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 31.01.25
Welcome to Bulletin #21 Typing in that heading, that we're at Bulletin 21, has made me realise how quickly the year is passing. There are 39 weeks of school, so we must be over halfway through! It has been another lovely week in school with lots of great things going...
Poppies
We have just taken delivery of this year's supply of Remembrance poppies and these are on sale at the office counter. You can buy when passing through, including at this week's parent/carer meetings. We'll get the poppies out on sale on the playground before school as...
Football v Sacred Heart
Parkdale Football Club - promoting Hope Another Thursday, another fixture for our football team. Again we picked a big squad to give everyone a run-out in a proper local derby against Sacred Heart. Google maps reckons it's 800m between the schools. Not quite as near...
Table Tennis Update
Whilst largely aimed at parents and carers of children who are part of our competitive table tennis academy, the following gives something of an idea of our commitment to development in this fantastic, inclusive sport. We are working closely with Table Tennis England...
School Diary
Events
Term Dates
| 2026 / 2027 | First day of term | Last day of term |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn Term |
Thursday 3rd September 2026 |
Friday 23rd October 2026 NOTE Friday 2nd October is an INSET |
| Autumn Term-2 | Monday 2nd November 2026 | Friday 18th December 2026 NOTE Friday 27th November is an INSET |
| Spring Term | Monday 4th January 2027 |
Friday 12th February 2027 Which is an INSET Day |
| Spring Term-2 | Monday 22nd February 2027 | Thursday 25th March 2027 |
| Summer Term | Monday 12 April 2027 | Friday 28th May 2027 |
| Summer Term-2 |
Monday 7th June 2027 Which is an INSET |
Wednesday 21st July 2027 Wednesday 21st July is an INSET. School ends for children on Tuesday 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.