Welcome to this week’s bulletin and news round-up – a day early!
Firstly, a reminder that the last day of term is officialy Wednesday the 21st of December. For children however, the last day is Tuesday the 20th as the Wednesday is an INSET Day for staff training.
News here of an additional Bank Holiday in 2023: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/coronation-bank-holiday/
Excellent news for our girls’ football team, who have been asked to represent Gedling at the Nottinghamshire County Finals a week on Saturday (the 26th). The local qualifying tournement has not been held this year, but we were asked to go to represetn our borough as the reigning champions from last year. We’ll let you know how they get on…
Last call to sign your child up to watch the England World Cup match v iraon on Monday. We’ll make the plans based on the numbers we have at midday tomorrow, Friday the 18th: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/the-world-cup/
A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 18th, is Children In Need Day
A big shout out to the Year 5 children who represented us at the prestigious Nottingham High School Tag Rugby Festival last week. Our team went through the festival unbeaten and one of our team, Jacob Hussain, came away with the medal for the best player on the day.
An update here on a slight change to the way we manage registers for after school clubs: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/club-registers/
A week tomorrow (Friday 25th) is a day on which children can come in non-uniform for a donation to the FOP Christmas hampers: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/event/fop-non-uniform-day-for-hamper-donations/
A reminder of a feature from a week or two back in which we mentioned that we are trying to be a bit ‘greener’ about Christmas cards: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/christmas-card-alternatives/
Finally, we’re having a bit of a drive to reduce food waste. More details here: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/food-waste/