Sports & Aspirations Week: Day 1 & 2

We ‘kicked off’ Sports & Aspirations week with an amazing game of football. What an amazing game of football this was! The children from Y5 & 6 played a cracking game but the staff somehow managed to win 2-1. Gosford Park was then pleased to welcome Coventry’s first professional UFC fighter, Melissa Dixon, and her […]

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Year 1: finding fact families using addition and subtraction facts

This week in maths we have been finding fact families using addition and subtraction facts. We helped the donkey to find the correct number sentence to complete the fact family. We used number rods, numicon, rekenreks and number lines to solve the problem. After using the equipment, we drew representations of the number sentence and

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Y1: Position and Direction

We have been learning al about different turns – full turn, half turn, quarter turn, three quarter turn. The children practically turned objects, shapes and themselves in different directions. We then looked at describing position and used the language left, right, forwards, backwards. They then followed directions to create a model using cubes. The children

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National Sports Week: GB Athlete visit – Darren Harris

At Gosford Park we were so fortunate to have the inspirational Darren Harris (a two-time Paralympian who competed for Great Britain in judo at Beijing 2008 and football at London 2012) visit our school and inspire our children. Ever since Darren was diagnosed with cancer in both eyes aged 15 months, he has continued to

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