We 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.

Dear 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. 

Freya’s Garden – follow up volunteer day on Tuesday 9^th 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

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. 

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. 

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.

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