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Principal's Message:
Principal's Message:
It's been a jam-packed week this week with visitors to the school.
Parents Evening
Undoubtedly, my favourite part of the week has been our Parents Evenings. It really is a lovely opportunity to see the whole community come together to celebrate our wonderful children and discover how we can develop them to be even better. I hope that you have found the meetings useful.
As you know, we ask you to complete a survey about the academy. This is, in fact, the survey that Ofsted will also ask you to complete about the school when they visit us. We are currently number-crunching the results and will share them with you in due course. However, I can confirm that, from reviewing the feedback briefly, the responses are overwhelmingly positive. It is so encouraging for us to hear about how positive our community is about the academy. We have also received some really helpful, constructive feedback that we are looking forward to considering.
Open Day
You may also be aware that on Wednesday we hosted our Open Day events for our prospective parents. We shared with the families all of the wonderful things about our academy which were then showcased to the families through tours hosted by Year 6 pupils. Without exception, every family were blown away by what they not only heard about, but also what they saw with their own eyes during their visit. Some comments we received included;
"It's been the best presentation we've seen of all the schools we have visited and we have visited a lot."
"We can't get over the vocabulary of your Year 6 children."
"Your children have done you very proud."
This really does show why we do what we do and for it to be seen by visitors to our school is just marvellous. The Year 6 pupils who took our visitors on tours around the academy were truly a credit to the academy and you, their parents.
Toilets
I would like, now, to ask for you to come together, as our community, and help us again with something we are trying to address as a school. You may recall before the half term that I asked if you could speak with your children at home about their use of the academy toilets. We have, again, found ourselves in the situation whereby the toilets have been left in such a bad state that we have had no choice but to close certain cubicles.
We have spoken to the children about this already, however I would also appreciate it if you could take some time with your child at home to go through the below slides with them. I am sure that it is not always intentional and that with us all promoting the correct use of the toilets we will soon see this be less of an issue.
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Brading
Christmas Events
Wreath Making Workshop
A last chance to sign up to our fantastic Wreath Making Workshop that will take place in the Community Hall on Friday 22nd November at 18:00. Should you wish to come along, please complete the relevant form in the Announcements section of My Child at School. Please consider supporting this event and bringing along any friends, family or neighbours who may also like to attend.
Children's Activities
On Monday, we will be announcing information about a number of Christmas activities that your child can get involved with throughout the remainder of this term. We hope these will help families to get into the festive spirit! These will include:
Guess the Name of the Elf
How Many Presents In the Grinch's Sack?
Grinch Hamper Raffle
These activities will be located in the academy office and payment can be made in cash or through the My Child at School app.
Christmas Bake Off Competition
We are also going to be holding the children's Christmas Bake-Off Competition again this year so please get ready to help your child(ren) create a culinary Christmas masterpiece! Do look out for more information regarding this.
Christmas Fair
This is taking place on Friday 13th December so make sure this date in your diary as staff are working hard to provide another fantastic event for the community. Tickets for children can be purchased through the My Child at School app and include a photo calendar, a Christmas trail and a gift from a special someone... Tickets are not required for adults. We look forward to seeing as many of our families at the fair as possible.
Thank you for your anticipated support of all of the above, it really is appreciated and helps to create wonderful festive memories for your children and additional funds to be spent on resources and opportunities for all of our pupils.
Whole School Attendance:
Whole School Attendance:
95.83%
Weekly Class Attendance Award:
Weekly Class Attendance Award:
Jazzy Class
99.06%
Key Dates:
Key Dates:
Tuesday 19th November Year 3 Trip to Kent Life - Pazazz Class
Wednesday 20th November Year 3 Trip to Kent Life - Fortune Class
Friday 22nd November Wreath Making Workshop in Community Hall, 18:00-20:30
Thursday 5th December 'Treasure Island' Pantomime, all year groups
Wednesday 11th December Nursery Trip to Local Care Homes
Thursday 12th December KS1 Christmas Performances, 09:30 and 13:45
Friday 13th December Non-Uniform Day, donations of bottles for the Christmas Fair
Friday 13th December Christmas Fair 15:00-17:30
Monday 16th December Reception Christmas Sing-A-Longs, 10:30 and 13:45
Monday 16th December PYP Mini Exhibitions at 14:30 - Year 6
Tuesday 17th December PYP Mini Exhibitions at 14:30 - Year 3 and Year 4
Wednesday 18th December Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper Day
Thursday 19th December Nursery Christmas Sing-A-Long at 10:30
Friday 20th December Last day of Term 2 - early finish at 13:30
Tuesday 7th January All pupils return for Term 3
Please note that these are confirmed dates but should we need to change any due to unforeseen circumstances, we will communicate this with you with as much notice as possible.
National Online Safety Guide
National Online Safety Guide
QR codes are a useful means by which people can quickly access online resources and other information by simply scanning a pixellated pattern with mobile phone camera. Unfortunately, as with many other advances in technology, there are those who use QR codes to scam and defraud unsuspecting people thus tricking them into providing personal details and payment information.
It can difficult to determine when a QR code is legitimate, or where exactly you might encounter a scam of this nature, but it is important to learn how to do this in order to avoid falling victim to such scams/frauds. The below guide explores the most common places you might find a QR code scam and explains how best to protect yourself from this type of underhanded practice.
A reminder that all of our parent/carer community are invited to create an account with National Online Safety, which provides a wide range of resources such as the guides we include in our newsletters, courses and video resources. If you have not already done so, please create your account by visiting the link below.
https://nationalcollege.com/enrol/langley-park-primary-academy
You can also download the National Online Safety app on any device or smartphone by searching for it in the App Store/Google Play Store.
Contacting the class teachers:
Contacting the class teachers:
If you have concerns that you would like to raise with the academy, please do so via the office email address which is info@langleypark.latrust.org.uk . Upon receipt, your email will be directed to the relevant member(s) of staff.
If you have concerns that you would like to raise with the academy, please do so via the office email address which is info@langleypark.latrust.org.uk . Upon receipt, your email will be directed to the relevant member(s) of staff.
We respectfully ask that you address any concerns or issues with your child's class teacher in the first instance. If it remains unresolved then your concern will then be escalated to the Key Stage Lead and/or Mrs Neame, Vice Principal. In the unlikely event that it continues to remain unresolved, it will be escalated to Miss Brading at that point.
We are also aware that some parents/carers continue to email staff directly. In the event that this happens, your email will not be responded to and you should resume communication via the correct channels.
We are also aware that some parents/carers continue to email staff directly. In the event that this happens, your email will not be responded to and you should resume communication via the correct channels.
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