Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Egg Day

  Thu 14 Mar 2024

  EGG 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. 

   

• Happy Healthy Holidays - Easter availability

  Mon 11 Mar 2024
  

• Parents Evening Arrangements

  Mon 11 Mar 2024

  We 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. 

   

   

   

• Red Nose Day 15th March

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  To 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.

• Fire Alarm

  Fri 01 Mar 2024

  Today 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

• Wakefield Hospice fundraising opportunity

  Fri 01 Mar 2024

  A 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

• Communication Policy

  Thu 29 Feb 2024

  Thank you for completing the recent parent survey online. We had lots of constructive feedback and appreciate your comments. We have been working on what we can to address what you have said. Following several comments about communication, please see the policies section of the website for our Communication Policy. 

  Thank you as always for your support.

• Medical Appointments

  Mon 26 Feb 2024

  Please may we ask that where possible all medical appointments be made outside of school hours or during school holidays. We also require proof of appointments - NHS text, letter etc. 

  Thank you for your co-operation. 

   

• World Book Day 7th March

  Thu 22 Feb 2024

  We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 7th March. 

  This year we are giving children a choice of pyjamas, lounge wear or a book character costume. We want our children to just get ‘lost’ in books for a day in a comfy outfit! 

• Reading Huts

  Fri 09 Feb 2024

  We have had a productive INSET day at school today. 

  Our new playground Reading Huts are built and fully stocked ready for our children to enjoy on return to school after the half term break!

  Have a well earned rest and we will see you all on return to school on Monday 19th February.