StanleyPrimary School
Learning with Confidence Together
The staff and governors of Stanley Primary School want to understand the views of parents, carers and children about our school. Please follow the relevant link to fill in the questionnaire and tell us about your experiences and ideas about how we can improve in the future.
This survey is for Years 1-5. Nursery, Reception and Year 6 are asked for feedback at a different time of year.
Please complete the online survey (or return the printable version to the office) by Wednesday 23 July 2014.
Year 1: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNF99XN
Year 2: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNNT23L
Year 3: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNXYRPZ
Year 4: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNTNBXK
Year 5: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNJTF2W
Printable version: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LN3XWF9
Many thanks for sharing your views with us.
On Friday 11 July 2014 it was our children's turn to run the school! Pupils took registers, ran classes and did important errands around the school. See pictures below.
The original idea for the day came from one of our School Councillors. This is their report from the day:
"On Friday the eleventh of July 2014 at Stanley Primary School, the pupils ran the school. Looking forward I think the day will happen again.
Tilly and Jonty (our School Councillors) go to regular meetings with all other School Councillors along with Miss Leney. School Councillors give ideas to benefit the school like:
Playground equipment
School trips or days like Friday
Determined, the year six School Councillors put forward the idea of a ‘children teach day’ where all those pupils wanting to teach a lesson would teach a lesson of their choice. This idea expanded and was then first experimented on Friday 11 July 2014.
Nearly every child in our class taught a lesson from gardening to ICT to PE, dance, science and art, not including the children doing the registers and running the assemblies. I taught with Holly and Scarlett, we taught, I was very pleased about that because we could choose any experiment (that didn’t blow the whole school up) we chose an acid experiment. It was simple yet effective. Plastic cups were filled with salt and vinegar then a copper coin was placed inside it. After ten seconds the coins were lifted out and investigated.
The day was a great success and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope it happens again."
Children in classes which are closed should not attend school next Thursday, as members of
staff not taking part in the industrial action cannot supervise children other than those in their
own class.
All other classes will operate as normal and those children are expected to be in school. Absence for anything other than illness or medical appointments, or that which has which has been authorised in advance, will be recorded as unauthorised.
If childcare arrangements are such that a sibling in an open class cannot attend, please let
us know.
Yours sincerely
Ian Dickinson
Headteacher
Do you have the Stanley GLOW (a Great Love Of Words)? On Friday 4 July 2014 we shared in the Stanley GLOW Book Awards 2014. Children in each year group have been busy nominating their favourite books, and then voting to choose their favourite.
Seven golden envelopes contained the winning books for this year. During assembly, children opened and shared the winning titles.
The winning books are:
Reception – ‘Funnybones’ (Janet and Alan Ahlberg)
Year 1 – ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (Roald Dahl)
Year 2 – ‘Beast Quest’ (Adam Blade)
Year 3 – ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (Roald Dahl)
Year 4 – ‘Foul Play: Brazil’ (Tom Palmer)
Year 5 – ‘Demon Dentist’ (David Walliams)
Year 6 - The ‘Harry Potter’ series (JK Rowling)
Winning publishers will be sent notification of this most prestigious award, and we will send a list of books suitable for summer reading based on the children's GLOWING nominations!
Are you already wondering which books will win next year’s awards? Maybe we will find the next winning book in our summer reading?