Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Attendance Winners

  Fri 18 Dec 2015
  Very well done to the children in Robins class who were this week's attendance winners.  They achieved 97.9% attendance for the week and received their trophy from a very festive Attendance Ted!

• Merry Christmas

  Fri 18 Dec 2015
  Merry Christmas to all our children and their families from the staff at Drapers Mills Primary Academy. Here's a video message from the staff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbUNr1okrgI

• Xmas Fayre

  Tue 15 Dec 2015

  Thank you to the PTFA, staff, parents and children for making our Xmas Fayre such a success this afternoon. 

   

  

• Parent Questionnaire

  Fri 11 Dec 2015
  The graphs below make a comparison between your comments on the Parent Questionnaires completed in January, June and November 2015. Thank you for taking the time to complete these. They are an important indicator of how well we are doing as a school.

  

• Parrots - Attendance Champions!

  Fri 11 Dec 2015

  Attendance Ted visited assembly today to remind children about the Christmas performances that are due to take place next week.  He also presented the weekly attendance trophies - the results were:

   

  1.  Parrots        98.3%

  2.  Robins         97.9%

  3.  Jaguars       96.1 %

   

  If the whole school achieves an average of 96% attendance for the year Mr Askew has agreed to dress up as Donald Duck and Mrs Burniston has said that she will dress up as Iron Man!

• England - House Points winners!

  Fri 11 Dec 2015

  A huge well done to all of the children in 'England' house who were this week's winners with 481 points!  The final results for the week were:

  1.  England          481

  2.  Wales             418

  3.  Scotland          391

  4.  N.Ireland         340

   

• Parents' Questionnaire - November 2015 - Results

  Mon 07 Dec 2015
  Thank you to all of the parents who completed the parent questionnaire; we were pleased with so many positive responses.  The results will be published on the school website shortly. 

• INSET Days

  Mon 07 Dec 2015

  Our next two INSET days will take place on:

   

  Monday 4th January 2016

  Friday 12th February 2016

   

  The details of the INSET days can be found via the school dates section on the website.  Please remember that school is closed for the children during INSET days.

• INSET Day -4th January 2016

  Sat 05 Dec 2015

  Urgent notice/reminder - INSET Day 04/01/2016

   

  A polite reminder to all parents/carers that the school is closed on Monday 4th January 2016 for a staff development/training day.  Children should not attend school on this day;  we will welcome all of the children back on Tuesday 5th January 2016.  Thank you.

• Attendance winners

  Sat 05 Dec 2015

  The children in Eagles class earned themselves some extra 'play time' on Friday for having this week's best attendance.

  The results were:

  1.  Eagles      97.9%

  2.  Kestrels    97.2%

  3.  Parrots     95.8%