Newsletter
19th April 2024
Principal's Message:
Welcome to Term 5. We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter. The first week back has been excellent; the children have settled into learning extremely well.
With the new term, brings the temperamental and unpredictable weather. As we are now in the summer terms, children are able to wear their summer uniforms (navy gingham dress /grey shorts and grey socks with short sleeved shirts). Please be mindful of the weather, however, at this time of year as we are still experiencing, what feels like, arctic temperatures so please ensure that your child is dressed appropriately.
Unfortunately, the car park lines were not painted in the Easter holidays. While we are eagerly awaiting this to happen I respectfully ask that you use the car park appropriately. Already we are noticing quite significantly dangerous use of the are so please take note of the following -
Park in a parking space and nowhere else. This includes NOT PARKING in the staff parking area - even for pick up after clubs.
Please do not park in the area beside the electric gate as it is impossible for cars to manoeuvre safely around that corner.
Please do not park across the pedestrian walkways, these are the safe walking routes for those on foot
If the drop off lay by is full, please do not double park. Either find a parking space in the car park or park off site.
Please respect the 5mph speed limit.
I have indicated in the aerial image of the car park below where parents can and can not park.
Thank you in advance for your support with this.
In other, very exciting news, I am pleased to share that we will have an academy minibus arriving next week. Ours will be one of two for our cluster of LAT schools. We will be able to use these to take children to off-site activities such as football fixtures, swimming and school trips. They only have 16 seats so there may be occasions when we will need to use coaches, if a trip is for the whole year group. Despite this, the cost of these types of trips will significantly be reduced which I know will be welcomed by many of our families.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss S Brading
Whole School Attendance:
95.26%
Weekly Class Attendance Award:
Jubilee Class
100%
Key Dates:
Monday 22nd April Year 1 Phonics Screening, Parent Information Session 15:30-16:30
Thursday 25th April Parent Forum 14:00-15:00
Thursday 9th May Year 3 Trip to Maidstone Museum
Monday 13th May Local Area Walk for Nursery pupils, all week
Tuesday 14th May Reception Hearing Retests
Thursday 16th May Year 5 Trip to Imperial War Museum
Thursday 16th May National Census Day
Monday 20th May Year 2 PYP Exhibition 14:30-15:00
Tuesday 21st May Year 3 PYP Exhibition 14:30-15:00
Tuesday 21st May Nursery Stay and Play/PYP Exhibition 14:30-15:00
Wednesday 22nd May Year 2 Trip to RAF Museum
Wednesday 22nd May Coffee and Conversation: Uniform, 09:00-10:00
Wednesday 22nd May` Year 5 PYP Exhibition 14:30-15:00
Thursday 23rd May OPAL Programme Play Sessions with parents/carers
Thursday 23rd May Year 1 and Year 4 PYP Exhibitions 14:30-15:00
Friday 24th May Reception V.E. Day Celebrations 14:30-15:00
Friday 24th May Last Day of Term 5
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
Snapchat is a photo- and video-sharing app through which users can chat with friends via text or audio. Images and videos can be shared with specific friends, or as a 'story' (documenting the previous 24 hours) which is visible to a person's entire friend list. Snapchat usage rose significantly during the lockdown periods, with many young people utilising it to stay connected with their peers. The app continues to develop features to engage an even larger audience and emulate current trends, rivalling platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.
In the below guide you will find tips on avoiding potential risks such as sexting, visible location and contact from strangers.
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:
If you have concerns that you would like to raise with the academy, please do so via the office email address which is contactus@langleyparkprimaryacademy.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 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 continue to email staff directly. In the event that this happens, staff have been asked to forward your email to the aforementioned email address to resume communication via the correct channels.