WELCOME
FROM THE HEADTEACHER
Welcome to Gillespie Primary School’s website.
We want our children’s primary school experience to be an unforgettable and inspirational journey with us. We believe the journey for adults should be equally motivating, hence our school’s motto ‘Growing Together’.
I am very proud to be Headteacher of this vibrant and diverse school community. Our children come from a range of backgrounds and cultures and thrive in our unique school environment. The whole school and our partners work together to develop an innovative and creative learning culture for our children.
Upcoming Events from the calendar
Latest News from Twitter
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Year 6 were Imaginative Insects and Cooperative Caterpillars this week, sharing their wonderfully creative homework projects that were jam-packed with learning on the #Victorians! They did this as part of a class museum and learnt so much from each other. Well done Year 6!
Eco-Committee members planted their broad bean seedlings today. Meg has protected them with bubble wrap from the frost and Pete will kindly water them. Fingers crossed that they flourish.
This term Year 2 have been working with the amazing team @Sadlers_Wells. They put together a performance based on their learning about the Great Fire of London and were lucky enough to perform for families @Sadlers_Wells
Well done to Fatma and the @caterlink_ltd team for an absolutely delicious Christmas dinner plus extra trimmings yesterday. Children and staff were stuffed! #Christmas2024 #feast
Exploring pitch in year 4 as part of our #science lessons on sound.
We explored how the pitch of an object changes according to its features. For example, using the boomwhackers we found out that the longer the plastic tube the lower the pitch produced when hit.
Christmas has arrived in the Gillespie foyer 🎄#festivefun
Year 2 enjoyed their time in Lab_13 this week baking rock buns #Cooking
Our STEM and Eco-Committee members ♻️reused♻️ the tops and bottoms of plastic bottles to make beautiful decorations for any festival or celebration.
Year 4 spent a lovely day in lab 13 this week cooking a healthy nutritious vegetable pasta bake 😋 #healthylifestyle #healthyfood
The Eco-Committee♻️are keen to hear if anyone has achieved the 6 Cut Your Carbon challenges yet. Please let Meg know.
Year 4 had a great historical day @britishmuseum looking at artefacts from Ancient Greece. They looked at them carefully to find clues about life long ago and enjoyed drawing some of the things they saw.
#History
The Eco-Committee♻️are keen to hear if anyone has achieved the 6 Cut Your Carbon challenges yet. Please let Meg know.
We're very proud of Gillespie pupil Olivia who wrote to @MayorofLondon regarding the important issue of smoking and the dangers it poses. As you can see she was ecstatic to receive a response acknowledging her efforts in tackling the issue!
The Eco-Committee♻️are keen to hear if anyone has achieved the 6 Cut Your Carbon challenges yet. Please let Meg know.
SO proud of our girls football team this week who gave it their all in their first match of the season ⚽️🤩
#CutYourCarbon
During #AntiBullyingWeek , every class had a go at activities based around the theme: 'Choose Respect'. We spoke a lot about what the word respect meant to us and why this was important especially when talking about bullying. #ChooseRespect
Thank you so much to families for their generosity so far raising over £300 for @BBCCiN . There is still time to donate here https://tinyurl.com/4dyybmyj.
Children were dressed in spots, stripes or pjs for today's #childreninneed
In their class assembly, Year 1 shared the fantastic work they have been doing in their #Geography Fieldwork lessons on the local area. They talked about what an aerial view is, shared the aerial views they had drawn and the maps they had made of the classroom and the playground
#STEM Committee are really enjoying trying out activities for the Science Magic Show they will be putting on in Spring!
