March 2018 – Purley Oaks Primary

POPS Goes Paperless

Dear Parents and Carers, In response to feedback from the most recent Parent Questionnaires, we will now be emailing letters to parents to help us improve communication with you. Urgent messages will continue to be sent by text. Using email provides a number of benefits for parents and the school: We can save money on…

Information for Parents: 2018 Key Stage 1 and 2 Assessments

The Government has just published a new information leaflet and videos for parents of children in Year 2 and 6, who will be taking national curriculum assessments in May 2018. Please click on this link to access the leaflet and view the videos.

Invitation to Stand for Parent Governor Election April 2018

The role of a school governor is extremely important and many essential decisions about this school are taken by our Governing Board. School governors work together with the school leadership team to continually improve the education for every child at our school. Our school governors have 3 core functions. They: Ensure the clarity of vision,…

Parenting Resources in Croydon March 2018

Attached is a really useful list of resources available for parents from Croydon Council: Parenting Resources in Croydon March 2018

Poetry Club

POPS is so impressed with the poem Miss Burraway’s poetry club has produced that we have decided to publish it. We think you will agree that they have written a beautiful and very creative poem about the classroom: Classroom Butterfly books fly us on adventures Cupboards hug their belongings Chairs dance on the floor like…

Year 1 Trip to Battersea Park Zoo

As part of our ‘where would a meerkat like to live?’ learning challenge, we all visited Battersea Park Zoo. We had a fantastic time and saw lots of animals including monkeys, lemurs, mice and emus. We found out that if you wiggle your eyebrows at a capuchin monkey you are saying “hello.” We were even lucky…