Ensuring every individual achieves their best through high expectations for all;

with a focus on confidence, creativity, care and aspiration. 16th March 2020

✩✩✩✩ Stars of the Week ✩✩✩✩

Reception and Key Stage 1

Jordan, Suhana & Tawheedur in Reception.

Zaynab, Rashid, Aaisha, Tahreem, Amelia & Reggie in

Year 1.

Erfan, Mina, Iqra, Aasiya, Aisha &

Zaynab in Year 2.

Key Stage 2 Stars of the Week

Said, Daksh, Saisivah, Sumiyyah,

Anastasia & Soloman in Year 3.

Hana, Nijanth, Denislav, Sufyaan,

Prodige & Rumaisa in Year 4.

Gabriel, Yusuf, Sofia, Lucas, Maria & Lara in Year 5.

Eva, Yousuf, Perneet, Muhammed A, Reeda &

Hanifah in Year 6.

Assistant Head Teachers’ Stars of the Week

Miss Cook’s stars are Maysa and Zoya in Key Stage 1.

Miss Broadhurst’s star’s are Adam & Maryam in

Lower Key Stage 2 and Ibrahim & Sienna D in Upper

Key Stage 2.

Attendance Stars

Einstein Class in Reception & KS1 with 97.9%

Berners Lee Class in Lower KS2 with 100%

Rosa Parks Class in Upper KS2 with 98.9%

Overall Attendance: 94.7% (Target: 96%)

Punctuality Stars

Unfortunately we are unable to reward any

classes with extra play this week as there

were no classes with perfect punctuality.

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Scrumdiddlyumptious! On Friday 13th March, Year 3 had a

chocolate themed Design

Technology morning.

Following their English unit on

instructions/recipes linked to our

class reader 'Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory', they made their

own chocolate bars!

The children designed and made their own labels;

made a bar of chocolate

with toppings including

sprinkles, biscuits, dried

fruit, marshmallows and

smarties; and

developed advertising

in the form of posters, songs and adverts. It required

a lot of willpower from the children not to try their

chocolate bars before they showed them to their

families at the end of the day!

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TimesTables Rockstars Party Last week, Brunel

and Helen Keller

classes enjoyed their

TT Rockstars party to

celebrate being their

phase’s champions

in this year’s Park

Primary TT Rock

Stars Championship.

A huge thank

you to the

families for

helping the

rock stars with

their

costumes.

Remember,

being

confident in

knowing multiplication tables is vital to support

progress in most areas of maths, so pupils should be

encouraged to practise regularly at

www.ttrockstars.com, or by downloading the free

app.

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Geography Bee 2020 On Wednesday

4th March, four

children went to

Elmhurst

Primary School

for the Newham

Geography Bee.

Because of our

hard work and

practise, WE WON!

Each question had

four options or a

free answer. For

example the

question, “What is

Mekong?” had the

options: hill, valley, river or glacier. (The answer’s

river).

Two rounds were held, the qualifications round and

the finals. In the final round we got full marks in the

missing vowels questions and we brought home the

trophy. A hat-trick for Park Primary School!

After an intense tie breaker, we even won the

reserves match.

Year 4s, do you have what it takes to keep our title?

If so, start practising now.

For now there’s only one thing to say - Belg (Mr

Walker’s new word).

Geography Bee Team

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Park’s Book Day There were lots of exciting events happening at

school during the week of World Book Day.

World Book Day Costumes

World Book Day proved to be

a great success – the children

were able to bring to life the

characters that they

have been reading

about. It was

exciting to see all the

amazing costumes

and to see how

creative the children

and the adults had been. The children were able to

share their costumes with the rest of the school at a

parade, where the whole school got together.

We also announced the winners of the creative

costume competition.

Book Fair

We would like to thank all the

parents, carers and family

members who supported the

book fair which proved to be

such a great success. We raised

approximately £2000 to spend

on books for the school which is

amazing.

Buddy Reading

The children also had a great time buddy reading

with a partner class.

Story in a Jar

As part of World

Book Day, we

asked children

to create a story

in a jar. There

were many

amazing entries.

Here are the children who won the competition.

Parents in to read

It was also great to see lots of parents and carers in

school reading with their children.

Ms Chandrarajah

We would like to thank everyone, especially Ms

Chandrarajah for making it such a great week.

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COVID-19 Update We continue to follow advice received from the

Department for Education and Public Health

England. This includes encouraging good hygiene.

We are also discouraging close contact wherever

possible, including refraining from hand shakes.

Should your child’s class teacher self-isolate, we will

inform you of that.

Currently, there is no guidance directing us to close

the school and therefore we continue to operate as

usual. We are, however, beginning to make

contingency plans should this guidance change, in

order that we can continue to make provision for

your child’s education to the best of our ability.

We are asking that parents and carers who do not

have access to internet enabled devices at home, let

their child’s class teacher know.

Please remember that staff, parents and young

people can contact the DfE’s Coronavirus helpline as

follows:

Phone: 0800 046 8687

Email: DFE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk

Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)

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This week…

Thunks to get you Thinking!

Key Stage 1 Thunk

Key Stage 2 Thunk

Thought for the Week

Learning Power Focus

This month we are using

‘Exploring Elephant’ to remind

us to be curious about the

world around us. When we talk

about being curious, we want to:

wonder, question, explore, experiment, try and take

risks.

You can show your teacher that you are an Exploring

Elephant’ by:

● asking questions;

● noticing things;

● thinking of reasons;

● asking, “What if…?” “Why…?” “Who….?

“When….? “Where…?”;

● trying new things;

● and looking for patterns and connections.

Current Affairs

What would you find hard about starting again?

Turkey opened its borders for Syrian refugees to

leave its territory for Europe at the end of

February. So far hundreds of thousands have left

Turkey. Many Syrians have fled their home

country, following dangerous conditions and fighting

due to the ongoing civil war there. Fife Council

in Scotland has one of the highest rates of

resettlement for Syrian refugees in the UK. During

the increasingly unsettled situation in Syria, Fife are

wanting to help more families and have said they

will continue to welcome many more families this

year.

Things to talk about at home...

● Have you always lived where you live now? If

not, talk about what it was like moving. If you

moved to a different place, talk about what

that was like.

● What do you think might be some of the

challenges of moving to a different country?

British Values Link: Mutual Respect

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Dates for the Diary March

Thurs 19th Year 2 St. Francis Church

Fri 20th Year 6 Tower of London

Mon 23rd Year 4 Easter Celebration visit

Wed 25th Year 1 London Zoo

Wed 25th 2:00pm Year 4 Production

April

Wed 1st Marie Curie Class Tower of London

Thurs 2nd Einstein Class Tower of London

Fri 3rd Pasteur Class Tower of London

Fri 3rd Star of the Term Awards

Fri 3rd Last day of term (school closes at 3:15pm)

Mon 6th - Fri 17th School Closed - Easter Holiday

Mon 6th - Weds 8th Year 6 Holiday School

Mon 20th Back to school

May

Weds 6th Year 4 Science Museum

Fri 8th School Closed - Bank Holiday

Mon 11th - Fri 15th KS2 SATs

Thur 21st Last day of term (school closes at 3:15pm)

Fri 22nd - Fri 29th School Closed - Half Term

June

Mon 1st Back to school

July

Thurs 9th 6:00pm Year 6 Production

Fri 10th 2:00pm Whole School Choral Speaking

Fri 17th 2:00pm Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly

Fri 17th Last day of term (school closes at 3:15pm)

Mon 20th Summer holiday begins

September

Wed 2nd Staff training day

Thurs 3rd Staff training day

Fri 4th Staff training day

Mon 7th Children back to school

Sharing Assemblies Date KS1 9:00am KS2 2:20pm

20.3.20 Marco Polo No sharing

27.3.20 No sharing No sharing

3.4.20 STAR OF THE TERM AWARDS

Please note that school term dates are available on

our website for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. _________________________________