After last year’s success, the Kibworth Parish Councils are pleased to announce that this free event is back. We’re getting the whole community physically active again on Sunday 23rd May at Warwick Park, 9am-3pm. Funded by both Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Parish Councils, and run by Fiesta Sports Coaching, this year we are also working in collaboration with the Kibworth Scouts. We have events for a wide range of ages (both children and adults). You can book online at www.fiestasportscoaching.co.uk to ensure you get a place as it’s first come, first served. This promises to be another fantastic day – we just need the sun to keep shining!

We are keen to support parents in providing healthy lunchboxes for pupils. We utilise the resources provided by Veg Power and as part of Veg Power’s on-going mission to encourage the UK to eat more veg, they would like to make it easier for parents and carers to add more veg to children’s lunchboxes. Recent research from Leeds University found that only one in five children had any vegetables or salad in their packed lunch.

To support parents, Veg Power has developed a ’60 Second Lunchbox Hacks’ PDF which can be downloaded here.

60-Second Vegtastic Lunchbox Hacks

We are delighted to be welcoming Leicester Tigers coaches to provide tag rugby sessions for all key stage two classes this term. The sessions have always been a highlight for years three and four so we were pleased to be able to add in the older two classes this term as well.

We have been marking Francophonie week with a special focus in our Collective Worship. Pupils from across the school have been creating wonderful presentations on French speaking countries, using both their Microsoft accounts and hand written posters. The whole school also took part in a quiz about Francophone countries, looking at capital cities, flags and locations.

Reception have been delighted to welcome two new arrivals to the class over the past few weeks. Having counted down the days until they were due to hatch and learning all about how to care for ducklings, they were thrilled to meet Rocket and Star! They have enjoyed seeing them grow and learning, including a very exciting swimming lesson. Thank you to the family in our school community who have supported this wonderful experience for our pupils.

There is a lot on offer from Leicestershire Libraries over the Easter holiday. They will be celebrating poetry and rhymes with some great online events for all the family and the document below also includes some information about how to keep reading while libraries remain closed.

Easter 2021_Leicestershire Libraries Family Newsletter

The whole school loved adding a splash of red to celebrate Red Nose Day and our red nose and spoon races were great fun.  The results from each class have been added together and the final leaderboard is:

1^st           Hanbury

2^nd       Kendall

3^rd          Langton

4^th           Latimer

We are delighted to be able to welcome all the classes back to school on Monday 8th March. Staff have been busy working hard preparing all of the classrooms and our grounds for everyone to be back together. Breakfast and After School club also return as well as some of our extra-curricular opportunities.

This competition is free to enter and open to singers and instrumentalists in Years 1-13 who live within 20 miles of Market Harborough. This year the competition is being held as an online competition and the following prizes available:

• Best Vocal Performance
  will receive £25 music store vouchers, £175 instrumental lessons funded by GBRT.
• Best Instrumental Performance
  will receive £50 music store vouchers, £150 instrumental lessons funded by GBRT.
• Best Original Composition
  will receive £200 music store vouchers.
• One of the above category winners will also be chosen as the Overall Winner of the competition and will receive an additional £50 music store vouchers.
• Most Promising Vocalist and Most Promising Instrumentalist
  will each receive £100 vocal or instrumental lessons funded by GBRT.

Entrants are asked to send in a video of their performance or an audio file of their composition. The deadline for entries is 5^th March and the finals concert will be shown on Youtube on 27^th March.

Full details are available on our website www.gbrecitaltrust.co.uk

Leicestershire Library service are running a Borrow box scheme and have also produced this guide to What’s on in the libraries over the winter.

What’s on this Winter at Leicestershire Libraries

Borrowbox quick guide

What’s on this February at Leicestershire Libraries