Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Primary Dance Showcase

  Tue 26 Mar 2019

  Well done to all our wonderful dancers who performed in the Primary Dance Showcase at The Baths Hall on 21st March.

   

  The children performed a choreographed dance routine to an audience and did an amazing job!

   

  Below are pictures from the professional photographer who attended the event.

  

• FREE Family Breakfast and Books sessions

  Mon 25 Mar 2019

  Once again there are FREE breakfast and books sessions over the Easter period.

  Please see the posters below for venues and more information.

  Thankyou

  

• Comic Relief 2019- Thank you!

  Wed 20 Mar 2019
  

• Long Rope Skipping - Wednesday 20th March

  Wed 20 Mar 2019
  Some of the year 5 and year 6 classes took part in a long rope skipping challenge. Children were taught how to run into the rope whilst it was turning, do 3 consecutive jumps and to run out of the rope without it touching them. The aim was to see how many people could get through the rope in 7 minutes. The classes competed against each other and so far the winning class is 6Holly with a score of 53. We look forward to each class repeating the challenge and seeing if they can improve on their first score.

• Skip to the beat - Wednesday 13th March

  Thu 14 Mar 2019
  Pupils in year 3 and year 4 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a skipping challenge with Miss Palin from the Get Ahead Partnership. Each child worked very hard to improve their skipping technique and finished by completing the skip to the beat challenge.This involved children trying to skip in time to the beat of various songs. Each lucky child received a skipping rope to keep forever! We look forward to hopefully seeing the children improve on their scores, when they redo the challenge in a few weeks time. 

• Easter School Lunch- Wednesday 3rd April

  Thu 14 Mar 2019

  Our themed lunch day for this term will be 'Hoppy Easter'.

   

  This change of menu will take place on Wednesday 3rd April. 

   

  Please take a look at the poster below to see the delicious menu for this day.

   

  Thank you

  

• Pancake Day - Tuesday 5th March

  Mon 04 Mar 2019

  Top Tips to keep your pancakes healthy:

  Please have a look at the pictures and see if there are changes you could make to your pancakes, to make them even healthier!

  

• It's Catching - Monday 4th March

  Mon 04 Mar 2019

  Well done to all the year 1 and year 2 children who took part in the It's Catching session today, led by the Get Ahead Partnership. Children worked hard to develop their throwing and catching skills within a Statues and Scarecrow game and concluded with seeing what level they could complete within the 24 stage challenge. The highest score achieved in year 1 was level 11 and the highest score in year 2 was level 14. 

   

  Each child was extremely excited to receive their very own tennis ball to keep forever and a booklet containing lots of game ideas. We ask you to encourage your child to practice their throwing and catching skills over the next couple of weeks, as we will be repeating the challenge, where hopefully we will see some fantastic improvements!

   

  

• World Book Day- Thursday 7th March

  Tue 26 Feb 2019

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  World Book Day takes place on Thursday 7th March, and we would like to invite you to join us in helping your child to make the most of this special occasion. World Book Day celebrates the joy and value of books and reading, especially for children.

   

  On Thursday 7th March we are inviting the children to dress up as their favourite book character.

   

  (For Nursery children who are not in school on World Book Day, this will take place on Monday 11th March)

   

  Thank you

  

• Parent feedback from noticeboard on parents evenings Feb 2019

  Wed 20 Feb 2019 Anna Cvijetic

  Many thanks for those carers (and children) for giving us feedback on the board at Parent Consultation evenings in February 2019.  Please see the summary below.

   

  What do we do well?

  • Good teaching and progress – 14
  • Happy and friendly – 10
  • Good communication – 9
  • Good support and caring – 10
  • Keep safe – 2
  • Good at sports – 2
  • Dinners – 2
  • Breakfast club - 1

   

   

  What could we do better?	Response
  After school clubs – more places, variety and way we allocate places.	Following the last feedback we introduced a new electronic booking system limiting children to one club to make it fairer.    Over the year we do feel we offer a large amount and variety, there are less in the Spring term due to the weather limiting sports clubs.  We don’t include nursery and reception in clubs because when we have previously they are shattered after a long school day and want to go home.   On top of these we have extra clubs to boost children academically (English and Maths) which children are invited to.
  Use less paper – make more use of electronic communication (out of school clubs, parents evening, etc).	The recent introduction of text messaging has added to the school app, website, Class Dojos and Tapestry.  All of these allow us to reduce paper work. Trip permissions and payments and booking after school clubs are now also done electronically.    We are trying to get an email address for all our parents because ‘Primary Site’, who we use for text messaging and our website, also allows us to send emails, but we only have about 60% of parents details.  Once we have 100% we can send all letters out electronically. You will be able to book your parent consultation appointments on Primary Site too.   We will continue to ask for this information.
  Open the gates on time / earlier (infants).	We will review the current system to see if we can improve it.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  PARENT COMMENTS

  What do we do well?	What could we do better?
  Excellent advice and support always.	Open gates earlier.
  I feel my son is safe and happy at school.	Open the gates on time.
  Teachers and their assistants are excellent and deserve credit for what they do!!	Serve better food and open the gates quicker so we don’t freeze.
  Lovely teachers thank you.	Don’t make them play when it’s cold.
  Good at communication with up coming events.	Could do more activities for children, i.e. trips to Normanby Park, etc.
  I am happy to send our daughter everyday.  She seems happy to be at school and always excited about the things she learnt.	Don’t understand why leave til 3.15 to open gates, queues are right up street and affecting traffic etc, then it’s like a stampede.
  Delicious hot dinners.	Do swimming in Y2.
  Communications with parents and teachers is really good (website, apps really helps).	Use less paper – make more use of electronic communication.
  Love the caring, genuine help and support my child receives.  Thank you.	Gates at pick up could do with being opened earlier.
  The school does sports very well.	You could serve dinners on trays.
  * is really enjoying his time in Year 1.  We are really happy with the support that he is receiving from the staff.	Re-think congestion issues for some classes picking up at the end of the school day.  Maybe a on-way system?
  Breakfast club is very good.	Open the gates sooner at 3.15pm.
  The variation of things that the kids are learning in Year 1 is amazing.  My child loves school and has come a long way.	Reading classes from reception (for parents).
  Mr * is a very cooperative and helpful teacher, thanks (helped me with my lil one).	Moving to doing things electronically (out of school clubs, parents evening, etc).
  Thank you, you are doing the best.	More art!!
  Miss * is really kind.  Great communication with parents.	Include reception and nursery children in after school clubs.
  School cleanliness is excellent. Parents evening well organised. * enjoys her days at school and comments a lot on new activities, *’s reading coming on very well.	Management at the school is non-existent. It is a shame that staff are leaving.  This is a sad state.
  The teachers are very good and caring.  We do not have any complaints about them.	Open the class doors bit quicker most classes have already come out.
  Ms * is a devoted teacher who has wonderful art skills and very helpful with the sports club.  * loves her.	Art? and photography!
  Both girls love school so just continue to do what you do J.	More after school clubs please – the list gets shorter every time!
  Communication.	School dinners are not so good lately.
  Miss * is an amazing teacher one could wish for! * is luck to have such a devoted, hardworking and friendly teacher. Thanks.	Berkeley could do with letting staff know they have passed messages on regarding children.  Extra help for children who need it.
  Very good.	Golden time.
  Lovely school, always has been.	After school clubs.
  Miss * - a very helpful teacher who guided me with *’s notebooks and all learning objectives. J	Email pupils development – strengths and weaknesses on a monthly basis.
  Staff are very helpful and listen to any concerns.	More after school clubs! No one club policy please!
  School dinners are great, plenty of variety. Communication through Dojo and teachers is excellent.  My daughter is very happy, loves her teachers and loves school!
  Miss * - great teacher.
  Berkeley text messages / alerts are very useful.
  Good at extra support (Pixl).
  Help when stuck on something!
  Excellent in every way.  Keep it up!  Very receptive to new ideas!
  Berkeley do well at understanding children’s health issues and notes form the doctors.
  You teach us well J
  Keep children challenged and interested.
  Teachers are excellent at reporting potential safeguarding issues.
  You do great on communication, math, history, handwriting coaching.
  Listening to parents and dealing with any issues is excellent.
  Golden time to reward good behaviour.
  Sports and PE.
  Thank you for all your hard work you do with my kids.  Well done everyone!
  Great school.  Great support system.  Excellent feedback.
  Berkeley Primary School is doing all the hard work!
  Big thank you to all the teachers and teaching assistants
  Berkeley Primary is doing everything super well! Keep it up!
  Great job settling my child in when he started in the middle of the term, made him feel very welcome.  Great teacher and TA.  Thank you.
  Thank you for all that you do for my girls xxx
  Do everything lovely, * loves everything.