Glade Hill Primary and Nursery School
We are Golden and we SPARKLE
Latest News
Latest News
See below for our latest news items. There will also be news shared on our class pages and in letters or newsletters.
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Letter from the Headteacher - end of Spring 2 2023
Tue 28 Mar 2023Dear Parents and Carers of Glade Hill,
As I write this letter, we are fast approaching our Easter holidays with lots of lovely activities planned for the final week of term. What an amazing half-term it has been! I look forward to seeing many of you at Parents Evening tonight and tomorrow night.
Following the success of our updated clubs programme, in response to an area of development from our successful OFSTED report, we have sent out a letter regarding a new set of clubs for after Easter. We have focused on providing the opportunity for children to try some new and different activities such as cookery, forest school and pottery, alongside some learning focused ones like maths and a book club. I know all the children who attended clubs this term really enjoyed themselves and the new clubs are quickly filling up. If any children missed the letter, please contact the office to see what is available and get them signed up.
We have had so many lovely activities this half-term on our theme ‘The Love of Books’ involving parents, carers and our wider school community. These have included parent reading events in-school, Year 2 visiting the local library (rearranged for Thurs), Year 6 reading to care home residents and lots of exciting activities on World Book Day including the Great Glade Hill Book Swap. Lots of these were organised by Miss Siriboe, who will be leaving Glade Hill at Easter. We thank her and wish her every success for the future.
Finally, this week we also launched our first ‘five day’ attendance challenge as a further incentive to encourage children to be at school as much as possible. All children who attend school every day this week (or every session for Nursery children), will be given a small treat and also entered into a prize drawer to win an Easter Egg. How exciting! As you know improving attendance remains very important to our school and is one of the key priorities on our School Development Plan. We will be presenting children with our 100% attendance badges for this term in the first assemblies after Easter and hoping to run another challenge in the Summer term.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I wish you all a restful break.
Kindest Regards,
Mrs Stapleton
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Sustran Big Walk and Wheel 2023
Thu 23 Mar 2023This year we are taking part for the first time in the Sustran Big Walk and Wheel 2023!
We want to encourage all of our children and families to be fit and active, whilst also trying to reduce congestion around our school site.
All children need to do to get involved is walk, scoot or cycle to school and then let their class teacher know. We then log this information on the Sustran website. For every day we get over 15% of our school population involved, we get entered for prizes.
Walking journeys, journeys made by wheelchair, scooter/skate journeys and cycling journeys to school all count in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel challenge. For those that park and walk/wheel, their journey to school can also be logged.
We are already doing really well with over 50% of our school taking part. This means we are currently ranked 317th in the Country and 68th in the East Midlands. Keep up the good work everyone!
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Comic Relief!
Fri 17 Mar 2023Happy Comic Relief Day!
We have had such a good time today raising money for this important cause. Thank you to everyone who brought donations in.
We've been dressing to impress in red and KS1 have organised some great games including stick a red nose on the Headteacher!
Thank you to all the KS1 children and staff for organising today.
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Book Character Plate - Winners!
Fri 03 Mar 2023Well done to all our winners of
the 'Book Character Plate' competition!
We were all so impressed at the amazing designs and how hard everyone who entered had worked. We will be keeping the plates to use on a whole school display to show everyone how much we love books at Glade Hill!
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Year 5 Handball Festival
Fri 03 Mar 2023Year 5 Handball Festival - Glade Hill Team SPARKLES!
Yesterday Miss Atkin and Mrs York took a team of 14 children from across Year 5 to a Handball Festival at Harvey Haddon.
During the afternoon, the children learned about the sport and developed new skills before trying out some matches against other schools.
Miss Atkin and Mrs York were blown away by the hard work of our team who gained confidence and skills as the afternoon went on. They were great representatives for Glade Hill and showed the other City schools how to be golden and SPARKLY.
Well done Team Handball, we are all so proud of you!
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World Book Day 2023!
Thu 02 Mar 2023World Book Day 2023!
What an amazing day we had at Glade Hill. Lots of costumes and comfy clothes. Lots of reading and work on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Even a puppet show for Year 1 by Year 4. What a treat!
Our older children also really enjoyed visiting the younger classes to do some paired reading with their reading buddies.
Check out some of the photos below of our exciting day, a key part of this half-term's theme 'The Love of Books'.
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'The Love of Books' Launch - Half-term theme
Mon 27 Feb 2023We have launched our theme for this half-term and shared this with the children in special assemblies. The theme is 'The Love of Books' and will include us celebrating World Book Day 2023 on Thursday 2nd March.
During the next few weeks, we have a variety of activities for the children to take part in both in their classes and some community visits as well. Our Year 6s will be visiting local Nursing Homes to read and share books with residents. Our Year 2s are off to the local library for a fun reading session. We also have 'Stay and Read' drop-ins for parents and carers for the other year groups.
On World Book Day we have asked the children to come dressed up either in a book character costume or some comfy clothes. We also have an author visiting us in school and running some workshops with the children.
What a great few weeks we have planned! Check out our website for more details and photos.
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Welcome back letter from the Headteacher - Spring 2 2023
Wed 22 Feb 2023Dear Parents and Carers of Glade Hill,
I hope you all had a nice half-term break. It has been so lovely to see all of the children back in school and ready to continue their learning.
Following the success of our updated clubs programme last half term, we have now started a new set of clubs. This is in response to an area of development from our successful OFSTED report. I know everyone who attended last half-term had a great time, with a selection of clubs offered to KS1 and KS2 children in lots of different areas from sport to Lego to knitting! Nearly all of the clubs for this half-term are now full, as we prioritised children who did not get to attend last time, but if any children missed the letter please contact the office to be put on the waiting list.
We also have lots of exciting curriculum activities planned this half-term, so make sure you check the MarvellousMe app for updates, reminders and messages. This is our main communication tool so if you do not yet have the app, or you are experiencing problems, please speak to a member of our Office team who will be able to help you. Several year groups have trips and visits coming up, and we also have a number of sports events in which children are selected to represent Glade Hill. For further details and news, check out the website.
Our Year 5s went to their first swimming lesson this week and impressed everyone with their resilience and enthusiasm. The staff at Southglade Leisure Centre were very complementary about the children’s attitude and behaviour as well. Well done Year 5, I really enjoyed coming to watch, keep up the good work!
As you know improving attendance remains very important to our school and is one of the key priorities on our School Development Plan. Your child coming to school as much as possible is an important way that you can support their learning and achievement. We will be presenting children with 100% attendance for the Spring term with BRONZE star badges to mark this achievement. If any children achieved 100% in the Autumn and Spring terms then they will receive a SILVER star badge! We have also been continuing to announce which classes have the best attendance each week in assemblies, which is still proving to be very motivating. The winning classes earn extra outside time and the phase attendance trophy for the week!
Mrs Davies, our School Attendance Officer and Office Manager, will be continuing to closely monitor attendance and ensure we act following our policy. This is available on the school website and follows guidance from the Local Authority and the Government on how we can ensure good attendance for all. This includes us not authorising holidays in term-time unless there are exceptional circumstances, and also meeting with parents where the attendance of children is of concern. Mrs Davies is also working with our Education Welfare Officer and other Attendance Officers in our local area to look at how to support attendance moving forwards. Please continue to ensure your child is in school as much as possible so they can get the best out of the great learning we have on offer.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to seeing you all very soon.
Kindest regards,
Mrs Anna Stapleton
Headteacher
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End of half-term letter from the Headteacher
Fri 10 Feb 2023Dear Parents and Carers of Glade Hill,
What an amazing half-term we have had so far! I have been so impressed by the children’s learning across the school and their great attitudes to their work and each other.
Our half-term theme of ‘Healthy Living’ has been a big success with lots of children (and staff!) completing the 20-day challenge. To complete the challenge, participants had to try to complete tasks around mindfulness, internet safety, exercise and healthy eating. Well done to everyone who worked hard on this and to Miss Marshall for organising the challenge. I hope you are looking forward to our theme next half term ‘The Love of Books’, further details coming soon.
We have also had Councillor Barnard into school to read to our EYFS and KS1 children as part of the Nottingham City Council Big Reading Challenge. The children loved the story 'The Gruffalo's Child' and their stickers to take home! The Big Reading Challenge is aiming to raise more than £5000 for the Imagination Library, a charity run by Dolly Parton. This amazing scheme delivers a free book to local children every month from birth to 5 years old. For more information about this amazing charity, and to sign up for free books, take a look here: https://www.dollybooksnottingham.org/
Teams of children from Glade Hill have also being going to several sporting events at Harvey Haddon. These have included a ‘This Girl Can’ festival for Year 5 girls and a Year 3 and 4 Sports Hall athletics competition. The children have all been amazing, showing great team work alongside their sporting skills. We have signed up for several more events, and we will also be having a Year 4 sporting event in school. Keep an eye out for emails and news items on the website for further details.
Finally, just a reminder that there are lots of events happening during the rest of this term, so make sure you check the MarvellousMe app regarding all the fun things we are going to be doing in school and the trips children will be going on. If you do not yet have the app, please speak to a member of our Office team who will be able to help you get set up.
Have a great half-term, kindest regards,
Mrs Anna Stapleton
Headteacher
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NottAlone Launch Event
Fri 10 Feb 2023What an amazing time two members of our Glade Hill Senior Council had at the NottAlone Primary event today! They had such a good time representing our school and finding out about support available to Primary School children.
