Atlas Community Primary School

An amazing day of celebration at the Bradford Sanctuary Seeker Education Awards - congratulations to all the winners 🧡

Today, on World Refugee Day, we are proud to announce that we have achieved the Schools of Sanctuary Award 🧡
We look forward to welcoming more children and families into our school 🧡

🧡 Everyone is welcome 🧡
We are proud to be working with Bradford Schools and Colleges of Sanctuary

🌟 TAKEOVER DAY! 🌟

A few weeks ago, pupils across the school had the opportunity to apply for every job in the school, completing application forms against the job specifications. The successful candidates then had planning time to get ready for their day of work, and today was the day!

We have some absolute stars in the making here:
Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers ranging from 6-11 years old spent the day planning and delivering assemblies, fundraisers, observing the new ‘teachers’ and giving feedback. (They also insisted that they needed hot chocolate and biscuits at their team meeting)
Teachers (again, 5-11 years old) planned, prepared and delivered lessons all day.
The catering team worked hard to prep the school lunches and made sure everything ran smoothly in the dinner hall.
The site team made sure that everyone had paper towels, that the site was clear of any litter and that all deliveries were put away correctly.
The office team answered the phones, took messages and got letters ready to send home.

The feedback? ‘We’re exhausted! That job’s so tiring!’……’can we do it again?!’

When people ask if we are winding down before the summer…

Well it has been such a busy time at Atlas! In just the last couple of weeks:
*Years 4 & 5 have been to some fantastic Bradford Literature Festival events
*Year 6 got to make their own pizzas at PizzaExpress
*some of our budding artists took part in a special refugee art workshop with Schools of Sanctuary
*Year 6 pupils went to watch the Ilkley Trophy with Rackets Cubed
*Year 2 pupils visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park
*Year 5 went to St. George's Hall to play with the Halle Orchestra
*Year 6 started to work on the choreography for their end of year performance with Brad Judge
*Zakirah went to an awards ceremony with SkillsHouse Bradford and won! Young Leader of the Year 2023
*We welcomed our new Reception 2023 pupils to our teddy bears’ picnic event

Phew! No wonder we’re tired! We never miss the chance to give our children every opportunity possible.
Places still available in some classes for September 2023.

01274 495190 - come and see for yourselves!

We had the best experience today at The Ilkley Trophy, playing and watching tennis. Thank you to our friends at Rackets Cubed for inviting us! Our children were really inspired watching
Emma Navarro and were so happy to meet her for a photo!

Our Priestley Orchestra musicians are here at St George’s Hall rehearsing for tonight’s Schools’ Prom! Did you know that in Priestley Academy Trust schools, children learn a wide range of instruments throughout Key Stage 2? These include:
Ukulele
Drums
Guitar
Trumpet
Saxophone
Clarinet
Violin
Our orchestra get together each half term to play together, along with our choir.

Opportunity matters! We love seeing our pupils discovering new passions and talents 💪❤️🌟🎶🎤🎹🎸🎻🥁🎺🎷🪘

It was Italian week in cooking club. We made tomato and garlic no-chicken, served with penne pasta. It was delicious! 🇮🇹🍝

Yesterday, computer club visited the Media Museum and looked at the history of the internet, photography and television.

We also had a look at how sound is created and thought about how what the sounds that hear can be different for each and every person 📷📺

We had lots of fun exploring Nell Bank today and learning about our woodland areas!

An incredible turnout today for our JoinUs MovePlay fun day. Thank you to all the parents that came. Well done to everybody who won their prizes!

We had a fantastic time at our Jubilee Celebration this week; what a turnout! Wishing our children and families a wonderful break
❤️🤍💙

We would to wish Eid Mubarak to all our children, staff & families celebrating.

https://prospectsonline.co.uk/job/4070-higher-level-teaching-assistant

https://prospectsonline.co.uk/job/4066-class-teacher

We had an amazing day out at Old Trafford, to watch Manchester United vs Everton, in the Women’s Super League ⚽️

Today we held a non-uniform day and sold Red Noses to raise money for Comic Relief. We raised an amazing £135. Thank you to everybody for their donations!

This morning in Forest School, Year 3 worked on hacksaw use, measuring to the nearest centimetre and sawing wood. In the afternoon, Year 6 were passionate about what they know about climate change and created visual presentations to share with us Bee Outdoors 🍃🪵🪓📏

We have 2 exciting opportunities available to join our wonderful Atlas family.

Teaching and Learning Partner:

We are looking to appoint an exceptional Teaching & Learning Partner to work across our school.

You will be a key adult who is responsible for making sure our children are happy, safe and learning. We are looking for somebody who has a warm rapport with children balanced with a sound knowledge of children’s learning and development.

Please take the time to visit our school and meet our wonderful children and staff. Our website and Twitter feed give you a real sense of how special our school is but nothing comes close to visiting us in person and meeting our wonderful pupils.

If you feel you have the qualities we are looking for please contact [email protected] for an application pack or for an informal discussion and to visit the school please contact Lisa Simpson on 01274 495190 .

Data and Finance Officer:

The main purpose of this role is to run the day-to-day finance elements of the school under the guidance of the central finance team, raising purchase orders, dealing with invoices and working with the senior leadership team to analyse data wherever needed within the school. As we are a small primary school, it is also a front-facing role which involves working with parents on a daily basis.

If you feel you have the qualities we are looking for please contact [email protected] for an application pack or for an informal discussion and to visit the school please contact Lisa Simpson on 01274 495190 .

Merry Christmas to all our children, staff and families!

Merry Christmas from Atlas!

Wow 🤩 our Year 2 pupils have been working on writing a speech about their future aspirations and who they are inspired by - among a large variety we have a future Nurse; a Stuntman and an Artist. We can't wait to see what they will be in the future 🌈

Year 2 Aspirations

This morning, we got into the festive spirit as our Atlas ambassadors decorated the Christmas tree 🎄🌲🎁

Wow! Look at our fantastic new provision, the Manningham Music Centre, where pupils from all of our Priestley schools can access additional funded music sessions after school with the Bradford Music Education Hub. Every child should have the opportunity to become a musician 🎶❤️🎺🎻🪘🪕🎵❤️

What a lovely way to end our week! We loved our staff Forest School session with Lizzie 🐝 ❤️