcome. Also, please see
noticeboards.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Spring Term Dates
Mon 6th Jan
- Thurs 13th Feb 2014
Half Term
- Fri 14th Feb - Fri 21st Feb 2014
Mon 24th Feb - Fri 4th April 2014 (1pm finish)
Holidays
- Mon 7th Apr - Mon 21st Apr 2014
SCHOOL IS CLOSED ON FRI 14th FEBRUARY
Assemblies all start at 2:45pm. Parents are welcome.
Thurs 13th Feb
5D Mr Bate
Thurs 27th Feb
3D Miss Moss
Thurs 13th Mar 1R Miss Robinson
Thurs 20th Mar 4F
Miss Murphy
Thurs 3rd Apr 1D Mrs Jankowska
Parent Consultation Evenings
Mon 24th (to 5pm) and Thurs 27th March (to 7:30pm)
School Trips
Tue 11th Feb
Wed 12th Feb
Fri 7th Mar
Tue 1st Apr
-
4G and half of 4D to Gurdwara, Southall
4F and half of 4D to Gurdwara, Southall
Year 4 to London Zoo
Year 5 to Harry Potter studios
BOOK REVIEWS
Gifford pupils recommend………...
Ulf the Finger Eater.
By Dick King-Smith. Recommended by Natalie Donkor
I would recommend you to read ‘Ulf the Finger Eater’. I enjoyed reading this fascinating book and I hope you will too. In
part of the story Ulf ate the children’s fingers, but the brave little
children didn’t care – they just moved on with life and that’s
what I really liked about the book. Also, my other favourite bit
about the book is the moral because the book is about not
keeping a bad habit so that’s why I think you should read or buy
this inspiring book. Your children or friends will love this funny
book. A funny bit of the book is when Gudrun the woodcutter’s
daughter found Ulf and her dad told her about his habit, so she
wore some gloves so that Ulf wouldn’t eat her real fingers, so
Gudrun put her hands out and said, “Ulf, would you like to shake
my hand?” and Ulf said, “OK then.” Before Gudrun could even
get to Ulf’s hands, he bit her hand, then all of his teeth fell out
and then Ulf couldn’t bite anyone’s fingers ever again .
Horrid Henry’s Birthday Party
by Francesca Simon.
Recommended by Ubayd Uddin
I like this book because I like Horrid Henry and I like birthday
parties. If you’re a boy you will like this book because it has
lots of boy stuff. Henry definitely doesn’t eat a balanced diet
and my favourite part is when they make chaos in the house.
You should read this book because it has lots of fantastic
pictures and it has a list of birthday presents for boys to make
chaos and have fun, like a 60-gear bike, a whoopee cushion and
a water gun. I would recommend this book to the Juniors
because if the Infants read it, it will be slowly read. It has lots of
difficult words in this fantastic book. The person who wrote this
is a remarkable writer and the person who drew the pictures is an
amazing illustrator.

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