This year Mr. P. Leadbeater organised and hosted South Parade’s first talent show competition.  The talent was superb and the judges had a very tough decision, but the overall winners were The Bad Guys consisting of Joel clapham, Jack Kirby, Bradley Elliot and Charlie Coll.

In second place were Esme and Lillian Coultas as The Clever Clarinets and in third place Soloist Eden Illingworth.  

This was a fabulous evening, the budding stars playing to a packed house.  Well done to all who participated - you are all stars and a big thanks to Paul Leadbetter  who was the compere for the evening and absolutely brilliant-thanks Paul!!

Mr R. Hatfield

Many thanks to all the helpers who came along to support the school.

Mr Good, Mr Peddy, Mr Wells, Mr Chilvers and Mr Firby.

 Mrs Bacon and Mrs Rhodes - staff.

J.Preston (11th July 2008)

As promised yesterday, I’ve uploaded some more photos from our recent trip. As you can see from the pictures, the children had a truly wonderful time!

J.Preston (11th July 2008)

5F and 5H were lucky to have Science Investigation lessons on ‘Water for Industry’ delivered to them by Tanya Shields.

The lessons were directly related to processes in industry and were followed up by visits to industry to see the processes in action in real life.

5H enjoyed a trip to Novartis and 5F had a great time at Centrica.

The CCI Project is a wonderful way for our children to see Scientific Investigations come to life. It could also help them in their choice of future career. We need more Scientists!

Many thanks to Tanya from Year 5!

Mrs C Brown

Science Co-ordinator

Year 6 had a brilliant week in the Lake District this year. 30 members of the year group travelled up to one of the most beautiful parts of the UK to stay in the Youth Hostel, Barrow House in Derwentwater.

5 days of walking, climbing, ghyll scrambling, kyaking, abseiling and orienteering made for an action-packed time.

All of the children were well-behaved and were shining examples of pupils from South Parade Primary School. Working together as a team, our motto was “Positive - Mental - Attitude!”

Many thanks to everyone who helped with this year’s trip - Mrs Rhodes, Mrs Bacon, Mr Firby, Mr Wells, Mr Peddy, Mr Good and Mr Chilvers.

Keep checking the site as I will upload more pictures.

J.Preston (10th July 2008)

We had a successful Art Day on Friday in Key Stages 1 and 2, the first of many I hope.  The children all enjoyed experimenting with different art forms.  It was lovely to see so many parents enjoying the experiences with the children.  Here are a few pictures.  I can’t upload too many to the main site, but I am sure others will appear on class blogs.

Mr Lewis

Art Coordinator

A big well done to everyone who collected the Tesco for School vouchers.  We collected an amazing 17,097 vouchers.

These will be exchanged for Easi-Speak recorders which will be used to record voices, sounds, music, playscripts , stories and lots more.

Attractively designed as a microphone children can be roving reporters, singing stars etc.  The material can then be recorded or downloaded straight to the class pc.

Special thanks go to Mrs S. Lockwood for collecting, counting and placing orders.

Well done everyone!!

Mr R. Hatfield

June 2008

A few lucky year 5 boys and girls had a marvellous opportunity to take part in the Motor project-a practical, hands on series of activities which the pupils of SPPS really enjoyed.

Dean and Lydia look really proud of their bird boxes which were one of the objects made during these activities. Well done Dean and Lydia and the rest of the Team.

Mr H.

Both the  year 2 classes had a great time at the Far Ings Nature reserve, Barton -on - Humber on the 14th and 15th of May.

We did some pond dipping and had a competition to see who found the biggest variety of mini beasts.  We put them back afterwards of course!

We went bird watching with binoculars and went to the bird hide.  On our walk through the woods we had to be very quiet to hear all the birdsong and we spotted lots of  different butterflies there as well as some damsel flies and bees.

The lovely weather helped make the trip really good and the adults enjoyed it as much as the children.  Many thanks to all the volunteers who came with us.

2B and 2G

Very many thanks to one of our parent’s - Mr Sowter. He spent a whole day
sorting out our Wildlife Area - and it looks wonderful. Children and frogs
[etc] can enjoy it now!
Thank you again Mr Sowter for all your hard work.

from South Parade Primary School.

Mrs C. Brown