News & Updates

A special goodbye to our Year 6 leavers 

Goodbye and Good Luck to Kidbrooke Park Primary School Leavers 2020!

Sadly, the time has come for us to say goodbye to our wonderful Year 6 pupils.  Whilst this year has been different to what we all expected, we have been immensely proud of the children and how they have shown determination and resilience in a far from normal final year at primary school. 

We know that our school community is hugely affected by what is going on around us at this difficult time. Lives are changing and children may have picked up worries and fears about the virus and the possibility that they or someone they love and depend on may get ill.  We are also aware that children will also pick up on other worries parents and carers may have about the situation. For children who suffer a loss or have already been bereaved, anxiety may be worse.

In our Nursery, we asked parents to send pictures to us of home learning activities which they would like to share with us at school.

The school has produced a series of simple video's outlining our drop-off and collection procedures for children from 2nd June. There are a number of important changes to what was in place before, and different locations for drop-off and collection, so please do take the time to watch the relevant video's below.

Over the coming weeks, children will be able to take part in 'Battles of the Bands', through Times Tables RockStars.  This means that groups of children will take on others within the school, with the most correct answers per group being declared as the winner!

Whilst you have been out on your daily walk during this strange time, have you spotted anything new hanging up at the front of our school?

The Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler has produced a book about Covid-19 Coronavirus just for children - and it's available as a FREE download.  Please share so it's available to every family who needs it.  This book was created in conjunction with consultant Professor Graham Medley, two head teachers and a psychologist to make sure the book got the messages right, answering questions about quarantine, how you can catch the virus and what happens if you get ill.

In what is a very strange time for us all, we also feel it is an important time to remember what is going on in order to reflect on this experience in the future.

We thought Parents and Carers might find it useful to know that Kindle have made a selection of educational and recreational eBooks free to read, and also, Audible have made available a huge selection of free Audiobooks.