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Online Safety Top Tip – Parents guide to Twitch
Twitch is a livestreaming service which tends to focus on gaming. Users can publicly broadcast their gameplay and commentary online for other users to watch. It’s a community-driven platform where viewers can support their favourite streamers’ channels through PayPal donations, “Bits” and more. Each streamer or group creates their own community for fans to interact with each other. Twitch has more than 15 million daily active users and includes non-gaming topics such as music, cooking and art. Anyone can create a channel to livestream or watch videos.
In the guide, you’ll find tips on a number of potential risks such as inappropriate content, private chat rooms and strangers.
If you need more support or guidance with online safety please contact a staff member or send us an email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk
Safer, Stronger Overdale
Dear parents/Carers,
Telford & Wrekin Council has launched a project to help residents feel safer in their homes and communities by reducing anti-social behaviour.
The Safer and Stronger Communities investment will address community priorities and create tangible measures to address them. The project also builds and supports both new and current initiatives, such as youth groups, community projects, activity and social groups and openings for volunteers to get involved.
In response to the Safer & Stronger questionnaire our school circulated, several concerns and suggestions have been addressed. Firstly, a new CCTV camera is being shortly installed which will monitor the Overdale MUGA and field area. The lighting on the MUGA has also now been repaired.
In regards activities for older children (11-16) several new free multi sports sessions will be offered during the summer school holidays – delivered in conjunction with AFC Telford. These free sessions will be on the 27th July, 8th August, 17th Aug and 31st Aug. All sessions will be from 3.30pm – 5.30pm.
The Safer, Stronger Communities team are officially launching in Overdale on the 25th June at the newly refurbished hall at the Carpenter Family Centre. They look forward to seeing you there.
Online Safety Top Tip – Check in with your friends
During Healthy Lifestyles Week all year groups learnt about how to keep their bodies and minds healthy. It is important that they take care of their minds when online too! Lots of things can damage the way they feel and think, and it’s more common than people realise – one in every five children, for example, struggles with their mental health. Sending memes, jokes and messages online is easy – but finding the right words to talk to a friend who’s having a hard time can be tricky.
If you need more support or guidance with online safety please contact a staff member or send us an email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk
Art Day- Friday 1st July
We are excited to be holding another whole school Art day next week, on Friday 1st July. The theme this year is ‘Art around the world’, whereby the children will create pieces of art centred on their classes chosen country and artist. They will be focussing on a particular art style and using a range of mediums including paints, printing, and drawing.
This year, we would love the children to ‘dress to express’ in their most creative clothing, but as you can imagine, this may get messy, so please send your child to school wearing old clothing, or a large t-shirt or apron to wear over these clothes!
It looks to be a very exciting day for everyone involved and we cannot wait to see what everyone creates!
Kind regards,
Mr McFarland
Art Leader
Sports Day
Dear Parents/Carers,
We are delighted to be able to run Sports Day again this year without the disruption of Covid. You will have already been given dates though our ‘Key Dates’ information, but I just want to remind everyone now of the dates again and relay some organisational points.
Year 5/6 Monday 20th June 1.15-3.00pm
Reception Tuesday 21st June 9.00-10.20am
Year 3/4 Tuesday 21st June 1.15-3:00pm
Year 1/2 Wednesday 22nd June 1.15-3.00pm
We have a few reserve dates up our sleeve, but hope that the weather will be kind. We will update you if we have to pull on our reserve dates.
We are running the event in ‘Houses’. The children will run for either Wenlock, Ironbridge, Severn or Wrekin.
Children will undoubtedly tell you which house they are in.
The sports day will be carried out on the new Astro football pitch. We will open the gate by Mrs Thomas’ classroom 10 minutes before each event starts. Children will be based on the side of the Astro that backs onto the Wrekin Way path. We ask parents to take up a spectator spot on the opposite side (where the Oak tree is) or up on the bank. Staff will direct you! Please make sure you use the toilet before coming to sports day, as we will not be able to offer toilet facilities to parents.
Due to the time the children will be outside, could you please ensure that your child has applied sun cream before coming to school and that they bring a hat with them. Drinks will be provided for them at various stages but a water bottle on sports day is a must.
It is the first time we have run a sports day on the new Astro so please bear with us. Mr Birch, Miss Jones, and the team have worked hard in making sure it runs smoothly, with of course the main driver being that all children have fun!
Yours sincerely,
Miss Cook
Sports Day
June 2022
Sports Day
Dear Parents/Carers,
We are delighted to be able to run Sports Day again this year without the disruption of Covid. You will have already been given dates though our ‘Key Dates’ information, but I just want to remind everyone now of the dates again and relay some organisational points.
Year 5/6 Monday 20th June 1.15-3.00pm
Reception Tuesday 21st June 9.00-10.20am
Year 3/4 Tuesday 21st June 1.15-3:00pm
Year 1/2 Wednesday 22nd June 1.15-3.00pm
We have a few reserve dates up our sleeve, but hope that the weather will be kind. We will update you if we have to pull on our reserve dates.
We are running the event in ‘Houses’. The children will run for either Wenlock, Ironbridge, Severn or Wrekin.
Children will undoubtedly tell you which house they are in.
The sports day will be carried out on the new Astro football pitch. We will open the gate by Mrs Thomas’ classroom 10 minutes before each event starts. Children will be based on the side of the Astro that backs onto the Wrekin Way path. We ask parents to take up a spectator spot on the opposite side (where the Oak tree is) or up on the bank. Staff will direct you! Please make sure you use the toilet before coming to sports day, as we will not be able to offer toilet facilities to parents.
Due to the time the children will be outside, could you please ensure that your child has applied sun cream before coming to school and that they bring a hat with them. Drinks will be provided for them at various stages but a water bottle on sports day is a must.
It is the first time we have run a sports day on the new Astro so please bear with us. Mr Birch, Miss Jones, and the team have worked hard in making sure it runs smoothly, with of course the main driver being that all children have fun!
Yours sincerely,
Miss Cook
Headteacher
Justina Millington
Office Manager
Newdale Primary School
Marlborough Way
Newdale
Telford
TF3 5HA
Email justina.millington@taw.org.uk
Phone 01952 387720
Ice Pops for sale Friday 17th June
Following on from the successful selling of the ice pops, the children from School Parliament have organised another sale this Friday, 20p per ice pop which we are limited to one ice pop per child.
I would like to thank the School Parliament members involved, who have taken time to organise these events. The money raised goes towards the Healthy Lifestyle fund, which helps pay towards the wonderful activities the children at Newdale have been able to enjoy this week.
Thank you for your support.
Homework blog update
Just a quick update regarding the Newdale website’s homework blog. After investigating the issue further, there is an issue where the website hasn’t been loading correctly now which has effected the network. The password provided is correct so apologies to anybody who is struggling to upload. We have logged the error with the website provider and await further clarification.
Apologies over any confusion with this.
Many thanks,
Miss Jones
Sickness Bug
Dear Parent/Carer
I am writing to let you know that a number of children and staff at school have had gastro-enteritis over the last few days.
I have been advised by Public Health England and the local Environmental Health Department that this is a mild illness probably caused by a virus, but that it is very infectious. The most usual symptom is vomiting. Some people may have diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain. Symptoms rarely last for more than 24 – 48 hours. The incubation period (time it takes for the illness to develop) is between 24 and 48 hours.
If your child is affected, please keep him or her off school. He or she should not return until 48 hours after the diarrhoea and vomiting have stopped.
The virus is easily spread from person to person. Good hygiene by everyone in the family reduces the risk. This means washing hands with soap and warm water after going to the toilet and before preparing or eating food.
It is important to clean up carefully when someone has been sick as vomit is very infectious. It is important to clear up spills of vomit or faeces immediately, by thorough washing of the contaminated environment with detergent and hot water. For hard surfaces, (floor, work tops etc., an additional disinfection with a dilute solution of Milton or household bleach (according to manufacturer’s instructions) will reduce the contamination. DO NOT MIX these substances with soap and water. Be sure that each family member uses separate towels and flannels which are changed and washed frequently.
Hand washing after visiting the toilet, cleaning up spillages and before handling food is the most important element of reducing the risk of infection.
We are ensuring the school is thoroughly cleaned to reduce any further risk.
If you need any further advice you can phone Public Health England Tel: 0300 303 8162 or NHS 111
Yours faithfully
Miss Cook
Head Teacher
