Woodside Primary Academy

Forest and Bridge Site's Christmas parties will be on FRIDAY 16th DECEMBER. Nursery's Christmas parties will be on THURSDAY 15th DECEMBER.

Dear Parents/Carers

School will be open tomorrow Tuesday 13th December.

Please see below some important adjustments that have had to be made to ensure this is possible:

1. Breakfast club has been cancelled for tomorrow Tuesday 13th December to ensure that there is enough time to grit and make the site safe.

2. Forest site Nursery will enter through the normal entrances.

3. Forest Site year Reception, 1, 2 & 3 will all come in through the drive way entrance on Corbett Road and enter through the middle red doors, children will all be dropped off at the door and staff will ensure that children are got round to their class. Gates will open at the normal time but the doors will also be open at the same time to help with the congestion. Please bare with us on getting everyone in as it may take a little longer than normal.

4. Bridge Site all years will enter through the Wood Street gate at the normal time and children will enter the school through the office, staff will ensure children get to class. Again please bare with us as this may take a little longer than normal.

5. Teatime club will be open as normal tomorrow.

An email will be sent during the day on where to collect your children from as it may be different to normal.

Finally thank you to all our parents for supporting and understanding the school closure today.

Dear Parent/Carers
As a result of the snow, Woodside Primary Academy will be closed today as it is not possible to operate the school safely.

On Thursday 8th December, we will be raising money for Save the Children!
This will be a non-uniform day. We would like the children to wear a Christmas jumper and bring in some money to donate to this charity.
You do NOT need buy a brand new jumper! You can still buy a secondhand Christmas jumper from our Woodsiders pop-up shop or pick up a jumper at a local charity shop.
Or why not make your own jumper? Just grab any old jumper from the back of the cupboard and cover it with stickers, felt, tinsel, glitter, baubles, whatever. Yule look wonderful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKQd5zc_so

OPEN TODAY: Come along to Forest and/or Bridge site and check out our toy stalls. Toys can be brought for a suggested donation and is part of our reuse - recycle - give back initiative. We have lots on offer so please do come and have a look!

Woodside will be hosting their annual Fireworks Extravaganza on Thursday 3rd November. If your child attends the school you can pre-order tickets by going to Arbor - Activities - Clubs

Our year 4, 5 and 6 pupils had an amazing time participating in the colour run celebrating 10 years of the REAch2 academy. They loved getting covered in all the bright colours and dancing whilst they cheered on the rest of their year group

Our Bridge Site pupils have had some exciting activities over the past few weeks. Year 4 went horse riding, year 5 had a trip to Lea Valley White Water Centre​ and Year 6 got adventurous at Go Ape. The children have all really enjoyed these amazing experiences.

Today at Woodside we are recognising Comic Relief with our animal theme dress up day. Our children look fantastic and even better, it has helped us to raise money for this fantastic charity.

Woodside will be opening their new baby room on April 19th 2022. The room will be for babies aged 6 month – 2 years. The room has proven very popular with just a few spaces remaining. If you are interested in a place please do contact the Nursery office either via Email: [email protected] or Tel: 020 8520 5168

Today we have been celebrating World Book Day and wanted to share with you some images of the fantastic costumes the pupils have come to school in. We have loved seeing so many different book characters represented by our pupils and staff.

The Reception climbing frame was officially opened this morning. Thank you to all of the parents who attended the opening. We asked our Reception parents to put their name into a draw to cut the ribbon and we would like to extend an extra special thank you to Ryan Allan, one of our Reception parents, who was selected for this role. As always we really appreciate the support of our school families. The children are all very excited to start playing on this fantastic new piece of equipment.

Pupil Parliament voice in action. In addition to the change to our menu that came into effect last week the new wet play items have arrived at the school and the members of our Pupil Parliament have been diligently handing these out to each year group. We hope that this helps to bring a bit of extra fun on those days where the children can't go outside due to the rain.

This week Snakes Alive visited the school and our year 3 pupils got to meet some very interesting animals including snakes, lizards, tortoises and spiders. The children were fascinated by these wonderful creatures and thoroughly enjoyed the event.

On the last day of term we held our first Pupil Parliament. The children met with Mr Tewes (Headteacher) to feedback on topics important to them and their fellow students. The pupils involved were absolutely brilliant and a joy to listen to, bringing to the meeting some excellent suggestions on what they like and what we can do to make the school even better. For more information on what was discussed please visit our website where you can find minutes taken from the meeting held on the 17th December https://www.woodsideprimaryacademy.com/page/?title=Pupil+Parliament&pid=295

Woodside are pleased to share that our attendance continues to be above the national average Woodside pupils: 93.4% vs. National average: 90.7%

For the 2nd week running Woodside has completed the most 5-a-day Fitness routines in a week. A big well done to all who have taken part.

Brilliant attendance news!

14th October National attendance figure 90% vs. Woodside's 92.4%.
21st October National attendance figure 88.2% vs. Woodside's 93.7%.

Well done to all our pupils and parents, lets keep the upward trajectory going.

Last week some of our pupils made a pasta bake and instead of taking it home, they decided to take it to our local food bank, PL84U Al Suffa.

We are so proud of what they did and wanted to share some images with you.

Woodside are excited to announce some event dates for your diary. Firstly Thursday 4th November for our Firework Extravaganza and then our Woodside Winter Wonderland will be held on Saturday 4th December. We look forward to sharing more details with you in the coming weeks.

What our parents say about us. We wanted to share this lovely note that one of our parents gave to a staff member to express their gratitude for the assistance they had received.

Thank you to this parent for taking the time to write it, that staff member was delighted to receive it.

Woodsiders, the PSA for the school, are hosting a family picnic this Sunday afternoon and everyone is welcome! Come along for a relaxed opportunity to meet other families from the Woodside school community. We’ll be set up on the grassy area in front of the town hall on forest road from 2.30pm.

The sun is out and the children are enjoying the new class sized sandpit. It is good to be back at school.

We all know how challenging this year has been for everyone and our picnic day on Wednesday 21st July was for all our Woodside children who have missed out on so much this year in one way or another. We wanted to help spread a little joy and wow what a joyous occasion it was, the children's faces say it all.

We wish you all a wonderful summer holiday full of happiness and look forward to seeing you all back on Monday 6th September. For now we leave you with a few more wonderful pictures from our picnic day.

On a hot day nothing like a delicious Slushie to cool down or making your tongue fabulously blue with an ice-lolly.

We have loved seeing how excited the children have been by the day so far. Let the fun times roll.

Woodside is all set for a fun filled day.

Woodside hope you all had a lovely Fathers day. We wanted to share with you some of the fantastic dad inspired Superheroes created by the children last week

On Friday Woodside were super excited to announce our end of term picnic event and we wanted to share with you just how excited the children were to hear this news. For GDPR reasons we can only share sound but we think the cheering says it all. Please click on the link to hear their excitment - https://www.woodsideprimaryacademy.com/page/?title=Newsletters&pid=14​

The picnic event will take place on Wednesday 21st July for all the children who attend Woodside. The children can look forward to a fun filled day including rides and farm animals on Forest Site & Dodgems on Bridge Site alongside their picnic lunch. Please be assured that all activities will be enjoyed within our year group bubbles

We are excited to announce that from September 2021 Friday Enrichment will be back. We cannot wait to reintroduce this fantastic program.

To help us make it as exciting as possible for the children we would really value your input on what activities you and your child would like to see offered. ​Please check your emails for more detail on how to get involved.

PE is back to normal this week. Please wear your kit to school on your usual PE day. Thank you

If you would like to make a contribution to the Woodsiders PSA food bank you can drop off items at the school every Tuesday & Wednesday when you drop off your children. There will be boxes available at the gates on Forest & just outside the office on Bridge. The items we need must be sealed & within their sell by date. Please see the items needed listed below. THANK YOU!!

UHT milk, Dried Pasta, Rice, Tinned fruit, Tinned pulses- lentils, chickpeas etc, Dried pulses- lentils, chickpeas etc, Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Squash, Cereals (shredded, weetabix etc), Pasta sauces, Cooking sauces, Tinned fish, Tinned meat, Packet meals (cuppa soups, dried noodles etc), Tinned/packet desserts (angel delight, custard, rice pudding etc), Toiletries (soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste)

Well done to those children/parents who have made an improvement on last week by arriving on time today and a big thank you to all those who always arrive promptly. We were pleased to see so many of our children in on time today.

May we remind all parents that if you have more than one child on Forest please drop your children off at the earlier time i.e. if you have a child in year 2 & year 3 please drop them off at the earlier year 3 time so that your year 3 pupil is not missing vital lesson time.