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

• Ofsted Report March 2024

  Thu 25 Apr 2024

  We are thrilled to share our Ofsted report from our recent inspection. We hope you will agree that it really reflects our school, the efforts of our wonderful pupils and everyone involved in their education.

  Thank you so much for your ongoing support.

   

  Please find a copy of the report under the About Us - Ofsted section of our school website:

   

  https://www.southparade.wakefield.sch.uk/ofsted/

• Invacuation procedure

  Wed 24 Apr 2024

  Today at school, we practised our invacuation procedure, which is something we do annually. This procedure is where children practise coming into internal corridors and being as safe as possible inside the school building should there ever be a reason for this to happen. We talked to the children and gave them possible examples such as a dangerous dog on the playground. The other reason we practise this is if there was a local community lockdown advised by the police. We don't explicitly share details with the children as our focus is on making the practise as smooth and stress free as possible.

  We are pleased to inform you that the children were amazing as they always are when we do any sort of practise of this nature.

  Thank you. 

• Illingworth Park Gala

  Mon 22 Apr 2024
  

• Freya's Garden Volunteer Day 23rd April

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  Reminder to anyone that would like to volunteer.

  Our next date is Tuesday 23rd April.

  Please contact Mrs E Fieldhouse if you are able to help out on efieldhouse@southparade.wakefield.sch.uk

  Many thanks

• Year 1 parents

  Wed 10 Apr 2024

  We are inviting you to a Phonics Screening Check information session at 9:00am on Friday 19th April.

  There is some information about this on the Year 1 class page. 

  https://www.southparade.wakefield.sch.uk/phonics-screening-check/ 

  The session will be in the school  hall. 

  Thank you for your support. 

• Freya's Garden Volunteer day update

  Mon 08 Apr 2024

  Thank you to anyone who had volunteered their time to help out tomorrow. Unfortunately the weather is just not on our side and it is forecasting a lot of rain. Many of the jobs that we had planned would just not be possible to carry out in wet weather such as painting.

  We have got a skip coming and Mrs Banks is planning to still clear the some of the area that still needs clearing around the pond - this can be done in the wet weather. If anyone would like to help with this then please feel free to attend.

  We are planning to have another volunteer day on Tuesday 23rd April with a view to opening Freya's Garden towards the end of this half term. 

  Please email efieldhouse@southparade.wakefield.sch.uk 

  Thank you.

• Ofsted Inspection - thank you!

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  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.

• Ofsted Inspection 19th & 20th March

  Mon 18 Mar 2024

  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 - volunteer day 9th April

  Mon 18 Mar 2024

  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

   

• Happy Healthy Holidays: FRPE @ Ossett Academy

  Fri 15 Mar 2024