Welcome to Goat Lees Primary School

Sports for Champions We were delighted to welcome Courtney Tulloch, world-class artistic gymnast and double Commonwealth champion, into our school. Courtney inspired our pupils with his incredible achievements, determination, and dedication to sport. We had a whole school assembly where he showed us some different skills in gymnastics. Each class then took part in an exciting fitness circuit. We loved looking at his medals as well! It was a fantastic day that encouraged everyone to stay active and believe in their potential. Thank you to Mrs Pilbeam for organising this for us. ...

Jurassic play area Year 5 have been very busy designing and creating a fabulous Jurassic play area for all of the children to use at breaktime. We hope this will encourage some imaginative play even with our oldest children and we're looking forward to seeing how this develops as the plants grow.

We're making a pledge to Nature! Our Humanities Ambassadors got to go to 'The Retreat' in High Holborn to make their very own nature pledge. This is a very special place where rescued animals can lead a better life and injured birds can rehabilitate before being released into the wild. We had a good look around and then made some art from natural materials, we also made badges and planted acorns to make new trees. Do you know how to test an acorn to see if it will grow? We will now present an assembly to the rest of the school and create our own pledge to nature - we plan to develop the are...

Year 5 butterfly garden project. Thank you to the parents and children who came into school in the Easter Holidays to help us prepare the ground for planting our butterfly friendly plants. We researched and brought lots of plants and shrubs (using our Nature Park grant) for the butterflies and have started to plant them. We can't wait to see them grow and see how many different butterflies we encourage onto our school field.