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!

Well done to our Year 3 and Year 4 Basketball Tam who came second in the Prestolee MAT Basketball Tournament. You all worked very hard and represented the school well. I am proud of you all!

You may have seen the Wall of Champions display in the entrance hall? We want to fill it with pictures of you all! If you are in a club, group or team outside school and you have a badge, shield or trophy, please bring it into school. We will present it to you in assembly and we will take a picture of you for the wall. Your award does not have to be for sport, we want pictures from a variety of different interests and hobbies. Good Luck!

A big well done to all the winners of the School Council Christmas Wreath Competition 2022. Your competition entries looked wonderful and I hope you now have them displayed at home. Thank you to all the children who entered the competition. 

How lovely it was to be able to have our traditional Christmas Tree Assembly again after 3 years of isolation. Well done to our oldest and youngest children in school for doing such a good job of switching on the lights. 

Well done to the Key Stage 2 Ten Pin Bowling Team.  I believe you had a really enjoyable time and you represented the school well. Keep up the good work. 

Well done to all the children who entered the Autumn Art Competition which was organised by the School Council. Please see the winners in the photograph.  

From September 2022, we have decided to deliver the NHS backed ‘My Happy Mind’ program from EYFS to Y6.

‘My Happy Mind’ is a complete mental and emotional wellbeing package for primary schools . It was created for schools with a very simple mission - to give today’s children the skills to thrive in tomorrow’s world. Their programmes give children the preventative strategies, skills and tools they need to thrive in the modern world.

As we go through the program, we will be sending home parent information so you can also support your child and talk to them about what they are learning.

Have a lovely Summer break everyone! Stay safe and we will see you all in September! 

The children in EYFS had a great day on Tuesday as it was Pirate Day! They all dressed up in Pirate outfits and engaged in a wide variety of Pirate related activities. I saw them playing games in the hall which involved running from 'island' to 'island' without getting caught in the 'sea', it looked great fun! The photograph shows children building a pirate ship and acting out their pirate stories. 

Well done to all the children who participated in Sports Day this week. Everyone says what a great day it was. Here are the results:-

4th Place - 883 points - Ash Team (blue)

3rd Place - 908 points - Oak Team (green)

2nd Place - 1007 points - Elm Team (yellow)

1st Place - 1079 points - Holly Team (red)

I am so proud of all my Y6 children due to your hard work with your SATs last week. You have all worked very hard and have put 100% into your  tests. I am sure you have all done your very best!

Please join our Art Club! We have an Art Club on a Thursday after school for years 4, 5 and 6 and on a Friday after school for Years 1, 2 and 3. Those children who attended last half term said they really enjoyed it. If you would like to join, please give a leaflet to an adult at home so they can sort out the payment for you. I can't wait to see all the wonderful art you will produce!

Well done to our newly formed Springside Choir and Mr Connor.  The Choir entered the Ramsbottom Music Festival School Choir Competition and they won! I saw a recording of your singing and it was lovely. Keep up the good work! I am looking forward to hearing you sing in Church for our Easter Service. 

Well done to the Year 3 and Year 4 mixed football team. They played other schools from the Prestolee Academy at Tottington Primary and came a very respectable third. Mrs Neary said they all represented the school beautifully. 

We were not able to have our Mental Health Day during National Mental Health Week so we had our own day this week. The theme of 'Growing Together' was a perfect theme for our school as this is our school motto! Our first day was really successful and we hope to have many more in the future!

Have a happy and safe Christmas everyone!

Well done to all the children who were involved in recording nativity plays in Early Years and Key Stage 1. You all did a super job! I hope you all enjoyed your popcorn gift and you ate it whilst you watched the play at home together. 

What a great Children in Need Day! Your spotty outfits looked great! Thank-you for all your donations, we will send them off to the charity for you! We raised £213!

Well done to all children who were part of anti-bullying week this week. You all worked hard in your lessons and I could see you were all trying really hard to be kind to one another.  Remember who you can go to for support if you have anything you wish to talk to someone about. 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them. 

Our new play leaders for this year are now all trained up and ready to start their jobs on Monday! They will initially be working with KS1 children but we hope to extend the project as the leaders get more confident in their roles. 

Good luck play leaders, You will all do a great job!

I would like to say a huge Thank-you to all family members who attended our Harvest Festival in Walmersley Church this week. It was great to see the church full of people again after such a long time. The children were excellent and their readings, poetry and songs were beautiful. Bury Hospice were really pleased with your donations and they would like me to express their gratitude to you all. Please see their Facebook page for their lovely message. 

Have a great half term. 

Thank-you to Reverend Thompson for coming into our assemblies this week to talk to us about St Francis of Assisi. It was St Francis of Assisi Day on the 4th October.  It is the first time that Reverend Thompson has been able to visit us since the beginning of Covid and it is great to see him back in school. 

Well done to the 8 children who represented school at our first inter-school sport event since September.  You all worked really hard and represented the school well. Your teachers said you all had a great sporting attitude. 

If you win something or are awarded anything special outside school, please bring it into school to have your photo taken for the  Wall of Champions. You could be on our Wall of Champions for being awarded a medal, a certificate, a trophy, a rosette or anything else which celebrates an achievement outside of school. I can't wait to see what wonderful things you all get up to in your own time! 

I hope you all enjoyed the special music morning this week! If you are interested in playing a musical instrument and having lessons, please register your interest on the link which was provided on the leaflet you took home. The music teachers will be back in school on Monday to give you a 'taster session' on the instrument you are interested in playing. 

We are so happy to see you all back! We are going to have a great year this year!

Well done to our Year 6 children for completing their level 1 and level 2 Bikeability course this week. Please make sure you put what you have learnt into practice!

Happy Half Term everyone! have a rest, enjoy the sunshine and stay safe! If you need to contact school in an emergency over half term, please email schoolclosed@springsideprimary.co.uk and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Thank you to Mr James who came back to school for a visit and to help us get the pond ready for a summer term of pond dipping.  The children in EYFS have already been dipping and they found some of our famous newts. As part of their 'Habitats' topic in Science,  Year 4 are going to pond dip this Wednesday (if it stops raining for long enough to go outside!). Lets hope we find a variety of pond animals. We should find Newts, Frogs, Great Diving Beetles, Water Boatmen, Pond Skaters etc. We even found a Dragonfly Lava once!