Today we were visited by Vicky Holland, an Olympic Triathlon Bronze Medallist at this years Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.  While at school in Newent she was a nationally ranked swimmer before moving to athletics and taking up the 1500 metres.  She didn't begin competing in triathlons until her second year at Loughborough University when she was approached by British Triathlon.  She has competed in competitions all over the world and we were very lucky to have her visit us today.  She talked to the children about her training schedule and her time in Brazil during this years games.

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We are absolutely delighted with this information and would like to share it!

Statisics taken from July 2015 survey

 

100% said their children felt safe at school

100% said they felt that children were well behaved at school

100% said their child was happy at school

99% felt their child was making good progress

99% felt their child was well taught

 

Some parents added additional comments which thrilled us too...

"staff work very hard and do a great job"

"...teachers display a fantastic level of enthusiasm"

" a lovely school"

" my daughter has been very happy here"

" I would definitely recommend this school to others"

" he has improved not just academically but emotionally too"

Thank you to all the parents who came to watch Glebe's Harvest Assembly on Monday 19th October. The children really enjoyed seeing you there and your generosity in sending donations for the Lord's Larder was much appreciated.

 

 

The children of Glebe and Picklenash created poppy Christmas tree decorations to decorate the Christmas tree at St Marys Church, Newent.  The children chose poppies to commemorate the centenary of the 1st World War.  289 people from Newent fought in wars over the last 100 years and so we placed 289 poppies on the tree!

 

The 2014 Christmas Tree Festival raised over £1500 for the Restoration Fund but also gave pleasure to the many many visitors.

We are excited and delighted to tell you at long last that we have secured a BIG Lottery grant of £10,000!! We have been sworn to secrecy until today.

 

We put in a bid before the Summer for a community play area consisting of 12 new pieces of equipment and we got it! So yesterday, as some of you have seen and the children have been talking about, Pentagon Play equipment started erecting the new climbers, swings, tunnels etc on Picklenash playing field.

 

This equipment is to be used by all the children on our site from 2 – 11 as it includes Children Centre and Little Pickles as well as community groups such as Beavers/Cubs.

 

We were also given £1000 from Picklefrogs so we are indebted to them too for helping our dream come true.

 

We want this new equipment to be well used and be a legacy for the future as a very visible sign of the federation working in partnership for today’s pupils and the future.

On Thursday 24th April, Newent had the honour of receiving the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The couple were in Newent to celebrate the hard work done by the local church and its supporters.  The infant children lined the main road into Newent to welcome the Royal Couple into the town whilst the junior children lined the street by St Mary's Church.  The children waved flags and cheered as the royal car pulled up, although some of our infant children were disappointed there was no golden carriage.  Prince Edward and Sophie spoke to children and local residents when they arrived at the church.  Mrs Griffiths was lucky enough to meet them both and Prince Edward said how pleased he was with "the lovely lot of noise the children were making" as they arrived.

On Tuesday 5th November, Just after Wake and Shake, Mrs Griffiths came running in to the hall in a fluster!  She had been sent a copy of the local newspaper, with the Headline "School Scoundrel Strikes Again!"

 

The article outlined an attack on a local school over half term.  "The playground was cracked and cratered, the paint frozen, library books burnt and pencils chopped in two!"

 

The teachers and children leapt into action straight away and identified that this super villain had super powers! The children thought of their own super powers to help stop the 'School Scoundrel' in his steps!  The children thought of their own superhero name to match their super powers!

 

A strange message was piped through the schools sound system -

"Hello Kiddies, Dr Dunce here.  Hopefully by now you've heard about the clever tricks I've been playing on schools nearby.  I never enjoyed school when I was young so what I've done is just pay back.  You'll never stop me, Ha Ha HA"

 

The children were astonished that Dr Dunce didn't like school, but after talking about what school might have been like for Dr Dunce, they realised that school was very different to how it is now.

 

An e-mail then arrived at the school with an eyewitness description of the 'School Scoundrel' "The man was described as being about 1 and a half metres tall.  Dressed in black with a tall black hat.  He had a large chin, arching black eyebrows, a hooked nose and an extremely long curling moustache"

 

The children created a picture of the villain based on this description to help identify him.

 

A wanted postered came through to the school shortly after, revealing the identity of the supervillain.

 

It was lunchtime then and time to recharge our superhero powers!

 

After lunch the children designed masks to hide their secret identities and created a logo for their chest or their superhero cape to become their superhero alteregos.

 

At the end of the day the superhero squad at Glebe Infant School Assembled to here a final message from dr Dunce "Dr Dunce here again, I've caught wind of what you've been up to.  Seems to me that school has changed a lot since I was a boy, maybe it's not so bad after all.  You've really inspired me to change my ways, you never know I might even become a teacher and use my powers for good.  Ta ta for now kiddies"

 

The Glebe Superheroes had saved the day!!!!!

 

Just then Mrs Jones came rushing in and told us all that the newspaper was tricked by someone into publishing the Dr Dunce story and they had worked out it had all been a clever trick played by someone!

 

The children were relieved but had had a 'Super' day solving the problem and becoming the very best superhero they could be!

 

 

Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!