Gartree School is a small school of 540 pupils aged from 11 to 16 years. It is situated in the village of Tattershall in Lincolnshire in the East of England.
Year 7: 11-12 years; Year 8: 12-13 years; Year 9: 13-14 years; Year 10: 14-15 years; Year 11: 15-16 years
Subjects taught at the school: English, Maths, Science, ICT, French, Spanish, RE, History, Geography, PE, Drama, Art, Music, Technology and PSHE.
School starts at 9.00 and finishes at 3.30. There are 6 lessons of 50 minutes a day. Lunchtime lasts an hour.
There are various clubs at lunchtime or after school: Science, Badminton, Gymnastics, Choir, Drama, Languages, Football etc
There is an active school council.
The school,HAPS, is located in the lush green environment at Hira Nagar.1250 students are studying in HAPS from classes KG to 12.The school starts at 8:55 a.m. and closes at 4:00 p.m. After morning assembly , there are ten periods of half an hour.Students till class 8 go back home at 3o'clock.Classes from 9th to 12th stay back till 4 o'clock for preparation of beyond board and competitive exams.Outstanding students stay back till 5O ’clock for solving complex problems.
The subjects taught to the students are Maths,English,Hindi,Social Science, Sanskrit,Drawing, Art&Craft ,Physics,Chemistry,Biology and I.P .
The school carries out the Personality Development programmes through various clubs viz. Sport club,Science club,Nature club,Philately club,Energy club,Interact club,Music club and Art and Craft club.
Dance and Drama classes are also a part of the personality development programme. Life Skills and Value Education is also an integral part of the school.The library of school comprises more than 10000 books on various fields and aspects.
The school has also planned to initiate ‘French Language Learning Programme’ this year.
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What a wonderful display of work displaying the development of relationship between two school which are very interested in learning about each other .
Kudos to both partners
Sandhya
Thanks a lot Sandhya for appreciating our work. It was great to meet
you at ISA seminar. Inspiration from such motivated teachers keeps us going.
Regards
Naina
Hi, to you all, firstly I thank Naina for the beautiful gifts. Especially the scarf/shawl.
A happy New year to you all.
We are rehearsing, only in lesson times, which is 45 mins a week, your play and others form around the world. I started it the international week and did take photos but could not download them. We hope to record a lesson rehearsal of yours in a couple of weeks and I will send you a DVD of it. We hope that by the end of this term I will have at least a rehearsal of every Y7 and 8 class which I teach doing their multicultural plays.. Eventually perhaps we will devote an afternoon or morning to show these to each of the groups with minumal props. I believe your Cinderella was amazing..and Mr West was extremely impressed.
At present in England we have had alot of snow and ice and driving has been difficult. Last Friday the school was closed as many staff and pupils could not get in.
I must go to a meeting now but I just had to write to tell you a little about the progress of the play.
Thanks for the script!!!
Love to Naina and to all our penfriends.
Lara Barber
Hi Lara,
Glad to see your message on the page. And also happy to know the
progress of our drama project. Soon we'll try to exchange videos of
our project. Looking forward to see your pupils doing Ramayana.
Say my hello to all the year 8 students.
Love
Naina
Year 8 and 9 students played Rounders today as taught by you. They were missing you. I have uploaded some pictures to see. I'll send video too. Waiting to see your pupils playing KHO-KHO.
It was a wonderful stiry or type of just like reality.It was fantastic, lovely story I had ever read, just like a best story with great language and thinking used in this story. No grammatical problem. It was good starting with perfect ending. I just want to say ,I like your story very much and you are a very good imaginator.
I liked topic "Mad Scientist" .I'm really impressed. You are a good storywriter. By reading this I came to know about your creative thinking.I received huge motivation.
The machine turns into a disaster. The mad idea sprouted in the old mind to counter the local bullies. How beautifully the ideas are fabricated round the Mad Scientist ! Lucy deserves all praise for this imaginative piece of writing.
The idea of childern's craze for computer and annoyance of parents has beautifully been linked up with the problems of computer. Caitlin thought of the impending problem likely to crop up in computer. It is a good idea with a good piece of writing.
Michael wrote the story of Michael and very diftly wove a scholarly piece of literacy composition of 'A Eureka Moment' that took him out of the ditch of quandaries. Poverty was atrophying his hopes. Suddenly he discovered a piece of paper with a message of love and pride. Euphoric with hope, he rose to his feet and depression was overcome. This is how he found peace ot Eureka moment. A deftly drafted piece of writing.
' The Day The Computer Went Wrong', is a creative and an ironical piece of writing. Different incidents are knit together to make it creative. Beginning with birthady party, licking ice-cream cone, seeing a movie and finally finding a piece of breakfast all incidents are tied beautifully together by Sarah.
Space is an attraction of young and old in this world. Our thoughts preceds our actions. An essay of this type is thought provoking to make young scientist. A dream of such type is a very good attempt for a write_up of an adventure in space.
Greetings from Gartree. I am looking forward to working together on the topic of Fairtrade and I know the two teachers who will be visiting HAPS are really excited! Hopefully it will be my turn next time to visit :)
Our partnership work on eLanguages features in this downloadable book by Terry Freedman.
Thankyou Gartee!
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Onbehalf of Principal , staff and my ownbehalf , I extend my special Gratitude and heartfelt Thanks to Dr. G. Haines, headteacher and staff for hosting my visit and making my stay a great experience!
It was a very well planned and an excellent effort. Classobservations, Project planning, Student's Q&A session blended with visit to Tattershall Castle remained very fruitful. I’m going to cherish the memories as well as utilizing the experience for the benefit of both the schools.
I'm adding more pictures in the Gallery.
Thankyou all !
Naina Lakhanpal
HAPS- Queen's Batton Relay For CommonWealth Games at Hamirpur
July 5,2010 : Grand Event at Hamirpur
The queen's batton relay for commonwealth games will reach Hamirpur on July 5,2010 to promote sports and brotherhood in the world. It will receive warm welcome by the distt. administration at different places of Hamirpur. 2010 school children will queue up to receive the Batton and provide warm welcome. Upload some photos of 5th July to share with you all !
Naina Lakhanpal
International Education Week
16-20 November
Gartree had lots of activities with a focus of India during the week. See IEW 2009 page for more details.
Mr. Matthew's Visit - Event of the Year in HAPS
Mr. West's visit to HAPS was a great success. It left a great impression on teachers and students of HAPS. It is going to strengthen the bond between two schools.
Thankyou Mr. West for visiting Us.
All HAPSIANS
Reciprocal Visit
Ms Lakhanpal's visit to Gartree was a great success. The pupils are still talking about it! Photos uploaded above.
Diwali
Happy Diwali to our friends in India
Grant Successful
03.07.09: Gartree-HAPS successfully apply for reciprocal visit funding from DFID global school partnerships.
5 Day for Change UNICEF
22 Fairtrade Fortnight begins
March
3 World Maths Day www.worldmathsday.com/
4 World Book Day
8 International Women's Day
8 Commonwealth Day
11 Holi (Hindu)
27 Earth Hour 8.30pm wwf.org.uk/earthhour
April
1 April Fools Day
3 Rama Navami (Hindu)
7 World Health Day
10 Good Friday (Christian)
20 Global Education Action Week
22 Send My Friend to School Day "The Big Read"
Earth Day
May
1 DFID Reciprocal Visit grant deadline
8 World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
15 International Day of Families