Important dates for your diary

May 28th, 2010

Friday 28 May 2010 – Year 6 assembly to say goodbye to pupils moving on to DYCA after the holiday. This takes place in the school hall at 9.00 a.m.

Friday 28 May 2010 – School closes at 3.05 p.m. for the half term break. We re-open at 8.50 a.m. on Monday 7 June 2010.

Monday 21 June 2010 – School is closed for staff training – we re-open at 8.50 a.m. on Tuesday 22 June 2010.

Friday 23 July 2010 – School closes at 1.30 p.m. for the summer holiday.

Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 September – School will be closed for staff training.

Friday 3 September 2010 – School opens at 8.50 a.m. for the new school year.

Have a good half-term.

C Hindmarch
Headteacher

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Welcome back!

May 3rd, 2010

I hope that you have all had a good Easter. It’s good to see the children back, ready for this new term.

New Deputy Head – please join me in welcoming Mrs. Tatham to our school and wishing her well in her new job. Mrs Tatham is also doing our work around special needs.

Emergency contact telephone numbers
Please please make sure that we can contact you or a close friend or relative during the school day if your child is unwell. We need to have two telephone numbers. Please see Mrs. Ellerby in the school office if your numbers have changed.

0844 412 7610 is the number to save and ring to hear a recorded message about any emergency school closure or delay to a school trip getting back. Please note that calls cost around 5p but may vary with different network providers. Also, you are not able to leave a message on this service. Let’s hope we don’t get any more snow!

Half term
We break up for the May half-term holiday at 3.05 p.m. on Friday 28 May 2010. We re-open at 8.50 a.m. on Monday 7 June 2010.

Monday 21st June is our last training day and school will be closed.

We break up for Summer on Friday 23 July 2010 at 1.30 p.m. We open for the new school year at 8.50 a.m. on Wednesday 1 September 2010.

Health and safety
We are very grateful to DrainsAid for providing us with a ramp to the front door. This will enable easier access for wheelchair users and people with buggies. Please make sure that children don’t play on this ramp or railings.

Reception children now can play and learn under their new canopy. I think that you will agree it looks like a great, safe place to be?

We now have our automatic gates on the drive way. These will be shut at 8.40 a.m. and reopen at 9.05 a.m. then again, close at 2.50 p.m. and reopen at 3.15 p.m. As ever, I ask you to think before you drive up to school at the beginning and end of day. The safety of children and families walking is our priority. Under our Zero Tolerance Policy, we will not accept any abuse to this system.

Haiti Art Gallery raised a grand total of £127.60. I am sure that you will all be very pleased that we are able to make this significant financial contribution to troubled parts of our world.

School Uniform
If you are out buying new uniform may I remind you that it is: Dark trousers, skirt or pinafore PE: Dark Shorts

White polo shirts White polo or t-shirt

Red cardigans or sweatshirts

Jewellery
For health and safety reasons I would like to remind you that children are asked not to wear jewellery.

School website
Have you looked at ParklandsPrimary.org.uk? We welcome your ideas for what to add to it. We have decided not to have any photos of the children on this site but you will soon be able to see some of the pictures they did for our Haiti Art Gallery. We hope to be able to have a homework site very soon. Watch this space!

See you soon

C Hindmarch
Headteacher

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Haiti appeal

February 7th, 2010

THANKYOU!

I am writing to say 2 BIG thank yous!

Firstly, we have raised £225.65 for the Haiti earthquake appeal. The money will be sent to DEC – the organisation which has many aid charities working out in Haiti.

Secondly, we have been so pleased by the support you and the children have given school in our healthy eating work. Every child has made a great effort to change their eating to make healthier choices. We are very proud of them.

THANKYOU!

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School security

February 7th, 2010

I am writing to explain some important changes we are making to security at Parklands Primary School. These changes will take place from Thursday 28 January 2010.

As you know we take the security and safety of children, staff and visitors very seriously. Following an expensive upgrade to security and fire systems in the school, we are making the following improvements to school security:

  • All visitors accessing the school must sign in and display a visitors badge.
  • All staff and visitors must clearly display their name tag or visitors badge at all times.
  • Children leaving school eg for appointments, must be signed out and signed back in if they come back during the day.
  • Parents and visitors can no longer access the inside of school from outside KS1. They must walk round the outside of the building and sign in at the main school entrance.
  • Parents who bring children to school late should get their late mark from Mrs Gandy or Miss Harrison. Staff will then take children down to class if necessary.
  • Parents collecting children from after school clubs are asked to wait outside the building by the main office.

We hope that you will support the school with these changes and help improve safety in school.

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Happy New Year and weather

January 6th, 2010

Happy New Year to all.

FOR PARENTS AND VISITORS

Sometimes it is necessary for school to close because of bad weather or other emergencies.

The Headteacher works hard to keep school open wherever possible but if circumstances mean that she has to make a decision to close the school or send children home early, there are various ways of contacting parents.

How we tell you if a school is closed?
Local radio stations play an important part in communications between school and parents. Once the Headteacher has made the decision to close school she will inform the local radio stations and ask them to broadcast a message to parents.

The local radio stations used are:

BBC RADIO LEEDS – 92.4 FM

RADIO AIRE – 96.3 FM

It is also possible to look on:

The RADIO AIRE website and its list of school closures: www.radioaire.co.uk

The Leeds City Council website: www.leeds.gov.uk

TIP: The Education Leeds website usually crashes due to being overloaded, so don’t rely on it! www.educationleeds.co.uk

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Healthy eating week

December 16th, 2009

Dear Parents

I am writing to give you further information about our Healthy Eating Week which is taking place week beginning 11th January. As well as launching our new Healthy Snack Policy we will also be running a range of activities for all year groups, please see below for details.

1. Healthy Snack Cafe will be held on Wednesday 13th January. All children will be given the opportunity to visit the cafe and buy a snack. All snacks will be 10p each – please send money to school with your that day if you would like them to buy a snack.

2. Design a healthy sandwich competition. Children will be given time in class to design their sandwich, a prize will be awarded for the best design in KS1 and KS2.

3. Cooking activities – all classes will be doing some sort of cooking/food preparation activity during Healthy Eating week.

4. Food tasting. Children will be given the opportunity to taste different foods and to give their thoughts and opinions on these.

5. Free snacks for all children.

If your child has a food allergy which we need to consider when tasting food please fill in the tear off slip below and return to your child’s class teacher by no later than Friday 8th January so that they are aware of this.

After looking at the results from the parent questionnaire I have decided not to run a parent workshop due to lack of interest. I will, however be sending out regular information sheets with recipe ideas and tips as many parents seemed interested in receiving this. If you do feel that a parent workshop/INSET training session would be valuable please feel in the section on the tear off slip and return to school as soon as possible.

Many thanks again for your support in this.

Best wishes

Mrs. J Noakes
Year 6 Teacher & PSHE Co-ordinator

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Christmas weather

December 16th, 2009

We are all hoping for a white Christmas. But if it snows before then, this is what happens if the Head decides to close the school:

Radio Aire and Radio Leeds will read out our school’s name. You could also check Education Leeds to see if our school is on the list of those closed.

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Healthy eating and choir

December 16th, 2009

Healthier Eating
Thankyou to you all for helping us with questionnaires about packed lunches and healthy eating.

I’m really pleased to tell you that lots of children have already taken up the challenge of giving up crisps and are eating more fruit.

We are having a Healthy Week in the 2nd week of January. There are lots of exciting events planned so watch this space.

Congratulations to Summer and Spice’s mum who won the prize draw.

Upcoming dates
9th January is our 4th training day.
There will be one more in the Summer term.

Choir
Our school choir is much in demand as you probably already know! The Christmas season began on 8th December when they sang in the festival on Seacroft Green. They then sang at Temple Newsam on 12th December and will be at at Elmete on 17th December. Oh.. and in our school concerts on 16th December.

The choir works so hard and we are very proud of them. We are very grateful to Mrs Ellerby who leads the choir and to Mrs Brown and Mrs Hill who support its work.

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Healthy eating at playtimes

November 24th, 2009

You may have heard from the children that school is banning crisps in the New Year? It’s true – we are!

We are very worried that so many children bring crisps and not healthier food for their playtime snacks. We have already asked the children to bring fruit or cereal bars instead.

Could you help with this please?

Mrs. Noakes in Year 6, would like to do a survey soon about healthy eating. There will be a prize draw, so watch this space!

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Upcoming dates

October 8th, 2009

4th Nov 2009 – Parents evening.
9th Dec 2009 – Staff training day, the school will be closed.
8th Jan 2010 – Staff training day.

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