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Latest News
Please see below for the latest news of what is happening at Ordsall Primary School.
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Boccia success
Wed 24 Apr 2024Last week we experienced success at the School Games Boccia Festival taking place at Retford Oaks Academy when Ordsall Primary School came third, with each child deservedly receiving a bronze medal.
A huge congratulations to the children that took part - we are so proud of you!
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Summer term
Fri 19 Apr 2024Welcome back to the summer term! I hope you all managed to have a good break over the Easter holiday.
In the most recent newsletter, we announced that we were in the process of recruiting an additional member of staff to join our office team. Please join me in welcoming Mrs Louise Conway to the Ordsall team. She has settled in brilliantly during her first week and I am in no doubt that she will become a highly valued member of the team.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
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End of term
Thu 28 Mar 2024Well done to all the children for another fantastic term. It has been a very busy term with lots of exciting internal and external activities and events taking place, and I would like to thank you all for your ongoing support with this - it really does make such a positive difference!
I hope you all manage to spend some quality family time together over the Easter holiday and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 15th April.
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More rugby fun and marking World Downs Syndrome Day
Fri 22 Mar 2024It has been a busy week at Ordsall!
The school took 14 girls from years 5 and 6 to participate in another tag rugby festival at Newark Rugby Club. We had two teams with each team playing five games, winning three, drawing one and losing one. The girls played some fantastic rugby and really grew into the event as it went on - well done girls!
In school, every child has planted a sunflower to mark World Downs Syndrome Day 2024, with five sunflowers being selected from each class for our school councilors to plant in the school grounds. Each class took park in an assembly and discussions to raise awareness and we will be holding a fundraising event for this in the summer.
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Tag rugby festival
Fri 15 Mar 2024This week I was lucky enough to accompany some of our years 3 and 4 children to a tag rugby festival at Newark Rugby Club. We took 13 children to form two teams and each team took part in six matches.
All the children performed incredibly well, showing some brilliant handling skills and agility, as well as representing the school as we would expect with their fantastic behaviour.
Check out some of the action shots below!
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World Book Day
Fri 08 Mar 2024On Thursday 7th March, all the children in school took part in World Book Day by coming to school dressed to represent a word. We do this as an opportunity to expose children to a broad range of new and interesting vocabulary and, of course, to have a fantastic time!
Many of the outfits and ideas were very creative and original, and I would like to thank everyone for their support in taking part in this day.
During the day, the children took part in a live, online assembly with author Ian Eagleton, writer of Glitter Boy, as well as other book-related activities.
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Children represent school at basketball festival
Fri 01 Mar 2024Some of our Year 5 children had the opportunity to take part in a basketball competition this week at Retford Oaks Academy. The children had a fantastic time and we are so proud of how they represented our school!
Despite a spirited performance from all of our children, we came up against some incredibly difficult competition and finished 5th out of the 7 schools. Well done Team Ordsall!
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Garden Renovation
Fri 23 Feb 2024Welcome back to the second spring term!
Over the half term, our garden behind the Phase 1 buildings has undergone a complete renovation. Uniper, which is a utility company that operates a number of sites in the local area, most notably Cottom power station, kindly offered to support our school by renovating the Phase 1 garden for us as part of their community commitment.
During February half term they sent in their groundwork team who did an amazing job of rebuilding the broken raised beds, renovating the dilapidated shed and jet washing all the paths, slabs and tarmac areas. They cleared and cut back the beds, borders and trees and purchased some nice new benches and garden tools for the children to be able to work in the garden.
Finally, as a generous parting gesture, they delivered to us a brand-new greenhouse in time to start some spring planting.
I am sure you will agree that it looks fantastic!
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Snow, snow go away!
Fri 09 Feb 2024Well, yesterday's snow was definitely not on the agenda of planned activities for this week. Thank you for everyone's cooperation whilst we sent children home slightly earlier - it is greatly appreciated!
We have come to the end of the first spring term, and although it was a short one, we have managed to pack lots of fun and learning into it. Please refer to this term's newsletter for details about what each year group has been up to.
Have a great break everyone!
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Space Wonderdome visits Ordsall
Fri 02 Feb 2024As part of Year 5s learning this half term they have been learning that Earth is known as the ‘goldilocks’ planet due to our surroundings being just right for many life forms to thrive. Throughout this, they have been focusing on things in our solar system and were fortunate enough to spend some time this week looking at this in incredible detail in the Space Wonderdome!
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