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February 2022

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  • Parkland Post – 18th February

    Published 18/02/22

    This week

    Welcome to the final Parkland Post of this half term.  It has been an extremely busy week, our pupils have been taking part in RE Week where they have focused on a wide range of topics such as:  Precious Things, Special Days, Right and Wrong, Sacred Writing and Special People.  If you have a chance this weekend, ask them what they have been learning about.

    Meet our Governors

    This week and every week, we will be introducing you to one of our Governors.  We thought we would start with Emma Ainsworth who is our Chair of Governors – some of you may have seen her at the front of school on Wednesday doing a meet and greet in the wind!

    Hi everyone! My name’s Emma Ainsworth and I’m the Chair of Governors here at Co-op Academy Parkland. I help to govern school and work really closely with Mrs Wierzbianski and Miss Connors to make sure we’re doing everything we can to make school a great place to learn. I also work at the Co-op in the Technology team supporting our Food, Funeralcare and Legal Services businesses to make sure we’re meeting customer’s needs every day. I’ve been Chair at Parkland since the start of the pandemic and I’m really looking forward to getting to spend more time meeting everyone now that restrictions allow. You’ll find me at the school gates on the mornings I’m in school and visiting classrooms during the day too. I love travel and have spent many a holiday having adventures around the world on our motorbikes. I’m a keen gardener, renovator and pet mum too. My fiancée and I have 2 cats called Eva and Jumble and a bernese mountain dog called Onyx who is training to be an emotional support dog. I love taking her for walks up into the hills near where we live and seeing how much joy she brings to people when they cuddle her. If you see me do come and have a chat, I’m always up for a natter

    Express Yourself Day!

    Today was all about expressing yourself and you certainly wowed us with your funky outfits and smiling faces! It is so important to remember that we are all unique and that’s what makes you so special.  Thanks to your generosity, we are able to donate to mind and we will let you know the final total asap. – thank you! 

    We hope you enjoy the holidays and we will see you all bright and early on Monday 28th February.

    World Book Day

    This year is the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, and it falls on Thursday 3rd March.

    World Book Day is a wonderful way for children to celebrate their love for reading. Every year, school gets involved by handing out World Book Day tokens, and the best part…encouraging everyone to dress up!

    We will be having a book swap breakfast for parents and carers from 8am, you can come in and join us with your children and take books home with for you and your child keep.

    If you have any donations of books we would love to accept them for our book swap!

    We would encourage all children to dress up as a book character or in their pyjamas. Please bring the book your character is from if you can!

    Coffee Morning- Jobs and Training

    There will be a coffee morning in school 9am till 10.30am on Friday March the 4th. If you would like an informal chat with helpful professionals who can help you with getting into training or you need advice on benefits or employment this is for you. We hope you can come in and join us.

    Parent Forum Dates

    Thank you to those parents that attended our previous forum, it is important that we get your input and ideas for school.

    If you can make the next one please join us for tea and cake and a good chat! Here are the dates for the rest of the year.

    March 24th

    May 5th

    Pride Awards

    Nursery

    Addison

    For showing determination and persistence when things get tricky.

    Jessie Leigh

    For being a great friend to all.

    Reception

    Blayd

     For using and applying his maths skills to solve problems around the classroom. 

    Chloe P

     For always having a positive attitude to learning.

    Year 1

    Elaina

    For challenging herself during provision by working on her handwriting and number formation

    Indira

    Always having a positive attitude and contributing to our lessons.

    Year 2

    Lola

    Her home resesrach and extending her own knowledge on pirates.

    Charlea

    Always looking to improve her work by rehearsing important skills.

    Year 3/4A

    Thomas

    For working hard on his persuasive letter to Monsieur Georges.  You tried to include the different features and developed a fantastic piece of writing.  

    Daisy

    For working hard in maths and showing great resilience to find a solution.

    Year 3/4NW

    William

    Sharing wonderful ideas during group work this week

    Lexi

    Showing improvements in your writing. It is getting much more exciting to read

    Year 5

    Mckenzie

    Showing great enthusiasm for learning about new ideas in RE and recalling new facts.

    Ved

    Sharing his knowledge and experiences of hinduism with us during RE week. Thank you!

    Year 6

    Lauren

    For being yourself always and sharing her excellent sense of humour. 

    Alex

    For showing such a caring attitude to peers and adults. 

    Parkland Panthers- Pupils who shone in their PE sessions this week

    Year 1 – Jack John, Jaden & Lily

    Year 2 – Fabien & Piper

    Year 3/4A – Georgia & Kayla

    Year 3/4NW – William, Kaja & Samuel

    Year 6 – Lucy

    Do what matters most

    Be yourself, always

    Show you care

    Succeed together

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  • Train to Teach with Co-op Academies

    Published 11/02/22

    Andy Gibson- Head of Early Career Framework with Initial Teacher Training

    At Co-op Academies Trust, we believe in changing the lives of young people through empowering teachers and young people to work together for a better education and a better community. I’ve been lucky enough to have visited several academies since joining the Trust as Head of ECF with ITT in January and the purposeful learning that was present everywhere was amazing to see.

    I found an affinity with the Ways of Being and knew that I wanted to be a part of the driving force behind such a dynamic Trust. Outstanding education is the single biggest driver of outcomes for our young students with the quality of staff being the most significant variable that leaders can influence directly. Co-op Academies Trust are committed to ensuring teachers receive high-quality training and professional development at every stage of their career, I was again drawn to work with like minded practitioners. 

    Like Co-op, I value self-help and self-responsibility, meaning when I was tasked with ensuring supportive and structured opportunities for practitioners to explore and master strategies where present, I was ready for the challenge. 

    Co-op Academies’ commitment to curriculum, pedagogy, teaching and learning and the wider trust community resonated with me to guarantee we are evidence-informed, rooted in honesty and openness and do what matters most across all schools so that we work in solidarity to best create outstanding opportunities for our young people.

    As well as overseeing Early Career Teaching in all of our academies and working with our superb practitioners, my new role is to create our own Trust Initial Teacher Training programme. We will be working with Bright Futures SCITT to bring together expertise from across the Trust Primary, Secondary, Special and Further Education provisions in an aim to promote excellence in all aspects of education. Our trainees will benefit from focused, central and school-based training, working in our academies on the thirteen courses we offer: Primary 3-7, Primary 5-11, Primary SEND, English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, History, Religious Education, Computing and Design & Technology.

    Although they will be completing a PGCE, all our trainees will benefit from being on our School Direct course which means being in the classroom from day one, working and training with our outstanding practitioners  and understanding what it means to be a Co-op teacher. Thank you to everyone who has worked with me so far in helping to create the foundations of the programme. Your eagerness and ambition will make this a fantastic provision we have to offer. 

    Train to Teach with Co-op Academies

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  • Parkland Post – 4th February

    Published 04/02/22

    This week

    Welcome to this week’s Parkland Post. What a blustery week of weather we have had – our times on the Daily Mile were so much faster as we had the wind helping us along! 

    Next Parent forum

    We will focus on the MIND Action Plan whilst sharing a cuppa and some cake.  We hope to see as many of you as possible there.
    We hope you have a wonderful weekend and that you are able to get out into the fresh air – maybe go to the park or have a walk somewhere in our local area.  Whatever you decide to do, we hope you enjoy it.  We will see you bright and early on Monday morning for another week filled with learning!

    Skills Builder Home Task
    This weekend, we would like you to practise the skill of Listening (and talking) by taking some time to talk with someone in your family.  Tell them about your week at school – what you enjoyed, anything you have learnt or anything that you might want to find out more about.

    Year 5 and 6 Reading Club
    Our Reading Club had grown this week!  More and more children are joining our group as we read ‘When Life Gives You Mangoes’ by Kereen Getten which is a story about a girl called Clara who loves to eat mangoes but who is struggling to remember anything about the previous summer.  As we read through the book, there have been clues as to why she might not have been able to remember and it is becoming quite gripping!

    Viking Day in Year 3/4

    The children in Year 3/4 have had a very exciting experience this week, a Viking day!

    Each class had a full day of learning about the lives of the Vikings, their clothes, their homes and even learned about how the Vikings fought their battles.

    Parent Forum Dates

    Thank you to those parents that attended our previous forum, it is important that we get your input and ideas for school.

    If you can make the next one please join us for tea and cake and a good chat! Here are the dates for the rest of the year.

    January 27th– rescheduled to February 10th

    March 4th

    May 5th

    Time To Talk

    Yesterday, we took part in Time to Talk Day in association with MIND.  Our staff were treated to breakfast and were able to sit and have a chat with each other (something which we don’t normally have time to do).  Staff then joined our pupils on their walk around the playground at morning break talking with each other about all sorts of things.  Each class took part in a circle time to discuss things that they were interested in as well as talking about issues going on in the world around them.

    Pride Awards

    Nursery

    Beaux

    For demonstrating her fantastic maths skills using the Numicon this week.

    Hugo

    For showing a love for learning when celebrating Chinese New Year.

    Reception

    Malik

    For his amazing maths knowledge about different ways to make four and five. 

    Bonnie

    For always being ready to learn in phonics. Well done Bonnie!

    Year 1

    Poppie

    Be yourself always: for always joining in with our class discussions and being a pleasure to teach.

    Kysen

    For showing improvement on his presentation and care over his work.

    Year 2

    Ellie

    Being a fantastic friend to her classmates and treating everyone with respect.

    Jacob S

    Growing in confidence and being able to speak in front of a group.

    Year 3/4A

    The whole class

      For their amazing enthusiasm, participation and effort they put in for Viking day!

    Year 3/4NW

    The whole class

    For their amazing enthusiasm, participation and effort they put in for Viking day!

    Year 5

    Grace

    Always doing her best and really shining in maths through her dedication and hard work.

    Connor

    Pushing himself in all areas of his learning and for always having something to share.

    Year 6

    Emily

    Amazing effort with her maths this week, solving quotations involving fractions and persevering.

    Ava

    Having a lovely smile and cheery attitude all day in school this week.

    Parkland Panthers- Pupils who shone in their PE sessions this week

    Year 2 – Alfie and Charlea

    Year 3/4– Amelia and Tommy Lee

    Year 5 – Ffion and Stephen

    Year 6 – Finn and Ruby

    Do what matters most

    Be yourself, always

    Show you care

    Succeed together

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