2024 Pearson National Teaching Awards – Congratulations to Mr Wanless who was nominated for ‘Teacher of the Year in a Primary School!’

In Monday’s assembly, Mr Soyka and Mrs Herbaut surprised Mr Wanless by presenting him with a certificate and a personal letter from ‘The Teaching Awards’ President, Michael Morpurgo in celebration of ‘National Thank a Teacher Day’. Mr Morpurgo congratulated and thanked Mr Wanless. Quoting ‘Your devotion to the children, to colleagues, to the school you work in has been extraordinary.’

Mr Wanless has been recognised for the value of his hard work and dedication to Parkside Community Primary School.

The Teaching Awards Trust and supported by BBC Education, this year’s campaign celebrates every member of the education community, recognising their vital role in shaping children’s lives and contributing to their learning environment.

Thank you for all that you do, From The Parkside Team!

Well done to the Year 3 girls who were chosen to play in a Year 3 Football Festival at Oaklands college Friday.

Thank you to School Games for having us participate at Watford & Hertsmere. The day consisted of opening ceremony, guest speakers and a cultural village of Activities.

The Inspire and engage Festival is aimed at Year 3 Girls to encourage them to participate and have fun whilst trying a new activity. Mr Honour was very impressed with the girls for keeping up the high energy and with this the girls received a Passion Baton for their amazing day.

Today Year 5 had our final session as part of our Mini Police programme.

We had the pleasure of experiencing what the inside of a police car was like and heard the really loud siren! We explored the huge amount of equipment that was kept in the boot too! After that, we tried on lots of police uniforms and for some of us, it was a little on the large size!

Finally, we found out how fast we could sprint by using the speed-o-meter. We were exhausted afterwards!

Our Reception children had a wonderful trip to the farm on Wednesday Morning.

Well done children on engaging so well and being so caring with the animals

Parkside had a special guest speaker Wednesday Morning in assembly.

We were lucky enough to be visited by Mya Mannix who is a trainee Pilot. Mya had come in to speak to the Parkside pupils about future careers for and give younger children a wider range of different careers, courses for life, and inspiring them to reach for the best in their future. Children loved the Q and A session this morning.

After assembly Year 4 and Year 6 got more time to spend with Mya and created worksheets inspiring the children to think of their future goals, skills and qualifications to start to pursue to achieve their goals