Newsletters

Dear Parents and Carers,

It was lovely to chat to so many of you at this week’s parent's meetings. I hope you also enjoyed the opportunity to look at your child’s work with them. We will be re-scheduling appointments for Miss Gregson and Miss Parker as soon as possible.

If you have not yet met with your child’s class teacher, please contact them directly to make an appointment.

Prior to these meetings, we had 107 responses to our parent survey. Results are as follows:

• 98% of parents said their child is happy at Bramhope Primary School.
• 98% of parents said their child feels safe at Bramhope Primary School.
• 98% of parents said their child does well at Bramhope Primary School.
• 100% of parents said that when they had raised concerns with their child’s teacher, it had been dealt with properly.
• 95% of parents said that their child had benefited from additional support from the pastoral team.
• 97% of parents said that Bramhope Primary School has high expectations for their child.
• 99% of parents said that the Bramhope Primary School makes sure pupils are well-behaved, with 7 out of 9 parents saying that bullying had been dealt with quickly and effectively.
• 97% of parents feel able to support with reading and home learning.
• 100% would recommend Bramhope Primary School to another parent.

I am sure you will agree that these results are extremely positive. Whilst we don’t get it right in every instance, it is testament to the Bramhope team that parents are so positive about their child’s experience of school. You may also be interested to know that we have just completed our first pupil led survey. Questions were written and collated by the school council and I look forward to sharing results with you.

‘Welcome to Bramhope’

Some of you may already be aware of a local resident’s campaign to reduce the speed limit on Leeds Road from 40 to 30 mph as well as improve the traffic situation generally in the village.  Rachael Fox is a local resident and mum, and has asked the school to promote the survey that she has set up for her campaign https://sites.google.com/view/welcometobramhope/home

Rachael’s aims fit very well with that of Project Happy - the school’s campaign to reduce the usage of cars at drop-off/pick up times and significantly improve the road safety for pupils.  We would encourage all parents to support Rachael by completing her survey. The survey will remain open until 31 May.

Scooters in the school playground

A reminder to parents that children should please dismount from all bikes and scooters in the KS1 playground during drop off and pick up.

Thank you

May Parent Workshop

Please save the date

Tuesday May 24^th 7-8pm

Key Stage 1 Hall

Me and My Body: How to approach conversations with your child

As part of our series of parent workshops, Dr Harriet Wallace will be coming to talk about conversations that can be tricky to manage about bodies, growth, development and relationships.

Dr Wallace is a Consultant in Genitourinary medicine, and she works both in HIV medicine and in the Leeds sexual health clinic.

Leeds sexual health treats anyone from age 13 years and Dr Wallace is a medical safeguarding lead for that service and works with vulnerable young people. 

She hopes to provide some themes, tips and discussion points.

Please complete the ONLINE FORM if you would like to attend.

Sunflower Competition

As part of science week last half-term, every child in school had the opportunity to start growing their own sunflower. They brought them home at Easter to then look after and grow at home. We would love to see some photos of the sunflowers being looked after/growing at home.

If you are happy for the photo to be added to our science display, then please email the photo to 34H@bramhopeprimaryschool.co.uk. We look forward to seeing all the competition entries later in the summer term too. 

Thank you

Mrs Lawson and Mrs Hurst

Noodle the Reading Dog!

This week Noodle the Reading Dog has been meeting more pupils. The following children were very excited to be picked to read to Noodle. 

KS1

• Sara AL
• Eloise W
• Naimh T
• Cara w
• Archie G

KS2

• George C
• Elsie S
• Mya C

Having a reading dog in school really helps motivate some children to read.  For those who lack confidence, having a dog as an audience has also found to be calming and reassuring.  To find out more about how Reading Dogs support children in learning to read, visit the link below:

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/features/2017/august/how-these-adorable-dogs-are-helping-children-love-reading/

Each week the teachers will be encouraging the pupils to read regularly at home.  Those that do will have their names put in the hat.  We can't wait to see who gets to read with Noodle next week!

If you wish to provide permission for your child to meet and read to Noodle, please complete the consent form HERE

Mrs Lillitos

• Bronte - 96

• Burton - 67

• Wilberforce - 56

• Hepworth - 124

A big well done again to Hepworth!

Bug Club

Congratulations to our Bug Club Star Readers this week!  

The following pupils have been making excellent progress with their reading on Bug Club this week:

• RB: Cara W
• RF: Ava F
• 1P: Fred W
• 1HP: Harriet C
• 2G: Oliver H
• 2D: Sara AL
• 34H: Arjun L
• 34HL: Alex R

If your child hasn't had a chance to log onto Bug Club yet, please encourage them to have a go this weekend!  The programme has been proven to help children with their reading and the games and rewards are very motivating.

If you do not know your child's log in details please contact the Admin Team.

Be Curious 2022

Design, imagine, make, do, glue, explore and more at Be Curious 2022! 

Visit the University of Leeds on Saturday 7^th May, 10am-4pm, for a day of FREE, fun activities suitable for all the family.? 

Get to grips with what really goes on inside a university with over 35 interactive stalls and activities, a hands-on Tinker Space, Maker Kits, performances, workshops and tours. Learn to pipette like a pro, meet Robbie the Robot, help us to craft a community blanket, take part in a chocolate trial, adventure into astronomy, find out what your poo says about you, and much more!? 

New for 2022 is the Be Curious Tinker Space, which encourages families to spend time getting back to all things hands-on. Explore research through creative activities and Maker Kits, which will be available for visitors to get making on the day, or take home to continue their Be Curious experience.? 

There’s no need to book and all age groups are welcome.?The University is just a short walk from Leeds City Centre, or accessible by a number of bus routes, including 1, 6, 28, 56 and 97, which all stop outside the Parkinson Building.

View the full programme at www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious?? 

The Big Plastic Count

#TheBigPlasticCount is the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste.

For one week, 16–22 May, people all over the country are counting their plastic packaging waste to help gather new, game-changing evidence of the true scale of the plastic problem.

The results will show the government what really needs to be done to tackle it, and the more people who take part, the more impact we'll have!

Will you join in? Follow these links to find out more:  

https://thebigplasticcount.com/ / https://thebigplasticcount.com/faq

If you would like to help us with any of the events please get in touch. We need plenty of volunteers in order to make these events successful. Email - pta@bramhopeprimaryschool.co.uk

Thanks

The PTA Team

The Preloved school uniform shop

Our new uniform price list HERE.

Please contact us under the following email bpsuniforms@outlook.com for all requests, with your child’s name and class details.

We will deal with the requests on a 1^st come, 1^st served basis.

NOTE we are only taking used uniforms with the new BPS logo.

Please bag them up, label the bag '2^nd hand uniform' and drop all bags into the school office.

Thank you 

Maike, Suzanna, Grace & Vanessa

Have a lovely weekend.