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Countess Gytha Primary School is a member of Preston Primary Academy Trust

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The gallery provides an overview of the exciting opportunities and enrichment activities that make up the school year at Countess Gytha. Please head over to your class page to view more photos or information on the opportunities/activities taken place.

2024-2025 - Current Year

Bookman Challenge Winners!

Bookman Christmas Reading Challenge!

Well done to the children who completed the Christmas reading challenge! Bookman is absolutely delighted that you have completed so many of the challenges. Look out for your special certificates in next week's assembly and fingers crossed you win a prize from the raffle. A massive thank you to the PTFA who provided the book prizes. Here are a sample of photos from some of the children who completed the challenge.

All hands on deck to decorate our school Christmas tree!
Every child in the school placed a decoration on the tree this week ready for the Christmas Fair and the upcoming nativity performances.

Eco and School Council representatives from Lancelot attend inaugural event
The Somerset Sustainable Futures event was held at Taunton Rugby Club on Tuesday this week. Selected member from the Eco and School Council from Countess Gytha Primary School attended the launch. The event consisted of interactive green careers events, youth voice activities and a fantastic young keynote speaker. The children gained a huge amount from the sessions and confidently shared their own ideas of their roles in the future of how they could make a difference to the future of Somerset's sustainability and the impact of Climate Change on the world we all live in.

A surprise visitor to Countess Gytha this week!

Pudsey arrived on Tuesday afternoon to say thank you to Countess Gytha pupils for raising an amazing £220 in aid of Children in Need this year. Pudsey was in great spirits as he visited each class and the School Council.

The children couldn’t believe that this amazing national icon visited their school. What a great cause!

Primary Engineer Macrobert Medal
Countess Gytha staff members travelled to Glasgow this week to await the anticipated results from the summer terms Primary Engineer project. Over 78,000 designs were put forward initially which then were condensed down to the ten finalists, where a prototype was made.
Staff were joined by Ben and his parents; although at times a little nerve racking they were all thrilled to be announced as the overall winner of the gold medal! Well done to all staff that played a role in this prestigious engineering project.

Children in Need 2024

Topping off a brilliant week at Countess Gytha, children came dressed in their finest pyjamas accompanied by their teddies too! It was a wonderful way to mark Children in Need 2024 and word on the street is that we will be receiving a special visitor in the coming weeks to say a great big thank you for the staggering £220, raised on the day. On behalf of the school and charity, I would like to take this opportunity to thank families for their support and generosity.

THANK YOU!

A big thanks must go to all the parents who bought books, pens, rulers, pointers and much more at the book fair in the past few weeks. We were awarded over £450 in rewards for the school. With the help of our reading champions (Wilf, William and Harriet), we have bought 68 books for the school to be distributed to each class library. We can't wait to start reading them! Thank you again.

Castle Cary Carnival 2024

With a Lego theme to our costumes this year, Countess Gytha pupils did themselves proud in the rain on Saturday night at the annual Castle Cary Carnival. We await the results but fingers crossed for another successful year. Thank you to Mr Plumbley for working with the children and making and designing the Lego heads.

Carnival Time

Reading Ambassadors in action

Children talk to Lord Weymouth
Lancelot and Excalibur were delighted to be joined by Lord Knight of Weymouth, guiding the classes on a virtual tour of the House of Lords. The children asked some brilliant questions about the history and then the current work of the chamber, as well as what the future for the House of Lords might look like.

European Day of Languages

Queen Camel Park Grand Opening!

Congratulations to our new Wellbeing Champions

Congratulations to our new librarians

Congratulations to our new Play Leaders

Congratulations to our new Reading Ambassadors

Congratulations to our new Reading Champions

Bookman Summer Reading Challenge!

Well done to the children who completed the summer reading challenge! Bookman is absolutely delighted that you have read so many books this summer. Look out for your special certificates in next week's assembly. Here are a sample of photos from some of the children who completed the challenge.

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Opie Art - Farewell gift bags and prints for our Year 6

PTFA Rainbow Run

Local MP Visit

Eco Award

County XC Runners

Countess Gytha Feature in Times Top 500 Primary Schools!

Based on our most recent Key Stage 2 outcomes, Countess Gytha was ranked 47th out of 16,783 schools in England, putting us in the top 1% of schools. Only four other primary schools in Somerset were placed within the top 500 and we are the first school other than Preston Primary in the PPAT trust to feature in this distinguished table.We are thrilled!

We must recognise the outstanding achievement by those children as well as the excellent teaching, support and care that we provide as a whole school community.

Whether a newly-joined parent or a multi-generation family of Countess Gytha, the school could not thrive in the way it does without the incredible support of this special community – thank you

Red Nose Day Celebrations

Science Week Art

School Council Caring and Sharing Rail

School Choir perform at Westlands Entertainment Centre

Blue Peter Badge Winners

Bookman Challenge Winners - Congratulations

1940s Day

PTFA Disco Event

Hello Yellow Day

Mr Men and Little Misses of Countess Gytha Carnival

Downing Street Visit

European Day of Languages

Summer Fayre

Countess Gytha children singing "King" - We Will Crown You!

Race for Life total amazes us all! Updated total £4000!

The biggest event of the week has to be mthis year’s Race for Life event! Children raised sponsorship money in readiness for undertaking a 2km race around the school field. Even the sun put in an appearance for the event which all thoroughly enjoyed.Well done to all who made it around the course, including over 20 parents! Collectively, the total now stands at a staggering £2500 – truly incredible – what a community we have here at Countess Gytha!