Yesterday
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

FREE Breakfast Parcels

Ketley Community Centre are offering FREE Breakfast Parcels for children in receipt of free school meals who live with the Ketley or Overdale parish.

These will be handed out between Thursday 16th July – Thursday 20th Aug 2020 as part of Ketley Parish & Telford & Wrekin councils campaign to end holiday hunger.

These weekly parcels are for children in school years, aged 5-11yrs who are entitled to free school meals, and will be available for collection every Thursday between 10am-1pm over the summer holidays.

Parents need to register every week via the link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ketley-breakfast-club-tickets-111796771152

Breakfast parcel = 1 per child

Please note that the ticket relates to the collection date, not how many children they are collecting for, this information is collected within the registration form.

We are aware that a number of other groups within Telford are also offering the same offer, but as funding is very limited and kind donations from other sources are also limited we ask that parents that already receiving these elsewhere, do not look source additional parcels.

Breakfast parcels may vary each week and may contain: Bread, Milk, Cereal, Fruit, Jam, Beans, Juice & Porridge, we will also look to include additional non breakfast items to help support further meals.

Kind regards

Christian Smith

Community Centre Manager

Ketley Community Centre

Holyhead Road

Ketley

Telford

TF1 5AN

Tel: 01952 612035

Email: christian.smith@ketleyparishcouncil.co.uk

Yesterday
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

School reading books

If you have any school reading books at home, can you please return them to school before the end of term. Please place all books in the box labelled ‘returned reading books’ inside the first door to the school office. Many thanks

Yesterday
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Crossbar Holiday Club

There are still spaces available on the Crossbar summer holiday club, to book your place please use the link below.

http://www.crossbarcoaching.schoolipal.co.uk

For any queries regarding the holiday club, you can contact Crossbar via Facebook, email admin@crossbarcoaching.co.uk or call 01952 677965

One week ago
Posted on July 3, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Crossbar Summer Holiday Club

There are still spaces available on the Crossbar summer holiday club, to book your place please use the link below.

http://www.crossbarcoaching.schoolipal.co.uk

For any queries regarding the holiday club, you can contact Crossbar via Facebook, email admin@crossbarcoaching.co.uk or call 01952 677965

8 days ago
Posted on July 2, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Update 02.07.2020

Dear Parents/Carers,

The children we have in school continue to tell us and show us that they are enjoying being back into school routines.

We are full in all year groups which is why teachers are continuing to work hard on our ‘Home Learning’ offer for those children who are not here.

As you will now know, we have managed to organise Crossbar for weeks 2 – 5 (inclusive) over the summer: please refer to our website. We do not normally do this and it is purely to support children and working parents during this tricky time.

The government has issued a lot of new notifications recently about easing lockdown measures. We are fully aware that this easing could in fact increase our risks in school. Please be assured that we are not easing any of our measures, and we ask you to be mindful of the need to continue with hygiene measures:

strict routines around handwashing before sending your children to school
very regular changes of clothes
thorough sanitising of drinks bottles every night

It is very important that you do not send your child in if they are ill, and that you ensure you inform us immediately. The NHS website is full of very useful information around what you need to do should anyone in your household begin displaying symptoms.

We are happy to advise, but please remember we are not medics and will really only be able to signpost you to other professionals.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

10 days ago
Posted on June 30, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Crossbar holiday club information

To register your interest for the Crossbar holiday club in the summer holidays, please use the link below.

http://www.crossbarcoaching.schoolipal.co.uk

For any queries regarding the holiday club, you can contact Crossbar via Facebook, email admin@crossbarcoaching.co.uk or call 01952 677965

10 days ago
Posted on June 30, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Crossbar Holiday Club

Dear parent / carer

Crossbar will be running a Summer Holiday Club at Newdale Primary School on Weeks 2, 3, 4 & 5 of the school holidays and booking will be live this afternoon online at http://www.crossbarcoaching.schoolipal.co.uk where you will need to register as a parent adding your child/children before booking your place.

The club is open to 4*-11 year olds (*4 year olds must have already started school And currently in reception) and will run from 8.30am until 4pm for one fixed price of £15 per day. Your child will need to bring a packed lunch, suitable clothing and plenty to drink.

Crossbar will email all parents again before the clubs commence with instructions for dropping off and picking up your children to ensure this is done in a safe and controlled manner. There will be no provision to arrive at our clubs without pre booking.

Thank you for your patience whilst we have been working closely with the school to ensure that the club can run with minimum risk to both your children and our the Crossbar Staff.

Please see Our Safety Poster attached. We will be following guidance from government, department of education and the out of school alliance so if anything needs to change, then we will keep you informed at all times.

If you have any questions or queries you can email admin@crossbarcoaching.com or call 01952 677965 between (9am-4pm)

10 days ago
Posted on June 30, 2020 by Mrs Silman

End of year reports and additional copies

For all children currently in school, their end of year reports will be sent home with them on the 10^th July.

If your child is not currently attending school, we will send reports home with a sibling or post them out to their main home address.

Separate arrangements will be made for those children in year 6 who are not attending: details for this will be emailed out to parents.

If an additional copy of the report is required by a parent who does not live at the child’s home address, you must contact the school office on 387720 to make a request by no later than Monday 6th July.

Please ensure that you keep your copy of the report safe, especially if your child is in Year 5. Some secondary schools (such as Thomas Telford) require a copy to be sent with the application for Year 7 places and we will be unable to make further copies for you once they have been archived.

Many thanks.

22 days ago
Posted on June 18, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

Update 18.06.2020

Dear Parents/Carers,

As promised, I am trying to keep you fully informed as we travel through these challenging times.

I am more than delighted as to how things are running and of course how happy the children are around school.

Clearly it is really important that we don’t let things slip and that we continue with the routines we have around distancing, bubbles and good hygiene.

As I have always said, we have taken our pathway in line with what the Government advice suggests. We believe we have no option other than to trust that they are being advised by the best possible medics and scientists.

The latest notification is that Headteachers can invite children back in accordance with the staffing and space they have –

‘We know that in some schools, there will be capacity to welcome more children back, in group sizes of no more than 15, before the summer holidays. This may be because take-up amongst eligible children is lower than expected, or because there is additional space still available within the school and available staff to teach and supervise.’

We are lucky that the whole Newdale team is keen to do what is right for our families. We are also lucky in that Newdale is a big school with space for us to utilise.

We asked for firm numbers for Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 so that we could put in a final plan that will take us up until the end of term.

Some people may be anxious that we are again changing our offer. I really must stress that every single decision is very carefully thought out and as ever, linked to supporting as many of our children as possible. We know from our telephone calls and home visits that some of our children are very keen to get back into school routine and that this is a very positive move for them. We are passionate about ensuring our children feel safe, happy, relaxed and of course enjoying the routines of school and learning.

We absolutely understand the decisions that some parents have made to keep their children at home, which is why our teaching team will continue to work tirelessly on providing stability in school and consistency with the all-important home learning.

The wider Newdale team will continue to work tirelessly on ensuring we reduce risk as far as is ever possible. We thank you for your support in this with handwashing before coming to school, regular changes in clothes, informing us immediately if your child is displaying symptoms and making sure they have the correct equipment for school.

Thank you for your continued trust and support.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

28 days ago
Posted on June 12, 2020 by Miss Thorneycroft

TikTok Warning

It has come to our attention that there are inappropriate videos and comments that children can potentially be exposed to on the app TikTok. Please can you monitor what your child is viewing and speak to them about the importance of E-Safety.

May we take this opportunity to remind you that the TikTok app is rated at 13years+

Kind Regards,

Miss A Newport

(E-Safety coordinator)