We love celebrating birthdays at Pinner Park. Birthdays are such fun – marking another year that is past, and a reminder that we are ‘growing up’!
Schools have a number of ways of marking children’s birthdays and I know that it is traditional in some schools for children to bring sweets, cakes, gifts or party-bags to share with others (though this is no longer the case for most schools).

For a number of reasons, we do not want sweets, cakes, gifts or party bags being brought in to school, and we want to relieve parents of that particular pressure when you have lots of other birthday things to think of!
We are very happy for children to wear their birthday badge, and we will, of course, wish a very ‘happy birthday’ on that special occasion.
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If you would like to mark your child’s birthday in another way, we suggest that you consider donating a book to the school or class library. You can write a message in the book to mark the special event. We have a special 'book plate' to stick inside a birthday book which you can download here:

From January 2022, we are undertaking a one-term trial of children coming to school in their PE kit on the days when they have PE (for all year groups). Children will not need their uniform in school on those days. 

In order to make this work, we want to trial the following.

• On PE days children should wear full PE kit
• PE kits is: all-black trainers (see uniform reminder below), sport socks, plain black jogging bottoms (traditional style), white PE t-shirt, and school sweatshirt.
• No jewellery, including earrings, should be worn on those days.
• Children may wear PE shorts under their jogging bottoms - this means they can remove their jogging bottoms on warmer days.

Thank you, in advance, for your support for this trial, which is being undertaking in response to feedback from parents and children.

Class PE Days