Tuesday 7th February: School is open as usual.

Dear parents,

The school is open as usual today, Tuesday 7th February 2012.

Yours sincerely

Mrs. A. Lipski
Head Teacher

Dates for the rest of the Term

3rd February 2012

Dear parents,

DATES FOR THE REST OF THIS TERM

Wednesday 1st February    Year Five trip To Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green

Week beginning 6th February Theme Week : Music, Arts and Drama ( MAD week)

Friday 10th February         Last day of school for this half term. School finishes at normal times

Week beginning 13th February HALF TERM



Monday 20th February     Start of second half term

Thursday 1st March World Book Day – more details to follow

Thursday 8th March parents evening from 3.30 to 7pm ( more details to follow)

Thursday 22nd March Music Festival

Friday 23rd March Years 3 & 4 concert to parents at 9.30 and 2.00pm

Week beginning 26th March Theme Week: Science
Thursday 29th March     Annual Walkabout from 5-7pm

Friday 30th March         Choirs concert to parents at 9,30

Friday 30th March         Last day of the Spring Term



Please note that TUESDAY 17TH APRIL is the start of the Summer Term.



Yours sincerely,


Mrs. A. Lipski

Head Teacher

School Closures

31st January 2012

Dear parents,

How to find out if the School is Closed

If we have to make a decision to close the school unexpectedly, as we have in previous years

due to heavy snow, we have three ways to inform you of this.

Firstly this will be posted on our website: www.parsloesprimary.co.uk .


Secondly we also post this information on the borough’s website on their School Status Page; http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/Education/SchoolStatus/Pages/SchoolStatus.aspx


And finally we will send a groupcall message to the mobile number we have on our records for you so please ensure we have your up to date mobile number.


A decision will be made by 7.30 in the morning. Many factors influence this decision, such as staff being able to get to school, the condition of the school grounds and the conditions of the roads surrounding the school.

Please do not rely on phoning the school to find out this information as there is only one phone line and also there may not be anyone there to take the call.


As the weather forecast is predicting snow from the middle of this week, we will also use these ways to tell you if the school is open too.


Thank you for your co-operation



Yours sincerely
Mrs. A. Lipski

Head Teacher

Year 6 Stubbers Trip June 2012

24th January 2012

Dear Parents of Year Six Children

Year Six Outing

To Stubbers Adventure Centre

On Wednesday 27th June 2012

For Year Six’s last outing as Primary School Pupils, we have arranged for the children to spend a day at Stubbers Adventure Centre.



Here the children will have the opportunity to spend a whole day with their peers doing fun outdoor activities. For example they could be doing any of the following:

Raft building, canoeing, abseiling, climbing, archery, fencing etc.

Once we have confirmed what is on offer for that day we will let you know.

The children will leave by 8.10 in the morning and return at 5pm.


A donation of £35.00 is requested to cover most of the cost of the activities and transport to get there, the rest is being paid for by the school, in order to keep costs down.


If you would like any information on payment schemes please do not hesitate to get in touch with myself or Mrs Parkin and these can be arranged for you.


If you would like your child to go please sign the slip below and return with your deposit of £10 by Friday 10th February 2012.



Yours sincerely



Mrs. A. Lipski

Head Teacher

Behaviour week

11th January 2012

Dear Parents,

THEME WEEK

Monday 9th to Friday 13th January 2012

As mentioned in our last newsletter, part of our new developments this year is to further improve behaviour across the school day.

Good behaviour is fundamental to further promoting a good learning environment and ensuring all our pupils make good progress and achieve.



Since September we have been focusing on how our pupils behave when moving around the school and during whole school gatherings. We have been calling this our etiquette for the corridors and assembly.



This term our focus is on lunchtimes, as this is an area that children and staff have agreed could be improved.

In consultation with staff and pupils we have devised a new code of conduct for Parsloes Primary School. Your child will be bringing home a copy of this.



All classes this week are focusing on this code and part of this is being well mannered. This week, Mrs. Deville has devised a programme of lessons where children are explicitly shown how to behave while in our dining hall. This focuses on ensuring children display good table manners, make sure that they look after the dining hall so that we maintain a pleasant environment in the dining hall for all. In order to reinforce the expectations of this code, there will also be new rewards linked to this. So far this week, it is very pleasing to see how positively your children have responded to being praised for displaying such good manners, you should be very proud of them.


Also part of this initiative is to make sure all staff and children learn each others names and address each other politely. We believe that to make sure our children feel part of our school and have a role to play, it is important that the children know most of the staff and that the staff know as many of our children here as possible by name. With 470 pupils on role that is no small feat! Therefore this week all staff and children have been wearing name badges so we all learn each other names, when we meet each
other around the school.


As part of this, and to ensure we keep you involved, Mrs. Deville will be holding a meeting for parents to go through this Code of Conduct. This will be on Friday 20th January at 2.30pm in the dining hall, (entrance will be through the breakfast club door – Shortcrofts Road side) and will inform you in more detail about the Code of Conduct and answer any questions that you may have.


Please complete the slip below if you would like to attend.



Yours sincerely,


Mrs A. Lipski

Head Teacher