Friday 17th October 2025Â
We have had another incredible week at Newdale. The children in Year 2 represented the school brilliantly on their trip to Wild Zoological. They were mesmerised by the stunning bird show and enjoyed feeding the colourful lorikeets. On Wednesday, Year 1 made all their teachers proud when they did their phonics assembly. Hopefully this will give parents/ carers lots of ideas how they can support with reading at home. Year 3 and 4 enjoyed their first house competition where they played hockey. It was lovely to see so many enthusiastic children.
BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:Â Â
Both Year 1 classes for their brilliant phonics assembly this week. All of the adults were so proud of the children and their effort. Â
House PointsÂ
This week, Ironbridge have gained the most points with an impressive 340! They are closely followed by Wenlock with 334, Wrekin with 330 and Severn with 208. Well done!Â

Achievers of the week:Â
Year 6 achievers: Isla for her superb effort with her writing in her fantastic Chance to Shine. Harris for great focus and participating well to class discussions.
Year 5 achievers: Â Isla for growing in confidence and showing a more positive attitude to learning. .Isabelle for producing an excellent chance to shine this week and showing resilience and determination all week. Â
Year 4 achievers: Beauty for always being helpful and is trying hard to ask for help when she needs it in class. Harry for his attention to detail when creating his sculpture in Art and focusing on the presentation of his work.
Year 3 achievers: Dola for always pushing herself and giving 110% in everything she does. Dola is a fabulous role model to others and a delight to have in class. Bella for her fantastic independent Maths work this week writing multiplication and division sentences. Keep up the great work, Bella!
Year 2 achievers: Louie for being enthusiastic and excited about his learning, showing his teachers just how happy he is to be at school! Also, for representing his school excellently whilst on a school trip. Well done, Louie! Albie for always showing kindness to his peers and producing some fantastic pieces of work.
Year 1 achievers: Darcy for having a positive attitude to learning and trying her best. Cody for trying his best in all that he does and setting a good example to his friends. Â
Year R achievers: Amias for trying his absolute best this week. Super listening and being a kind friend too. We are so proud 😊. Kara for outstanding Literacy work this week and always showing a fantastic attitude towards her learning.Â

Times Tables –Â
This week, our ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ trophy went to the class with the highest amount of correct answers. This class is Mrs Arthur’s class with an average of 1,406 correct answers per person. Congratulations Rockstars! Louise received the trophy on behalf of her class as she had the highest number of days active on TTRS. Â
Attendance Winners 6th – 10th October 2025
Winner of Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3
Mrs Millington = 100%
Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6
Mrs Haymour = 99.33%
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