News

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

School Meal Menu for next week – Week 1

National Sing-Up Day is on Wednesday 24^th February. On this day, all of the children will be joining schools across the country in a nationwide event in a Guinness World Record attempt. The purpose of the event is to promote sing-up which is a government initiative to encourage children to sing more. At 3pm on 24^th February, Foundation stage and Year 1 will gather in the Infant Hall, Year 2-4 in the Dining Hall and Nursery children will stay in the Nursery to sing. When you come to collect your children, you are invited to come and join in with us before you take them home at the usual time of 3.20pm. This should be a very exciting event, please support us in it by arriving slightly early on that day so that you can sing with us if you wish!

Year 4 trip to 21cc

Please look out on the blog for the work the children have been doing as a result of their trip to 21cc last week. The BBC will also be including some of this work in their website within the next few months. We will keep you updated. 

SpeedMark Challenge

Just a reminder that the sponsored SpeedMark challenge is taking place on Thursday 4^th march (Year 4, 5 and 6) and Friday 5^th March (Yrs 1, 2 and 3).

Safety Concerns

Over the last week the police have been present at the beginning and end of the day outside school. They have found the situation some parents are putting their children in to be extremely dangerous, because of this they are coming in the first Monday back to talk to the children in KS1 and 2 assemblies regarding parking and road safety. If you are one of the parents who are continuing to park on the yellow zigzag lines, it is you the police will be focusing on next term. Thank you for all the parents who continue to put children’s safety first by parking elsewhere.

After Half Term, the staff will no longer be able to park in the car park, meaning they will be parking on the road outside school.

Year 5 students and families….Would you like to help me / be involved in a film/arts project?

I am a parent with children at Chorlton Park, who is running an arts project called the ‘The Museum of Childhood’.  This project will end with an exhibition for the Chorlton Arts Festival in May 2010.

The project is about how objects can conjure up memories from /of childhood, and I am interested in working with ten families from Chorlton Park (with children aged 10 years/’rising ten’). 

If you have a short story to tell about one object that is important to you and why, and are interested in the film-making process please contact me for more information!

You can email me at judd.su@btopenworld.com  or leave a message for me via the office.

Year 4 Castleton Residential Meeting

Year 4 parents should have already received a letter early this week regarding the Castleton meeting which will be held on the first Tuesday back after half term – Tuesday 23^rd February. To enable as many parents and carers as possible to come, we will be running it three times over the day – 9.15am, 3.30pm and 6.30pm. This will be an opportunity for us to share important information regarding the residential. We hope to see as many of you as possible.

Nursery News

All the Nursery staff and children wish Miss Wilson Bon Voyage. We are very sad that she won’t be here but very happy that she will get to travel around Australia. At the same time we are happy to welcome Ms Opdam into our school. In the week after half term we will be focusing on ourselves, our groups, our nurseries and our families. Each child can bring in their favourite Fairy tale from home for us to read out to the class. Please remember to tell us that the book is in school and label it with their name. Finally, enjoy half-term week. We hope you have fun and come back safely after a well deserved break.

On Saturday 6^th February Hannah, Eve and Billie from Year 6 went on a course at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. Hannah and Eve went on a fashion designing course and customized their own t-shirts with spray paint. Billie went to a drama workshop where she wrote a play script and performed it. All the girls really enjoyed their day and thought it was fantastic.   

St Bedes v Chorlton Park Y6 football

Monday night saw the postponed cup match between these two great teams. The match was a rollercoaster ride for the spectators; on the 89^th minute C.P.P.S were out of the cup loosing 2-1. With the last kick of the game we equalised and took the game to extra time. We eventually won 2-5, but this was the toughest game so far this season. The boys showed great character to come back twice and finally win. Well done boys, we await to see who we play in the next round!!

Maths Quiz

On Friday, children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part in a Maths quiz assembly. Taking part were…Sam and John from 3JE, from 3MJ Alfie and Joel, and from 3MB Theo and Ahmad.

From Year 4, Atlanta and Georgia from 4DM, Abraham and Hattie from 4SH and Manik and Ibrahim from 4BH. From Year 5 Dylan and Noor from 5SK, Aziz and Usman from 5MW and Ruby O and Jude from 5HW. From 6, Ahmed and Jason from 6MG, Ceara and Bukhari from 6RH and Aleyshea and Brandon from 6JG.

The winners in years 3 and 4 were, Manik, Hattie and then Ibrahim. Out of year 5 and 6, Ahmed came first with an impressive 91%, followed by Brandon and Jason.

Police Bike Safety

Well done to all the children who took part in the Police Bike Safety course. The children who took part have been asked to create some posters and letters that could be displayed in the Police Station!! The police will be in school next half term to hand out a prize to one lucky winner Thank you to all those who helped out!

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 96% (Nursery not included). 

Message from the Police

The police were outside school twice this week and have found a high number of cars parked or stopped on the yellow zig-zag lines outside school.  This is clearly a risk to our young people which is why the yellow zig-zags are there to protect our children.  Please show you care and park elsewhere.

Due to the high numbers found this week the police will be returning over the rest of the term and issuing tickets.

Chorlton Schools’ Quiz

On Tuesday 4 children from Chorlton Park competed in a quiz against 5 other Chorlton schools.

Milad Mossanen-Parsi, Louis Hadoke, Manik Mehta and Cynog Williams from years 6 down to 3 were picked to represent Chorlton Park.  There were 8 teams in total competing and Chorlton Park came second.  The team displayed incredible general knowledge skills, for example recognised the flag of Sri Lanka, knew which monument was built in Trafalgar Square in 1843 (Nelson’s Column). Well done to the team.

School Meal Menu for next week – Week 6.

Year Three Roman Soldier Day
On Friday 12th February Year Three will be having a day in the life of a Roman soldier. We would love children to dress up as though they were members of the Roman Army. The day will include training drills, shield practice and other army activities! 

Alex Williams

Alex, ex Man City goal keeper and ex-governor for Chorlton Park came into school on Wednesday to give a talk about the power of sport and aspiring to be what you want to be and not giving up on your goals.  Jamiel, 5MW, asked him what team he supported and his answer was City, true to his roots, as he grew up in Moss Side.

Nursery News

Next Friday Nursery are holding a leaving party for Miss Wilson, all the children are invited to come in dressed up as Miss Wilson for the day!  We are having a party in the afternoon. 

Message from Miss Wilson

Thank you to all the children I have had in my class over the past 3 years, who have made my time at Chorlton Park really special and thank you and good bye to all the parents and staff.  I will be leaving on Friday 12^th and will keep in touch with school whilst I am on my travels around Australia.

School Dinners

We have been listening to pupils’ ideas and opinions about school dinners and one of the concerns was not having a choice when your class is on the last lunch sittings.  We are now piloting a pre-order system with Years 5 & 6 which is due to start after half term.  If this is successful we will start to roll it out across school.  We will keep you up to date with progress.

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