Congratulations to Monksmoor Park's PTA!

The PTA team were rewarded for their hard work this week as they became a registered charity. This term the team have been worked together to put forward an application, which was accepted first time. Their new charitable status will help the PTA's excellent fundraising and also provide opportunities to apply for grants. Congratulations and our thanks go to Claire, Laura, Gemma, Clemmie and Jemma who have already raised thousands of pounds to help enhance the learning opportunities of our children and to enhance the school environment.

Thank you also to our PTA for organising and hosting our Summer Social event on Thursday 20th July. It creates a wonderful social opportunity for the staff and families of current Monksmoor Park pupils as well as the new September 2023 Reception and Nursery families.

The Monksmoor Park PTA expresses a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who joined us at the summer social. Despite the uncertain weather, we were fortunate enough to have a rain-free evening, allowing us to joyfully celebrate the completion of the 2023 school year. We sincerely appreciate all those who generously contributed funds to this event, as it is not intended for profit but rather to provide our children with a memorable celebration and involve their parents as well. 

We’ve got a programme of events set for next year and if you’d like to join the PTA do get in touch, we are always happy to have any support! Email monksmoorparkpta@gmail.com

If you are able to help behind the scenes; for example, writing risk assessments, collecting raffle prizes, auditing accounts we’d also love to hear from you, it's not all about running events!

We wish you all a wonderful summer! 
The Monksmoor Park PTA 

Strong Start - School Readiness Sessions

For information about School Readiness Sessions please see the notices section further down the page.

Well Woodpeckers year has come to a creative end! This week we have spent our time reviewing our learning by creating some double-page spreads. These, highly personalised, documents involved using our memory, and topic books to create some informative pieces of work full of facts. In addition to this we have chosen our own medium to create some Coronation art. We chose paint, pencil, digital, pastel or felt-tips to complete a piece to celebrate the events that saw our new King take the throne.

Later in the week we have turned our hands to weaving! We learnt that weaving was a skill that had developed over the ages and the Anglo-Saxons used the technique to make colourful clothing. Oh and finally we also continued to practise our time tables on the Chromebooks, finished our writing, covered the statutory relationship and sex education topics and enjoyed time playing rounders in PE.

The Year 4 team wishes everyone a fun and relaxing summer and we’ll see you in September.

Thank you

Thank you to the Year 10 work experience students from The Parker Academy and DSLV who spent this week with us. We wish you all a happy summer holiday and best wishes for your Year 11 studies.

West Northamptonshire Summer Activities

A message from Northamptonshire Children's Trust:

Hello and welcome to this summer edition of Stay Connected.

We have focussed mainly on activities which will be running over the summer holidays. As the newsletter is a live document we are going to update it during the holidays, taking out events which have passed and adding in any new information we come across. There will not be an August edition. We hope you find this useful in finding fun activities to do over the summer break. We have tried organising it by North and West Northamptonshire to make it part more manageable in size.

We have not included the HAF activities as they have their own website and families who are eligible through FSM should have received the codes to access the scheme.

The newsletter is fully accessible and can be read on mobiles or screens.

There is an additional round of the Household Support fund coming up – please keep an eye on Household Support Fund | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk) for updates. 

West Northamptonshire Summer Activities

Support for Families and Young People in the Summer Holidays

West Northamptonshire Council have produced a document pulling together different sources of support that is still available to access during the summer holidays, please find a copy available on our website.

Strong Start - School Readiness Sessions

Our Outdoor Pre-School Learners programme is aimed at those in pre-school or starting school in September to give families information and advice to help them feel ready for this transition.

Our next 2-week programme is at Abington Park, Northampton on Tuesday 1^st and 8^th August. Families can book a place by using the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abington-outdoor-pre-school-learners-registration-663071453567