What a fantastic Summer Fayre today - everyone had so much fun. Thankyou to all parents & carers for your support. Huge thanks to our Friends of GPS group - your 1st Summer Fayre, & you knocked it out of the park! £1400 raised - amazing! - Well done everyone! 👏👏👏

Job opportunity at Grangetown Primary School - we're looking for a Caretaker (Site Supervisor). Details on the attached flyer. Together for Children could you share this please (or 're-tweet' as we used to say!)?

GPS parents & carers: There are already 6 letters on the 'Letters Home' page of our website, for this term. Keep a eye on it - we'll update it daily - just incase you miss any letters we send out with your child. Here it is: grangetown.sunderland.sch.uk/For.../Letters…

Our Achievers Award winners for this week, showing off their certificates and badges in Friday morning's Assembly! Well done everyone - great job! 👏👏👏👏

Our Achievers Award winners for this week! Well done everyone - great job! 👏👏👏👏👏

Year 1 loved playing with our new playhouse this afternoon! We can’t wait to add beanbags and decorations!

Our Achievers Award winners - & Reading Award winners - for this week! Well done everyone - great job! The Reading Awards are given for reading at home - great to see so many Bronze Award winners - and even a Silver Award winner too - well done to our eager readers!😀👍👏👏👏

In Assembly, for #WorldBookDay , we shared Michael Rosen's 'Chocolate Cake'! Competition - children can write the name of any other Michael Rosen poem on a slip of paper...winner drawn in tomorrow's Assembly! Prize - Chocolate Cake for your class to enjoy! tinyurl.com/yk7dj7b5

Due to an increase in pupil numbers for Sept, we're recruiting 2 teachers! See the 'Vacancies' menu here: grangetown.sunderland.sch.uk and see North East Jobs: shorturl.at/ekzZ6 (Year 2) and shorturl.at/rKS59 (Reception) Join our vibrant, friendly and welcoming school.

We're seeking a Reception teacher, for September! Details here: tinyurl.com/4yebzebd

We are recruiting TWO Teaching Assistants. Full details are here: northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Grangetown…

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫! A reminder to GPS families that we re-open on Mon 9th Sept. We're looking forward to seeing everyone, & we're sure this will be another fantastic year at GPS, full of amazing learning opportunities for every child!

Y5LM worked brilliantly this week in maths working out problems using place value charts

Nursery BlackBerry Crumble! This week we have taken advantage of the blackberries growing on the big field. The children enjoyed picking them and then making blackberry crumble for us all to eat.

Our 'Welcome Back to Sch' letter for parents & carers. Info on Attendance,Uniform,PE Days,Payments, Reading at Home,Clubs, & a list of GPS staff! We've had a great start to the new sch yr.The children have settled really well.Thankyou to parents & carers for your valued support.

Some Y6AM children volunteered to plant winter pansies and spring bulbs in our courtyard, at lunchtime yesterday. We had a lovely time doing it!

Year 4 have had a fantastic morning at the Dodgeball festival, at Silksworth (Puma Centre)! Everyone worked so hard and demonstrated some fabulous team work! Well done Year 4! 👏🏐

MOON DOUGH! 🌙In nursery, our new core story for this half term is Whatever Next, about a bear who goes to the moon. Linking to the story, we made some moon dough to play with in our areas!

𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢'𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝! Well done to the GPS girls' football team...cracking start to the season, plus a goal that Mr Newby has compared to Messi at his best!

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