Spring Term 2025
Dear Parents and Carers,
What a busy start to Spring term 2025! The children have already enjoyed many learning opportunities including Y2 Kingswood visits with parents, Year 1 walk around the local area, Year 3 Ancient Greek days and Y2 off to the Black Country Museum. All of this in the first three weeks of term, as well as new after school activity clubs resuming and Year 6 booster clubs - we aim to provide as range of learning opportunities for our children to have fun and deepen their learning.
Year 2 Kingswood Trip
Year 3 Ancient Greek Day
Next week marks Children’s Mental Health Week, which is a national event that exists to empower, equip and give a voice to all children and young people in the UK. We are delighted to be joining many schools across the country in celebrating this important week with different activities that support our wellbeing. This year, the theme is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. It is so important that we understand what makes us tick, our likes and dislikes, strengths, fears, hopes and dreams. Our emotions play a key role in telling us just that, and being aware of how to listen to and express ourselves is a major part of building self-awareness.
To launch the week in style, we are inviting children to arrive in school on Monday 3rd February 2025 dressed in a way that expresses something about themselves.
This could mean wearing:
· your favourite colour
· something that shows your interests or hobbies
· an outfit that makes you feel happy!
We ask that a £1 donation be made. Goldthorn Park, and all other schools in Elston Hall Learning Trust, will be donating all money raised to the children’s mental health charity Place to Be, to support the excellent work they do to champion the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people across the UK.
Best wishes,
Mrs Purshouse
(Head Teacher)
Attendance
Attendance remains incredibly important for us at Goldthorn Park Primary School. Our school target is for our pupils to have 96% attendance or higher for our children to continue their learning.
Last week our attendance across school was:
Area of School | % Attendance |
Whole School | 93.61% |
Reception | 92.58% |
Year 1 | 91.61% |
Year 2 | 92.98% |
Year 3 | 93.07% |
Year 4 | 93.29% |
Year 5 | 93.97% |
Year 6 | 96.65% Well done Year 6! |
Special Educational Needs and Disability - SEND
There are several SEND workshops for parents that will be taking place at the hubs across the city. These sessions are really useful and help parents and families learn more about Autism and ADHD. It is an opportunity to share strategies and helpful hints
Dates for the diary:
Autumn Term 2024
Term Time: Monday 5th September - Friday 20th December
Monday 2nd September 2024 - INSET Day school CLOSED to children
Monday 3rd September 2024 - INSET Day school CLOSED to children
Autumn Half Term - Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November 2024
Spring Term 2025
Term Time: Monday 6th January - Friday 11th April
Monday 3rd February - Dress to Express
*Change of date Friday 14th February - Year 1 Chinese New Year Assembly
Friday 7th February - Goldthorn Rocks/ Number Day
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day 2025
Tuesday 11th February - Parent Workshop Reflexions - Supporting your child with social media
Spring Half Term - Monday 17th February - Friday 20th February 2025
Monday 24th February 2025 - INSET Day school CLOSED to children
Tuesday 25th February - Reception height and weight check (School Nurse)
Wednesday 26th February - Reception height and weight check (School Nurse)
Friday 28th February - Martisor Celebration
Thursday 6th March - Year 2 World Book Day Assembly
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day Celebration Day
Monday 10th March - Friday 14th March Science Week
Friday 21st March - Year 3 Eid-ul-Fitr Assembly
Friday 21st March - Anti-Racism Day
Monday 24th March - Year 4 Humph's Histories Anglo-Saxon Day (Class 9)
Tuesday 25th March - Year 4 Humph's Histories Anglo-Saxon Day(Class 10)
Friday 28th March - Reception Mother's Day Assembly
Tuesday 1st April - Parent Workshop Reflexions - Supporting your child with tests
Wednesday 2nd April - Parents Evening #1 4:00 - 6:00
Thursday 3rd April - Parents Evening #2 3:30 - 5:30
Wednesday 9th April - Lower KS2 Production 10am/ 2pm
Summer Term 2025
Term Time: Monday 26th April 2025 - Monday 21st July 2025
Half Term Holiday Monday 26th May 2025 - Friday 30th May 2025
Friday 20th June 2025 - INSET Day school CLOSED to children
Monday 21st July 2025 - INSET Day school CLOSED to children.
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