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At Gray’s Farm our purpose is to grow lifelong learners. Gray’s Farm is a school which firmly puts the child at the centre of everything that we do. We believe that our children deserve the very best so we all work hard to be the best that we can be.
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Quack! Quack! (Sorry it's late this week but Mrs T forgot to post it on Monday!) We’re back and we have got lots of eggcellent news to share. First of all, the caring children, who have been taking care of us, D.L.T (Duck Leadership Team) have received their lanyards! There is also a new D.L.T member. The next piece of duck news is that we have a new pond – it’s bigger and much deeper than the last one. It’s pure duck paradise. How lucky are we? Our quackamazing D.L.T and teachers have helped Daisy with her eggs, by putting them in an incubator. Hopefully they will hatch! They have placed 9 eggs so feathers crossed we might have some ducklings. Keep on quacking. Year 6 ducks!
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Gray's Farm radio is coming... For the first time ever, as part of our work on improving oracy, Gray's Farm are launching our very own radio station. We will broadcast across the school and even upload our broadcasts online. We need our amazing children to lead on this and to help get our voice heard. We are after children in Years 5 and 6 that might want to be a DJ, a programmer for the tech, reporter or script writer. We will need you to apply for this role via the form of a presentation for why you should take on this role. In the past we have had presentations in the form of posters, letters and even videos produced so it's whichever form you feel best conveys your message as to why you want to join our radio team. We are very excited to start broadcasting so the deadline for applications is Friday 22nd November at 9am.
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Quack, quack we’re back. We’re ready to rumble and get the children working! We have some quackamation to tell you about - our frenemies (the geese). During the October half term, two geese came onto our land! The worst part is that they are eating all of the food that the lovely year six children provided. How mean is that! Now they think they’re welcome - which they're not! We overheard the teachers talking about kindness so we decided to give the geese a chance - for now. The children definitely missed us and we missed them too. We did have lots of visitors over half-term from the kind staff, who came to let us out and play with us every day. We did have lots of fun and maybe at times we were a little mischievous – let’s just quack that we didn’t always listen to the adults (sorry about that). Most nights we kept waddling around our area instead of going into our enclosure – oh how we quacked. This week, some of the members of DLT helped us write our blog instead of Mrs T so we hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. Until next week.
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It’s been a really fun eight weeks living outside the year six classes. This week, we had the added pleasure of meeting some of the parents during parent’s evening: it’s fair to say they really were a quacking bunch. We are really sad that we won’t get to see the children for two weeks as it is half-term. We know they’ll have a quacking time and will definitely recharge their batteries. The three of us will just have to make do with each other. See you all on the 5th November. Donald, Daffy and Daisy
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It’s been another busy duck week for every one in year six. Although Daisy has laid two more eggs, sadly the first six didn’t produce any babies. Since she’s laid the eggs, Daisy is spending most of her time hiding in the bushes but she won’t tell us why. After much quacking by the three of us, the DLT (Duck Leadership Team) have finally been picked. We are really pleased with our selection and can’t wait for them to get their lanyards. We will tell you more about them over the next few weeks. One good thing about the DLT is that they really are doing a good job of keeping our pond clean. The children completed their important tests and we were really quiet. In fact , we were so quiet that Mrs Springate sent someone out to check we hadn’t escaped. As you can imagine, the arrival of a year six pupil during test time sent us into a real duck flap. Finally, Mr Bradley (you might have heard of him) wants the name of the duck blog changed to duck tales or does he want it to be duck tails! Before we make a decision, we are hoping that Mr B explains to us (in person and with treats) his reasons for this. Have a quacking week.
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Friday was Gray's Farm Harvest festival and we were once again overwhelmed by your generosity! The stage area was full of your donations to give to those less fortunate in our community. Reverend Neil came to our assembly and shared with us the importance of Harvest for Christians and how food banks are impacting the communities around the country. He read us a story that reminded us to be grateful for the food that we have and all of the people that make our food. Once again - a BIG thank you!
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Well, it really has been an exciting week. First of all the rain, oh the lovely rain. It’s definitely been perfect weather for a duck (we’re not so sure the teachers felt the same). Secondly, and probably most importantly, Daisy has laid eggs – at the last count there were 7. Obviously, all three of us are really thrilled by this news. We are not sure if the eggs will hatch but we are all waiting patiently. Thankfully, the children have been really kind and left the eggs alone. Lots of the children went home and researched what Daisy needs to do to look after the eggs – not that she’s listened. We’ve heard a rumour that we need to be extra quiet this week as the children are taking part in some tests. Apparently, our quacking might disturb them!
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A MESSAGE FROM KEMNAL TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE: We are so pleased that some of your children visited our open days and wish them well in selecting their secondary school for next year. We hope that many of you will choose Kemnal as your first choice and that we will see you again soon! Use the following link to see photos and comments from the open days: https://sites.google.com/kemnal-tkat.org/kemnal-open-day-feedback/home If you haven’t yet had a chance to visit or would like to come again, we also offer Morning Tours from 9am-10am where you can see the school ‘in action’ on a normal learning day and speak to members of the senior leadership team. We still have some availability from 15th - 17th October. To book, please call 0208 300 7117 to speak to a member of our admin team or email us at admin@kemnal-tkat.org.
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Well, it’s now our third week of blogging and we have a lot to tell you. It’s been another fun filled week with lots of laughter. Last week, some of the girls helped to tidy our shed, where we sleep at night. They literally used the entire bag of straw in one go. Our bed was so cosy that we took ourselves off for a little afternoon nap. All three of us are hoping that those girls are allowed to add the clean bedding again. The highlight of the week was when Donald decided to chase Mrs Taylor around the patio. He was trying to peck the gold bits off her shoes! Luckily, some of the children were there to help her escape. Because we didn’t want her to feel left out, Donald tried the same thing with Miss Merrick. Her only means of escape was to climb on to the bench! Everyone in year six left their lessons to watch. (Oops, we really did cause chaos but it was worth it.) Until next week…
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