Preston Primary School, Station Road,
Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 8UY
Email:
office@prestonprimaryschool.co.uk
Telephone: 01482 896800
Safeguarding Lead: jferguson@prestonprimaryschool.co.uk
Whole School News
20th May 2024
The Foundation Stage class would like to say a big thank you to everyone who bought one of their cards. As part of their learning, the children designed cards showing pictures of endangered animals. They were really excited to have their stall at the end of the afternoon to sell the cards to parents and grandparents. Thank you for your donations - we have £25 to send to a local animal charity. We will let you know where, once the children have made a decision.
Mrs Hackett
12th February 2024
Our Year 4 and Year 5 children took part in the Young Voices Children’s Choir concert at Utilita Arena Sheffield on Friday 9th February. They represented our school wonderfully and they all had an amazing time. To see what they got up to watch the video below ...
11th November 2023
On Friday Mr Huckstep, one of our school governors, delivered our whole school remembrance assembly. Our Year 5 pupils assisted by singing songs, performing dances and reading poetry.
Today, Mr Huckstep took our cross of remembrance to the Cenotaph in Hull.
9th October 2023
Thank you for all the generous Harvest Festival donations, which made a great centrepiece for our harvest assembly this morning.
Hedon Food bank have collected this year's donations.
2nd October 2023
Macmillan Coffee Afternoon
Thank you all so much for your kind donations for the Macmillan Coffee Afternoon. We raised a grand total of £317.00, this included a very nice donation from the Year 5 Parents. Thank you!
26th September 2023
Preston Primary School Awarded Primary Science Quality Mark
Primary Science Quality Marks have been awarded to 425 nursery, infant, junior, primary, middle, international and special schools this month to celebrate their commitment to excellence in science leadership, teaching and learning. So far, since its national launch in 2010, more than 5000 Primary Science Quality Marks (PSQM) have been awarded, creating a solid foundation of quality science education for over 1,000,000 children.
PSQM is a comprehensive evidence-based professional development programme that effectively develops science leadership, ensuring teachers have the knowledge, capability and support they need to transform science education and shape future generations.
The Primary Science Quality Mark is led by the University of Hertfordshire. Helen Sizer, PSQM Co-Director said: ‘By enabling effective science leadership, PSQM is powering the potential of all children to see the relevance and importance of science in their lives, now and in the future. Schools that have achieved a Primary Science Quality Mark have demonstrated a significant commitment to science leadership, teaching and learning and the profile and quality of science in each accredited school is very high. Science subject leaders, their colleagues, headteachers, children, parents and governors should be very proud.”
20th September 2023
Preston 70 Launch
What is the 'Preston 70'? In each year group, throughout the year, the children will be able to borrow 10 specially chosen books to read and share at home. This will hopefully encourage your child’s excitement and engagement in reading. They can read the books themselves, or someone at home can read the book to them. The idea is, that if the children manage to read all 10 books in each year, by the time they leave Preston they will have read all 70! All of the books have been kindly purchased by the Preston Parochial Charity, which we hugely appreciate.
20th July 2023
Today we held our annual Leavers Assembly. We took time to look back on the journey our pupils have taken, recall memories and share a tear or two. We wish all our Year 6 leavers the very best for the future and look forward to hearing all your stories of secondary school.
10th July 2023
Today the children were taken on a captivating journey filled with humour, yo-yo and magic tricks, puppetry and storytelling. Along the way they were introduced to a cartoon boy named NED who is on a very important mission: to find his mindset. Led by clues and memorable characters, he overcomes Mt. Everest’s toughest obstacles, uncovers inner-treasures on a Caribbean island, and grows his brain while repairing a sputtering spaceship. Throughout the performance, your students discover how to activate their growth mindset to overcome social, emotional and academic challenges.
6th July 2023
This year we held our first ever fun run. We asked the children to gather sponsors and all the funds raised would go towards improving our in-school sound system. We were absolutely blown away with everyone's efforts. Well done!
28th & 29th June 2023
After weeks and weeks of rehearsals our talented bunch performed 'Oliver' to sell out audiences. The feedback we received from parents was incredible. Here's what one parent had to say:
"I got the pleasure of seeing it twice and thoroughly enjoyed both performances... what brave and courageous children and the talent was outstanding... well done and thank you to all staff for their behind-the-scenes work and organisation. Big Thanks to Mr Sprigg for your beautiful piano playing, setting the scene perfectly. You Just can't beat live music. What a great memory to treasure. Thank you."
27th June 2023
Today we received a certificate to say thank you from 'Downright Special'. Some of our children donated the funds they raised during the Easter fair to this local charity who supports one of our own pupils in school.
26th May 2023
Huge thank you to everyone who supported Oliver’s plant sale today. He has raised £24.10 towards school gardening projects.
24th - 26th May 2023
Year 5 & 6 Annual Residential to Northumberland
Our annual trip started with a visit to Beamish Museum where the children experienced life in a Victorian classroom and took a walk down the disused mine. The children finished day 1 with an evening walk and the chance to burn some energy at the local play park, before heading back to the hostel for one of Mr J's legendary ghost stories.
On day 2 the group headed to Bambrugh Castle and enjoyed rolling around in the sand dunes.
Unfortunately, the group had to cut short their trip to Northumberland but made up for it by heading back out to GoApe at Dalby Forest for the final day of the trip. The children enjoyed a cooked breakfast back in school after a night in their own beds. There were certainly lots of tired children!
5th May 2023
We are Coronation ready and not letting the wet weather dampen our spirits. Mrs Cuthill has done a super job preparing our Photo Booth and we can’t wait to see your photos! Also, huge thank you to Mrs Phipps in the kitchen for preparing our picnic lunches.
4th May 2023
Some of our nurture group children made a royal visitor to scare of the birds. We can see the royal resemblance - Can you?
2nd March 2023
Last year we went down the rabbit hole to celebrate World book day. This year we have taken off in Willy Wonka's Great Glass Elevator into the world of Roald Dahl.
24th February 2023
Our School Council members enjoyed a visit to the Houses of Parliament in London. They travelled by train and used the Underground. They spent some time in St James Park before walking to Buckingham Palace, down The Mall towards Horse Guards Parade and Downing Street before arriving at the houses of Parliament. when they arrived at The Houses of Parliament the children undertook a workshop called 'Laws and Debating'.
When the children came back to school they delivered an assembly to share their experiences with the rest of the school.
3rd October 2022
Thank you for all the generous harvest donations, which made a great centrepiece for our harvest assembly this morning.
Hedon Food bank will be collecting the donations soon.
30th September 2022
On Friday we invited parents and carers back into school for our first McMillan Coffee event since the pandemic. It was lovely to see so the children excited to have their families back in school.
This year we raised £320
27th September 2022
Today was also the launch of our new football kit. Our new football kit was kindly donated for us by Buntra Holland, which is a company owned by one of our very generous parents. Thank you to Mr and Mrs Allinson for their kind donation- it’ll keep Preston children looking smart at sporting events for a long time to come. Thank you again.
20th September 2022
EXCITING NEWS - NEW ADVENTURES AT PLAYTIME
We are planning to make our play times even more fun and exciting by introducing Loose Parts Play and we really need some help sourcing resources to enhance our play.
Loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways. They are recycled materials with no specific set of directions that can be used alone or combined with other materials.
This kind of play encourages imagination and creativity, teamwork and collaboration. It is similar in many ways to some of our popular Outdoor Learning activities such as den-building.
12th September 2022
Book of Condolence
From tomorrow morning until Friday, we will have a book of condolence for the late Queen Elizabeth ll outside on a table. If you or your children would like to write a message, you are very welcome to do so.
This will later be stored at East Riding Archives.
8th September 2022
On Tuesday, our first day back, some children were a little anxious coming into school! So Archie our ’School Mentor’ dog walked them to class and all their worries went away.
7th September 2022
It is lovely having all the children back in school and they do all seem to be very settled and happy, which is great to see.
As many of you won’t have had the opportunity to properly meet your child’s new teacher, we would like to offer you the opportunity to ‘drop in’ and see them on Wednesday next week between 4pm and 5pm.
These sessions will be very informal and you can come at any time during the hour. The teachers will share some information about class routines and the things your child will be learning and you can see the classroom environment and ask any questions that you may have.
If you are not able to come along, then teachers will ensure that your child gets all the information on a sheet to bring home later in the week.
6th July 2022
Huge well done to Calan from Year 5, who has been selected to play for the East riding School's Football team after a four week trial.
4th July - 8th July 2022
This week we have been participating in our annual Sports Week. Throughout the week our children have been taking part in cooking lessons led by Mrs Thompson, Rugby skills sessions led by players from Hull KR and Football skills sessions led by Hull Tigers.
We also had a visit from Evoke Technologies who shared their interactive floor and Sensory Bus with us. This was a bit of a hit with the children!
We rounded up the week with Sports Day on Thursday (with an impromptu Conga around the school field) and an assembly on Friday to Celebrate all our sporting achievements.
29th & 30th June 2022
This week saw the culmination of weeks of hard work. Our whole school performance of 'The Wizard of OZ' was a huge success. Over the last few weeks all the children in school have been learning lines, songs and dances ready for the performance. Our year 6 children took the leading roles and were well supported by the younger children. Well done everybody!
17th June 2022
Today the whole school have taken part in 'The Big Playtime' to support the NSPCC. this is an event which celebrates childhood, supports wellbeing and having fun!
All the children and staff took to the field to play in the sunshine. Some classes set up inter-class tennis competitions whilst others enjoyed using different equipment.
27th May 2022
Over the last half term we have been learning lots about the Queen and the upcoming Platinum Jubilee during our assemblies. On the last day of the half term we hosted a Jubilee Picnic. All the children made and decorated crowns which they wore on a procession around the field. The children sang the national anthem followed by a rousing rendition of 'Sweet Caroline'. Each child was presented with a commemorative keyring from the Preston Pariochal Trustees. the children then joined their families on the school field for a picnic and royal quiz.
24th May 2022
Three of our year 4 pupils asked if they could run a cake stall in order to raise funds for Cancer Research. they girls have baked all their own goods, made their own flyers and sold the roduce by themselves. Well done girls, you are very thoughtful and we are very proud of you.
8th April 2022
Egg decorating day is enjoyed by everyone in school. It's a time to work either independently or as a team and let your imagination run wild. We were blown away by this year's creations. Well done everyone!
1st April 2022
Today the Year 5 & 6 children ran their annual Easter Fair. This is the first time the Easter Fair has been able to go ahead for 2 years. The children all did an amazing job organising their stalls & deciding which charities they wanted to fundraise for. We had chocolate tombolers, chocolate fountains and pom poms made into animals for sale. Well done year 5 & 6!
Altogether they raised over £400 for various charities.
18th March 2022
It's that time of year when we all don our red noses and dress in red.Red Nose Day / Comic Relief is one of the national fundraising events we always take part in.
This year we raised £180
17th March 2022
One of our year 3 children has set up a fundraising page to help the children in Ukraine. He is aiming to raise £1000 to buy teddies and toys for children who have been caught up in the conflict.
He raised £330.
10th March 2022
One of our Year 2 children has made a very brave decision to also raise money for the Ukraine and is having a big haircut. Not only is she fundrainsing, but she will also donate her hair to the Little Princess Trust, a charity that makes wigs for children.
She raised £1005
9th March 2022
We had a non-uniform day to support those in Ukraine. The donations we have raised will be sent to the UNHCR (UN High Commission for Refugees) who have set up a special fund to provide food, shelter and relief for Ukrainian Refugees.
We raised £687
3rd March 2022
Today we celebrated World Book Day in style. We all went down the rabbit hole and found things around school curiouser and curiouser. What a way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day.
16th February 2022
Our latest group of fantastic role models, with their hot chocolate treats.
8th February 2022
Here are our latest group of 'always' children. They can be relied upon consistently to make the right choices and set an example to others. Mrs coates really enjoyed sharing a hot chocolate with them on Friday afternoon.
8th February 2022
As a school, we have received five fruit trees from a company called "The Tree Council". After a discussion with the children from School Council, it was decided that it would be a lovely idea to creat a School Orchard near our Wildlife Gardeen.
All the children from every class were involved in planting the trees and Mrs Thompson led each planting session. She discussed with the children the benefits of growing our own fruit to eat or use in our cooking lessons.
The children were encouraged to look at the benefits of planting trees to help with climate change and carbon capture.
Beneath the trees, School Council wanted to create wild flower areas so the grass will be allowed to grow longer and bulbs/wildflowers introduced over the years.
Mrs Thompson discussed the benefit with each class of creating habitats and sites for bees and butterflies to visit. The trees are now all planted and each class has responsibility for their care.
30th January 2022
We are celebrating a special birthday in school today.
Happy 1st Birthday Archie!
28th January 2022
This afternoon we had another wonderful group of children, all nominated by their class teachers for conisitent, exemplary behaviour, hard work and attitude to school, having hot chocolate with Mrs Coates.
21st January 2022
Mrs Coates has done her first 'Hot Chocolate with the Head' today. This is a get together with a group of children who have been nominated by their class teachers for their consistent exemplary behaviour, hard work and great attitude to school. Mrs Coates thoroughly enjoyed meeting with the children for a chat and recognising them as wonderful role models and representative of our school.
17th December 2021
Our Key stage 1 children were very lucky to have a visit from Santa today. Santa was very impressed with how polite and well mannered our children were.
10th December 2021
Our Christmas Tree is in position and ready to be decorated. We have already had some lovely baubles placed on it - even Archie has his bauble on the tree. We love it when children bring baubles from home to decorate the tree. Our children love sharing their stories about why thier bauble is special to them.
19th November 2021
Today the children came dressedintheir best Pudsey outfits to raise money for Children in Need. They all looked absolutely fabulous and enjoyed joining in with Joe Wicks Pudsey workout.
We have raised £206.
15th November 2021
To launch the start of Anti bullying Week we have all been wearing odd socks. This has helped us to recognise, respect and celebrate our differences and what makes us unique.
14th November 2021
One of our Year 5 pupils was very proud to be the flag bearer for Hedon Cubs at the Remembrance Sunday Service.
11th November 2021
Today we took part in Remembrance Day. children in Key stage 1 made wreaths to decorate the tree at the front of school. Our older children have learnt the poem 'In Flounders Field'. At 11:00am the whole school took part in the 2 mins silence.
9th November 2021
This week we have been taking part in TT rockstars week. To help us ge in the mood we came to school dressed as rock stars.We think we look pretty convincing!
22nd October 2021
This year's Harvest Festival donations were taken to Hedon Food Bank. The children decided it would be nice to give something back because the food bank supported lots of our families during lockdown.
14th October 2021
One of our Year 3 girls has had a huge haircut and donated her hair to the Little Princess Trust (a charity that makes wigs for children). Your family are very proud of you and we are too.
24th September 2021
On Friday we held a cake stall outside the front of school to raise funds for MacMillan. This was in place of the MacMillan Coffee Morning, which we were unable to faciitate this year
