Sport Relief Mile – 16 March

Mr Cooke has organised a sponsored event on Friday 16th March to raise funds for Sport Relief. Parents/ Grandparents are invited to join us for a Sport Relief Mile (running or walking!) and extra sponsor forms are available in school if required. Please meet us on the Jubilee Playing field for a 2.00pm start. Children may then go home early with an adult. Any unaccompanied children will walk back to school with staff and should be collected as usual at 3.30pm. Please check book bags for information and sponsor forms.

UPDATE:

Balancability

Balance bikes have no pedals and are designed to help children to learn to balance on their own and ride a bike without the need for stabilisers. The children had a great time and took part in an afternoon of fun games and activities.

Five ways to wellbeing!

Five Ways to Wellbeing for young people.

It’s never too early to start learning about good emotional health and wellbeing. It’s really important to find, and practice, positive ways of thinking as they can help you through life’s ups and downs.
There are some simple things that everyone can do that can help boost moods and keep you happy. They’re easy to do and don’t have to cost a penny.They’re known as the 5 ways to well-being for young people and they are:

Be active
Connect
Give
Keep learning
Take notice

See the Derbyshire County Council website for more information:
derbyshire.gov.uk/fiveways

Ofsted Inspection Jan 16th

Our Ofsted Inspection will take place on 16th January. Information is on the website for your convenience. A paper copy of the letter with an information  leaflet have been sent home.

If you are a registered parent or carer of a pupil at the school, (including pupils who are off sick) please take a few minutes to tell Ofsted your views about the school by completing Ofsted’s online survey, Parent View, at: www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk.

Please complete the online survey by noon on 16 January 2018 as this will give the inspection team more time to consider your views. However all online responses that are completed during the inspection will be considered, although the free-text box facility will not be available after noon on 16 January 2018.

Thank you very much.

Online safety – Parent Workshop January 31st

On-line safety workshop for Parents – Hunloke Park Primary School 31st January @ 6.00pm.

There is a parental workshop on online safety on Wednesday 31st January at 6pm for the GSLC cluster group of schools. The session will be run by the police and the MAT team are also hoping to contribute. Please see the ‘Online safety’ newsletter and check bookbags for slips to return to school so we have an idea of numbers attending the workshop. Thank you.

Children in Need Spotacular!

Woodpecker Class
Woodpeckers
Peregrine Class
Peregrines
Kingfisher Class
Kingfishers

Children In Need – Spotacular 17th November

On Friday 17th November we raised funds for Children-in-Need by holding a non-uniform day and coming to school wearing something stripy and/or spotty. Thank you to everyone who dressed up and made donations. Have a look at Woodpecker Group’s  fantastic Pudsy Bear masks. Mrs Mahadevan took some photographs and has taken the ‘spotacular’ event to new heights as she now has chicken pox; she is covered in real spots and will be off school all week!

Master Blaster Laser Tag Nov 23

Never mind going to a laser quest experience, the Master Blaster mobile laser tag arena is coming to our school hall on 23 November! Our KS2 children have the opportunity to experience an exciting range of games either as individuals or as part of a team.

Funding for this activity has been provided by P4YP ‘Positive For Young People’ who are a non-profit organisation based at the Hub, Gladstone Buildings in Clay Cross.

The Action Sports activities provided by the Extreme wheels team, are fast, furious and a huge amount of fun for anyone age 7+. See Bolsover District council’s website; for information.

‘RE Today’ publication Autumn 2017

All schools have a duty to promote British Values – See our British Values statement. We also want all our pupils to connect their work on British Values with their RE and with the values the school promotes. We used an activity from the book RE and British Values ( 2015, Birmingham: RE Today)  to explore what it means to be British. We were then invited to send photographs and information about the school to the editor of ‘RE Today’, Lat Blaylock and we are pleased to be able to share the article, published in the Autumn edition, here on our website.

‘RE Today’ – Stretton Handley CE (VC) Primary School RE and British Values