PINNER PARK JUNIOR SCHOOL Melbourne Avenue, Pinner, HA5 5TJ, tel: 020 8863 1239,

email: office@ppjs.harrow.sch.uk

Headteacher’s Mention Book

Congratulations to — Daisy Hook—3CV; James Forrest—3TW; Dhiya Karwal—3TW; Ammar Kassam— 5JM for quality of work above and beyond the expected.

Farewell Year 6

It is that time of the year when we get ready to say farewell to our young people in Year 6. We are incredibly proud of our Year 6 pupils, our leaders of the school, who have risen to the challenge and become excellent role models for our younger pupils. They are a year group that have a great sense of justice and community. They have achieved much to be proud of in their time with us. In particular, our Rights Respecting Rangers who were integral in helping us achieve our Rights Respecting Award Level 2 as well as our School Council members and Peer Mediators who did a wonderful job making the playground a safe and happy place to be. The end of term Y6 performance ‘Bugsy Malone’ showcased what a talented bunch they are. The Year 6 BBQ last Wednesday and the assembly this week will be the final celebrations to mark the end of their primary school days. At this assembly the school says its farewell and they are presented with a Leavers’ Booklet kindly donated by funds raised by the Pinner Park PTA. We wish them well on their future paths to success.

Dear Parents & Carers

The children have all worked very hard all year

across the school as have all the staff. This has

resulted in high quality of learning for all pupils.

This does not happen without the help, support and encouragement from our parents and carers. A heartfelt thank you from myself and all the staff. It has been a great year for PPJS! We wish you all a wonderful relaxing and enjoyable summer break. A reminder that school finishes at 2pm this Friday, 17th July.

K. Mildner, HeadteacherK. Mildner, HeadteacherK. Mildner, HeadteacherK. Mildner, Headteacher

Diary Dates 2015

Fri 17th July—TERM ENDS at 2pm

2015-2016

1st & 2nd Sept—Staff Inset (training)

3rd Sept—All pupils return to school

8th Sept—Y3 & 5—Meet the class teacher

9th Sept—Y4 & 6—Meet the class teacher

26th—30th Oct—Half-term

Fri 18th Dec—Term ends at 2pm

Meet the Class Teacher for September 2015Meet the Class Teacher for September 2015Meet the Class Teacher for September 2015Meet the Class Teacher for September 2015

Children met their new class teacher on Monday this

week. A letter has been sent home with each child

informing you of their class teacher for 2015-2016. The

letter will also be available on the school website.

The Y3 children have been shown where they will line up

and meet their class teacher on the first day back.

Senior Leaders will be on the playground on

3rd September if you or your child needs any help.

NB. School will finish at 3.25pm from 3rd

September 2015

Pinner Citizens Pinner Citizens Pinner Citizens Pinner Citizens

In recognition of outstanding citizens at Pinner Park with our Pinner Citizen Points reward system. Congratulations and well done to these excellent Pinner Citizens!

GOLD Award (100 points) Kai Reynolds, Bansi Karsan, Dylan Saunders, Vidhi Kapadia, Arush Katailiha, Aafiya Rahman, Kyal Patel, Ryan Bhasin, Nikhil Chauhan, Abenash Baskaran, Harriet Briggs, Diya Dasgupta, Jadon Isayas, Wasil Khan, Daljit Lall, Meera Mahendran, Aimee Masters, Faizan Mirza, Lorna Murray, Keiran Patel, Yasmin Patel, Lakshman Rajaloganathan, Abischa Sarvanathan, Matthew Schofield, Alfie Smith, Punam Shah, Layla Pinnock, Craig Reynolds, Karan Doshi, Arani Prabhaharan, Shaina Mistry, Tushar Sharma, Nina Scarlett, Devina Bhatt, Ibaado Mohamed, Sivaaniy Kugarajah.

SILVER Award (75 points) Rehaan Menon, Sivaaniy Kugarajah, Matthew Brayne, Aniya Patel, Arianna Abdu’Allah-Duffus, Karvin Kulasingam, Kayla Saunders, Dylan Saunders, Vidhi Kapadia, Arush Katailiha, Riona Mani, Tereza Bergova, Asha Ruda, Arber Kernaja, Qasim Ali, Ellie Doyle, Alfie Ellingham, Austin Jalloh, Gabriel Azeez, Ayesha Khandwalla, Nabeela Syed, Ethan Loza, Sarbian Partheepan, Ryan Bhasin, Elias Akbari, Mikael Ameer, Abenash Baskaran, Harriet Briggs, Diya Dasgupta, Shifa Ikram, Sophie Jenkins, Wasil Khan, Hir Kotecha, Hanschika Kumar, Daljit Lall, Aneeb Lebbe, Meera Mahendran, Aimee Masters, Faizan Mirza, Lorna Murray, Yasmin Patel, Aqib Rafique, Lakshman Rajaloganathan, Yusuf Rasool, Abischa Sarvanathan, Alfie Smith, Jude Smith, Komial Troby, Atiyyah Zavahir, Yashaswini Dhannamneni, Dhiya Karwal, Kamran Mobin, Enrique Purohit, Harshini Patel, Priyanka Shah, Thaniya Rajalingam, Piyush Wagh, Sara Osman, Travis Coward, Kavisan Kulasingam, Ilsa Ikram, Daisy Hook, Sehasa Guruge

NB We do our very best to ensure everyone who receives a certificate appears in the newsletter.

However, if by chance we have not included your name, please let Miss Mildner, your class teacher or

Mrs Lewis know. Thank you.

PINNER PARK JUNIOR SCHOOL

Melbourne Avenue, Pinner, HA5 5TJ, tel: 020 8863 1239, email: office@ppjs.harrow.sch.uk

Staff News

We say a big thank you and goodbye to Mr Giff

and Claudette Brown. We wish them every suc-

cess in their future endeavours.

We will be welcoming Miss Machicado, Ms Sejpal and Mrs

Davies as class teachers.

Mrs Jenkins and Mrs Chagpar remain on maternity leave.

Mrs Fox will be taking up the permanent senior leader post

of Year Group Leader in Y5.

Thank you!!Thank you!!Thank you!!Thank you!! Dear Parents & Carers It has been an exceptionally challenging year this year for staff. Major changes in education were all introduced in September 2014—a new more challenging curriculum, changes to the assessment system with levels no longer existing and a new SEN Code of Practice. We were also asked to support another school without a Headteacher and a 3 day secondment took place with senior leaders within the school stepping up to lead the school in my absence. Included in all of these challenges were some staffing changes mid year and the school expansion building works finally got under way with disruptions and noise throughout most of the year—thankfully with little impact for children or parents. Our staff have been truly wonderful in not only embracing these challenges and implementing all new systems this year but they have continued to work together to ensure the school continued to improve and for standards to continue to rise. This has been externally validated with our annual teaching & learning review in February showing good progress against school improvement priorities, we were awarded the Inclusion Quality Mark and the Rights Respecting Award Level 2 and finally we were very pleased with our end of KS2 results (see below). I am very proud to lead such an exceptional team and I’m sure you will join me in thanking them all—teachers, support staff, office staff, site staff and lunchtime staff for their dedication, hard work and commitment to our school through-out the year.

English L4+ Reading – 96% Writing – 97% *SPAG — 95%

English L5+ Reading – 55% Writing – 42% *SPAG — 69%

English L6+ Reading— 3% Writing— 0% SPAG— 12%

Maths L4+ 99%

Maths L5+ 57%

Maths L6 18%

Another successful year has past at PPJS with standards continuing to improve and we are very pleased with the 2015KS2 (Y6) SATs results which are a testament to this. **SPAG – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar tests;

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Parents/Carers Workshops

Dear Parents & Carers,

We would like to update you on the introduction of the Parents/Carers Workshops this term.

Our first workshop was Cake Decorating which was an overwhelming success, apologies to

those of you who were unsuccessful in getting a place this time round; please look out for our

future workshops. Here are a few of the comments we received back from parents/carers:

“It was such a good experience and I really enjoyed it!” “Brilliant learning and socialising with fellow parents!”

“It was excellent!” With the help of Money Mentor Candice Foster the money workshops were extremely

informative and fun, giving attending parent’s tips on how to help their children learn more

about money matters. Parents played a variety of money games and went away feeling more

confident about helping children learn more about money!

“Very good! lots of variety and choices – Well presented.” “Lots of ideas to teach our kids!” “Very enjoyable and informative.”

Although we have had to cancel our cook off and Indian dancing workshops due to building

works, the good news is parent workshops will be a regular feature next term. We will be

sending you an invitation to come and discuss the kind of workshops you would like to see from

September onwards. Please look out for our up and coming invitation letter. In the meantime,

if you are interested in running a parent workshop, please contact me via the school office.

Thank you

Claudette Brown & Mrs Sachania

SPORTS NEWS

Sporting News

Phew!! What a busy term with lots of sports going

on and congratulations to everyone who took part,

for all their hard work and commitment at the

clubs to great team spirit and performances at any

events we attended.

Year 5/6 Rounders Tournament

A very busy and exciting afternoon at Pinner Park

with 11 schools taking part. Great games and

terrific team work, Pinner Park did extremely well

and finally finished in 5th place.

Year 5/6 Quad Kids Athletics competition

This event will be taking place at Bannisters

athletics stadium on Wednesday 15th July. Our

team have been practising for this every Monday

after school since April so we are all looking for-

ward to the competition.

Have a great and active Summer.

Consultation— Split Play and Change to

the end of the day

Thank you for the responses we

received from parents and governors

regarding the change to arrangements

for breaktimes/ lunchtimes and end of

day.

A letter has been sent home explaining

the concerns and issues raised and how

these will be addressed.

School will be finishing at 3.25pm from

next term.

There will be no afternoon break,

however, class teachers will ensure there

will be breaks put in place to ensure

children are comfortable and able to

learn effectively.