Keeping parents informed and involved in their child's education is very important to us, which is why we update the website and produce a newsletter every week. We have just celebrated ten years of producing them, which with all the parent training sessions, meetings and questionnaires is demonstration of the importance we attach in involving the family in their child's learning & development. This is the latest edition of the newsletter Edition 406 for Friday 14th June 2013.

All the editions and the notices that we have for the school year 2012-2013 will be on this page. Just click on the thumbnail to view the full sized image or right click and "Save as" or navigate below and click the one you want.

WHY DO WE HAVE A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER? just click to find out why we and other people think it is so important to have a weekly newsletter and when we celebrated our 300th edition.

We hope you enjoy our newsletter too, if you have any ideas or suggestions please let us know -it is for you after all. We started it way back in 2002. You can see the newsletters for 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010 are here, prior to that here

SUMMER HALF TERM

EASTER HOLS

SPRING HALF TERM 2013

AUTUMN TERM 2012 below

AUTUMN HALF TERM 2012

Last years newsletters can be found in the for gallery 2011-2012, 2010-2011. 2009-2010

Keeping parents informed and involved in their child's education is very important to us, which is why we update the website and produce a newsletter every week. This was the last edition for 2011-2012 of the PARENTS' WEEKLY NEWSLETTER for Friday 12th July 2012.

All the editions and the notices that we have for the academic year 2011-2012 will be on this page. Just click on the thumbnail to view the full sized image or right click and "Save as" or navigate below and click the one you want.

WHY DO WE HAVE A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER? just click to find out why we and other people think it is so important to have a weekly newsletter when we celebrated our 300th edition. This year we will celebrate 10 years of a weekly newsletter.

We hope you enjoy our newsletter too, if you have any ideas or suggestions please let us know -it is for you after all. We started it way back in 2002. You can see the newsletters for 2010-2011, 2009-2010 are here, prior to that here

Below are the Newsletters for the Summer Term 2012

Below are the Newsletters for the Spring Term 2012

Below are the ones for the Autumn Term 2011

Last years newsletters can be found in the for 2010-2011 gallery. 2009-2010

This is our latest edition of the PARENTS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER for July 2011.

All the editions and the notices that we have for the academic year 2010-2011 will be on this page. Just click on the thumbnail to view the full sized image or right click and "Save as" or navigate below and click the one you want.

WHY DO WE HAVE A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER? just click to find out why we and other people think it is so important to have a weekly newsletter.

We hope you enjoy our newsletter too, if you have any ideas or suggestions please let us know -it is for you after all. You can see the newsletters for 2009-2010 are here prior to that here

WHY DO WE HAVE A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER?

We do not have all the resources available to bigger schools but we like to think the website and newsletter demonstrates that we really do have 'heart' and are 'family focused' as well as 'community focused'. We started doing them way back in 2002 as part the 100th Birthday celebrations and the weekly newsletters are now an important feature of the school as "it clearly shows the commitment to parental involvement and communication."

We produced a special 'Community Edition' as part of the celebrations for the 300th edition of the newsletter, which we delivered to some of the local homes nearby. Again it was done by volunteers and like all these online versions no money was diverted from the school budget or the children's education.

A governor survey had 96% of parents & carers saying that they regularly read the newsletter. Parents had told us that often the occasional note from the school would not make it out of the children's backpack, but parents at Millbank know to look out for the weekly newsletter. When asked 'what have they done today at school' pupils at any school will often say 'nothing' and shrug their shoulders. So by looking at the newsletters parents can become more aware of what is going on the themes and projects that the children are involved in and take an interest too.

These online pages can even allow parents to catch up in work or allow other family members to see the children's article or news. The school also offers to e-mail parents a copy. This online version normally has names and other details blocked out as part of the web safety policy. It also means that we always update the website/gallery at least once a week.

As you can see the Newsletter provides information on events and activities not just at the school but in the wider community. Many of the children take the photographs and children often write articles about their hobbies or their favorite books, and the newsletter often showcases success in sport and activities outside the school too. It also allows groups like the School Ambassadors & Council, Junior Road Safety Officers, Green Gang not to mention the Reporters Club to reach a wider audience and get their messages out.

Last years newsletters can be found in the 2009-2010 gallery.

PARENTS NEWSLETTERS
2009-2010

This is the latest edition of our Summer Term 2010. The rest for Spring Term 2010 and Autumn Term 2009 are below along with any community notices we get for the parents notice boards in school. Prior to that are lower down the page here.

We do not have all the resources available to bigger schools but we like to think the website and newsletter demonstrates that we have 'heart' and are 'family focused' as well as 'community focused'. We started doing them way back in 2002 as part the 100th Birthday celebrations and the weekly newsletters are an important feature of the school as "it clearly shows the commitment to parental involvement and communication."

A governor survey had 96% of parents & carers saying that they regularly read the newsletter. Parents had told us that often the occasional note from the school would not make it out of the children's backpack, but parents at Millbank know to look out for the weekly newsletter. When asked 'what have they done today at school' pupils at any school will often say 'nothing' and shrug their shoulders. So by looking at the newsletters parents can become more aware of what is going on the themes and projects that the children are involved in and take an interest too.

These online pages can even allow parents to catch up in work or allow other family members to see the children's article or news. The school also offers to e-mail parents a copy. This online version normally has names and other details blocked out as part of the web safety policy. It also means that we always update the website/gallery at least once a week.

As you can see the Newsletter provides information on events and activities not just at the school but in the wider community. Many of the children take the photographs and children often write articles about their hobbies or their favourite books, and the newsletter often showcases success in sport and activities outside the school too. It also allows groups like the School Ambassadors & Council, Junior Road Safety Officers, Green Gang not to mention the Reporters Club to reach a wider audience and get their messages out.

We hope you enjoy our newsletter too, if you have any ideas or suggestions please let us know -it is for you after all. You can see the earlier newsletters on our main website.

SUMMER 2010

SPRING 2010

AUTUMN TERM 2009

You can see previous newsletters here

NEWSLETTERS 2008-9 SUMMER TERM

Here are the newsletters for this term,


just click on them to view the newsletter as a simple photograph/jpeg. This should then pop up in a new window.

NEWSLETTERS 2008-9 SPRING TERM

Here are the newsletters for this term,


just click on them to view the newsletter as a simple photograph/jpeg. This should then pop up in a new window.

Issue 236

Issue 237

Issue 238

Friday 27 Feb 2009

Friday 6 Mar 2009

Friday 13 Mar 2009

Issue 233

Issue 234

Issue 235

Half term 

Friday 30 Jan 2009

Friday 6th Feb 2009

Thursday 12 Feb

Issue 230

Issue 231

Issue 232

Friday 9 Jan 2009

Friday 16 Jan 2009

Friday 23 Jan 2009

NEWSLETTERS 2008-9 AUTUMN TERM

Here are the newsletters for this term,


just click on them to view the newsletter as a simple photograph/jpeg. This should then pop up in a new window.

Issue 228

Issue 229

Friday 12th Dec

Thursday 18th Dec

Issue 225

Issue 226

Issue 227

Friday 21st Nov

Friday 28th Nov 2008

Thursday 4th Dec

Issue 223

Issue 224

Friday 7 Nov 2008

Friday 14 Nov 2008

HALF TERM

Be careful at Halloween

Issue 222

Thurs 23 Oct 2008

Issue 219

Issue 220

Issue 221

Friday 3 Oct 2008

Friday 10 Oct 2008

Friday 17 Oct 2008

Issue 215

Issue 216

Issue 217

Issue 218

Friday 5 Sept 2008

Friday 12 Sept 2008

Friday 19 Sept 2008

Friday 26 Sept 2008

NEWSLETTERS 2007-8 SUMMER TERM

Here are the current newsletters this term, just click on them to view the newsletter as a simple photograph/jpeg.

NEWSLETTERS 2007-8 SPRING TERM

Here are the newsletters for this term. You can see some our webpage including some lovely comments for our 200th edition here

Issue 199

NEWSLETTERS 2007-8 AUTUMN TERM

Here are the newsletters for this term

NEWSLETTERS 2006-7 SUMMER Term

SORRY BUT THE SCHOOL SERVICE CHANGED THE SETTINGS THEY GAVE US. WE GUESS IT WAS FOR SECURITY REASONS, EITHER WAY WE CANNOT PUT ALLTHE NEWSLETTERS ONLINE AS USUAL. BUT WE HAVE TRIED TO PUT AS MANY OF THEM IN PICTURE/JPEG FORM AS POSSIBLE.... LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE IT IS A LOT PRETTIER.

NEWSLETTERS 2006-7 Spring Term

Do not forget that if you have any comments or suggestions as to what you want in the newsletter let us know. Just click on the Link to read them:-

As part of the regular updating of our old website the newsletter was put online every week. Keeping copies of the newsletters may not sound too exciting, but it's an interesting record of some of the activities that go on in the school. Just click on the links below for a page to open up in a new window and you can explore some of the old newsletters that we have sent home.

2005-2006 NEWSLETTERS in MS Word format

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