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Summer Holiday Clubs 2022
We are so blessed to have Mr Wilkinson, he was source for securing the funding to allow Parklands to open for 4 days a week during the summer. We have lots of creative on offer: breakdancing, cooking from Flourishing Families , arts and crafts… we are in house...
Year 6 & RP Class of ‘22 Leavers Assembly
So here we go; the saddest day of the year here at Parklands as we say goodbye to our beautiful Y6 children - the community filled out the hall as we celebrated their success, funny moments and memories. It ended with the GREATEST SHOWMAN - Parklands style. [gallery...
50 Luxury Hampers Going Home
Business partnerships here at Parklands is everything… here we are again linking with the inspirational @giveagiftleeds1 and @IslamicReliefUK and #Shropshire butchers to send home 50 luxury hampers for the holidays. Simply sensational #community sharing. A million...
Year 3 Residential
Year 3 had an amazing time on our Year 3 in-house residential! We were involved in a wide range of activities including laser run, speed cones, archery, fencing, teambuilding and laser quest. We had so much fun and loved all of the activities. Can you believe that we...
Public Speaking Champions
Yeahhhh Public Speaking Champions. A Huge well done to our Y5 team who did a talk about recycling at Fieldhead Carr and walked away with 1st prize.
@JazzyMediaLtd at Parklands
What a great day we are having today at Parklands thanks to our great friends at @JazzyMediaLtd. These awesome guys allow our pupils to test their products - today we have 200 boxes of the MUST have latest card game @Hasbro #5AliveCardGame - as seen on TV - ecstatic,...
Phil Bateman – Olympic Cyclist
We adore working with Phil here at Parklands. Here we are in our 5th year working with him on biking skills. An essential lesson in life. https://twitter.com/missatkinson__/status/1546785144048074752?s=20...
Action for Sport Partnership
All I wanted to do when I was little was to play football. Money was tight and as my feet grew buying new boots was difficult. I made it my aim Parklands to ensure NO child has to go without. Thus my business links. Today we got these from the awesome @ActionForSport
Viva Espana!
Today, KS2 were treated to an all singing, all dancing, Spanish theatre performance from The Flying Theatre Company. The show was entirely in Spanish and the children listened so well to the entire show. It was fantastic to hear and see the children understanding so...
Y4 Lake District Residential
Words cannot do justice to how amazing both the experience and the children have been. We are so proud of each and every child, who have pushed themselves, enjoyed new challenging activities and learnt life-changing skills. Day 1 We set off in the warm July sunshine,...
Maldives Government
We were delighted to host 8 very special visitors from the Maldives to Parklands today to see how maths works at our awesome school. They visited Eton and some very exclusive schools. We were so proud to host their final day.
Bridlington 2022
After 2 years of no whole school trip to the seaside … today we are back! It’s the most wonderful time of the year here at Parklands as our wonderful business partners pay for 450 people to go to #Bridbados aka #Bridlington for the day … let the sunshine, the...
Look at our Y3’s on TT Rockstars
Our Great Friend Harry Gration
A really sad day as we pass on our thanks and love to our great friend Harry Gration who sadly passed away last week. Harry was an exceptional friend to the school who never missed a Christmas Eve. We are blessed to have known him. [video width="568" height="320"...
Safeguarding Week 2022
Safeguarding Week takes place week commencing 20th June 2002 across all of West Yorkshire and includes Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership, Safer Stronger Communities, Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board, West Yorkshire Police, and Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and...
Whitby Residential – Year 5
Day 1 This March, Year 5 went on a completely FREE residential to the beautiful town of Whitby as part of our curriculum studies around the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Settlements. The children were so excited to see the sea and the ruins of Whitby Abbey as we...
Year 5 Class Assembly
Year 5 did incredibly well today in their class assembly all about our trip to Whitby. An all-singing, all-dancing, dramatical, factual recount of the awesome town, which we visited to put our History and Geography learning into real life. The children recounted their...
Primary Enterprise Awards Regional Finals
So many excited children here at Parklands are off to Barnsley Metrodome today for the Award celebration promoting entrepreneurship. Paul and all at @Primary_Ent will have a very special day. The children attended the Primary Enterprise Awards Regional Finals. We were...
Enterprise Finals Day
So many excited children here at Parklands are off to Barnsley Metrodome today for the Award celebration promoting entrepreneurship. Paul and all at @Primary_Ent will have a very special day. Lamar won the award for Most Enterprising Male [gallery columns="2"...
When Simon Rimmer (Sunday Brunch) Met Parklands on the Steph Packed Lunch Show
And here we go - the final prep before we go live on @PackedLunchC4 with Steph McGovern here at Parklands. We are joined by the celebrity chef from @SundayBrunchC4 - the inspirational Simon Rimmer and of course our brilliant Flourishing Families team …enjoy the thread...
@LloydsBank volunteers enhance our school
We are so grateful for #Community partners and businesses here at Parklands… today we welcome in the sunshine the awesome, brilliant, exceptionally happy @LloydsBank volunteers to enhance our school … x50 are here with all expenses paid … we are so blessed. [gallery...
Teaming up with @SkyArts
Partnerships here at Parklands are everything and we are so blessed to team up with @SkyArts who funded a puppet workshop with the inspirational @NT_Schools . Teamwork, communication, speaking and listening and drama were at the heart of this brilliant project. How...
The @Primary_Ent Challenge
Well what a morning and what a week we are having here at Parklands working on the @Primary_Ent Challenge. The task is to design and make your own bubble bath soap … what an inspiration and we have Paul all week. #BusinessLinks at its best. [gallery columns="2"...
Free Ice Cream!!
It’s a special day as we treat everyone to free ice cream here @ParklandsLeeds … thanks to our wonderful sponsors at ITV for making this possible and to @MrWhippyLeeds [gallery columns="2" size="full" link="none"...
Mental health & Wellbeing week 2022
The week started with our Y5 & 6 children taking part in mental health & wellbeing workshops with Jess from OpenView Education. The children learnt that mental health is a normal part of daily life, how we can talk about our emotions using a varied vocabulary,...
Live Classical Music
Today we welcomed the Musical Aire group into Parklands for a fun packed day of music workshops. Reception and Year one took part in a lively session based on a village fair which involved lots of fun and dancing. Ks2 were enthralled by enjoying a vast array of music...
An Inspirational Motivational Speech From Action Jackson And Jaz Ampar Farr
Well are we the luckiest school in the world. Today we welcomed not 1 but 2 inspirational speakers for our wonderful children. It was a huge surprise for me as I went to the van to collect a box with Action Jackson - and who jumped out BUT Jaz herself (see the video)...
Normanton Dance Festival by LDC
In March, the Year 5 children were proud to take part in the Normanton Dance Festival. Under the creative leadership of Joanna, the children created a dance performance based on Equality and Diversity, which blew our socks off! See below for some pictures and a link...
Year 6 residential at Winmarleigh Hall
Last week, Year 6 spent 3 days at Winmarleigh Hall (a PGL outdoor activity centre in Lancashire) on their Year 6 Residential. Our days were filled with high energy, exciting activities that forced us to push ourselves and achieve things we didn’t think we could. We...
Northern Ballet
We are so blessed with our relationship with Northern Ballet here at Parklands. Cultural Capital at its best. Today we are helping to interview their new brilliant Dance Instructor. Community Partnerships at its best.
The Awesome Commando Joe’s
What a wonderful community day we had at Parklands today as we showcased and worked with parents on our Character, Resilience and Wellbeing programme with the awesome Commando Joe’s. The impact these guys have made to school is wonderful. Thanks to our sponsors for...
Y1 Assembly
For the first time ever we open the doors for the wonderful Y1 parents to see their children performing their class assembly. They missed them all in Reception but we welcomed them to a ‘Let it Grow’, all singing, all dancing assembly. They retold the story of Jack...
Reception children perform frog spawn assembly
Yeahhh, we welcome 100 parents to watch the #Reception children to watch their beautiful children performing an all singing, all dancing, beautiful spoken assembly all about frogs and frog spawn … wonderful and so proud. [gallery columns="2" link="none" size="full"...
We have Chicks!
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An End of Project Feast!
Having come back from the Easter holidays, it was clear that our produce needed to be harvested and enjoyed! We decided upon a celebratory feast, where we’d invite parents in, share our experiences and most importantly cook up some fantastic dishes that showed off the...
When Reece Dinsdale Visited Parklands
The bad boy from Coronation Street and Emmerdale visited us today and what an experience we gave him. Reece is an award winning UK actor games for films such as ID and Ahead of the Class with Julie Walters … he is the only ever person to be tragically killed off in...
The Growth Project – Week 5
What a first term it has been getting our heads round the tower gardens, kindly sponsored by Cognizant and made possible by LetsLocalise. It has been packed with exploration, triumphs and mistakes (the best recipe for hands of learning!) We spent this final week...
Easter Holiday Club Day 4
Day4 of the @ParklandsLeeds #NonSAT Holiday Club… today is #trampolining today @Jump_Arena in @Child_Leeds … million thanks to the organiser Mr Wilkinson - so blessed to have him as a friend and team member. Miss Atkinson, Miss Scuton, Miss Dockerty and Mrs Wager -...
Easter Holiday Club Day 3
Another wonderful day full of teamwork and inspiration… today we welcomed back the UKs best street dancer Gina … and then worked as a team trying to crack the code to get the HUGE Easter Eggs - we were going to do SAT papers but thought better as these kids deserve to...
Easter Holiday Club Day 2
Well it’s Day 2 of the @ParklandsLeeds Easter Holiday Club … today was about getting down with Gina #StreetStyle … and having the wonderful @ffLeeds doing what they do best - cooking and having blind taste testing … the staff and the generous donations make this...