Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Air Pollution Needs Solution
Wed 25 May 2022Our year 3 pupils participated in an art project managed by local artist Linett Kamala, who was chosen by Brent following her successful bid to lead the project. In partnership with an ambassador from ‘Mums for Lungs’, a group that raises awareness on the effects of pollution, and another 3 schools in Brent, our year 3 pupils were asked to create a banner using words which emphasis the effects of pollution. The work was unveiled on Tuesday 24th May at the front of the school, when members of the press were invited, along with representatives from the local council in Brent, our year 3 pupils and their parents.
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Phonics and Early Reading- Reception
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School is open to all pupils on Friday 18th March 2022
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Maths Week 2022
Mon 07 Feb 2022We celebrated Maths' Week at Park Lane Primary School from Monday 31st January to Friday 4th February 2022. This year's theme was 'Games and Puzzles' and the children were challenged to create their own maths' game or puzzle; they were able to do this by working in small groups or with a partner from their class. Teachers planned a series of lessons where children explored a range of board games and puzzles, carefully considering the rules of the games, before creating their own. During Friday's maths' lessons, children were able to play their own board games and puzzles, and prizes were awarded for the best in each class.
Throughout the week, children in KS2 participated in times table competitions when children were given between 5 to 10 minutes to complete a times table challenge sheet. Each year group also looked at different mathematicians and had the opportunity to discover what we know about these mathematicians, producing fact sheets to share with their class. The mathematicians investigated are as follows:
Year Group
Mathematician
Known For
1
Florence Nightingale
Making statistics- graphs and charts
2
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number Theory- finding a quick method to add the numbers 0-100 together
3
Benjamin Banneker
Clock work
4
Marjorie Lee Browne
Being the third African American woman to successfully receive a PhD in mathematics
5
G.F. Bernhard Riemann
Prime Numbers
6
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Algebra
On Friday 4th February, children were invited to 'Dress for Digits' and make a donation to the NSPCC, the UK's Children's charity. Park Lane Primary School raised just over £200 for this worthy cause. Prizes were also awarded to the best dressed on the day.
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October - Black History Month at Park Lane Primary School
Tue 02 Nov 2021The children had a wonderful time learning all about Marcus Rashford and the amazing work that he has done to promote Free School Meals in the UK, during our celebration of Black History. This year's theme was Black British Excellence and Marcus Rashford was deemed a worthy role model, not only as a successful British footballer playing for Manchester United and representing England in our national team, but predominantly for the work he has done with charities across the UK during the Covid lockdown periods to promote Free School Meals for all children.
On Friday 22nd October, the school population came together in the playground to show off the fantastic carnival costumes and masks that the children and staff created in the week prior to the half term break. Following the costume parade, keeping to our Carnival theme, the children and staff enjoyed an hour of dance in the playground. We hope you will enjoy these photos and the small video, which can be found on the School Video page of the Children tab, celebrating Black History Month.
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School Council Elections
Mon 11 Oct 2021School Council Elections were held on Friday 8th October when the children in years 2 to 6 voted to select one girl and one boy from each class to represent them at school council meetings. Four candidates were put forward and staff from the Brent Electoral Office visited Park Lane Primary School to supervise the voting process. Ballot papers were given out and children had to select the candidates that they thought would best represent their class. The children visited the polling station that was set up in the school hall, the votes were duly counted and the results announced during a special assembly, attended by the Mayor of Brent, on Monday 11th October.
During the assembly, the Red Hats, Junior Travel Ambassadors and Play Leaders were also announced.
Following the assembly, the newly elected school councillors retired to the school library with the Mayor, where they enjoyed morning tea while asking questions about the Mayor's responsibilities in Brent.
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Sports Week 2021
Wed 21 Jul 2021Sports Week 2021 was a huge success at Park Lane Primary School. The week took place from Monday 12th to Friday 16th July when the children, dressed in their house colours, engaged in various competitive activities in order to earn points for their respective house. All children performed admirably and had a great time competing in running events, javelin, the obstacle course, and old favourites including the sack race and tug of war, amongst others.
Rosa Parks House was the overall winner and 4G earned the most class points during their participation in the KS2 rounder's competition.
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International Week
Mon 28 Jun 2021Park Lane Primary School is celebrating International week from Monday 5th to Friday 9th July. The curriculum focus of this week will look at the effects of the pandemic on the world, and in years 3 to 6, the children will produce a case study on one of the countries that has been worse by the pandemic. We have also made a change to the school dinner menu for the week when each day the food served will be focusing on a specific country, please see the following menus.
If your child doesn't normally have school dinners, this may be the perfect opportunity to allow them to join in all the fun!
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Core values development
Mon 21 Jun 2021Ben, a Youth Engagement Officer with the Met Police, has been working with 17 of our year 6 pupils in the lead up to their big move to Secondary School. The children have been participating in rugby and multi skills sports where they can develop core values including: teamwork, respect, discipline and sportsmanship.
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Condolences to HM Queen Elizabeth II
Tue 20 Apr 2021The children and staff at Park Lane Primary School join the nation in mourning the passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Mrs Ogbebor led an assembly for the children in KS1, celebrating the life and contributions that Prince Philip has made to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The children in KS2 held class discussions and have produced some outstanding pieces of work on the life and death of the longest serving royal consort in British History.
Pupils, staff and Governors of Park Lane Primary School send their condolences to HM Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the Royal Family.
We hope you enjoy the following examples of work that our pupils have produced following class discussions.
