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

with a focus on confidence, creativity, care and aspiration. 20th April 2020

✩✩✩✩ Stars of the Week ✩✩✩✩

Thank you for continuing to share with us the

reasons why your children have been little stars at

home.

Amarah (Edison) has been amazing during this

difficult time for many reasons including helping out

our elderly neighbour with his groceries, not

complaining about not being able to go out, and

spending lots of time with her baby sister.

Aidan (Aldrin) has been a superstar because he has

been so lovely with his little brother, reading to him,

playing games with him and cheering him up when

he is upset.

Nikol (Einstein) has been a superstar because she

has been entertaining her family singing My Heart

Will Go On.

This young lady in Reception has been a

superstar because of the care she has

shown towards her brother and for being

attentive in her home learning.

Dylan (Aldrin) and Nathan (Attenborough) have

been superstars because they have been trying

really hard with all the work that has been set for

them; they have been very creative and they have

been doing their very best to play together.

Henry (Attenborough) has demonstrated what a star

he is by reading stories to his mummy every day and

being kind to her because she has been a little bit

poorly.

All of You! We know that having to stay at home

and being away from your friends and teachers is

really challenging yet you are all continuing to do

your best and trying hard to make the most of the

situation. We all really miss you and your families.

We’re very proud of you all.

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New - Online Park Assembly We are really excited to be sharing an online

assembly with you every

Friday (during term time)

at 10:00am beginning this

week, Friday 24th April.

The assembly will be

accessed via our Park

Primary Home Learning

channel on YouTube and

we will be sure to send a

link out via ClassDojo to remind you nearer the time.

There will be contributions from lots of familiar

faces, including Mrs Ttoffali, so why don’t you sit

down together with your family at 10:00am and

know that the whole of our Park community are

joining together, even if we aren’t in the same room.

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Lots of New Additions to the Park Family Last week, we were very excited

to receive the list of children

who will be joining us in

Reception in September. We will

be contacting their families in

due course to welcome them to Park and to outline

the admissions arrangements as we plan the best

way to welcome the children to Park in the current

circumstances.

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A Much Smaller New Addition to Park We are thrilled that there has been

another new addition to the Park family

over the holiday. Ms Sherriff’s son, Hamza,

was born on 14th April.

Congratulations to Tahirah and her family

from all of us at Park.

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Park’s Home Learning Channel

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our

Home Learning Channel to date, whether that be in

school or from home. We have loved to see your

creations. If you haven’t yet taken a look, please do

so; this is what you’re missing. Even if you don’t take

part, it’s lovely to see some familiar faces (including

one from New Zealand)!

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Staffing Updates We’d like to welcome back Ms Healy, one of our

teachers, from her maternity leave and Ms Begum,

our Family Support Worker.

We’d also like to welcome Ms Lucinda Auguste, our

new Admissions, Transitions and Operations Officer.

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P.E. with Joe Many of our children and teachers

at home, and those in school, have

continued to enjoy the workouts

from Joe Wicks. On Friday last week,

they once again joined in with the

fancy dress challenge. We’d love to

see you joining in at home if you’d like to share the

photos with us (info@park.newham.sch.uk).

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Park Staff’s Book Club You may or may

not be aware

that the staff at

Park Primary

have a book club

who meet every

month. For the

duration of the

lockdown, the staff have moved their

meetings online. In their most recent

meeting, they discussed the book,

Me and Mister P by Maria Farrer.

They really enjoyed the book and

would highly recommend it. Follow

this link to find out more about the

book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2vmqDpcV2Q. _________________________________

Park Reads There are currently 19

stories on the Park Reads

page of our website and we

are continuing to add a new

one every other day. _________________________________

Home Learning Gallery This week’s home learning gallery includes lots of

creative holiday tasks. Once again, we have received

lots of photos and pieces of work so we will

continue to share a selection with you.

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Activities in School For the children who have been coming into school,

there have been a range of activities taking place.

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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 focusing on being a ‘Go

for it Gorilla’. The Go for it Gorilla reminds

us to have a go. See if you can demonstrate

the following whilst you are learning at

home to show you are a Go for it Gorilla:

- using the language, “I can’t do it yet.”;

- having a Growth Mindset; - trying things without

support; - not worrying about making

mistakes; - learning from our mistakes; - and being excited to try new things.

Current Affairs

Little Park & Reception: Where do you and your family like to

travel to?

KS1 & KS2: Do we think people will travel less in the future?

New figures revealed on the 7th April by the

Department of Transport show that only a very small

proportion of people in the UK are still travelling

during the lockdown period that the government

have imposed during the COVID-19 outbreak. Visits

to shops, museums and cafes in the UK have fallen

by 85% since the coronavirus outbreak, according to

data shared by Google. The government has

supported Google in using data in this way.

Things to talk about at home…

● Have you used technology to communicate

with friends or family outside of your home?

If so, do you think you will continue to use

this after the lockdown period has ended?

● What changes have your family made to

reduce the amount you leave your home? Do

you think you will continue with any when

the restrictions are lifted?

British Values Link: Rule of Law

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Dates for the Diary We still do not yet know when we

will return to school. We will update

you as soon as we know more.

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