Newsletter

Food Bank Aid’s ‘Healthy Smile Campaign’

This half term, our school will be taking part in Food Bank Aid’s ‘Healthy Smile Campaign, helping to support families who are unable to afford basic dental care. How you can help: We are inviting families to donate toothpaste and toothbrushes to help fill the dental care gap for children and adults using local food banks. There will be a basket in the foyer between Monday 23rd February and Friday 20th March for any donations of toothpaste and toothbrushes. Every donation helps families take care of healthy smiles – thank you so much for your support.

World Book Day

This year, Our Holly Park theme was Magical Creatures and Mythical Beasts! Children were invited to dress up as their favourite book character from a book of their choice. Ms Sampson led a whole school assembly. During the day, children drew their own magical creature or mythical beast. Each class will collate these to create a ‘Bestiary’. These will then be made available in the library. Even Maisy the school dog dressed up as Paddington! Huge thanks to Miss Sampson for organising all of the World Book Day activities.

World Book Day Museum – Mythical Creatures

The Holly Park World Book Day Pop-Up Museum was back! This year we asked pupils to make their own model creation of a mythical beast or creature. We had a selection of creatures made from card, paper, clay, material, cake. These were collated in to an exhibition that every class visited. Holly Park Book Swap For the Holly Park book swap children brought in a couple of books from home to swap for another book that they would like to read. The book swap is a great way to re-use and recycle children’s books.

Assistant Head – Inclusion

I am delighted to tell you that at the full governors meeting in December that governors approved my proposal to rename Mrs Kelly’s job title to Assistant Head (Inclusion). This is particularly appropriate especially in the changing world of schools and Ofsted where Inclusion is forefront. Mrs Kelly already does the extra duties that the role of Assistant Head: morning gate duty, Tuesday assemblies, a lunch duty, attends SLT meetings, leads the Y5 residential, is a DSL and has a safeguarding day. Governors agreed that a change of title raises Mrs Kelly’s profile and also recognises her vast experience as a SENCO, the external work she now does for IAT in Barnet, the significant rise in SEND numbers, the complexity of SEND within schools and the tremendous job she has done with our Treehouse. This change has already taken place. I believe that this change of title is very well deserved and appropriate and recognises the work that Mrs Kelly is already doing.

Community Links

Groups of Year 6 children have been visiting Asda in Southgate to help customers with their shopping. Thanks to Mrs Mehtar for organising and to Mrs Hurry and Mr Reid for taking them and supervising. It has been a very positive experience.

Parent Maths Session KS2

On Tuesday 10th March at 9am, Mrs Mir will be running a session for KS2 parents to demonstrate how we teach the formal methods of addition and subtraction at school. It will be helpful for parents to attend this in order to support children at home.

Attendance

Whole school attendance for the last week was 95% Well done to Year 3 Willow Class with the best attendance at 99%.

Dates

Monday 9th March First Aid lessons this week
Tuesday 10th March KS2 maths meeting at 9am
Tuesday 10th March KS1 Book Look at 3.45pm
Tuesday 10th March Barnet Dance festival
Wednesday 11th March KS2 Book Look at 3.45pm

Term dates for parents: Term dates

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