News

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 94% (Nursery not included).

Reception Art Club

This Monday the Art Club will be working with community artists and making Litterbugs for the Chorlton Arts Festival.

The Art Club is on every Monday after school, 3.30 to 4.30.  It is open to all children in Reception Year.  There is a crèche for younger and older brothers and sisters and it is free, so come along and join in the fun.

Staff v Children Football Matches

The staff at Chorlton Park have held victory over the Year 6s for 8 years, alas victory is now with the Year 6 boys, the boys have worked hard as a team all season and it has paid off by beating the teachers 6-5 in an enthralling match.  Congratulations to you all.  Mr Woods would also like to thank Godfrey Williams for refereeing both games and Jeff Mills and Lloyd Palma for helping out and supporting the children throughout the year.  It doesn’t stop there.  The Year 5/6 girls team also put in a fine performance and although the final result was not to be in their favour the girls played exceptionally well against a team that should perhaps consist of fewer male teachers.

A final thank you should go to the members of staff who gave up their time during a hectic time of year.

Summer Adult Disco

Quick …….Quick …….Quick ……. Quick …….

Last remaining tickets are available from the school office.  Dust down your dancing shoes and come and enjoy a fun night, with One Tree Island DJ.  Downstairs in the Spread Eagle Pub in Chorlton.

Friday 16^th May

Tickets £7 or £5 is you bring a percussion instrument on the night.

Parent Meeting

The meeting on 25^th April was focussed on the school’s homework policy. This was prompted by a letter from a parent who was concerned that their child was receiving too much homework, which was detracting from quality family time.

Other parents sent letters stating that we should produce more homework.

The parents came to the conclusion that homework should in the main be;

• Practical and open ended
• Involve a range of subjects not just Maths and English (art, history etc)
• Linked to work in school, but may not involve worksheets
• Allow for pupils to do more homework if they wished
• Not take up to much family time
• Investigate homework clubs

As you can see this issue will require further discussion and a change to our school policy.

We hope to come back to parents with suggestions at the next meeting. We will inform parents of the date as soon as possible.

Thanks to all the parents that attended the meeting.

Year 6 SATs

Please help us to prepare your children for their SATs by making sure they get a reasonable amount of sleep, a good breakfast and arrive early for school.

Toast and drinks will be available in school for Year 6 children and the door will be open from 8.30am.

Nursery News

Nursery Number of the week is ……10

There are still a few Nursery Stay and Play places left and we will do doing activities connected to the Out of Africa theme.

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 95% (Nursery not included).

Chorlton Young Musicians

 Congratulations to Jonah Gourlay and Michael Cox in 5MW who came joint first in the primary category of the Chorlton young musicians of the year award. This is an outstanding achievement the school is really proud of.

Year 5’s Twelfth Night Performance

The performance is on Monday May 19^th and tickets can be bought from the Blue Box Theatre.

Year 5 Animation Competition

Children from Year 5 have entered an animation competition at Manchester University. They have created 1 minute films using some free software called Alice. Good Luck!

Year 5 Assembly

Thursday 22nd May at 9.10 a.m. All welcome.

Book Fair

The book fair raised over £1200, which will result in a lot of new books coming in to school.  Thank you for all the support.

Congratulations to Lisa Marsh who has had a baby girl.

Thank you to Andrew Mercer’s Mum for donating the fabulous costumes for both Nurseries it was extremely generous.

Nursery Stay and Play

Places are filling up quickly in Oak and Acorn Nursery.  The dates are 20^th, 21^st, 22^nd and 23^rd May.  Sign up quickly to ensure your place.

Financial Management Standards

The school has just been awarded the FMSiS mark, which means we are following good financial practice in school.  I would like to thank Ms Sands for her hard work and the extra hours she put in to complete the FMSiS Audit.

Girls Netball

Our formidable netball team played Seymour Park School on Monday and won 7-4.  Well done to the team with their winning streak!

Book bags now in stock.