Are you excited about the lovely long summer ahead? Do you have your summer reading planned? Everyone needs to have plans for their summer reading, and the Glow Summer Reading leaflet is set to help you. Based on the nominations and winning books (from our School Book Awards) for each year group, we have some great recommendations for you! Look out for leaflets which will be distributed this week, or follow this link to Glow Summer Reading leaflet.

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.

Thursday 17 July 2014 was 'Meet the Teachers' day at Stanley Primary School, when pupils currently in Reception to Year 5 classes had the opportunity to meet their new teachers for the 2014/15 academic year. In addition, children who will be joining Reception in September 2014 visited the school for the first time, and had a fabulously fun time getting to know their teachers and new friends. Please see photos below. 

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."

 

Dear Parents 
As a result of the industrial action called by the National Union of Teachers we would like to 
inform parents that the following classes will be closed next Thursday 10 July. 

• Nursery am and pm 
• 4B 
• 4S 
• 4W 
• 5B 
• 5P 

 
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?

The school orchestra and 30 dancers from Year 5 joined orchestras and dancers from 12 other primary schools to put on a fantastic music and dance event entitled 'Firebird' at St Mary’s University College. The massed orchestra, supported by some secondary-aged musicians and Music Trust teachers, performed extracts from Stravinsky's ‘Firebird’ and Tchaikovsky's ‘Nutcracker Suite’. The Year 5 dancers performed their own dance interpreting the story of 'Firebird', and as part of a troupe of 360 dancers performed a wonderful finale piece. Thank you to Mrs Griffiths for preparing the orchestra and Mrs Keogh for her work rehearsing the Year 5 dancers. See photos below!