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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Headteacher Letter - start of Summer 1
Fri 25 Apr 2025Dear Parents and Carers of Glade Hill,
I hope you all had a lovely Easter break. It has been so lovely to see all of the children back in school and be so keen to get back to their learning. The first week has flown by with all the great learning taking place in school! This week we have been focusing on the children setting targets about having golden behaviour and SPARKLY learning. It was lovely to see the children who have worked really hard on this get certificates today in celebration assembly.
Our Year 6s have continued to work really hard and will be taking their SATs later this half-term during May. I am so proud of all their progress and hard work, and I know that this will be reflected in their results. Keep up the good work Team 6 and I know you will reap the rewards!
The Year 2 children will also be undertaking some assessments, but these will be later in the Summer term this year due to changes in Government guidance and results reporting. Although there will still be some tests, these will be used to inform future teaching and learning, and will not be reported in the same way as previously.
We again have lots of exciting curriculum and enrichment activities planned for this term, including our clubs, trips and in-school experiences. For example, the children in Year 2 will accessed an ‘Owl Experience’ day as part of their English learning and some of our Year 4 children are accessing ‘Wild Things’ outdoor learning. Unfortunately, we have had the sad news that the Year 2 Wollaton Camp and the Year 4 Colwick Camp have been permanently closed due to the financial situation at Nottingham City Council, meaning that these year groups will be unable to go on residentials this year. We are working hard as a school to arrange alternative experiences, so watch this space.
Our Year 5s attended their first swimming lessons of the year this term, and impressed everyone with their resilience and enthusiasm. The staff at Southglade Leisure Centre were again very complementary about the children’s attitude and behaviour. Well done Year 5.
Finally, as I have shared with you before, our three Priority Areas for School Improvement this year are: improving the teaching of Reading; continuing to improve Attendance; and also developing our Assessment processes. Teachers and support staff have attended in-school training on how to improve the teaching of reading and how to use assessments to move children’s learning on. We have also continued our incentives to improve attendance. Overall, as a school we are making good progress towards our targets. This progress has been shared with our Governing Body and also our School Improvement Advisor who both complimented the progress we are making.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to seeing you all very soon.
Kind regards,
Mrs Stapleton - Headteacher
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Year 1 Exhibition
Fri 04 Apr 2025Take a look at the amazing photos from the Year 1 Exhibition where they shared their learning about the Great Fire of London with children, staff and parents/ carers across the school.
The children all worked really hard to share their learning and we are very proud of them.
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End of Spring 2 Headteacher Letter
Fri 04 Apr 2025Dear Parents and Carers of Glade Hill,
I would like to wish you all a Happy Easter holidays and I hope you have enjoyed all the lovely activities we have had this half-term. What an amazing half-term it has been! It was great to see so many of you at our Parents Evenings and thank you for all your ongoing support for your children’s learning. Here are some of our fabulous, decorated eggs from across the school. We are also having an Eid celebration tonight after school and the FROGs are organising a toy swap. Thank you to everyone who has taken part and contributed.
The half-term’s theme ‘The Love of Books’ was amazing, involving parents, carers and our wider school community. These have included our reading challenges in school, paired class reading, extreme reading photos from home, book quizzes and also lots of exciting activities on World Book Day. Take a look at some photographs below.
Take a look as well at the amazing photos from the Year 3 Exhibition where they shared their learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age with children, staff and parents/ carers across the school. The children all worked really hard to share their learning and we are very proud of them. We hope all the parents and carers who attended enjoyed it too.
Next half-term we have lots more exciting learning on offer that our staff are really looking forward to sharing with our children. So please make sure your children are in school as much as possible so they can benefit from this and make great progress.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I wish you all a restful break.
Kindest regards,
Mrs Anna Stapleton - Headteacher
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Year 3 Exhibition
Fri 04 Apr 2025Take a look at the amazing photos from the Year 3 Exhibition where they shared their learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age with children, staff and parents/ carers across the school.
The children all worked really hard to share their learning and we are very proud of them.
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Special Award Winners - EYFS - Spring 2!
Wed 02 Apr 2025Take a look at some of the winners of our Special Awards for this half-term from EYFS!
They were chosen by their teachers and the staff who work with them due to their exceptional qualities in one of the following areas:
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Golden - They have followed our 3 golden rules and been a role model to others
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SPARKLE - They have shown great learning behaviours
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Always - They have consistently shown great learning behaviours and always follow our 3 golden rules
What a fantastic achievement for them! We are so proud of them and don't they look great with our selfie frames.
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Special Award Winners - Key Stage 1 - Spring 2!
Wed 02 Apr 2025Take a look at some of the winners of our Special Awards for this half-term from KS1!
They were chosen by their teachers and the staff who work with them due to their exceptional qualities in one of the following areas:
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Golden - They have followed our 3 golden rules and been a role model to others
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SPARKLE - They have shown great learning behaviours
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Always - They have consistently shown great learning behaviours and always follow our 3 golden rules
What a fantastic achievement for them! We are so proud of them and don't they look great with our selfie frames.
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Special Award Winners - Upper KS2 - Spring 2!
Wed 02 Apr 2025Take a look at some of the winners of our Special Awards for this half-term from UKS2!
They were chosen by their teachers and the staff who work with them due to their exceptional qualities in one of the following areas:
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Golden - They have followed our 3 golden rules and been a role model to others
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SPARKLE - They have shown great learning behaviours
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Always - They have consistently shown great learning behaviours and always follow our 3 golden rules
What a fantastic achievement for them! We are so proud of them and don't they look great with our selfie frames.
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Special Award Winners - Lower KS2 - Spring 2!
Wed 02 Apr 2025Take a look at some of the winners of our Special Awards for this half-term from LKS2!
They were chosen by their teachers and the staff who work with them due to their exceptional qualities in one of the following areas:
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Golden - They have followed our 3 golden rules and been a role model to others
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SPARKLE - They have shown great learning behaviours
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Always - They have consistently shown great learning behaviours and always follow our 3 golden rules
What a fantastic achievement for them! We are so proud of them and don't they look great with our selfie frames.
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NELI in Nursery - Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Story
Fri 28 Mar 2025This week our Nursery classes, Elephants and Giraffes, have been reading the story of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf as part of their NELI learning (Nuffield Early Language Intervention).
Not only have they read the story and learnt new vocabulary 'special words', they have also been to visit Grandma in the Woods, had a visit from Little Red Riding Hood and dressed up as the characters. How exciting!
Well done Team Nursery for bringing their learning to life and well done to all the children for being so golden and SPARKLY!
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World Book Day 2025
Thu 06 Mar 2025Happy World Book Day 2025!
To celebrate WBD we have all been dressing to impress as Book Characters, undertaking our class reading challenges, participating in online author events, having stay and read sessions and listening to celebrities read stories to us for story telling sessions. What a great way to celebrate today and for the rest of the half-term as part of our focus theme 'The Love of Books'.
