As we find ourselves at the end of the school year, I am extremely proud of all of our pupils and our dedicated staff. This year has been a very successful one for Gifford Primary School. We have received a number of awards over the academic year; Healthy Schools Silver, Safeguarding Gold, Ealing ARTs Charter, School Games Gold, Music Mark, National School Attendance and we were awarded an area of Excellence for improving the life chances of vulnerable children. Our year has also included exciting activities, trips and visitors, as well as high quality teaching, learning and fantastic results across the school.

We say goodbye to our Year 6 children, I wish them all the best with their new adventures in High School. For everyone else we look forward to welcoming you all back to school at 8:40am on Tuesday 5th September 2023. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff, parents and pupils on behalf of the Governing Board and wish you all an enjoyable and relaxing summer.

S Wilson

Headteacher

What a fantastic day! Thank you to all of our stall holders, caterers, fair ground providers and staff for making our Summer Fair a huge success! Thank you to everyone in our local community that attended.

What a fabulous few Sports Day's we have had! It was great to see so many Parents and Carers. Thank you all.

Last Friday, Year 3 visited Shoebury Common Beach. The trip provided opportunities for pupils to embed and extend locational and place knowledge, as well as geographical skills, extending their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include Southend-on-Sea. The children were able to experience first-hand the beauty of coastal flora and fauna, whilst also experiencing tidal forecasts, which were also explored within the unit.

The Library ran a competition just before last half term for a new book cover for the book “How to train your dragon” Lots of children entered and the quality of the drawing was extremely high. Whilst there were 5 or 6 consolation prizes of a book, the overall winner was Faith in Year 5. Faith’s cover was outstanding and she was the worthy winner of the whole series of “How to train your dragon” a set of 12 books. Happy reading and huge congratulations!

Our brand new Lab  will be used for Design and Technology, Science and other STEM lessons.  As part of the celebration, one child from each class took part in a baking competition which was judged by local MP James Murray.  The winning team made a sublime orange cake although the others were also very tasty.  We are very proud of the amazing cakes that the teams were able to produce and hope they look forward to more baking opportunities in the future.

It’s been a cracking week as we welcomed 10 fluffy friends into Early Years at Gifford Primary. 

4 Thames produced a fantastic and very informative assembly on Ancient Egypt.

A massive congratulations to Henry in Green Base who won our Caught Reading Competition. Well done to all children that entered, keep an eye out for more competitions coming soon!

A huge well done to our Year 3 and 4 Basketball team who took part in the festival at Alec Reed Academy last week. The festival gave our pupils the opportunity to experience what future competitions will be like in the coming years, and it was very clear they had been practicing and honing their skills for some time now. They played lots of games and demonstrated a high level of ability and skill throughout which bodes well for team competitions in the near future. Keep working hard team!