Year 5 had a fantastic day meeting all of the animals and learning lots more about life cycles, which links to our science unit. They even got to feed some of them! There was lots of giggling and happy faces. Thank you to Hall Hill Farm for a fabulous day!

Key Stage One had some very exciting visitors in this morning! Members of the fire service arrived in their fire engine and shared some of the special equipment they use to protect our community. It was absolutely fantastic!

We are proud to announce that Parkhead Primary School has successfully completed the Rainbow Flag Award and are now Rainbow Flag Award holders. Over one academic year, we have worked towards achieving a positive whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion, focusing on six areas with the support of children, staff, governors and parents/carers.

Through achieving this award, which focuses on positive LGBT+ inclusion (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, plus other related identities), we are demonstrating a commitment to improving the lives of all young people that we work with, including those that are LGBT+, those from LGBT+ families, as well as LGBT+ staff members.

Birch class have had a lovely afternoon with Julie from the Natural History Society of Northumbria. We discussed the importance of protecting the world around us and we made a pledge to say how we are going to help look after our environment.

World Book Day 2023

The children came into school dressed in their pyjamas today,  as we celebrate the importance of bedtime reading. They also brought along their favourite story to share with their class.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Books at Breakfast event this morning to help us celebrate World Book Day. It was lovely to see so many children enjoying reading and talking about books with their adults

EASTER FUNDRAISER

SPLAT are holding an Easter fundraiser in the form of a virtual duck race which will run throughout the first week of the Easter holidays. The idea is you purchase as little or as many ducks as you wish to enter into the race and you can give each duck a name of your choice.

You will be able to track the race online throughout the week once it begins!

Your child will bring home a duck race entry form over the next couple of days so you can start selling ducks to your family and friends! There is a prize for the child/ family who sells the most ducks!

We ask that your entry form and money is handed back into school via the main office no later than Wednesday 29 March. You can obtain extra entry forms should you require one from the main office too.

Our first prize is £100 Amazon voucher and some chocolate treats! We have 3 other “big” prizes and plenty of Easter eggs for runners up!

Please help us raise as much as we can! We hope that, with monies raised, we will be able to make a valuable contribution to the installation of outdoor fixed play equipment on key stage 1.

As ever, thanks for your support

Cedar and Maple enjoyed their first tennis session this week with Mrs Thompson and Andy and Olly from We Do Tennis from Blaydon Tennis Club. They practised their ready position, how to correctly hold the racket and their forehand swing. They then played a fun game of last one standing.

School has secured Greggs breakfast funding to launch a new ‘Grab and Go’ Breakfast station. The breakfast stations will be available for children to use as they come into school from 8.45am – 8.55am. This will commence on 27 February 2023 and will enable children who haven’t had any breakfast at home, to have a small, healthy, breakfast snack before going into class. Our breakfast stations will be situated in the 3-4 wing, 5-6 wing, the KS1  entrance and reception classroom. The breakfast snacks will be replenished every Monday and will be available on a first come first served basis for those who have not had breakfast before coming into school. Toast for KS2 children and fruit for KS1 children will remain available at morning break as normal.

KS1 also had a visit from Alex from Northern Gas Networks, who told us all about the hydrogen homes that have been built in our local area and ways we can help with climate change. We even got a sneak peek of her hydrogen powered car!