Dear Parents/Carers,
Dear Parents and Carers,
Parental Engagement is a priority at Parsloes Primary School. Working together in partnership ensures we can give your child the very best education we can offer. This term you are invited to come along to meet with your child’s class teacher to discuss their attainment and progress. More information regarding the booking system will be sent via Parent Mail. We look forward to seeing you then!
We are delighted to announce that we will be celebrating World Book Day in school on Thursday 5th March. This is always a wonderful occasion and this year, our focus will be on promoting one of the most important gifts we can give our children – a genuine love of reading for pleasure.
To make the day even more special, we invite children to come dressed as their favourite book character. If they would prefer, they are very welcome to come to school in their favourite pyjamas – perfect for cosy reading! Children should also bring along their favourite book and be prepared to share what makes it such a good read.
Our Curriculum at Parsloes is ambitious, progressive and bespoke to our school community. This term we have new curriculum themes that the children’s learning will be based upon. There have been entry points this week for all curriculum themes and we look forward to inviting some year group parents along to the exit points planned for later this term. Please keep a look out for your invite!
| Nursery | On the Farm |
| Reception | A Bug’s Life |
| Year 1 | Into the Unknown |
| Year 2 | Superhuman! |
| Year 3 | Totally Tropical |
| Year 4 | Bright Lights, Big City |
| Year 5 | To Infinity and Beyond |
| Year 6 | Natural World |
| The Meadow | Space Explorers |
| The ARP | Space Explorers |
This week’s entry points were engaging and ensured that the children start their learning with a well planned, motivating ‘hook’ lesson. This week, Year 2 watched as Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969 whilst Year 3 had a totally tropical morning to launch their curriculum theme learning about the Caribbean. As part of their learning they explored and compared landscapes in the UK and tropical regions through hands on and interactive activities. Year 1 meanwhile, met a very famous explorer. They were able to meet Christopher Columbus and ask him a range of questions about his amazing journeys!
We are delighted to announce that our Girl’s team Goal Keeper has been selected to play for the District Football Team. This is an amazing achievement and we wish her every success in her new role. Well done to Daria – Year 6.
As a reading Champion school you will be aware that we prioritise reading at Parsloes Primary School. Reading for pleasure is part of our school curriculum and is a most important life long activity that we pursue as humans. You will have noticed the new garden room that we have had built in our school playground. This garden room will be transformed over the coming weeks into a relaxing reading space that the pupils will be able to access at break and lunch times. We look forward to sharing more exciting news in due course.
Please see link below for more information
If you have any uniform donations please drop off to the school office. All donations gratefully received. If you are in need of used but in good condition uniform please come along every Monday to the dining hall door. We look forward to seeing you there.
Please see the links below for information, prices and booking details.
There is a new strain of flu that is circulating at the moment. Click the link below for details of how you can still access the Flu Vaccination for your child.
SPRING HPV DTPMenACWY catch-up Clinics Poster
Daggers Multisport Camp Registration
Daggers Football Camp Registration
Jim Peters Stadium – Football Training for Boys & Girls
Thank you for your continued support! Please take at our posts to find out what your children have been learning!
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Karen Deville
Head of School
Congratulations are in order, as we acknowledge the vital contribution Daria (our Girls’ School Football team goalkeeper) has made to our fantastic run of results. Her stand-out performances have not gone unnoticed, as she has recently been scouted for Barking and Dagenham Girls District football......
What a busy week of competitive football we have had with the boys’ football team! With two matches in one week, the boys knew they would be in for a tough battle. It kicked off with a comfortable win against Riverside Primary, winning 5-2. Then......
At the end of last half term, we were very excited to go on our first trip in Nursery. As our unit of work was called ‘Off We Go!’ and we were learning about vehicles, we had the opportunity to go on a train. We......
On Monday Hedgehog Class received a Jungle Mission Box. Inside the box were jungle animals, leaves, the book Monkey Puzzle and a letter from baby monkey. Our mission was to find Mummy Monkey. We looked all around our classroom, then went to the office and......
This half term, Year 1 will be learning about explorers! This week, we had a very special visitor who came by boat. His name was ‘Christopher Columbus’! We listened to his stories and learned all about his travels and discoveries. We had the opportunity to......
Year 2 zoomed into our new topic ‘Superhuman!’ this week! We have created our own superhero masks and adapted a story to include our own Super Vegetable Superheroes. This term we are focusing on improving our handwriting to use the correct letter formation and ensuring......
Year 3 began their new topic, Totally Tropical, with a vibrant entry point day. The children researched different countries in the Caribbean to support their learning for the half term ahead. Inspired by the artist Henri Matisse, they also created bold landscape artwork using bright......
In our English lessons, we have been exploring poetry. We have been learning about figurative language, such as similes and metaphors. We have been exploring how to choose the most effective images to create our own poem about a fairy tale villain....
This week in Year 5, we kicked off our Space unit ‘To infinity and beyond’, by making planets and learning about the amazing Solar System. We learnt that the Solar System formed about 4.5–4.6 billion years ago and consists of the Sun, eight planets, dwarf......
Year 6 has started this half term’s PE lessons by recapping travelling techniques learnt in previous gymnastics units, as well as further developing travelling on different levels. The children learnt techniques of travelling on the floor considering the use of speed, using different pathways and......
It was lovely to see so many happy, smiley faces on our return to school this week. We have started to explore our new book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ which is part of our Once Upon a Time topic. Our first job was to......
This week in the Meadow, our entry was using Beebots to navigate a map to get to the bridge, just like The Three Billy Goats Gruff did. However, we first needed to learn how to use the Beebots and the language of backwards, forwards, left......
Please note: If your child is absent you must inform the school on the morning of the absence. Please do this via the ParentMail app or by phoning the school office on 020 8270 4925.
We aim for the best education for your children at Parsloes Primary School. Full Attendance and Punctuality are essential for your child to make the maximum progress.
To reach the school target pupils must not have any more than 6 days off per academic year. If you need to make appointments for your child, please aim to make them out of school hours or during school holidays. Thank you.
Children with 100% attendance each term will receive a certificate and enter a prize draw for our termly tea party with the Head Teacher.
| Attendance during one school year | Equals this number of days absent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 90% | 19 days | ||
| 80% | 38 days | ||
| 70% | 57 days | ||
| Outstanding 100% |
Good 96% – 99% |
Requires Improvement 91%-95% |
Inadequate (PA) Below 90% |
If you have a concern about a child, please see a member of our safeguarding team.
In an emergency call 999.
Overall attendance this week for Years 1-6 is 95.6%
Best class attendance this week – N Fox Class with 100%
Best class punctuality this week – Ladybird, Grasshopper Elm & Becch Classes with no lates
| Class | Attendance % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| EYFS | |||
| N Rabbit | 97.4 | ||
| N Fox | 100.0 | ||
| Hedgehog | 95.7 | ||
| Years 1, 2 & 3 | |||
| Bumblebee | 94.1 | ||
| Ladybird | 99.3 | ||
| Centipede | 98.1 | ||
| Grasshopper | 94.7 | ||
| Elm | 95.9 | ||
| Oak | 95.6 | ||
| Year 4, 5 & 6 | |||
| Beech | 98.4 | ||
| Maple | 88.5 | ||
| Hummingbird | 92.9 | ||
| Owl | 94.4 | ||
| Robin | 96.4 | ||
| Kingfisher | 98.9 | ||
| Woodpecker | 94.4 | ||
