Latest News

Please scroll through and look at all the amazing enrichment opportunities the children have at Lady Bay Primary School.

• A note from Mrs. Hewitt On Sunday, these very luck footballers got the chance to represent Lady Bay School in a football festival organised by Nottingham Forest. There were a very young and enthusiastic squad who all played some excellent football. Their behaviour was fantastic and they were most patient whilst Mrs. Hewitt attempted to rotate her squad of 12 players for a 5-a-sde game. Well done to everyone involved. A big thank you to the parents for their support and to Benjamin and Nate’s dad for being a fabulous coach

  Mon 13 Oct 2025

  A note from Mrs. Hewitt

  On Sunday, these very luck footballers got the chance to represent Lady Bay School in a football festival organised by Nottingham Forest. There were a very young and enthusiastic squad who all played some excellent football. Their behaviour was fantastic and they were most patient whilst Mrs. Hewitt attempted to rotate her squad of 12 players for a 5-a-sde game. Well done to everyone involved. A big thank you to the parents for their support and to Benjamin and Nate’s dad for being a fabulous coach

  

• Be Ready – Assembly this week

  Mon 13 Oct 2025

  In our assembly this week, we talked to the children about Black History Month. We made the link to the protected characteristic of Race. I asked the children to think about why we teach children about Black History Month. We also discussed famous people in Black History and who they could remember from previous years. With year 1 and 2, we looked at the impact of Mary Seacole and Rosa Parks why they are remembered during this month. In the year 5 and 6 assembly we looked at the life and work of Pablo Fanque and his impact during Victorian times. We finished the assembly reflecting on why they felt this assembly was important. My favourite quote from the day was from Oscar in year 5. When asked why we teach about Black History he stated, “You are asking us to reflect on the awful things that happened and to make sure we learn from it and not repeat it in the future.” Not sure I could have put it better myself.

  

• Be Ready – Music at Lady Bay

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  You may be aware that we have a new music specialist in school (Mrs Bennett).. We are so pleased with the start she has made and the children are loving the music sessions. It was great that Ofsted were able to see the provision too last week. They were very complimentary about the sessions and felt the expectations that we have are very high. During this session, year 4 were learning about at pentatonic scale and were given some notes for Sweet Chariot. They were set the task to work out the rest. A super lesson.

  

• Be Ready – Spanish at Lady Bay

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  I wanted to add a note about Spanish in the newsletter this week. When Ofsted came in, they were blown away with the quality of the Spanish provision in school. The teaching was excellent and they felt that the standards that the children were reaching at primary school was amazing. Well done to Senora Lopez for her continued effort. In the picture, you can see Annabelle learning numbers in her lesson in year 4.

  

• Be Ready – Year 6 work on the Mayans

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  In Year 6, we have been working extremely hard to make an information sheet about the ancient Maya. To begin the unit on what the Maya have done for us, we were hooked in by tasting and rating different chocolates - thanks to the Maya! We then worked in groups to research and share our ideas about what the Maya civilization have done for us. We thoroughly researched many subjects, such as: agriculture, calendars, astronomy, sports, writing and chocolate. The class used determination and collaboration to create fantastic pieces of work

  

• Caring for each other – Wear read for dyslexia awareness

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  Thank you to everyone who came in red to raise the profile of dyslexia awareness in school. On Monday, it is the start of dyslexia awareness week and we always spend time during assemblies talking to the children about it. We have quite a few children who have been diagnosed with dyslexia in school and raising awareness allows them to know that they are not alone and that they will be supported whilst in school. We also like to show them the vast variety of business people and celebrities who have made huge successes in their lives who are dyslexic. Thank you again for supporting an important awareness day.

  

• Growing together – OPAL

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  We reach the end of another week of OPAL play. I wanted to say thank you to Nikki from the church as she has volunteered to come in and support lunchtime this week.

  We are in the process of evaluating the best sand pit and, with the LBSA’s support, we will start the process of creating a sand area on the playground. We are very excited to get the ball rolling with this.

   

  We are still open to any donations if you have any as we are constantly trying to refresh what the children have access to.

  This week’s photos show den building in the lower school playground and the children playing with the small world/roleplay items on the playground

  

• Be Ready – Assembly this week

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  In our assembly this week, we talked to the children about the protected characteristic of Religion or belief. We talked to the children about what different religions they knew and which they have learnt about in school. We discussed with the children why they believed it was important not to discriminate against someone because of their religion or beliefs. We also had a visit from Imran who talked to the children about the work that Muslin Hands to support those in need in Nottingham. We will be supporting Muslim Hands with donations for the harvest this year. If you have any harvest donation, please bring them to your child’s classroom on Monday or Tuesday.

  Suggested items –

  Rice

  Pasta

  Tinned tuna

  Canned vegetables or fruit

  Cereals

  Crisps

  Sauces in packets or jars

  Soups

  Biscuits, chocolate or other snacks

  

• Be Ready – Boys’ tournament at Ruddington St Peters

  Tue 30 Sep 2025

  A huge well done to the boys who attended the Ruddington St Peters tournament last Saturday. Mr. Shelley said they were all brilliant sportsman and h-ad positive attitudes throughout. They won the group stages after winning two games and drawing 2 games. They then won the semi-final 2-0 and won the final 2-0. An incredible performance and the first time we have won the boys’ autumn tournament for 14 years. Thank you to Mr. Shelley for giving up his time to support the boys at the weekend (and for his managerial decisions. Thank you to the parents for their support and thanks to the boys for their incredible efforts

  

• Caring for the environment – Sunflower competition

  Tue 30 Sep 2025

  To try to encourage the children to understand the importance of growing plants as food sources for bees, we asked the children in key stage 1 to take part in a sun flower competition. The competition was run by Luxfer. They offered prizes for the school who grew the most impressive sun flowers and individual prizes too. Dues to to effort form the families and children, we won. The school will receive a £250 gift card to spend on the school garden. We also had 3 individual winners. Anna won the prize for the largest sun flower, Leonie won the prize for the for the best-looking sun flower and Jessica won the prize for the biggest sun flower head. The girls all received a certificate and a £20 voucher to spend at Smyths Toys. Thank you to Miss Hutchinson for running the competition. Miss Stubbs is looking forward to working with the eco committee to decide what to spend the money on. Thanks to all the parents and children for supporting the competition.