3rd Sep 2025

We all had a great time bowling, the hotdogs and chips were good too!

Our After School Club - Oscar's Den - have entered the Scarecrow Festival at Walmersley Church. When we go to the Year 6 leavers service next week, we will be able to see all the other entries. 

Thank you to the Springside PTA for organising out super Summer Fair. The event was a great success! 

Thank you to the PTA who organised our Father's Day Tuck Shop.  The children loved buying the gits for the special people in their lives. 

If you haven't done so already, please visit our Scholastic Book Fair, it is open Monday 16th June  and Tuesday 17th June 8.00am until 9.00am and 3.30pm until 5.00pm.  School will be given vouchers for free books with every book you buy. 

Nursery and Reception children had a great day on Wednesday visiting Cockfields Farm Park. Everyone learnt such a lot about farm animals. Thank you to all the parent helpers who came on the trip with us.

Well done to our year 6 children, you all worked incredibly hard this week! All the staff are very proud of you all. 

Year 5 children had a great day linking with their partner school  this week. Children from Our Lady of Lourdes visited Springside for the day.  The children from both schools worked together to solve problems and work through activities. Everyone had a great time. 

1st April 2025

Well done to our year 3 and year 4 football team for competing in the academy football tournament. You represented the school well and tried really hard. You all made me very proud. 

Our first ever Mother's Day  School Shop was a great success! We really hope everyone out there enjoys the presents the children bought you! Happy Mother's Day!

Well done to the Springside Netball Team! The team have been palying against lots of different schools in Bury over the last few weeks. We are really proud of them and their sporting behaviour. They have all represented the school well. 

We have some of our children's artwork displayed at Bury Art Museum. If you would like to have a look, please visit the museum as our children are very proud. 

Book Day was lots of fun in school! Not only did the children dress up but the teachers did too! This is me dressed as Mildred Hubble - The Worst Witch.

We enjoyed looking at all the costumes in assembly and it was great to see you bring in a copy of the book where your character came from. 

As you will be aware, we have had OFSTED Inspectors in school this week. I am not allowed to share any results until the official report is published which will be in  several weeks but a copy will be shared with all parents and carers when we get it.

I would like to say a very big thank you to all parents and carers who completed the parent voice questionnaires on day one and who spoke to inspectors on day 2. Your views and opinions helped the inspectors to form an opinion of our school and the community it serves.

I would also like to say how amazing the pupils were and how they represented the school brilliantly. The children were well behaved, polite and well mannered and they were able to talk confidently about the learning which goes on in school.

As soon as we are able to share the final judgements and have a more detailed report, we will send these out to parents.

This week, all classes in school spent half a day learning about how to be safe on the internet. This is a really important topic for all of our children. If you would like to find out more, please visit the website listed in the picture. 

Year 2 had their annual Road Safety Session this week, led by Mrs Brabin from the Local Authority. Mrs Brabin has been visiting our school several times a year for a long time but is about to retire.  We wish her the best of luck in her retirement and we are sorry that you are not being replaced. We will take over the lessons as we have been well trained by you over the years!

Well done to everyone who braved the cold to attend our Christmas Carol Concert in Walmersley Church this week - Lets hope they have the heating fixed in time for Easter! 

As usual, your singing and readings were lovely. Year 6 read the readings, there were musical performances from year 1, year 3 and the KS2 choir with 3 whole school carols. I was very proud of you all. 

Every year, we have our Christmas Tree Service. Every child in school has put a bauble on the tree. During the service, where we sing lots of Christmas songs, the oldest child and the youngest child in school switch the tree lights on. This was a great service this year. 

Thank you to all the parents and carers who supported our Book Fair this week. I hope you enjoy reading your new books! 

Thank you to all the families who donated money to Children in Need and to all the children for wearing something spotty. We had a lovely day and we also learnt about where our money will go and who it will help. 

This week was annual Anti-Bullying Week. We have all been learning about 'Respect' in all its different forms. On Monday 18th November, we will have a special assembly where each class will share their learning and then we will have an anti-bullying display of children's work in the entrance hall. 

Thank you to everyone who supported our Bake Sale this week, it was a great success. All money raised will go directly back into supporting your children in school. 

What a great time we all had at our annual Glow Disco! There was some fantastic dancing and singing! I bet you all slept well that night! 

Thank you to all the parents and carers who supported our Harvest Festival and donated food and money towards Bury Hospice. The children were excellent with fantastic readings and singing. Walmersley Church was an excellent venue for our service. 

September 2024

Our Leavers' Assembly in church was lovely and it was great that all your parents, carers and family members could watch. I don't think there was a dry eye in the house! 

On 6th June, the whole school commemorated 80 years since the D-Day landings by carrying out a whole school art day. Each class in school has produced some art and a selection of pieces from each class will be displayed in the entrance hall. Come and have a look when the display is completed. 

I would like to introduce you to Reverend Harvie  Nicol who is the new Vicar of Walmersley Church. We are hoping he will be able to join us for our Music Festival in Church on 17th June (4pm) and also for our Leavers Service on 18th July (10am). I am sure you will join me in welcoming him into the Springside family.

We are so proud of our whole netball squad this year.  You have all played brilliantly, and enabled us to reach the last 8 primary schools in Bury.  We lost our quarter-final match to Bury Grammar School, so were knocked out at this stage.  We went on to play a friendly against a very good Holly Mount side, which ended 14-14, so the next goal wins rule was applied.  Springside scored the final goal, so were the winners 15-14.  The team represented Springside fantastically, they were friendly, polite, encouraging and showed great sporting spirit by staying to watch and congratulate the winners, Guardian Angels.  Thank you to all the parents who have supported the team over the year, including those who have helped with transport, we really appreciate you all.  Well done Springside, you are amazing. Mrs Jenkinson and Miss Nicholas  

EYFS visited Smithills Open Farm this week. The children had a great day and learnt a lot. They were lucky with the beautiful weather too! 

Welldone to the Springside Netball Team for winning 17-7 tonight. We have now beaten Tottington, St Marie's, Woodbank and Lowercroft in our league games, and have only been beaten by Greenmount.  We are now waiting to hear if we have officially made it through to the quarter-final stage at Bury Grammar. 

Thank you to all children and families who supported our Harvest Festival this year. All your donations have been taken to Bury Hospice to support families in need. Children, your readings and singing were wonderful as usual. I am really proud of you all. 

We are really pleased that we were awarded Bronze Accredited School last year for delivering the My Happy Mind Program. We are delivering the program again this year because we feel it is a great support for children's mental health in school. We would like parents to download the My Happy Mind App so that you can use the materials at home too. If you need any support, please contact your child's teacher. 

5th September 2023

You all looked great in your rainbow clothes this week! You also brought in lots of rainbow coloured items for our Rainbow Stall at the Summer Fair. I hope you all come to the Summer Fair and help us to raise lots of money to support the school. 

This week, all classes in school watched the online assembly presented by Ant and Dec and then completed follow up sessions in class. Following this week, children will be much more aware about keeping themselves safe and will know how to speak out if they are worried about something. 

This assembly was great fun! It is always enjoyable to listen to live music. If you want to be part of the Rock Steady School Band, click on the link given and sign up! 

Well done to all our Year 6 children who sat their SATs last week. They all worked really hard and They were a credit to the school. I am really proud of them all! 

I would like to present our new My Happy Mind  'Happiness Heroes'. Their mission is top secret but they are working behind the scenes to help keep us all happy in school. I can't wait to see what they all get up to! Watch this space!

Well done to all year 5 children for working so hard on passing your Bikeability course. I am sure this learning will help to keep you all safe on the roads in future. 

We have bought a lovely bench to help us remember Mrs Egan. We will find a special place to put it and we hope you will use this bench to relax and talk to your friends. 

Our Year 5/Year 6 Tag Rugby Team had a great tournament on 21st March 2023 at Waterloo school. They played well and finished second in the final, only losing by only 1 try! They won every game in their group and showed resilience to come back from behind to win their semi final! 

Well done to our Year 3/Year 4 Football Team who represented school in a tournament at Manchester United. They finished 4th out of 10 schools competing and represented the schools core values - being: safe respectful and ready.  

Well done to all the children who joined in our first money raising event organised by our new Friends of Springside Parent and Teachers Group. We are raising money to buy more furniture for our community room so we can get some community groups up and running during the day. Keep up the good work everyone!