 | About our school Lawns Park is a friendly, happy school with a purposeful atmosphere. We are all here to learn and we are eager to challenge ourselves and persevere, even when the learning journey feels difficult. At Lawns Park the children have a voice and they are listened to. Children own their learning with great pride. We are committed to ensuring learning is enjoyable, purposeful and stimulating for all our children and we know that our class pages will help us to deliver this. We also know that our parents and carers want to be able to access information and communicate with school easily. Again, this site is designed to make sure this can happen. We are so excited about the learning possibilities our website offers our pupils, parents, carers, staff and governors. As always, we value your thoughts and comments as we develop and grow our site. Rebecca Ford, Head Teacher. |
A message from our Head Teacher, Ms Ford:
I would like to share a recent email I received from MP Rachel Reeves.
Dear Rebecca,
Having recently seen the latest 2018 Key Stage 2 results, I would like to express my congratulations to you, your staff and
your pupils for a fantastic improvement in the proportion of students achieving the expected standard in reading, writing
and maths since last year.
I’m aware of how hard you and all of your staff work, and of the effort put in by your pupils. Thank you for your continued
dedication and commitment – I am very proud to have you in my constituency!
Do keep me updated of developments at Lawns Park Primary, and let me know of any support I can offer.
With very west wishes,
Rachel Reeves
Member of Parliament for Leeds West
The school council decided to purchase a reading shed for pupils of Lawns Park to read in at break time and lunch time.
The money we used to purchase the shed was donated to us generously by Persimmon Homes West Yorkshire’s
Community Champions scheme, with a sum of £1000. A variety of books will be placed in the shed for pupils to read,
along with cushions to sit on. Our superintendent, Mr Harrison, is currently constructing a place for the shed to live, in the
bench area.
West Leeds Dispatch have written an article. Read it here to find out more.
https://westleedsdispatch.com/lawns-park-primary-books-1000-reading-shed-cash-boost/
Lex, chair of the school council
Dear parents and carers,
We would like to share a summary of the results from the recent OFSTED questionnaire that we did at the last Parents Evening. This was very well attended and clearly shows your investment in the school & your children’s education.
In summary more parents than ever strongly agree with the aspects outlined in the OFSTED questionnaire. So for instance
-Year on year % of parents saying their children enjoy school has increased to 99% this year, 81% of whom strongly agree.
-There is a significant increase in parents saying they strongly agree that the school informs them of progress their child is making (64%) with 96% agreeing overall.
-99% of you say that you think your child is making enough progress which is more than in previous years.
-100% of parents surveyed said that the teaching is good at LPPS
-Overall 98% of our parents said that they are happy with their child’s experience at school, 64% of whom strongly agreed, an improvement on previous years.
Some parents made written comments, the vast majority of which were positive, thanking teachers & the school. They:
-Acknowledged that sports opportunities were better, although they wanted more.
-Acknowledged that communication was better.
-Requested a Homework Club after school & a Readers Club.
-Asked for better lunchtime supervision.
We listen to your comments and work hard on them. So for instance you asked us to work on communication & over the last 12 months we have introduced Schoop, a weekly up date and introduced Parent Forums. Unfortunately the last OFSTED Parent Forum was very poorly attended by parents & carers. If you have any other ideas about how we can maintain and improve transparent and timely communication we would love to hear your ideas.
“No limits, no boundaries, no excuses”.
Over the last three years Lawns Park has made some significant changes resulting in rapid improvements. The Governors of Lawns Park have a three year plan to secure further improvements for our school, for our children, for your children.
"We have come a long way as a school since our parents OFSTED Forum in January. Please have a look at the progress we have made in relation to the targets we set from this meeting."
Update on 10 Point OFSTED Plan from the OFSTED Forum September 2018
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Comments from Parents and Carers
"My child really enjoys coming to Lawns Park. She is really hapy, as are we."
""Brilliant all round school!."
"First term and my child has settled in well. He loves his school, class and teacher."
""My daughter loves her days at Lawns Park. We are all very happy and proud of the school.We feel she is excelling in all areas and feel ll the staff give 110%. Well done!"
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Use this easy online system to pay for; dinner money, breakfast club, nursery flexi cover, uniform and class trips.
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We take attendance seriously at Lawns Park and we believe that every day counts. We are going to publish our attendance figures on our website regularly. Out target is at least 96.5% attendance. Please help us achieve this by ensuring that your child is in school whenever possible and by keeping appointments at the dentist or the doctor out of school hours. Thank you for your support!
95.4%
This Year's target is 96.7%
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For other policies, please see the Parents' Information Page
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Pupils are encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance and understand that while different people may hold different views about what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, all people living in England are subject to its law.
To find out more click here.
Lawns Park Primary School is a partner school in the teacher training programme Pathways Partnership, which is comprised of 15 primary schools in a diverse range of contexts across the city of Leeds.
Follow this link for further information about the programme and how to apply.
Click here for further documentation.