All the news and information that parents and carers of children at our school need can be found in this area of our website.
All the news and information that parents and carers of children at our school need can be found in this area of our website.
A stream of information from all school departments, the latest at the top, can be seen below.
As you all know, at Newdale we follow the BeSMART code. Well now, we have a BeSMART song that Miss Jones has kindly written for us! All of the children have been introduced to the lyrics to our very own song in assembly today and loved it!
Over your half-term break, please practise our lyrics and enjoy a sing song at home. You can impress your classes with how much you know when you return.
The song is sung in the tune to Shotgun, by George Ezra. Please find below the lyrics and the link to a karaoke backing track.
Get singing Newdale! 🎵
Dear Parents/Carers,
The recently published Department for Education White Paper sets out the governmental expectation that all state funded schools will be offering a minimum of a 32.5 hour week for all children. The expectation is that this will be met as soon as possible.
As you know we put forward a proposal that we are confident would be the least disruptive to parents and of course, the most favoured as far as children’s learning is concerned.
We understand that we are stuck between a rock and a hard place as we cannot put into action something that will please everyone. If we bring forward the start time, some parents will find that tricky and if we extended the end of the day some parents will find that tricky. We have looked carefully at the small number of responses we had and shared those with our Governors. We all know that children learn best when they are fresh in the mornings and less so when perhaps they are tired in the afternoons. As we already open the doors at 840 am and the majority of children are in at this time, we felt this would be the most favoured option for our school.
We are bringing this into action from Monday 6th June straight after half term. We will follow this pattern:
Teachers already use this 8.40 am until 9.00 am slot to deliver intervention and ‘catch up’ activities. They are planning on developing this use of time from the beginning of the half term, in accordance with having a full class ready to learn at this time.
Like with any change, we are expecting a few teething issues that we will adapt to over time. We are lucky that we have a Breakfast club and After School club in our school that already accommodates a very significant number of children.
Many thanks for your support.
Miss Cook
Headteacher
Newdale Primary School and Nursery
Reception have been learning about the Queen today. What fun facts can you remember?
We are all set to join in the celebrations tomorrow. Look at our amazing Jubilee art inspired by both the Queen and the artist Mondrian.
Please remember children are invited to come in dress down clothes with a red, white and blue theme!
The following clubs for after half term are now live on parentpay;
Monday- KS2 Football
Telford Gotta Dance (invite only)
Tuesday- KS1 Football
Gymnastics
Wednesday- Year 4-6 Badminton
Thursday- Rounders
Top Hat Performing Arts
Friday- Dodgeball
Mini medics (starting on Friday 17th June for 5 weeks)
*Please note KS1 football and gymnastics will not be running on Tuesday 28th June due to the summer fayre.
Rockstar Day
Unfortunately, due to timetabling (blame Miss Jones), we have had to make a further alteration to Rock Star Day. This will now take place on Tuesday, June 7th . The children are welcome to dress up as rockstars on this day. Alternatively, the children can wear their own clothes.