This week we have three online courses to choose from: 'How to wild your child', 'Your wildlife garden in spring' and 'Starting your own nature journal'! 🧒🌼📖 Find out more and book on to one today: bit.ly/3qnKCyu 📸 Ross Hoddinott/2020VISION

Today we launched two exciting new projects, ‘My World’ and ‘A Bucketful Full of Dreams’. We look forward to seeing the children’s contributions on the various Padlet pages. Certificates will be rewarded for excellent outcomes! We hope you have fun completing the projects.

Not only is The Extraordinary Book That Eats Itself full of brilliant eco-projects to try, but it's also 100%, completely, totally recyclable and reusable! Find out how you could win a copy here: booktrust.org.uk/books-and-read…

Fancy listening to an audio book? Take a look at our year group recommendations... theglc-primaryfreeschool.org.uk/uploads/asset_…

We hope you are enjoying the activities set for World Book Day! There are lots of fantastic masterclasses led by fantastic authors on the World Book Day website! Check them out! worldbookday.com/online-masterc… To play the Masked Reader, follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We might not be able to linger in libraries right now, but we can still enjoy brilliant picture books all about those special places! Check out our list here - these stories are all perfect for #WorldBookDay: booktrust.org.uk/booklists/l/li… Pic: Lauren Child

#BSW21 starts TOMORROW! 🎉 We are so excited to see what everybody is doing to celebrate, so don't forget to use the hashtag so we can see all of your great ideas! britishscienceweek.org with thanks to UK Research and Innovation for the support!

Next week is National Walk To School week. If your child takes the bus perhaps you could get off 2 stops earlier and walk the rest of the way. The benefits of exercise are immense to both yourself and your child if done on a regular basis. Thurrock Council Living Streets

Walk to School Week Have a look to see if you could park and stride, hope off two stops early or walk to school within the radius of the bubble Thurrock Council @ModeshiftSTARS Living Streets

The Gateway Primary Free School Nursery Opening September 2021

We were really pleased to welcome @peterbunzl into school yesterday. Peter kindly gave a talk to our year 6 students about his novels, life and inspiration. Following the talk, our students were really excited to have their Moonlocket books signed in our new library!

Year 6 have written some beautiful letters after meeting @peterbunzl this Wednesday. They loved the opportunity and have expressed their happiness in these lovely letters. Thank you once again for visiting our school.

A number of our students have been taking part in the peer to peer mentoring programme, please have a look and join us in celebrating what has been a successful first half term!

We loved having KIT Theatre work in our school last week but we think the children enjoyed it even more. Thank you for making Save Our Stories such a wonderful experience!

Today Amazon.co.uk visited our school to donate all of our children watches- an amazing gift that they were not only excited to receive but have used all day to practise telling the time! Thank you so much for making their day! #christmas #compassion #education #school