Welcome to Gayhurst Community School's Website!
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TEACHING VACANCIES AT GAYHURST FOR SEPTEMBER 2012
We have two teaching vacancies for September of this year, these vacancies are suitable for an NQT. If you are interested please contact the school. The closing date is Tuesday 15th May.
Mountain bike event news
Congratulations to all the cyclists who took part in the mountain bike races on Hackney Downs. The results were: Boys Under 10 – Sam Bardill 1st, Cameron Steele 2nd and Sebastian Morales 3rd; Girls Under 12 – Molly Lloyd 1st; Boys Under 12 – Logan de Monchaux–Irons 1st, Bede Geoghegan-Hart 2nd and Frank Moore 3rd.
Gayhurst lead the Hackney Primary Schools Cycling League after three events.
Cycling club organiser Neill Irons leads Gayhurst cyclists through the mountain bike track.
Animation project with local artists
Artists Emily Tracy and Lizzy Hobbs worked with class J3 to create an experimental animated film based on the BFI archive film 'Coughs and Sneezes'. Their film was presented at last term's Open Evening.
Click here to follow their progress.
Work Week
Parents and carers visited Infant classes to talk about the jobs that they do. Scientist Greg Towers told class I7 about his work as a scientist, and explained how germs travel. Greg suggested this game all about sneezes:
www.miniclip.com/games/sneeze/en/
Stepping Up workshop
Year 6 children took part in workshops organised by pupils of Our Lady's Convent High School about moving to secondary school.
Click here to read the Hackney Gazette article about Stepping Up.
Dr Bike and a bikers' breakfast
Over 50 cyclists bought their bikes in for a safety check by Dr Bike, and enjoyed an early bird bikers' breakfast before school.
We are the Lead School for Inclusion in Hackney. For more information, click here.
School profile
For our most recent School Profile, please click here: Gayhurst School Profile Autumn 2009.
Gayhurst news
Find out our latest news in our weekly newsletter: 06.05.11. You can also read all our newsletters for 2010/11 here.
Term dates for 2011
Autumn Term 2011 |
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The GAYHURST WINTER FAIR will be on SATURDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2011 The GAYHURST WINTER CONCERT at the Round Chapel will be on TUESDAY 13th DECEMBER 2011 |
Term ends: TUESDAY 16th DECEMBER 2011 |
INSET days:
no more inset days this term
School Aims
You can read our revised School Aims here: School Aims.
Easteats cook book
You can buy our fantastic school cookbook from the Office for £7.50. Easteats has recipes from children, parents, staff, local chefs and East Enders' Dot Cotton. There are also local restaurant and cafe reviews, and some great artwork too. All money raised from cookbook sales goes towards projects in school.
Lunchtime menus
Our school chef, Simon, works with food provider, Ashlyns, to provide delicious school dinners. Ingredients are organic where possible, and come from the most local suppliers possible. All food is cooked in the school kitchens. Our dinners are nut free, and there are vegetarian and gluten free options every day. Here are our menus: Week1, Week 2 and Week 3.
School policies
We are adding school policies to this website. For more information, click here.
Communities of Gayhurst School
If you want to contact our parent teacher association, Communities of Gayhurst School, please email: cogs@gayhurst.hackney.sch.uk.