Celebrating our wonderful Miss Sidebottom - our assistant head who has inspired countless children and staff. A champion for both our school and community, someone who has touched lives and shaped futures. You will be missed, farewell and thank you for the memories 🏆♥️
#OurChamp
After seeing the videos and posts of us getting behind the Lionesses,
@ellieroebuck
kindly took time out to send a message. Good luck today- We are right behind you.
🎄REINDEER RUN UPDATE🎄
We have counted all the morning raised and we are delighted to announce, in just 6 days, we have raised an incredible £4000.95 for
@WfldHospice
Thank you so much. What a community 💙
@WakeExpress
Right....Here goes! All the sock videos are on the YouTube channel- Keep Moving With Gawthorpe Academy.
Drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁🥁....Day 30-PE challenge.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed a clip! Hope you enjoy. 🧦🧦🧦.
No better way to end Gawthorpe Maypole Day than with our maypole dancers.
Our amazing
@GcaYear5
@GCAYear6
have been incredible and really demonstrate ‘The Gawthorpe Way’ perfectly.
Thank you, Mrs Hardaker, for all the brilliant work to bring this together once again 💙
The children have been busy preparing for Afternoon Tea. This is a chance to say thank you to our wonderful parents and carers for all that you do to support the children and our school 💙
Presenting... our Gawthorpes Got Talent winner 2022 following a unanimous vote! 58 seconds it took for Elias to master the cube. If that wasn’t enough, he completed one behind his back too!
#GawthorpesGotTalent
#Winner2022
🤩🏆🥇
Our library has been fully re-stocked with lots of new books. We can't wait to see our children cosying up with a good read! After all, between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.❤️
@Inspire__MAT
#readingforpleasure
A wonderful day in school finished with Christmas carols in the community.
Thank you for the fantastic turnout. It was lovely to see so many of you join us for another event 💙🎶
A brand new routine in Year 1 and since introducing it yesterday the children have become masters! Our “Tap the sound, say the sound” routine is another way we are supporting our children with their phonics and consistently reviewing our learning 🤩✨👏🏼
#GCAYear1
#GCAPhonics
Our Maypole Day preparations are well underway in school today. We are looking forward to sharing our wonderful traditions with some very special visitors on Friday 💙
@CoalRace
We are incredibly proud of all the Gawthorpe Maypole Plaiters. They have worked tirelessly to perfect their dances and learn the intricate steps. Thank you to Mrs Hardaker for continuing this important tradition and to all staff and parents for supporting today's events.
To end the weekend, a special performance from our
@GcaYear5
and
@GCAYear6
maypole dancers for the families that have given us so much support to make this possible.
A huge thank you to Mrs Hardaker for bringing this together and for all staff helping out across the weekend 💙
Wow! What a fantastic turnout from
@IPMATGawthorpe
! At least 50% of the runners were from Gawthorpe Academy and what a fantastic job they did. We cant wait to see the official photos but here are a few … see who you can spot! 🏃
✨Gawthorpe’s Got Talent Final✨
A huge well done to all our finalists, who were simply amazing 👏
Thank you to our judges, Mrs Dyson and Mrs Buckler and our resident DJ, Miss Darby. Thank you also to the wonderful audience who came to watch.
What a fantastic day for
@WfldHospice
Reindeer Run.
A wonderful day of singing, running, cheering and full of love and joy for such a wonderful cause. We will share the total with you all tomorrow on the newsletter.
The money raised is something truly special 💙
Our Maypole Plaiters have been impeccable all day! 3 hours smiling and waving on the float, a light tea and then they gave a polished and professional performance on the Green. Thank you to everyone who came to watch and to the Plaiters and Mrs Hardaker for all their hard work.
Our display is up in Ossett in the perfect position near the cenotaph. Please visit over the weekend with your children to pay your respects.
At 11am on Saturday 11 November, the Royal British Legion will be observing a two minute silence at the Memorial.
@visitossett
This morning, our Academy Councillors joined Miss Croisdale and Mr White handing out selection boxes to children and families at Pinderfields Children’s Ward 💙
Our school councillors dropped off our food bank donations today. The wonderful people at the Salvation Army will take all the donations to the food bank at Trinity Church for us - thank you for all the donations! 🥫
A very special visitors joined us at school this morning 😮
A huge thank you to Father Christmas for taking time out of his incredibly busy schedule to come and see the children of Gawthorpe ❤️
Smiles, laughter and making memories together.
We have had such a fantastic day and we can’t wait to let you see what we’ve been up to with the maypole dancers.
Such a credit to the school and our community. Well done
@GcaYear5
and
@GCAYear6
💙
#GCA
#GCApe
#GCAindividualliberty
#coalrace
. We have a world champion on our staff! Congratulation to Miss Danielle Sidebottom , winning the 2018 coal race is an inspiration to all. Interview on Skysports news.
What a brilliant afternoon of dancing to our community. We have worked so hard to prepare and perform our routines. Such confidence, energy and love for each performance. Thank you to you all for watching, what a fantastic turnout for our wonderful children 💃🕺
Happy retirement wishes to Mrs Mitchell, Head of school at GCA. Wishing you all the very best with your retirement quest. From all the staff and children, past and present.
A huge well done to our
@GcaYear5
and
@GCAYear6
maypole dancers. We have started brilliantly this year in preparation for Maypole Day 👏 Mrs Hardaker is very proud of the hard work so far.
We have had a wonderful day at Go ape in Dalby Forest . We are on our way to Whitby now . The sun is still shining let’s hope it stays for us
#GCAwhitby
Two sold out Key Stage 2 performances concluded this morning with another wonderful production.
We are so proud of the children and staff for everything they have put together. Thank you for all your wonderful support 💙
Spot the adult who got promoted this morning… 🤔
What a day! Together Again...The school and the community!
We hope the children enjoyed seeing their creations as the float passed by.
#GCAattheheartofthecommunity
A huge thank you to the Sports Leaders from
@OssettAcademy
for their amazing support during Sports Day this morning.
Such a wonderful credit to your school and community 👏
Our Gawthorpe Maypole Dancers drawing in the biggest crowd of the morning at the Ossett Gala.
Proud parents, carers, teachers and community today. Even the sun came out for us!
Concentration, determination and a whole lot of pride.
“We are doing this to represent Gawthorpe and our school!” Inspired by other children and inspiring others.
#GCAvaluesinaction
Our assembly this afternoon was focused on being ‘obviously kind’ and how selfless acts of kindness MATTER.
We watched the power of KINDESS with
@LewisCapaldi
Glastonbury set and how we can make the difference to each other 💙
Grant awarded! We’re delighted to announce that in partnership with Ossett Albion Juniors, we’ve secured funding from the
@premierleague
, The
@FA
and
@DCMS
’s
@footballfoundtn
to improve the quality of our school field. This will enable us to provide further opportunities!
A huge thank you to all the children, staff, parents and carers and wider community that make this school a really special place to be 💙
Enjoy your summer and we will see you in September.
During staff meeting this week, we looked at the improvement in handwriting for our children from September to now.
It’s been brilliant to reflect at the huge success of create a school full of writers ✏️
We love stories at Gawthorpe! Mrs Gledhill is missing story time with Year 2 and the children who come to the library so here is one she has read to share with you all. Hope you like it 🤗
Tour 2019 comes to an end we have just set off we should be back at school at 315 dependent on traffic . We would appreciate any help to get cases off the coach when we arrive thank you
#GCAwhitby
We are heading home now . We have had a wonderful time . The children want to say thank you to the staff for looking after them . See you all soon
#GCAwhitby
Hey Judeee 🎵🎶 Rehearsals are going very well but still plenty more to get through! We cannot wait to perform 😃 Here is a sneak peak of the Gawthorpe team bringing the magic🌠
@YVconcerts
#YV22
WEATHER UPDATE:
Unfortunately, due to continued snow and ensuring the safety of all children, staff and families, we have had to make the decision to close today. A text message has been sent and an email will follow. Thank you for your understanding 💙
Just a taster of the new playground markings courtesy of some of our sports funding. Thank you
@UniPlayUK
they are amazing and we can’t wait to use them.
We’re having a fantastic morning to kick start our Maypole Weekend. Both KS1 and KS2 Sports Day events have avoided any rain. Our
@GCAYear6
helpers helping to keep everything in check and on time 👏
We’ve had a busy morning preparing to welcome you all into school for our Afternoon Tea 🥪🥗
Please come to main reception and Mr White, Miss Rhodes and our Academy Captains will welcome and direct you to the classrooms to collect children.
Last Choir Standing ! We had a lovely afternoon and all the children performed like champions but the winning classes were Year 2 and Year 3 well done
#GCAlastchoirstanding
The Year 6 children have absolutely loved the start of their guided reading book ‘Varjak Paw’. It has been wonderful to see them sharing their ideas, predictions and inferences.
#GCAYear6
A sneak peak into some of the wonderful areas across school. We’re so excited to welcome our amazing children back on Wednesday. A welcome letter will come out to everyone tomorrow ❤️
A final clap 👏🏼 of honour for our amazing Class of 2022! We wish you ever success as you move on to this next challenge and hope you take all of your wonderful memories from GCA with you!
#GCAYear6
#ClapOfHonour
#FutureAdventures