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!
Parkdale Primary News
Weekly Bulletin 10.07.26
As we near the end of the year, we are keeping cool in school, and getting ready to have the wonderful water fight! We are so proud of our wonderful Year 6’s and their fabulous performance. What a great show they put on! Excellent team work from them, Mrs Blatherwick,...
Year 6 Celebration – 16th July
Year 6 warmly welcome their parents and carers to join us at 2.15 on Thursday 16th July to celebrate the ending of primary school journeys.
Year 6 Performance Wednesday 8th July
Peter Pan The evening performance will begin at 6pm. Please could Year 6 parents ensure that your child arrives at 5:15pm and to enter school via the snow door at the side of the hall. We anticipate that the performance will end at approximately 7.30pm.
Year 6 Production – Peter Pan
Year 6 warmly invite their parents and carers to join us for our one-time-only performance of ‘Peter Pan’ on Wednesday 8th July at 6pm. Please complete the form (link below) to indicate the number of adults who will be attending. Year 6 Performance - Peter Pan (8th...
School Diary
Term Dates
| 2025 / 2026 | First day of term | Last day of term |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn Term |
Monday 1st September 2025 Note this is an ADMIN Day and Tuesday the 2nd is INSET. School starts for pupils on Weds 3rd |
Friday 24th October 2025 |
| Autumn Term-2 | Monday 3rd November 2025 | Friday 19th December 2025 |
| Spring Term | Monday 5th January 2026 |
Friday 13th February 2026 Which is an INSET Day |
| Spring Term-2 | Monday 23rd February 2026 | Friday 27th March 2026 |
| Summer Term | Tuesday 13th April 2026 | Friday 22nd May 2026 |
| Summer Term-2 | Monday 1st June 2026 |
Monday 20th July 2026 Friday 17th and Monday 20th are INSET. School ends for children on Thursday 16th |
INSET Days: Monday 1st September (Admin Day); Tuesday 2nd September, Friday 3rd October, Friday 13th February, Friday 17th July, Monday 20th July.
Downloadable (pdf) of calendars:
2026-27 School holidays (draft)
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!
Curriculum
Our curriculum was designed in consultation with stakeholders, our community, and was launched in 2019. This has since been refined in 2025-6. We address our learning through the lenses : 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 subject disciplinary knowledge and specific knowledge broadly comparable with the National Curriculum, against which our teaching and learning sequences are mapped.
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.
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.