This half term sees the official launch of The Good Grub Club, a joint initiative delivered by Parsons Down and supported by the West Berks Foodbank designed to educate, empower and inspire pupils to get cooking!    Our first recipe is Sausage & Bean hotpot:    All our recipes use budget-friendly ingredients and are nutritionally balanced, often providing 2 or 3 portions of vegetables. Ingredients usually come dried, in tins or jars, which means they are PERFECT for the days 

Our Upper School swimmers had noticed a lot of litter on their route to swimming every week. This prompted one of our Year 5 Eco Councillors to do something about it. He raised the issue with Mrs Hoskins and she agreed that the group could litter pick on their way home from swimming in the week before half term. We are really proud of everyone who took part and of Lennox for having this great idea to clean up our environment.

The Eco Council would like to challenge families to take part in "Cut Your Carbon" during the month of November. This is a carbon-cutting challenge encouraging young people and their families to complete six simple actions to raise awareness and reduce their carbon footprint. Children from years 1-6 will be provided with the following checklist as a 2Do on Purple Mash: This can either be filled in on Purple Mash or printed out (please let us know if you would like a paper cop

I am delighted to let you know that our Harvest Festival collection for West Berks Foodbank weighed in at 106.8kgs . More importantly, it represents the equivalent of 224 meals that Parsons Down Partnership has provided for local people who are currently experiencing extreme hardship. It was so kind of you and our support was very much appreciated by the team at West Berks Foodbank.

Today we talked about our eco ideas for this year. Mrs Hoskins had a really good idea to litter pick on the way to swimming! We can't wait to get started on this! We are going to write a recipe book with Mrs B and plant some trees and flowers.

Keep pumpkins away from wildlife: Pumpkins are not a natural food source for most wildlife, and they can cause illness or fatal dehydration in animals like hedgehogs and deer. Use wildlife-safe decorations : Avoid artificial cobwebs and decorations that animals can get tangled up in. Turn off lights : Extinguish decorative lights when they are not in use to avoid disrupting nocturnal wildlife.

Thank you to everyone who brought bags in for yesterday’s collection!! Thank you also to everyone that helped move bags into the shed and out for collection!

Last Saturday, a team of Year 1 and 2 pupils took part in a football tournament organised by Thatcham Tornadoes. I am so proud of all of them. They played brilliantly and considering they haven’t played together as a team they did a magnificent job. We clearly have some very talented footballers. Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to everyone who supported them.

A huge thank you to everyone who supported this year’s Harvest Appeal for the West Berkshire Foodbank. Your generosity will make a huge...

On Wednesday our U11 Boys’ football team had a strong start to the season. What an afternoon, the boys played their hearts out and were amazing! Some of the best football Mrs Hoskins has seen and against some very strong opposition. We came second in our group behind Spurcroft having only conceded 1 goal the whole afternoon. Top team from the group go through, best goal different second place across the leagues go through so we will need to wait and see!

Today was our second Eco Committee Meeting and we went through our annual Environmental Review which had been completed by classes. We made the decision to focus on the following topics this academic year: Healthy Living Marine School Grounds We are looking forward to gathering ideas for these topics. If you have any suggestions, please email our Eco-Coordinator, Miss Hargood: ecocoordinator@pdp.w-berks.sch.uk .

On Wednesday our U11 Girls’ football team had a strong start to the season. They played two matches and lost 1-0 against Falkland and...