Welcome to the weekly bulletin, the last of the Spring Term…

Firstly, on behalf of all the team here, we would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Easter break. For those who enjoy Easter as an important  religious celebration, our very best wishes for this special time.

There were some important e-safety messages shared here: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/e-safety-update/

Clumber, the green house, won the House points competiton for this term and took the lead overall for the year: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/clumber-win-spring-house-competition/

We return to Summer uniform rules immediately after the holiday: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/summer-uniform-2/

Plenty of football action this week; two league defeats: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/gedling-psfa-football-v-sacred-heart/ and a triumph for our girls who became Transform Trust champions on Tuesday!: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/transform-trust-girls-football-champs/

Year Five have been baking and the sale they organised raised money towards adopting an orang-utan: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/parkdale-tart-sale-2/

We are preparing for a Summer of cricket, right through the school: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/cricket-lovely-cricket/

We had a lot of visitors in from other schools and other trusts to look at how we use digital technology to enhance our learning: https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/parkdale-hosts-digital-day/

Reception wanted to thank the army of helpers who have been working on smartening up their outdoor area:https://parkdale-primary.co.uk/gardening-help-a-huge-thank-you/

A heads-up here for another non-uniform day, this time for Earth Day on the 21st of April. More to follow on this on the website as soon as possible. The theme will be simlpy to wear something blue. You can learn more abnout Earth Day here: https://www.earthday.org/

After the holidays, we welcome back Deputy Head Mrs Burge. Julia has been on secondment as Headteacher, supporting at a school in the county. There are no changes to the class-teacher ‘line-up’ as a consequence. Everything stays as it is.

Diary Dates:

We return on Monday the 17th of April

Parent/teacher meetings are scheduled for the 19th and 20th of April – classes have sent out ehri own detials for this.

The Year 5 Residential sets off on Wednesday the 26th April

There are Bank Holidays on Monday the 1st of May and then the extra one for the Coronation on the 8th.

Year Six have their SATs from Tuesday the 9th of May to Friday the 12th

Friday 19th May is class photo day