Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Ofsted Inspection - thank you!
Fri 22 Mar 2024We wanted to send a note of communication to thank you all for your support during our recent OFSTED inspection. Whilst we can not share the outcome of the inspection yet, we want you to join us in thanking your wonderful children for being amazing. The inspector actually said that South Parade children are some of the best children she had ever come across. She said they were kind, caring and full of compliments – one child said have a great day before she even got through the school gates! Thank you also to you for supporting the school in the way you do. We strongly believe in a family-team approach and this is something we feel lucky to have.
Have a great and safe Easter break and we look forward to the summer term when it arrives.
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Ofsted Inspection 19th & 20th March
Mon 18 Mar 2024Dear parents/carers,
Today we have been notified that our school will be having an Ofsted inspection this week. The HMI inspector will be visiting our school tomorrow and Wednesday.
We look forward to welcoming the inspector to our school. As part of the inspection process, the inspector would like to hear the views of all stakeholders, including parents and pupils.
You will see a tab on the website under 'parents' labelled 'Ofsted March 2024'. This is to make it easy for you to find the letter from the inspector and the links to the surveys.
We will also send the links out by text message.
Thanks as always for your support.
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Freya's Garden - volunteer day 9th April
Mon 18 Mar 2024Freya’s Garden – follow up volunteer day on Tuesday 9th April.
Request for volunteers please!
Now the weather is warming up, we would like to see the completion of Freya’s Garden.
Next month will mark a year since Freya’s sudden, tragic death. We are keen to open the garden as soon as we can in Freya’s memory.
We had a very productive day in January and made a real start on the project.
Please see the list below for the jobs that we still aim to complete:
Resources required
Wheel barrows (to borrow)
Rakes (to borrow)
Battery drill / hand tools for decking
Paint
Decking – already sourced
Table leg timber
Signage – already made by a parent – thank you!
Wood chip (company in Worksop donating this for free, and other benches and bits if we can find something to pick it up in! Does anyone have a truck / vehicle to collect this please)
Paint – already sourced
Wild meadow seed
To do:
Pond area / Freya’s Garden
Re-felt the shed (completed by a parent recently – thank you!)
Replace decking
Replace fence posts
Paint fence and all surrounding woodwork
Bark chippings for tent
Put up new signage
Add timber to bench legs
Plant meadow seed
Last time we also had donations of refreshments which were much appreciated so anything like this would be great! Thank you.
Please get in touch with Mrs E Fieldhouse if you are able to help in any way. efieldhouse@southparade.wakefield.sch.uk
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Happy Healthy Holidays: FRPE @ Ossett Academy
Fri 15 Mar 2024
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Egg Day
Thu 14 Mar 2024EGG DAY
We are EGGCITED to let you know that we will be having SOUTH PARADE’S EGG DAY on Friday 22nd March.
Please encourage your child to think about their design for the day and prepare what they will need to bring with them. Your child will need to bring hard-boiled eggs on FRIDAY 22nd MARCH (in secure packaging – egg boxes are perfect), the number of eggs depends on the design, but allowing for breakages an extra egg will be invaluable.
Your child will also need to bring any resources (sequins/feathers/tissue paper/paint etc.) needed to construct the design at the school. Please help your child to think of a suitable name for the design (eggstinct/ eggciting/eggsample are past names). We will only judge the designs that are made on the day in school. We will attach a PowerPoint (on noticeboard on website) with lots of examples from past entries to give you some inspiration. We look forward to seeing what the children come up with this year!
Nursery and Reception children - please wait to hear from your child's class teacher for their plans for EGG DAY.
The egg designs will be displayed in each classroom and the children will be able to go round and look at other children’s designs.
We will take lots of photographs to share with you all.
There will be prizes!!
Thank you as always for your support.
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Happy Healthy Holidays - Easter availability
Mon 11 Mar 2024
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Parents Evening Arrangements
Mon 11 Mar 2024We hope you have all managed to book an appointment with your child's class teacher for parent's evening which is this Wednesday (13th March).
As you are aware, class teachers will be conducting parent's evening appointments from 2:00pm so please feel free to collect your child from their classroom at 2:00pm.
If your child will be remaining in school until the end of the school day then please see new arrangements for collection.
Collection of children from the hall after 2:00pm will NOT be through the main entrance. The main entrance will only be for access and exit for parents who are coming into school for an appointment.
Collection points after 2:00pm will be as follows. Your child will be signed out, please only use these collection points as staff will have the relevant registers:
Fire exit from Hall (at the back of school near school kitchen and beside Mrs Iveson's and Reception classrooms).
Early Years and KS1
(Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, Class 6 and Class 7)
Fire exit at back of school in courtyard near sensory garden (between class 6 and class 11)
KS2
(Class 8, Class 9, Class 10, Class 11, Class 12, Class 13, Class 14 and Class 15)
Thank you for your co-operation.
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Red Nose Day 15th March
Fri 08 Mar 2024To support Comic Relief this year we are inviting pupils to wear non-uniform on Friday (Red Nose Day) for a suggested donation of £1 which will go to the charity.
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Fire Alarm
Fri 01 Mar 2024Today we had a fire alarm which was not expected.
Our fire procedures were good and robust and all children were out of school quickly and in the correct place. The fire alarm went off during a wet playtime (lunch break). Our procedure, in line with fire safety guidance, is to evacuate the building via the nearest door - which were the classroom doors - as quickly and safely as possible being led by our school fire marshals. Firstly, your children were fantastic and we were outside in a rapid time frame and in correct lines/areas. However, I wanted to communicate with you as our children were outside for a period of time (around 20-25 minutes) and some without jumpers. We were not allowed into the building until the fire brigade had arrived and checked. Luckily, it was a false alarm. Our pupils were calm and we kept them warm by doing keep fit exercises – luckily one of our PE coaches led the school with this! Our younger pupils were escorted to our outdoor tent for further shelter. Obviously, a few children were a little worried as the fire alarm arrived but we assured children that it was a false alarm but not a planned practice. Please feel free to talk to your children about this and reassure them that they were great. We hope you understand that the period outdoors was unavoidable and we ensured they had a calming end to the day.
Thank you
Mrs Hedges
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Wakefield Hospice fundraising opportunity
Fri 01 Mar 2024A message to our families from Wakefield Hospice:
A chance to win £1000 for your school…
Thanks to the generous support of our event sponsors, The Card Factory Foundation, we are giving one lucky school the chance to win £1,000 worth of sports equipment to promote fitness, wellbeing and future development!
How do we get involved?
On Sunday 24th March 2024, following the Wakefield 10k Race, our family friendly 1k fun-run takes place at 10:30am starting and finishing in Thornes Park. We are asking local schools to support the event by promoting participation to their pupils – with any school whose pupils raise £250+ in sponsorship added into the draw to win £1,000!
Here is the link to sign up = https://racebest.com/organisers/k4eqg/entries
How to raise funds?
The total raised can be done by a collective of children at the school, not just one person but if they do, well done them! We suggest setting up a Just Giving page or using paper sponsor forms which I have attached. (Please see separate post for the sponsor form).We will also have a £100 voucher up for grabs for one lucky child who enters the Fun Run to win on the day too!
See the attached poster for more information and how to sign up!
If you would like more information on how to get involved in this year’s Fun-Run, please email me at Alexander.cunniff@wakefieldhospice.co.uk.
Once again thank you for your kind support and we look forward to hopefully seeing your school represented at our Fun-Run this March!
Best wishes
Alex Cunniff
Events Fundraiser
