Welcome to

Parkdale Primary

School

Welcome to

Parkdale Primary

School

Welcome to Parkdale Primary School

We are a busy but friendly school, with lots going on. This website aims to give you a taster of the school, as well as providing regular updated information for both parents and pupils. It is the place to come to for catching up with Newsletters and finding official information, policies and reports. Our classes all have pages here and these will give you a flavour of what they have been up to and what they are currently learning about.

We hope that you enjoy your visit to our website, and that you find any information you are looking for. Please feel free to contact the school directly with any queries you may have.

As it repeatedly says in the video below…. “All Are Welcome Here”

Thank you for visiting!

Pete Hillier – Headteacher

 

Parkdale Primary News

Weekly Bulletin 10.01.25

Weekly Bulletin 10.01.25

Jan 10, 2025

Happy New Year. On behalf of all the team here at school, we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025. It's certainly off to a chilly start, compounded by our boiler problem earlier in the week. We've been operating on one (of two) boilers, but expect the second...

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1 Chestnut Pick-Up Friday 10th January

1 Chestnut Pick-Up Friday 10th January

Jan 14, 2025

Please see below a letter for the attention of parents and carers of children in Year One, regarding a matter at home-time last Friday, the 10th of January. Y1 Dismissal Friday 10th jan 25

Year 5 Connecting with Nature Workshop

Jan 14, 2025

Children in Year 5 spent the morning working with Matilda Crane of Climate Ambassadors.  Following an interesting assembly all about the benefits of connecting with nature, children were tasked with the challenge of designing their own outdoor learning...

Y6 2026 Residential Booking

Y6 2026 Residential Booking

Jan 13, 2025

  Many thanks to those parents/carers of children currently in Year 5, who have responded to our recent requests re next year's residential. We appreciate that this is an increasingly costly event and wanted to give the option to discontinue or change it....

School Diary

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Term Dates

2024 / 2025 First day of term Last day of term
Autumn Term Tues 3rd September 2024

Note this is an INSET Day! School starts for pupils on Weds 4th

 Friday 25th October 2024
Autumn Term-2 Monday 4th November 2024 Friday 20th December 2024
Spring Term Monday 6th January 2025 Friday 14th February 2025
Spring Term-2 Monday 24th February 2025 Friday 4th April 2025
Summer Term Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Friday 23rd May 2025
Summer Term-2 Monday 2nd June 2025 Tuesday 22nd July 2025

INSET Days: Tues 3rd September 2024, Fri 4th October 2024, Mon 21st and Tues 22nd July 2025

Downloadable (pdf) of calendars:

2024-25 Term Dates With INSET

2025-26 School holidays – INSET to be added

 

Prospectus

Our website is packed with information, news and views. If you are new to our school and would like a summary of ‘what we are all about’ our Prospectus is a good place to start!
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Curriculum

Our curriculum was designed in consultation with stakeholders, our community, and was launched in 2019. We base much of our learning around 3 themes: Environment & Sustainability; Equality, Diversity & Identity; Peace & Social Justice. These reflect the values our stakeholders told us matter to them.

Within these themes, we aim to develop positive values, whilst learning skills and knowledge broadly comparable with the National Curriculum, against which our teaching and learning sequences are mapped.

New from September 2023, we have adopted our approach. We have returned to topics, now called Learning Projects, rooted very strongly in the subject discipline, with a focus on knowledge. Within each Learning Project, we look through the ‘lenses’ of the three themes.

A Green, Clean Sustainable World

Through this lens we learn positive, caring values and key Geography skills and knowledge. We start with personal and local issues in Early Years and build up towards a global picture as we progress through school.

Identity & Cultural Capital

Through this lens, we learn about where we come from, celebrate our diversity and our similarities. A lot of our History is about migration, systems of government and how society and technology change. We develop a sense of belonging in Nottingham, the UK and the World. We learn a lot about Cultural Capital and positive values.

Peace & Social Justice

Through this lens, we develop our History and Geography skills and knowledge through learning about wars, conflict and their effect on people. We learn about famous campaigners for justice in a range of countries.

Equity and Diversity

This lens is present in all of our learning. It runs as a thread across all Learning projects. Some curriculum content may be discretely covered, such as through Black History Month. All Learning Projects include themes of equity and diversity, for example the roles and contributions of women, people from different backgrounds, people with disability/neuro-diversity and so on.

Holistic Development

Our school vision relates to development and wellbeing of the whole-child. This is central to all we do.

We have daily assemblies, currently a blend of virtual and ‘face-to-face’, which reflect our values and the compostion of our community. One of these per week is delivered by a Christian Reverend, another by a representative of a local Mosque. In all, we always strive to find common ground and similarities between people of all faiths and none.

For 2021-22, assemblies will regularly address the Universal Declaration of Human RIghts, using teaching resources from the Youth For Human Rights organisation

Our school day is specifically designed to build-in Wellbeing time, such as meditation, yoga, mindfulness and reflection.

A dedicated Pastoral Team is available to co-ordinate support for children with Special Needs, including those with social and emotional needs. Locally, we have a very psitive reputation for our provision in this respect.

The nature of our community means we admit a significant number of children with Langauge and Communication needs. Another dedicated team, including our own Speech & Language Therapist,  co-ordinates support. Our work in this area won us a national Communication Trust ‘Shine a Light’ Award in 2017. You can learn more about each of these areas in their own section below:

 

Language & Communication

This is an important area for us as lots of our children arrive with delayed communication. We have a dedicated Communication and Language Lead and access to our very own Speech and Language Therapist who works with children and trains our staff. In 2017, we were the Communication Trust’s National Primary Setting of the year, winning a prestigious Shine A Light Award

Pastoral

Our school day is espcially structured to include dedicated Wellbeing and Mindfulness time. Our children learn yoga, breathing techniques and much, much more. Out Pastoral Team work closely with individual children for whom Wellbeing is a concern. Some of our Y5 and Y6 children are trained as Wellbeing Champions, to support other children. We formally test and track Wellbeing, using Leuven scales. Our Assemblies focus on Values, Faith, Mindfulness and understanding Human RIghts.

Special Needs

We have a great reputation locally for our provision. We do all we can to be inclusive and have successfully supported children with very high levels of need. Our SENCo is supported by her colleagues in the Pastoral Team. We aim to include children with additional needs in the mainstream classroom as much as possible, but also have a recently established nurture space, The Rainbow Room, which they can access when needed too.