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

• Mental Health Parent Champions

  Fri 31 Jan 2020

  Following training all our staff in Mental Health First Aid, we are now looking to train a number of our parents to become Mental Health Champions. These parents will be around to support the school community in signposting to appropriate help.

   

   

  

• Queen's Park Mental Health Awards

  Wed 15 Jan 2020 Lyndsy Killip
  In March 2020 we will be hosting our first local authority mental health awards. We have had the privilege of working with some amazing charities along our way and we now get to give something back. Check out our emails across the Mental Health and Wellbeing network to share the amazing work you are doing.

• Miss Mackinlay's Transition Programme

  Fri 20 Dec 2019 Lyndsy Killip
  Miss Mackinlay has been awarded funding from WCC My Westminster Fund. This is to support a transition programme from children across Year 6. Putting in place mentors from within the school, sharing fantastic activities and building confidence and independence through a difficult transitional process.

• A Culture of Culture

  Fri 22 Nov 2019 Lyndsy Killip

  We were encouraged to see that Westminster Children's University which started out at Queen's Park has been recommended to be introduced across the whole of Westminster. Please see the attached PDF with recommendations.

   

  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/sites/default/files/access_to_culture_scrutiny_task_group_report.pdf

   

   

  

• Queen's Park Primary awarded Centre of Excellence for Mental Health and Wellbeing

  Sat 20 Jul 2019 Lyndsy Killip
  We continue to strive to give the best possible support for all stake holders not just in our school but across Westminster. As such following a programme of school to school support and mental health training we were awarded Centre of Excellence by Westminster Council.

• WCC Share the best practice going on at QPPS

  Wed 21 Mar 2018 Lyndsy Killip

  We were pleased to invite Westminster Council in to see the work we are doing for wellbeing, for our children, staff and community.

  Please find attached the pages referring to the great work going on at QPPS. 

  

• Tender: Award for Healthy Relationships

  Wed 21 Mar 2018 Lyndsy Killip

  We were delighted to win the national award for healthy relationships and making a stand against Domestic Violence. We continue to open up the discussion in the hope that our children can make a difference and speak out.

   

  

• National Award for services to Children and Young People's Mental Health

  Sun 21 Jan 2018 Lyndsy Killip

  We were so pleased to be nominated and win the National Award for Learning and Education at the Positive Practice Awards 2018 at Manchester Town Hall. We have invested a lot of time and effort in ensuring that we provide support across the school and create a positive environment where we understand metacognition and factors that affect mental health. 

  We will continue to share the work we are doing and hope that other schools follow suit.

  

• Queen's Park Primary awarded Mayor Of London's Workplace Charter Commitment Level

  Sun 19 Nov 2017 Lyndsy Killip

  We are pleased to announce we received an award from the Mayor of London, celebrating Queen's Park Primary's commitment to staff wellbeing. 

   

  Mr Commins and Mrs Killip went to City Hall to receive the award in person.

   

  Upon receiving our award we were given the following letter:

   

  The Healthy Workplace Charter is the first pan-London framework that supports and recognises investment in staff health and wellbeing, partnering local public health resource with employers.  You are one of over 170 organisations that have met the standards to date.  All of your hard work is helping to improve the health of Londoners and showcase the Charter as a valuable framework for other employers to invest in staff health and wellbeing. 

   

  We are delighted to receive this award and want to continue putting wellbeing at the front of all that we do at Queen's Park Primary.

  

• Choose Coop to help us raise money for Westminster Children's University

  Fri 10 Nov 2017 Lyndsy Killip
  In our quest to expand and grow Westminster Children's University to provide more activities to raise the aspirations of your children we have successfully been selected as a charity partner. For money spend on own brand products and carrier bags we get a proportion of the money. So PLEASE shop local.