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Dates for this half term Tuesday 30th June – Y3 and Y4 trip to Wetlands
Friday 3rd July - Y1 and Y2 trip to Bridlington
Thursday 2nd July – reports to parents
Monday 6th July – Parents open evening
Wednesday 8th July – Y6 production to parents in the afternoon
Friday 10th July – Y6 production to parents in the morning
Thursday 16th July – Y6 trip to Cleethorpes
Friday 17th July – End of term. School will close at 1:00pm on this day PE Kit Please could you send your child to school with a pair of shorts and a T- shirt and trainers etc on the days they have their PE lessons Tuesday – Reception class and Y3 swimminG.
Wednesday – Y2 and Y4
Thursday Y5 and Y1
Friday – Y6 As the weather is improving some of these lessons will take place outside . |
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School closes for half term holiday on Friday 22nd May 2009 and reopens Tuesday 2nd June 2009 Please note Monday 1st June 2009 is an Inset day (staff training) Janet Rose
I regret to inform you that after a long period of ill health Mrs Janet Rose, nursery nurse is unable to return tio work at Bankend Primary School. The Governors of Bank End Primary school would like to thank Mrs Rose for her long and valued service to the school. |
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 Y6 Sat’s take place between Monday 11th May and Friday 15th May
The Children in Y6 must take every part of every test. It is very important that your child comes to school every day and is on time. During this week there is free breakfast club for all Y6 pupils from 8:45 till 9:15am If by any chance your child feels unwell please ensure they come to school for the test and then we can bring them home afterwards. Thank you for your cooperation M. Tapp
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Reception Class
Mrs Croud will be leaving Bank End Primary School at the end of this term as she has gained promotion at a school in Kirklees. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Croud for all her hard work and commitment whilst she has been at Bank End Primary School. Mrs Croud will be sadly missed.
Miss Rafiq will take over the teaching of the reception class between the Easter holidays and Spring Bank holidays. After the Spring Bank holiday Mrs Siddons will return from maternity leave and teach the Reception class.  Easter Egg Competition
Just a reminder that next week we will be accepting entries on Monday and Tuesday for the Easter Egg competition. We will judge the competition on Wednesday 1st April. There will be two prizes given per class. The cost of entry is 60p. We are looking forward to seeing all your fantastic ideas.
Easter Assemblies
The Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 classes will be telling the story of Joseph at special Easter Assemblies. Parents are welcome to come and watch at the following times
Thursday 2nd April at 2:00pm
Friday 3rd April at 9:30 am Easter Holiday
School breaks up for the Easter Holiday on Friday 3rd April 2009 and reopens on Monday 20th April 2009. |
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 Reception Class
Mrs Croud will be leaving Bank End Primary School at the end of this term as she has gained promotion at a school in Kirklees. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Croud for all her hard work and commitment whilst she has been at Bank End Primary School. Mrs Croud will be sadly missed.
Miss Rafiq will take over the teaching of the reception class between the Easter holidays and Spring Bank holidays. After the Spring Bank holiday Mrs Siddons will return from maternity leave and teach the Reception class Building work
Thank you to everyone for your cooperation during the recent building work. These improvements have made the environment much better for the children in school. We hope to replace the rest of the windows around the school over the coming year. Jewellery
Jewellery such as rings, bracelets, necklaces etc. should not be worn to school, ear studs may be worn at your risk provided your child is able to remove them for PE. For safety reasons all jewellery must be removed for swimming, games and PE. Dinner Money
From 20th April the price of a school dinner will increase by 10p a day
£1.70 a day - £8.50 a week Lost Property
Please help us by naming your child’s uniform. We have a lost property box in school. Easter Assemblies
The Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 classes will be telling the story of Joseph at special Easter Assemblies. Parents are welcome to come and watch at the following times - Thursday 2nd April at 2:00pm
- Friday 3rd April at 9:30 am
Red Nose Day
Thank you very much to you all for taking part in Red Nose Day. The school collected over a £100 for this good cause. Easter Holiday
School breaks up for the Easter Holiday on Friday 3rd April 2009 and reopens on Monday 20th April 2009. |
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 Building work
During the half term holidays work is due to start on replacing the windows and cladding at the back of the hall, the Library and in the Year Five and Year Six classrooms. Work will also start on the Key Stage One and Reception toilets. This work will also be continuing when the children return to school after the holiday so we may have to change the entrance points into the school building. We will keep you informed and thank you for your cooperation. Thankyou
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your understanding and cooperation during the recent bad weather when we have had to close the school. We hope that things have now returned to normal. Breakfast Club
There will be no Breakfast Club on Monday 23rd February. Breakfast Club will restart on Tuesday 24th February. M Tapp Headteacher |
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In December children in Key Stage 2 Braved the cold to plant some trees out on the banking. hey selected a sapling, dug a hole and firmed it in and placed a plastiv bottle over it to protect it  
 
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Friday 6th February School Open |
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 The school open as normal today, Friday 6th February.
Breakfast Clubs are cancelled for the rest of this week. Weather permitting the next Breakfast Clubwill be on Monday 9th February at 08.00am. Plese note that all after school clubs are cancelled for this week - information will be posted here and letters will be sent home from school to keep you informed in the coming weeks whilst there is an issue with the weather. |
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In Case of bad weather... |
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 In the event of snow over the winter months please listen to Dearne FM from 6:30am to see if the school has had to close due to the weather conditions. If school closes notices are also placed on the school gates and regular updates are given out on Dearne FM on 102 and 97.1 FM. You can also click the Dearne FM logo and listen live online. 
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 Term dates For 2009Monday 5th January till Friday 13th February Monday 23rd February till Friday 3rd April Monday 20th April till Friday 22nd May Tuesday 2nd June till Friday 17th July Tuesday 8th September till Friday 23rd October Monday 2nd November till Friday 18th December Dinner Money & Milk Money
£8.00 per week
£1.60 per day
Milk costs £8:00 for this term, Please pay as soon as possible
Money should be paid to the school office if you wish your child to receive milk. Jewellery
Jewellery such as rings, bracelets, necklaces etc. should not be worn to school, ear studs may be worn at your risk provided your child is able to remove them for PE. For safety reasons all jewellery must be removed for swimming, games and PE. Lost Property
Please help us by naming your child’s uniform.
We have a lost property box in school.
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Newsletter December 2 2008 |
Parking
|  | We would be grateful if parents collecting and delivering their children to and from school would not park inside the school gates as this is very dangerous for parents and childrenarriving or leaving on foot
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| | Thursday 11th December at 2pm - Reception, T1, Y2 and afternoon Nursery children | | Friday 12th December at 9.30am - Reception, T1, Y2 and morning Nursery children | | | | Christmas Dinner Wednasday 17th December | | Please return slips to school by friday 5th December if you want your child to have a Christmas Dinner as we need to order the turkeys | | Please pay the £1.60 for the school Christmas dinner as soon as possible. | | | | Christmas Parties | Next Thursday afternoon the 18th December Key Stage One and Key Stage Two will be having their Christmas parties. The children may wear party clothes to school, but please send the children with a coat and sensible shoes as the children will still be going out side for play times and lunch times
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| | School breaks up for the Christmas holiday on Thursday 18th December at 3.00pm | | School re-opens on Monday 5th January 2009 |
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 The Interchange - Safety on the buses
We went into a bus and watched a DVD. The DVD was all about behaving on a bus, getting a bus pass, no smoking and respecting the conductor and the driver. It told us that when you are on a bus its best to sit down and be quiet. You could talk amongst yourselves but you had to do it quietly. It also told us if you had a bus pass you could get on the bus for forty pence instead of a full fair of one pound twenty. The cartoon Mark told us that you should always say thank you to the driver or the conductor because it makes his job seem a little less harder when you say thank you. The behaviour on the bus is important. It is agents the law to smoke on a public transport. If you do smoke you will be fined and get a criminal record. Then Mark told us to wait for the bus to drive away before you cross the road. |  At the Bus Stop - personal safety
P.C Taylor picked two people to stand at the bus stop it was Chloe and Alicia. P.C Taylor also gave Alicia a phone. Then two boys came along pretending to be drunk with cans in their hands. The two boys asked Alicia and Chloe if they wanted a drink of there beer. After that another boy came along and said he needed a phone to phone his mum and he had a knife in his pocket. Alicia gave him the phone because she was feeling scared. Then they ran off with Alicia’s phone. P.C Taylor asked us what the safest place to go to was and we answered the safest place is shop or the pub. Also he asked us how we felt. We said we were really scared and petrified. |  The Garden
We followed some lads. They picked four children. Charlotte, Natalie, Elle and Bethany. We sat down like they said. One boy picked Janice to light a fire in a wheelie bin. He got us all to gather round the bin an set it alight. They ran off and left us with a woman shouting at us. She was in uniform. It wasn’t the boys’ house at all it was her hous and she was furious. Luckily it was just role play. She worked for the Fire Brigade. We went inside and sat down on the floor. (The teachers sat on the comfortable sofa!) We watched a short film showing us an incident in which teenagers set fire to a wheelie bin and put it outside someone’s front door. It only took seventeen minutes for a fire to melt down a normal door and be burning through the house. |  In the Park
In the park there was a girl sat on the swings and was up set. She had run away from home. There were two girls on a bench. The girls on the bench came over to the girl on the swing and started to pick on her. The two girls asked to see if the girl on the swing wanted a drink of beer. In the end they were nasty to her and went away. After the girls left a woman came up to her and asked her what her name was and if would go home with her. Then the girl realised that she did not no the woman and she was in danger so she ran away. Later the girl was looking through some trash when she found a card. She looked at it and it had a number on it and a name of the a charity that helped runaway children. The number was 0800 335SAFEand the name of the charity was safe@last .She went to the phone box and called the number and they had a little chat with her. She told them where she was and they sent someone round to collect her. |
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 M&M productions came to Bank End Primary School to perform their production of Peter Pan.
The children enjoyed it very much. I particularly liked Captain Hook. He was hilarious. Some of the jokes he came out with were really funny. I felt sorry for Mr Child; Captain Hook wouldn’t leave him alone and kept picking on him. I thought that the girl that played Peter Pan was an excellent singer and the dog, Nanna, was a talented dancer. Wendy’s dad was very strict and needed to give her a break and let her live her own life. The person that played Captain Hooks assistant pirate, Smee, was a great actor. The finale was a really good choice because everybody was singing along. Miss Tapp was waving her arms to the music. We all agreed that if they came back to do another production we would really look forward to it. I hope the next production they do at our school is my favourite pantomime - Sleeping Beauty, by Charlott E. |
 
 
  
  
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Children in Need Friday 14th November |
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Non-uniform Day  All children were invited to join our non-uniform day. For a donation of 50p they were allowed to dress in their everyday clothes .
All the money raised will go to the Children inm Need Appeal Thankyou for your help - we raised £92 |
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 | Earlier this week students from Year 6 paid a visit to the Royal Spice Indian Restaurant in Darton.  |  |   | | | | by Bethany T Visit to the Royal spice As we came off the bus we were greeted by Zaff the owner of Royal spice. He told us what we would be doing when we were ready to go inside. When we went inside Zaff took Natalie and Jay to try on some clothes. The clothes that Natalie and Jay tried on were different to the style of clothes that we would wear. When they both sat down Lee told us all about the clothes and how they belonged to a different religion. He told us why they covered their heads and why their clothes were baggy. After talking about different religions Lee started to talk about spices. There were two plates on each table each plate had different spices on it. The first plate had three different seeds, three different powders and some cinnamon. On the other plate there was some garlic and ginger. Lee told us to smell every thing on the plates some smelt strange and some smelt nice, like cinnamon and garlic. The spices we talked for a bit about chillis. He told us red chillis were ripe and green chillis were raw. Then Zaff told us we of us could go into the kitchen and one of us from each of the groups could make naan bread. While one group went into the kitchen, the other group tasted the food. The foods that we tasted were called rice, chicken korma, Bhuna and naan bread. When you finished your food you could grind some poppy seeds in a mortar. We ground them until they turned into powder. Soon it was time for the other group to go into the kitchen. I was chosen to make naan bread. Imran the chief gave me a hat and a apron to put on. Imran showed me how to make the naan bread dough. I copied what Imran did and when I had finished Imran put the dough into a Tandoor. The Tandoor was a large black circular tub heated by gas. The dough was stuck on to the side inside the Tandoor. The fire in the Tandoor just reached the middle of the naan bread dough. After this Imran showed everyone how he would cook food every night. He showed us all the ingredients that he would use every night in the kitchen. He told us the main powder he used was the Methi one that is put in all curries. He also told us chicken korma was one of the most ordered food by the customers. When we went back into the room every one was sat eating their last of their food. Soon everyone finished and settled down and Lee showed as all around the dining room. The room had a beautiful water feature in the corner. When we finished looking round Zaff gave us all a leaflet to take home. Then we got back on the bus and went back home full of curry! |
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| | Bankend Primary school has been awarded the Healthy Schiools Silver Award for our work with - Personal Social & Health Education
- Healthy Eating
- Physical Activity
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing
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Newsletter 6 November 2008 |
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Dates for your diary
 Monday 17th November – Peter Pan production for all school and both Nursery sessions. This will be free of charge to all children
Monday 1st December – Parents evening for Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 between 3:00pm and 5:00pm. Further details will follow later
Wednesday 3rd December – Parent interview times for Reception and Nursury between 9:00am and 4:00pm. Further details will follow later
Thursday 11th December – Key Stage One, Reception and Nursery Christmas play 2:00 pm
Friday 12th December - Key Stage One, Reception and Nursery Christmas play 9:30 am
Wednesday 17th December – Christmas dinner
Thursday 18th December – Christmas parties
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 Worsbrough Bank End Primary School press release from Barnsley Council on our OFSTED which took place in October 2008
WORSBROUGH Bank End Primary in Barnsley is a good school with an upbeat atmosphere where pupils are eager to learn, inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) state in a newly-published report.
Inspected over two days earlier this term Worsbrough Bank End Primary is an improving school which provides good value for money, the inspectors say. The school at Underwood Avenue in Worsbrough Dale has 221 pupils aged three to 11 years. It has received Sportsmark and Silver Healthy Schools awards.
“The school was judged to be satisfactory in the previous inspection,” the report states. “Since then, a new Headteacher and senior leadership team have introduced improvements in leadership at all levels and in teaching and learning. Although not complete, these improvements are already making a positive difference to pupils’ progress.”
The quality of teaching and learning is good overall, the inspectors found. In the majority of classes, pupils make good progress because teaching is lively, interesting and well matched to their needs.
“The curriculum is good, providing pupils with a rich range of well-planned and interesting topics and after-school activities,” the report adds. Also praised by the inspection team as good overall are pupils’ personal development and wellbeing. Standards in English and mathematics are good.
Procedures at Worsbrough Bank End for identifying the needs of pupils with a learning difficulty or disability are “very effective”, Ofsted says, adding that teaching assistants make a strong contribution to the good progress of these pupils.
Pastoral care is a significant strength and every child is valued, the inspectors report. The high level of care by all staff contributes to an upbeat atmosphere and pupils’ eagerness to come to school to learn.
Ofsted highlights the “very strong leadership of headteacher Miss MarionTapp which “encourages high levels of commitment and teamwork among all of the staff”. The inspectors add that Miss Tapp and the leadership team continuously scrutinize the work of the school to judge its impact on raising pupils’ achievement.
Responding to the inspectors’ finding, Miss Tapp said: I am very pleased with the outcome of our recent Ofsted Inspection and glad it recognized the hard work of all the staff. We are now in a good position to move forwards. I am very proud to be the Headteacher of Bank End Primary School
The governing body is well led, the report adds, stating: “Governors clearly understand the strengths and weaknesses of the school and they provide good support and challenge.”
Chair of Governors Mrs Jayne Goldthorpe commented: I am extremely proud that the continuing hard work and dedication of all staff involved at the school has been recognised by the Ofsted Inspectors when determining Bank End was a ‘good’ school. Miss Tapp and all the staff support every child to achieve their maximum potential.
The inspection report also contains a number of recommended actions that will enable the school to improve further. These are to raise standards in English and mathematics, especially for high attainers; improve the consistency of good teaching across the school; and ensure marking provides more guidance to pupils on how to improve their work.
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Newsletter October 2008 : Building Work |
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 Over the last two years we have replaced a lot of furniture and equipment inside the school. We are now turning our attention to the building.
The whole school has been measured up for new windows, doors and cladding and within the next few months all the windows in the library, year five and year six classrooms will be replaced as well as the back of the school hall. The other windows and doors will follow on in a phased programme. The toilets in year one, year two and reception are going to be completely replaced after the October half term holiday. We have also requested an estimate for a new and wider path around the front of the school to the Nursery. The Local Authority allocates to each school a certain amount of money each year for building repairs and works. We have not had any money for a few years because it was used to create the new nursery building, the demolition of the old nursery building and the creation of the key stage one playground and ground improvements. I would like to remind parents that the Academy is not being built using Local Authority funding but private enterprise funding so they have a lot more money to spend on buildings etc. |
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Newsletter 1 September 2008 |
Welcome Back
| | | | Welcome to all our New Staff | | We would like to welcome Ms Gagen who is covering the Maternity leave in Nursery and four new teaching Assistants, Ms Whitehead, Mrs Hawley, Ms Hodgkiss and Ms Wawrosz. We hope you will all enjoy working at Bank End Primary School | | | If your child can’t attend school | | It is very important that all children attend school regularly but if your child is unwell he/she should not be sent to school.Please inform the school of an absence as soon as possible so that an authorised absence can be recorded. Unfortunately the text service is no longer available so please call school on 282549 | | | Jewellery | | Jewellery such as rings, bracelets, necklaces etc. should not be worn to school, ear studs may be worn at your risk provided your child is able to remove them for PE. For safety reasons all jewellery must be removed for swimming, games and PE. | | | Lost Property
| | Please help us by naming your child’s uniform. We now have a lost property box in the school hall | | | | Dinner Money £1.60 per meal : £8.00 per week | | Milk Money £8.00 per term | Please pay as soon as possible | | | Term Dates
| Tuesday 2nd September till Friday 24th October Tuesday 4th November till Thursday 18th December Monday 5th January till Friday 13th February Monday 23rd February till Friday 3rd April Monday 20th April till Friday 22nd May Tuesday 2nd June till Friday 17th July | | |
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We were treated to another great production by MandM theatre company, good triumphed over evil as Aslan defeated the Ice Queen in a stage adaptation of the famous CS Lewis book.
