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October 2021

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  • Parkland Post – 22nd October

    Published 22/10/21

    This week

    Welcome to this week’s Parkland Post at the end of what has been a magnificent start to our school year!  


    Attendance 
    This week, we sent out our green, amber and red letters to show the level of attendance this half term.  It is incredibly important that your child is in school every day and is on time as pupils begin learning as soon as they arrive.  

    Covid-19
    Please remember to social distance wherever possible over half term and if you begin to display any symptoms, book a PCR test so you can keep all members of our school community safe. 
    We hope you have a lovely holiday.  Don’t forget that we return on Tuesday 2nd November as we have a training day on Monday 1st November – we can’t wait to see you all for Autumn 2!

    Harvest 
    We were joined by Rev. Mary Winters for our Harvest Festival who talked about gratitude; what each of us should be thankful for.  Our pupils made us proud with their contributions as they talked about food from around the world, Fairtrade and climate change and the singing was simply beautiful.  Thank you for all of your contributions to our local food bank at Rev Winters’ church; it will help so many families.      

    This week’s learning
    In assembly on Monday, Mrs Wierzbianski had some volunteers from each class in Years 1-6.  Each class had worked together to create a Learning Charter and decided what their rights, responsibilities were and what consequences and rewards were available to them.  Each volunteer spoke clearly and communicated well with the whole school which can be quite a nerve-wracking experience.  It was a shining example of how we can succeed together which is one of our Co-op Ways of Being.

    Clubs

    Sports clubs for both Key stages, ND Dance and Drama continue as normal after half term.

    Coding Club with Miss Connors will start on Monday the 8th of November (10 Places for Y4 and Y5).

    Science Club has now finished and Christmas Craft will start on Tuesdays after half term (10 Places for Y5 and Y6).

    Breakdancers have had a text about the next block of lessons, please let us know if you do or don’t want your place. Each childs parent/carer on the list has recieved a text. The cost for the next block will be £18 due on or before the 22nd October. Thank you.

    Harvest Competiton

     It was an extremely tough competition and one thing is clear – Parkland pupils are such a talented bunch!  We had scarecrows of all shapes and sizes and each and every one of them was so creative.  Thank you for taking the time to enter the competition, your winners are:

    Nursery- Rory & Charlotte

    Reception- Chloe P & Harper

    Year 1- Paisley & Willow

    Year 2- Alfie & Piper

    Year 3/4A- Miley & Joshua

    Year 3/4NW- Mya & Tommy

    Year 5- Poppy & Connor

    Year 6- Callum & Lucy

    Parents Evening 29th/30th November

    We want your views on our upcoming parents evening! Please complete this form so we can get a view of how you think we can to run it

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  • Parkland Post – 15th October

    Published 15/10/21

    This week

    Welcome to this week’s Parkland Post.  We have had another busy week, our pupils have been impressing Miss Connors with their knowledge as she has been visiting classes.  This week’s Hot Chocolate Friday was fabulous as our pupils love coming and talking about what they have enjoyed most about the week and get to enjoy delicious drinks and biscuits!

    Parents’ Evening
    Parents’ Evening will take place next half term, we are going to hold a consultation with you to see how you would like these to take place e.g. in person or a phone call so please watch out for that information in the near future on our Facebook page.


    What have we been learning this week?
    In Nursery, they have been learning about autumn, collecting pumpkins, creating their own pumpkins with orange playdough, collecting sticks and leaf printing. 

    In Reception, they have been making story maps of the Rainbow Fish book and creating repeating patterns. 

    Year 1 have been learning all about maps and keys in their quest to find Beegu which we can now announce has been found safe and well – we are all incredibly relieved!  They have also been labelling parts of the body.  Year 2 have been learning about Henry VIII and his wives as well as reading the book The Lonely Beast.  

    Years 3 and 4 have been learning about the rainforest and can wow you with facts all about it. 

    Year 5 have had a fabulous week developing their scientific enquiry skills. They have been learning all about living things and their habitats so they decided to see if they could spot patterns in data, looking at whether there was a correlation between animal size and life expectancy. Guess what? Normally, the larger the animal, the longer it lives, except for turtles which can live up to 150 years! 

    Finally, in Year 6, they have been closely observing mouldy bread (yes, you heard that correctly, observing mouldy bread) as part of their science work where they were focusing on fungi and its importance in our world.
    We hope you have an amazing weekend and we will see you bright and early on Monday morning to begin our final week of this half term.

    Clubs

    Sports clubs for both Key stages, ND Dance and Drama continue as normal after half term.

    Coding Club with Miss Connors will start on Monday the 8th of November (10 Places for Y4 and Y5).

    Science Club has now finished and Christmas Craft will start on Tuesdays after half term (10 Places for Y5 and Y6).

    Breakdancers have had a text about the next block of lessons, please let us know if you do or don’t want your place. Each childs parent/carer on the list has recieved a text. The cost for the next block will be £18 due on or before the 22nd October. Thank you.

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  • Parkland Post – 8th October

    Published 08/10/21

    This week

    Welcome to this week’s Parkland Post!  We hope you are all well and that no-one blew away earlier this week – autumn was most certainly here and now it’s looking like we might be having another glorious weekend; it’s impossible to keep up!  


    Story writing in Years 3 and 4
    Years 3 and 4 have been story writing this week based on the Visual Literacy short film ‘Lou’.  So far, they have written an opening and a problem ensuring they use fronted adverbials and that the vocabulary they use is of a high standard.  Mrs Wierzbianski has read a few pieces of work and is impressed with their writing so far – she can’t wait to read the final pieces!


    Your Governing Body
    This week, Miss Connors met with our Governing Body which was chaired by Miss Emma Ainsworth for this term’s update on the wonderful things happening at Parkland.  We are lucky that our governors are so supportive and are part of our journey of school improvement.  They are all looking forward to meeting you at our events this year.

    Times table of the week
    We had a great time reciting our ten times tables in the KS2 playground and counting in 2s in the KS1 playground.  Next week, we will be focusing on the 4 times table in KS2 and will be continuing to count forwards in 2s in KS1.  You could help your child become more confident at home with their times tables by reciting them together.

    We hope you have a fabulous weekend, whatever you decide to do.  Please try to listen to your child read for 10 minutes per day, help them to practise their spellings and their times tables.  Mrs Wierzbianski will be walking Jet and doing a spot of reading as she’s quite fond of reading you know!  We can’t wait to see all of our pupils bright and early on Monday morning for another week of learning!  

    Black History Month

    October is Black History Month and pupils in Year 6 have been reading a text called ‘Hidden Figures’  which is the true story of four African-American women who were incredibly gifted mathematicians.  The work they did changed not only their own lives but the face of air and space travel forever.  Year 6 read about the barriers these women kept coming up against and learnt the importance of resilience, self-belief and sheer determination and grit.  

    Harvest

    This year our Harvest Competition has the theme of Scarecrows, all children from Nursery to Year 6 are encouraged to make, create, build or decorate a scarecrow, be creative!

    Our Harvest Festival is taking place on Friday 22nd October at 9am.  We are delighted to be able to invite you into school to watch our pupils share songs and information about harvest around the world.  We will also be joined by Rev. Mary Winters and can’t wait to welcome our Parkland family back through our doors.  Please feel free to wear masks if you wish and socially distance wherever possible. 

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  • Parkland Post – 1st October

    Published 01/10/21

    This week

    Welcome to this week’s Parkland Post. We have had another busy week which started with Miss Connors who talked to the pupils about our British Value of Democracy and what this looked like at Parkland. Our classes have had their ‘elections’ and our new School Councillors have been voted for. We are looking forward to seeing how our School Council helps to shape everything in our academy.

    Hot Chocolate Friday
    Miss Connors met with some pupils from each year group to share a hot chocolate and a chat about how they are settling into the new school year.  She also had the chance to find out about what they have been learning and the new knowledge they have gained which was a very lively conversation!  

    Times table of the week
    This week, our times table was the 5 x table and by the end of the week, everyone was joining in- even in the drizzle!  Next week, our focus for KS2 will be the 10 x table and in KS1, they will be counting in 2s.  It is wonderful to see how eager our pupils are to join in with Year 6 leading the way!
    We hope you enjoy your weekend, remember to encourage your child to practise their times tables, spellings and read for 10 minutes each day as this will help them feel more confident when in school. 

    Free Dinner Day!

    Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

    We will be having a free dinner day on Thursday October the 7th, the theme is seaside. There will have a choice of picnic sandwich boxes or Fish and chips with ice cream for dessert. No need to bring a packed lunch or pay- its on us!

    Harvest Competition

    This year our Harvest Competition has the theme of Scarecrows, all children from Nursery to Year 6 are encouraged to make, create, build or decorate a scarecrow, be creative!

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