Pensby Post Spring term 2018

Pensby Primary School

The class pages on the
website reflect the very

broad and exciting
curriculum the children have
in school. Trips, visits, events,
dressing up, creative lessons

that spark interest and
enjoyment—it’s all here in

Pensby Primary School!

Pensby Post
Spring term 2018

Headteacher’s Words

Dear families,

This term may have been shorter than last term, but it has been packed with events and activities!

Our Nursery provision has been full to bursting thanks mainly due to the new 30 hours provision offered to
some families. This has taken us by surprise a little bit and the governors are monitoring this carefully and
thinking if there is a need to extend our provision in the future. You can read more details about this in the
Governor’s page of this edition of the Pensby Post.

Throughout the spring term you may have noticed a real effort and push on parking on site, to ensure that
the site is as safe as possible for our children. This push has resulted in the drop off being used much more
responsibly and traffic is flowing freely and more calmly through the site—good news for the children. We
have been told that parking enforcement is imminent but we are as yet to see this happen. It will though—so
any parking on the single yellow lines around the school at the incorrect times, will lead to a parking fine.

You may be aware of the new GDPR requirements (General Data Protection Regulation). These requirements
are for anyone who holds data on individuals, so therefore it includes schools.

‘After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR was finally approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016.
Enforcement date: 25 May 2018 - at which time those organizations in non-compliance may face heavy fines.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to
harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way
organizations across the region approach data privacy’.

Our school has been working with the South Deeside Primary Schools Federation (SDPSF) to plan and prepare
for these new expectations. Our new Data Protection and Security policy will be ready for the enforcement
date and this details our privacy notice. It will give you all the information you need to know about the data
we hold and use in our school. A draft copy of our Privacy Notice is on the next 3 pages of this edition of the
Pensby Post.

We are currently looking at upgrading the schools CCTV system. This system is designed to protect pupils,
staff and visitors so this should give us all some reassurance. Another update to the school has been the new
lockdown alarm system. Again, this is a protective measure and one we hope we won’t have to use! Future
works on site include the addition of more car park spaces and extending the drop off area for Stanley pupils.
The development of the field is also around the corner, although we do need to work with our neighbours to
make sure this is done sympathetically with them in mind. These works have been a great opportunity for us
to work closely with Stanley school and this joint arrangement ensures that anything that happens benefits
both schools and their communities.

It is impossible to put every event into this edition of the Pensby Post as such a lot happens in our school.
The class teachers are very adept at putting information about what their class has been doing, on their class
page of the school website. Please take the time to see what your child is doing and also what else is going
on in the other classes—you will be very impressed!

Our ‘Fitness Friday’s’ have been very successful and Mr Davies has been working with groups of pupils to
improve physical education skills. The governors have recognised that this work has had an impact on the
education progress of pupils in all subjects and so from the summer term, Fitness Fridays will be extended
with Mr Davies doing additional work on a Thursday morning. This will certainly go down well with the
children, who have thoroughly enjoyed his lessons. The summer term will be a term when we push physical
fitness, with several new clubs and our inter school competitions. Watch out for details of those!

My thanks to all the staff for their incredible dedication this term and to the children for working so very
hard. We finish for the Easter break on Thursday 29th March and reopen on Monday 16th April. Thank you
for your support this term, enjoy the break!

Mrs K Brown

Headteacher

PENSBY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIVACY
NOTICE

Pensby Primary School collects and uses pupil information under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Education Act 1996 which
are a lawful basis for collecting and using pupil information for general purposes (and from article 6 and article 9 where data
processing is special category data from the General Data Protection Regulation from 25th May 2018)

The categories of pupil information that we collect, hold and share include:

 Personal information (such as name, unique pupil number and address)

 Characteristics (such as ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth and free school meal eligibility)

 Attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences and absence reasons)

 Assessment information

 Relevant medical information

 Special Educational needs information

 Exclusions and behavioural information

Why we collect and use this information

We use the pupil data:
 to support pupil learning

 to monitor and report on pupil progress

 to provide appropriate pastoral care

 to assess the quality of our services

 to comply with the law regarding data sharing

The lawful basis on which we use this information

We collect and use pupil information under Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation:

(c) Legal obligation: the processing is necessary for you to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations).
(d) Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life.
(e) Public task: the processing is necessary for you to perform a task in the public interest or for your official functions, and the task
or function has a clear basis in law.
And from Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation:
(d) processing is carried out in the course of its legitimate activities with appropriate safeguards by a foundation, association or any
other not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim and on condition that the processing relates
solely to the members or to former members of the body or to persons who have regular contact with it in connection with its
purposes and that the personal data are not disclosed outside that body without the consent of the data subjects;

Collecting pupil information

Whilst the majority of pupil information you provide to us is mandatory, some of it is provided to us on a voluntary basis. In order
to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, we will inform you whether you are required to provide certain pupil
information to us or if you have a choice in this.

Storing pupil data

We hold pupil data for various timescales and these are details in the schools Retention of Records policy.

Who we share pupil information with

We routinely share pupil information with:
 schools that the pupil’s attend after leaving us

 our local authority

 the Department for Education (DfE)

 The school nurse/NHS

 Any bodies where we must statutorily share the information e.g. Social Services

Why we share pupil information

We do not share information about our pupils with anyone without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.
We share pupils’ data with the Department for Education (DfE) on a statutory basis. This data sharing underpins school funding and
educational attainment policy and monitoring.
We are required to share information about our pupils with our local authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE) under
section 3 of The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.

Data collection requirements:

To find out more about the data collection requirements placed on us by the Department for Education (for example; via the school
census) go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools.

The National Pupil Database (NPD)

The NPD is owned and managed by the Department for Education and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It
provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the
Department. It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources in-
cluding schools, local authorities and awarding bodies.
We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school
census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education
(Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.
To find out more about the NPD, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-user-guide-and-
supporting-information.

The department may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being
of children in England by:
 conducting research or analysis

 producing statistics

 providing information, advice or guidance

The Department has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent con-
trols in place regarding access and use of the data. Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict ap-
proval process and based on a detailed assessment of:
 who is requesting the data

 the purpose for which it is required

 the level and sensitivity of data requested: and

 the arrangements in place to store and handle the data

To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality
and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data.

For more information about the department’s data sharing process, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-
collect-and-share-research-data

For information about which organisations the department has provided pupil information, (and for which project), please visit the
following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received

To contact DfE: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe

Requesting access to your personal data

Under data protection legislation, parents and pupils have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. To
make a request for your personal information, or be given access to your child’s educational record, contact The Head Teacher in the
first instance.

You also have the right to:

 object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
 prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
 object to decisions being taken by automated means
 in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
 claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with us in
the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Contact

If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact:
Mrs K Brown at Pensby Primary School (Data Protection Administrator) or The Schools Data Protection Officer (DPO) Sarah Webb at
e2e Integration [email protected]

PTA Sponsored Egg Toss!

Our PTA sponsored Easter Egg Toss was such fun—just look at the
children’s faces! Every child took part and there were strict rules

to follow! Every child got a chocolate egg at the end and the
winning child in each class got a big chocolate egg! As well as
being fun, the event helped the children with their hand/eye
coordination and throwing skills—so it was curriculum based
too! Organising an event like this is hard work and the PTA were

determined it should be
enjoyable for the children as
well as help raise funds for the
school. They have definitely

achieved this!

Pensby’s Homeless Angels!

Mrs Toal has been passionate about the children and school
community supporting Wirral’s homeless Angels. The
children have loved preparing the meals and making
lovely labels to go on each meal. Thanks must go to Mrs
Humphries, our cook, for giving her time to help the

children do this. It is an amazing thing we are all doing and we
should be very proud of what we have done and will continue to do.

Sanctuary Care Homes

This term, we worked with Sanctuary Care homes once again. The
Wirral Globe article told the story of the time capsule that was

buried in the grounds of the new site. Mrs Brett and Mrs Shaw took 3
year 6 pupils to the site and they buried the time capsule in the pre

selected place! They were also given a chance to tour the new
building and see the facilities in place for the future residents. Over
the years we will build our relationship with Sanctuary Care homes.

We are looking forward to working with the choir of Thingwall
Primary School in the autumn term and joining together to sing
Christmas Carols for the residents of the care home. This will be a
wonderful opportunity for both schools to perform together and

bring joy to the local community as wel!

SOUTH DEESIDE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
FEDERATION—SPRING TERM EVENTS

This term the 6 schools in our federation have arranged several events
where the children come together.

In February, the second Music Festival was held. All 6 schools sent
their year 3 and 4 children—over 300 in total. It was hosted at Pensby.
The theme was ‘love’ and the event was held on Valentines Day! Each
school sang a song on their own that they had prepared. Together, all
6 schools sang several songs. What an incredible sound they all made.

It was beautiful.

In March, two events were held. Two children from each
year 6 class took part in a Spelling Bee. The Spellings

were incredibly hard. Some of the easier spellings were:
mischievous and prejudice!! After quite a battle the Pensby children
earned 3rd place!
Another ‘Bee’ is to be held in March. Two year 5 children from each
school took park in a Maths Bee. Again, the Maths Bee was incredibly
challenging and the children from all six schools
were certainly put to the test! At the time of writing
this edition of ‘The Post’ the Maths Bee was about
to take place—so we will let you know how we did in
the summer term!

Governor’s Page

Dear families,
As we come to the end of the spring term, the Governors have reflected on
another successful term for the school.

We have been giving (and will continue to give) great thought and consideration to
our Nursery provision. We are one of a very few schools in this area to offer this
provision and it is a great facility for our families and community. This year, the
30-hour provision offer has been incredibly popular and successful. For the first
time in the school’s history, our Nursery provision has been full. Whilst this is good
news for us, we know that this has meant we have families waiting for a place and
that is something we are not happy about. Extending the provision is always an
option, but it is one that has to be thoroughly explored.

The Governing Body is in need of a new parent Governor. You will have received
notice that it is time to nominate for this post. The closing date for nominations is
12 noon on 28th March. If there is, more than one nomination a vote will be called.
If there is only one nomination, that person will be invited onto the governing
body. Please think very carefully and seriously about whether this is a role you can
undertake. It does require a lot of commitment and time in school for the benefit
of all the children. The school admin team will keep you updated on the
nominations and any vote if it is required.

Your Governing Body is working very hard to support the school in a time of great
budget restraints. This is affecting all schools and our fellow South Dee-
side Federation schools have been conferring on this serious issue. Our role is to
strategically ensure we do not overspend and that we use the budget as well as
possible to fulfil the needs of the pupils. This is done by listening carefully to our
Headteacher and the staff about how the school is operating on a day-to-day basis.
Undoubtedly, due to budget restraints things may have to be cut back, in order to
preserve what is necessary, but we work tirelessness to do all we can to protect
the needs of our children, staff and community.

Thank you for supporting the school and working with us.
Mr. D Spencer
Chair of Governors.

Cycling and Road

Awareness

You may not know that each year, the
year 5 class is given the opportunity
to have cycle lessons. These lessons include bike

maintenance and safety. After lessons on the
playground (to check the children are

competent on a bicycle), the children are taken
out and about on roads around the school,

under very high supervision levels, so that they
can experience cycling on the road and fully
appreciate and learn how to do so safely.

World Book Day—what is it
really about? It began

many years ago and was
designed to promote a

love of reading.That’s why
we decided once again, to
avoid dressing up (which

is costly and time
consuming for families)
and focus on the love of

reading in its purest
form—books and books

and more books!

We asked the
children and
staff to find
their favourite

books.The
children

guessed which
book

belonged to
which teacher!

During the day, each class celebrated the day and the
children shared their books.The whole school wrote a
story and this was shared in a special assembly at the

end of the day. It was a brilliant story! For homework
children were asked to read in extreme (but safe !)

places. They used their imagination well in this task!

World Book Day

World Book Day 2018

Whole School Story!

Nursery and Reception:
Once upon a time there was a friendly witch called Bob and she lived in a
brick house, in a dark forest surrounded by Wolves on the Moon. She had
spikey blue hair underneath her favourite spikey witch’s
hat which was adorned with green spiders. She wore a
happy smile on her green face. Living with her in her
brick house are Woody the magical cat and Ken the fly-
ing Dog. All of a sudden there was a storm…

Year 1
Dark clouds filled the sky and rain poured down. Howling
wind swirled around the dark, bleak forest and thunder
roared overhead. Bob was warm and safe inside her brick house listening to
the sounds of the storm. Suddenly she heard a different sound, the

whimpering of an animal in distress. She must go to
help, so she bravely jumped on her magic broomstick
and zoomed out into the treacherous storm!

Year 2
Feeling petrified and scared flying into the stormy dark
night, the Witch battled through the dark sky. Fighting through the wild
winds, tossing and turning the Witch fell off her broomstick graciously. Upon
dusting the slimy minute insects off her purple cloak, the Witch was
approached by a mysterious fluffy faced wolf. Not surprisingly the witch
yelled, “AHHH” with a look of confusion.

Year 3
Although the wolf had a fluffy face, this was disguising a
vicious nature and the wolf bit the witch on her chin. Within
seconds her chin started sprouting hairs and growing a beard.
Bit by bit she turned into a half witch, half werewolf. Ashamed
she crept quietly into a nearby cave where she saw the shadow of a friendly

bear on the back wall.

Year 4

Gradually growing larger and larger, the shadow appeared closer to the
witch. She quickly ran deeper into the cave trying to lose the bear. She
could hear him approaching, rumbling and rolling sounding like a bolder,
then two red, fiery eyes appeared from nowhere, two huge. flaring nostrils,
what could it be? Was it here to save her?
A dragon!.....

Year 5

Cold and wet, tired and exhausted the witch
helplessly bellowed and bawled at the shear sight

of the colossal fire breathing dragon. Red and
foreboding the dragon lunged forward ferociously
and snatched Bob off her feet. Gripping her tightly he stomps hungrily into

the darkness. Peeking through his scaly, webbed fingers she feared the
worst. Bleary eyed and paralysed with fear Bob slumps down into the
sweaty palm of the dragon. Was this a hopeless situation? Who can save
her now? Distracted and disorientated she musters the courage to scream

for help, but who will hear her cry’s?

Year 6

The flying dog heroically swoops in
and attacks the dragon by blowing his
rancid breath and slapping his saliva
soaked tongue

across the
dragons scarlet scaled face. The fuming dragon
backs away in disgust, dropping the witch from his
sharp talons. Relieved she seizes her opportunity,
scrambles to her feet and sprints as fast as light-
ning towards the narrow crack in the wall. Bob
clambers hastily into the light and whistles sharply
for her broom, with the panting dog flying close

behind.

PTA Page

This term we tried a new approach to
how we collect money for some events. This was for many reasons, but mainly

to try to come into line with the financial standards that the school has to
meet. In these standards it is important to have an audit trail of any funds in
or out of the PTA account. Using TUCASI to do this is an ideal method for us.
Of course we cannot do this for all events—for example the summer fair. Next

Autumn we will be trying costing all the autumn term events and putting
them on TUCASI very early in the term. This will give our families time to
consider which events they wish to purchase for their children as well as keep

spending as far away from the Christmas period as possible.

Your PTA have been represented at the 10 year celebration meetings this
term. Attendance at those meetings is quite low so we desperately need more
help. Please, please come along and support the whole school event that will
happen on Saturday 29th September. So far we have secured entertainment
for the children, entertainment for the adults, catering and several surprises to
be revealed on the night. We are hoping that the tickets will be £10 per adult
and children of the school only will be admitted free. Tickets will go on Sale in

June and July—all being well!

This term we had such fun with the events for the children. The disco was a
great success. The lit dance floor went down really well, because the children
were used to it from last year. Hiring a dance floor like that would normally

cost about £500 and would increase the disco cost by £4 per child. We are
very fortunate that one of our lovely PTA members was able to get this for

free. Many thanks to them. Thanks also
go to the many PTA members who

went shopping for mothers day gifts and
wrapped them. The recent Easter Egg
Toss was another enjoyable event and
we look forward to seeing what
proceeds we have from that.

Lets keep these events going by
welcoming more of you to our meet-

ings—Thank you from your PTA!

A “Shout Out” for Pensby!

Our school got a ‘shout out’ from Joe Wicks. We have been
taking part in his national campaign to get children fit

and active. He does a live broadcast that schools can follow
and if they write in he mentions them—we got a mention!!!

The children really enjoy his work outs and they are fun
but also very challenging.

To find out more about his push to get our children more
active you can go to the website:

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/

School Office Page

Dear families,

The office team want to start by thanking you all for working with us
this term and being patient when we are busy!

We are pleased that the email system seems to be working so well.
Don’t forget to let us know if you aren't receiving emails—we may

need your new email address!

A reminder that if you arrive with your child after 8.55am, we cannot
allow you into the building until 9.10am. This is because the first

lesson of the day starts at 8.55am in all classrooms. Allowing pupils to
arrive late disrupts the learning time of those pupils who have arrived

on time and are already learning. No parent wants their child’s
learning to be disrupted. So please, help your child to learn by

bringing them to school on time.

Our school is bound by the Data Protection Act 1998. As such we have
to be responsible for any data we hold. Our privacy notice details how

we keep data safe and our Data Protection and Security policy is
currently being updated to reflect this fully. You can find the privacy

notice on the school website in the policies section and it is also
included in the next page of this edition of the Pensby Post.

The lost property box in the school entrance is overflowing with items!
This will all be disposed of at the end of the first week back after
Easter so please come along and have a look!

Remember to keep checking for whole school information on the
School Office page of the website:

http://pensbyprimaryschool.org/school-office/

Have a lovely Easter break!

Mrs K Yeardsley-Jones, Mrs J Macrae, Mrs D Shaw
and Miss H Lloyd-Jones

Around the World!

This year we have
continued to

focus on subjects
that we call
foundation
subjects—
geography,

history, art, RE,
DT etc! These
subjects can

become forgotten
with the pressure

of the core
subjects (maths,

English and
science), but not

in Pensby
Primary! Year 3

have studied
Scotland and even
looked at Scottish
artists. Reception
travelled to China

and made their
own dragons and

did a dragon
dance for the
whole school.
Check out the
class pages (for
every class in the
school), on the
school website to
see more pictures
of the children's
work across the

whole
curriculum .

Year 6 Complain!!!!

It may have been a cold January, but that didn’t stop year 6! They had
helped their Reception class partners post Christmas letters to Father
Christmas the month before. They posted the letters in time and the
Reception children didn’t get a reply. So year 6 took up the cause and fought
on their behalf. They wrote letters of complaint—and they were good letters!
They posted them and waited. Eventually they got what they wanted—a
reply from the Royal Mail, an apology and … some freebies! Putting together
a controlled, polite and respectful complaint is a life skill—and the year 6

children have that skill!

The Royal Mail Replies!

Year 6 celebrate as they
receive a satisfactory
reply from The Royal

Mail. Apologies are sent
along with goody bags
and books of stamps for
the school. Well done

year 6!

When it
snows we see

an
opportunity
to play and
learn so out

we go! For
some of our
children, this

was their
first snow
experience!

SNOW DAYS!!

First aid!

Year 6 led the way in Wirral by
being the first children to

undertake a first aid course. They
learnt about a wide range of first
aid including CPR. These skills are
life skills! Mr Collins, one of our ex
Governors is first aid trained and

he ran the course.

The children acted out
an emergency scenario

with each taking a
different part. They also

learnt about how to
treat wounds and use
bandages and plasters.
They had wished Mr
Klausen was there so
they could have covered

him in bandages—
maybe this could be an
event on charity day??