In whole school assembly this week, we looked at how Pride Month is celebrated every year in June. We learnt what Pride Month is and why it is celebrated, as well as what will be happening in Bristol over the coming weeks. We also thought about how Pride Month highlights everyone's right to be the person they want to be and how this links to our country's laws as well as our own school values and our diverse school community.

In our Celebration Assembly today the following children received certificates for being role models of our school values this week: Finlay, Lottie, Vani, Junior, Bruce, George, Leo, Arezo, Monty, Abdul, Harris, Ferzaan, Mikolaj, Maryam, Frank, Rio, Lilyann, Ali and Finley.

Year 6 Camp

Year 6 have had the most amazing time on their camp to St Davids this week. They’ve coasteered, surfed and explored Ramsey Island by boat as well as enjoying many other exciting adventures!

Year 6 Base Camp

All of the children in Year 6 Base Camp had had a fantastic time this week. They were busy making volcanoes, cooking, creating comic books and thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. Their creativity shone throughout!

Year 1 Visit to Windmill Hill City Farm

Year 1 visited Windmill Hill City Farm this week. The children had a brilliant time and consolidated their science knowledge all about the different types of plants and animals and what they eat. 

Attendance and Punctuality

Today we announced our Term 5 attendance and punctuality winners in assembly.  Congratulations to Juniper class who had the best attendance in term 5 with 97.2%. Beech class were a very close 2nd with 97.17% and Mangrove were 3rd with 96.17%.

Congratulations to Hazel class who had the least number of late marks in term 5 with only 2 lates.  This is the 5th term Hazel class has won this award which is a fantastic achievement!  Will they be able to do the same for term 6 or will another class beat them to 1st place?

Term 6 Curriculum Newsletters

Each term we provide a Curriculum Newsletter per year group. These are written by class teachers and give an overview of the learning that will be taking place each term in your child's class. The term 6 newsletters for each year group from Reception to Year 6 can be found here.

Weekly Newsletters

There was an error in the link to the weekly newsletter in the email that was sent out to all parents and carers in the last week of term. We were not able to rectify the problem before the half term break- sorry if this caused any difficulties or confusion.

All of our weekly newsletters are also posted on our website. The page can be found by using the drop down menus (see screen shot above). If there are problems with the email notification, you should still be able to find the newsletter in that location on on the website.  

National Sports Week and Sports Day Plans

Monday 16th June - Friday 20th June is National Sports week. During this week, the children will be taking part in various sports during the day as well as their normal P.E. lessons. For this week, please send your child to school wearing their P.E. kit. This must follow the school P.E. kit policy (no football shirts etc.) and a link can be found below as a reminder. 

https://www.victoriaparkprimary.co.uk/school-uniform/

Sports day will be held on Wednesday 18th June at Victoria Park near the entrance on the corner of Hill Avenue and Nutgrove Avenue. Please see the times below for when your child(ren) will be taking part. You are more than welcome to come and watch. 

AM: 9:15 - 10:00: Reception

AM 10:00 - 11:30: Maple, Mulberry, Bay, Birch, Mangrove, Elder

PM 1:15 - 2:45: Beech, Magnolia, Eucalyptus, Lime, Juniper, Hazel   

NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe Programme

We are participating in the NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. Programme this term. Speak out. Stay safe. is a programme for children aged 5-11 which aims to help children understand abuse in all its forms and to recognise the signs of abuse. Children are taught to speak out if they are worried, either to a safe adult or Childline.

This child friendly programme is aligned with the curriculum and consists of age appropriate virtual assemblies and supporting classroom based activities which we have reviewed, alongside NSPCC volunteer led face to face workshops for children aged 6-7 and 9-11.  The content is delivered in an engaging and interactive way with the help of the NSPCC mascot Buddy.

This week Early Years and Key Stage 1 had their assembly and Key Stage 2 will have theirs next week.  Year 2, 5 and 6 will also be having a workshop led by the NSPCC on 17th June.

If you would like to know more about the Speak out. Stay safe. programme visit:

www.nspcc.org.uk/speakout.

Additional NSPCC resources for families to help keep children safe

The NSPCC have shared some important information below on wider NSPCC resources and support to help keep children safe.

CST Parent & Carer Survey

Please find below a link to this year's CST parents and carers survey. This year, we will be closing the survey before the end of term on Monday 30th June at 9.00am. This form asks you about your experience of your child's education. The responses are treated anonymously and confidentially to identify what we are doing well and what we can do better. If you have more than one child at school, you only need to complete the survey once. This survey comes from CST and is the same across all of our schools and academies. Thank you for taking time to complete these questions.

The link for the survey is here:

CST Parent and Carer survey 2025 

Summer Fayre Preparations: Important Dates From the PTFA

This term, the PTFA will be collecting donations for the Summer Fayre. They will on the playground before and after school on the days below seeking the following donations:

 Friday 6th June - bottles and chocolates 

 Friday 13th June - teddies 

 Friday 20th  June - cake donations and non-uniform day for jolly jars donations

The summer fayre itself will be on: Saturday 21st June

We appreciate all donations you can give and REALLY appreciate any volunteers who can sign up to help at the at the Summer Fayre itself. 

For more information on the preparations for the Summer Fayre and all the PTFA's activities please have a look at the information below.

• PTFA Newsletter May 2025.pdf
• 2025 summer fair.pdf

PTFA Ice Lolly and Cake Sale

The PTFA would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for buying ice lollies and cakes on the end of last term, they made an outstanding £265. This was largely due to some very generous donations. Thank you again

Important Dates for Term 6

• Friday 13th June  School Photo Day
• Wednesday 18th June Sports Day
• Friday 20th  June  PTFA Jolly Jar Donation Non-Uniform Day
• Saturday 21st June PTFA Sumer Fair
• Wednesday 25th June SEND Parents' Evening
• Friday 27th June 2025 INSET DAY
• Thursday 15th July Sumer Big Sing
• Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Last day of term

Remember that you can see all of the term dates and INSET days on the term dates page of this website. 

Shine after school prevision

We are running a new club on a Wednesday after school – Multi Sports for Year 3-6.

https://myshine.co.uk/activity/multi-sports-club-113

Parenting Courses

We have been asked by Bristol Council to share with you the new Parenting course offer that is available. The ‘Parenting Groups Information Booklet’ highlights the courses they offer to parents/carers with children aged 0 – 8 years old. These courses are run by expert facilitators and Family Support Workers who are based at Children’s Centres across the city. These parenting courses are FREE and are all universal – any parent/carer can attend.