Welcome to this week's Parkland Post!  It has been another busy week in the academy, we have had lots of visitors who said how welcoming it felt when they walked around and how lovely our children are which is always wonderful to hear! 

Welcome to the first Parkland Post of the year and what a start we have had!  I have loved walking around our academy and seeing how each class has put an individual stamp on their classrooms.  Our after school clubs are in full swing and most of them are full; it's great to see so many of our pupils enjoying taking part in them.    

Our Dance Festival with Yorkshire Academy of Creative Arts & Dance 

At Co-op Academy Parkland, we hosted our very first Dance Festival for Primary School aged children on Friday 12^th July. We have worked alongside the Yorkshire Academy of Creative Arts & Dance (YACAD) to create an opportunity for our community to come together through dance and performing arts. We worked with community and school groups across Bradford, including Our Lady & St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School, Ashland’s Primary School, Swain House Primary School, Titus Salt School, YACAD’s extracurricular groups as well as our own groups.

Welcome to this week's Parkland Post, it has certainly been an action packed one!  We only have two weeks left of school and have a wide number of events taking place so please make sure you are regularly checking our website for dates and times.  Our Sports Days are coming up on the 17th July with Reception and Key Stage 1 (Years 1&2) from 9:30am and KS2 (Years 3 to 6) from 1:30pm - we do hope you will join us to cheer everybody along and maybe even take part in the adult race!

Welcome to this week's Parkland Post which is dedicated to Ruby Morris-Rands who we said our final farewell to on Monday.  Yesterday, our children and staff came together with close family and friends in a Memorial Assembly which celebrated Ruby's life through dance, poetry and with some of our Year 4 children sharing their memories of Ruby. It was a really special time for all and I was incredibly proud of the empathy shown by all of our children.  In the next few weeks, we will be developing a Memorial Garden which will be a place of quiet reflection for children and staff to remember anyone who they have lost.

Welcome to this week's Parkland Post, it has been such a busy time across our academy and our after school clubs have started with a bang!  Our clubs are full to the brim at the moment but if you would like your child to join one, you can put their name down on the waiting list.  We are so lucky to be able to offer these free clubs as a result of staff giving up their time to run them - thank you.