Friday 25^th September 2026

This week, children have been learning about the British Values of democracy, mutual respect, individual liberty, the rule of law and tolerance. A highlight of the week was our school elections, where pupils experienced democracy in action by voting for new members of the School Parliament.

Throughout the week, children took part in activities and discussions that encouraged them to reflect on their rights and responsibilities, respect different viewpoints, and consider how they can make a positive contribution to our school community. We are proud of the thoughtful way pupils have engaged and congratulate our newly elected School Parliament members.

On Friday, we celebrated European Languages Day. Across the school, pupils dressed up in their flag colours, enjoyed food tasting and even learned some simple words and phrases in different languages.

Year 3 enjoyed their Newdale Cup treat in Base Camp. We made bug hotels, dens and played lots of games. A big well done to the whole of Year 3 for earning the first Newdale Cup of the year!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Archie for being a fantastic role model with exceptional manners and always showing respect and kindness to everyone. Esmae for being a caring and supportive Newdaler and a great playground buddy.

Year 5 achievers:  Lianna for being a great model within class, answering questions, trying her best and always happy to help. Jake for being an excellent kindness role model. He always helps his friends whenever they are struggling out of the kindness of his heart. It is lovely to see in class!

Year 4 achievers: Omish for being a super supportive member of the class, helping others when they find learning a little tricky. Kamila for a fantastic contribution to our school election producing a great manifesto and speech!

Year 3 achievers: Elsie for always showing the upmost respect in our RE and world views lessons and asking insightful questions to help her understanding. Albie for always using lovely manners and being a kind and helpful friend.

Year 2 achievers: James for showing real compassion and empathy during our British Values lesson about Individual Liberty, we’re so proud of you. Ayat for her brilliant understanding of democracy in our school parliament votes and showing respect to the other candidates.

Year 1 achievers: Fabiana for showing and being respectful during our British Values session, sharing how to be a kind, respectful person. Kara for always being an excellent ‘role model’ and showing how to be respectful to others during our ‘British Values Week’. Kara is always ‘Ready, Respectful, Safe and Kind!’

House Dojo Points:

This week, we shared our running totals of how many Dojos each house has been awarded so far. Wenlock are currently in the lead but all of the houses are incredibly close! We are so impressed with how much effort the pupils have been putting in to earn Dojos! In 3 weeks time, we will reveal the final results and which house will be enjoying a house celebration before the end of the half-term.

Attendance Winners  21st – 25th September 2026

Winner of Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3

Miss Lowe = 100%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Haymour = 97.93%

Class Dojo Has Arrived at Newdale!

If you have any questions about Class Dojo or supporting with your child’s reading at home, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Friday 18^th July 2025

This week, Year 5 had a wonderful day at Carding Mill Valley. They went river dipping, completed a guided walk around the hills and even investigated some of their collections in the laboratory. Year 6 had a wonderful final week of celebrations; including a water fight and a spectacular final day festival! Severn house enjoyed their house celebration on Thursday; playing parachute games, building dens, showing off incredible dance moves at their disco and much more! Well done to all of Severn house! We are so proud of all our pupils; they have had another wonderful year at Newdale and made school enjoyable for everyone that works here. We wish all of our families a fun and enjoyable summer holidays and look forward to welcoming you all back in September!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Harry for making us all so proud this year with your hard work, positive attitude to work and making us all smile! Kayson for being a great friend to everyone and for always thinking of others.

Year 5 achievers:  Skylar for being kind, caring and considerate to those around her. Georgie for being a kind, considerate member of the class who has shown consistent fantastic behaviour for the whole year.

Year 4 achievers: Rosie-Anne for outstanding application all year and finishing off with a spectacular Chance to Shine about owning a dog. Niall for bringing a smile to Mrs Everall and Mrs Austin’s faces every day and for his brilliant achievements in Reading, Maths and Science.

Year 3 achievers: William for being an amazing member of the class. He always follows the BeSMART code and is super helpful! Nyla for being a fabulous Newdaler and ending her time here on such a high with a brilliant Chance to Shine write! Good Luck at your new school Nyla!

Year 2 achievers: Isabel for always being an incredibly kind, helpful, caring, smiley, wonderful and hardworking pupil. Thank you for making us smile everyday. You are the true definition of a Newdaler!  Zion for always being kind, caring, helpful, hardworking and polite. A real credit to Newdale.

Year 1 achievers: Theodore has shown amazing maturity and made great choices especially this week. He’s made exceptional progress this year and Miss Hill will be lucky to have him on Year 2.

Mrs Sturrrock and Mrs Evans’ whole class have been chosen this week. Every single child has had a fantastic final week in Year One. Mrs Sturrock, Mrs Evans and Mrs Wilmot are all so proud of how hard everyone has worked and how much each child has grown throughout the year. We’ve truly loved working with everyone in this class this year and we are going to miss each and every one of you.

Parent Survey Raffle

In assembly today, we also drew the raffle for all the families that had completed the parent survey. We had 4 lucky winners who will be bringing home prizes to enjoy over the summer holiday.

Friday 20^th June 2025

This week, every year group has enjoyed their sports days! We have been so impressed with the sportsmanship and support every year group has shown to their peers. Congratulations to Wenlock who were the overall winners!

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:

We have two BeSMART winners this week – Nominated by members of staff around school, Miss Watson’s class have been awarded the BeSMART cup this week for their outstanding behaviour in assemblies. They have been setting a superb example to the rest of school – keep up the super work! Mr Jackson’s class were also nominated by another member of staff who was super impressed with their behaviour and attitudes towards their learning! We wish both of these classes a lovely ‘treat’ next week.

House Points

Severn has jumped into first place this week with an impressive 910 house points!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Jasper for always following the BeSMART code and being a great role model for his peers. Oliver for a fantastic effort with his art work during our Year 6 art day this week.

Year 5 achievers:  Mr Jackson’s achiever was chosen for always being so polite and helpful all day, everyday. Skye for believing in herself and challenging herself in every lesson this week!

Year 4 achievers: Zara for outstanding effort on sports day. Ezra for outstanding progress in NFER tests across the year.

Year 3 achievers: Jack for his amazing effort in his Maths NFERs this week. Keep up the hard work! Miss Watson’s achiever was chosen for his beautifully creative poster on the golden rules in our RE lesson.

Year 2 achievers: Eleonora for her fantastic efforts, resilience, kindness and support for her house team on sports day. Miss Hill’s achiever was chosen for working hard during Literacy lessons, focussing on his handwriting and presentation.

Year 1 achievers: Dominik for trying new foods in DT and for showing, on so many occasions, how he can follow the BeSmart code, we are VERY proud! Lucia for a positive attitude to learning and working extremely hard in phonics and maths sessions, always volunteering her ideas, answering questions and listening carefully. Rowan for putting so much effort into his learning especially phonics and maths. He has also helped friends in his phonics group with their work, showing extra kindness. Mrs Stevens and I are very proud of Rowan.

Year R achievers: Mason for having such a positive attitude and for great contributions in class. Sam for his fantastic progress in phonics and brilliant sporting performance during Sports Day.

Times Tables- Mrs Stack’s class gained first place again in our times tables competition; their hard work certainly has paid off! Mr Banfield’s class came a close second and Miss McCullagh’s class in third. Congratulations to Ben, Freddie and Lawrencia who were our highest scoring players across the school.

Friday 6^th June 2025

What a way to kick of a new half-term! Healthy Lifestyles Week 2025 has been a blast and the children have loved taking part in so many exciting activities. From hockey workshops and trampolining, wheelie days and freestyle football to forest school and mindfulness… it really has all been on offer. Thank you to Miss Buckingham, Mr Bryant and Mr McCann for planning so many fun activities for us all 😊

House Points

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Mr McFarland’s sports star was chosen for his excellent participation in Healthy Lifestyles week. We have loved seeing all of the photos sent in from home, including his boxing and basketball practice. Jessica for her fabulous efforts in the freestyle football workshop and scoring through the trickiest goal on the Crossbar inflatables!

Year 5 achievers:  Elliot for encouraging and inspiring others, showing great kindness sharing his drift bike during our wheelie session and Denis for showing great enthusiasm and trying his best in all our exciting activities this week.

Year 4 achievers: Jacob for his enthusiastic and positive attitude to all activities during Healthy Lifestyles Week. Harry for throwing himself into all our Healthy Lifestyle activities this week.

Year 3 achievers: Carter-James for his amazing effort and enthusiasm towards Healthy Lifestyles Week – he was very impressive with his freestyle football tricks!  Leo for his enthusiasm and engagement in all activities this week. He kept in the spirit of healthy lifestyles week at home as well and loved sharing his wide variety of sports, including tennis, strength training and football.

Year 2 achievers: Alfie for showing great enthusiasm and positivity towards all activities this week- he especially enjoyed bouncing on the mini trampolines. Miss Lowe’s achiever was chosen for putting 100% into everything she has participated in this week. Her infectious smile shone especially in Zumba and on the trampolines.

Year 1 achievers: Ava for giving 100% in all extra activities within school and at home this week. Ava completed a 9-lap circuit of the playground today to finish the week off with a bang. Miss Fisher’s achiever was chosen for his enthusiasm and enjoyment of the trampolining session, he was absolutely amazing and we were all so proud!

Year R achievers: Zach for his enthusiastic approach to all our Healthy Lifestyles Week activities – he has had a huge smile on his face all week and it has been lovely to see him getting stuck in with his peers. Lucas for his positive attitude joining in with all our HLW activities. Lucas always tries his best and he continued to do so with all the new exciting activities we tried this week

Athletes of this week – these children were entered into our Healthy Lifestyles Week raffle from their extra commitment to Healthy Lifestyles week outside of school:

Year 6 readers: Holly, our fitness queen, for her daily kickboxing training sessions. Katie for pushing herself beyond her comfort zone to take part in all of the sessions this week, especially the kickboxing!

Year 5 readers: Jake, for making an effort to be active every day after school and also choosing healthy foods to eat afterwards. Isla for an activity filled week, exercising everyday.

Year 4 readers: Damian for completing a variety of different exercises throughout the week (including football, trampolining, Judo, weightlifting, skateboarding and more!) Cerys for trying out so many activities at home with her family this week and completing her record. Her activities were things like obstacle courses, football, hyper-dash.

Year 3 readers: Ted for his amazing effort and enthusiasm in completing activities at home. We have loved seeing your daily updates! Bryony for her super efforts this week completing her healthy lifestyle record and writing super sentences about her activities.

Year 2 readers: Aarush for completing a range of different sporting activities at home this week. Libby for her incredible efforts at home this week. She has done so much, and we are blown away! Well Done!

Year 1 readers: Jaxon for his super efforts at home and impressing us with his knowledge of healthy snacks. Harry for carrying out a range of different sporting activities at home this week and explaining how all this exercise is keeping his body healthy.

Year R: Rheya for her fantastic efforts at home this week, completing so many different exercises and getting her whole family active together! Miss Hailey’s sporting star was chosen for his impressive variety of HLW activities at home this week.

Friday 23^rd May 2025

This week, Year 2 have been working incredibly hard on their end of KS1 assessments. We are all so proud of their effort and determination. Year 5 enjoyed their ‘Maya day’ on Tuesday; they completed lots of fun activities to learn all about the ancient Maya civilisation – including exploring Mayan cities and rainforests using VR headsets and weaving baskets using Mayan techniques. On Friday, the whole school enjoyed a ‘fieldwork afternoon’ – getting outside to put some of their practical Geography skills to the test! We wish all of our Newdale families a happy and relaxing half-term and look forward to welcoming you all back into the classrooms on Monday 2^nd June.

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:

Year 2 for absolutely smashing their SATS quizzes. They’ve all worked so hard with such a positive attitude and mindset with their Team Awesome and Team Supreme mantra of ‘I can and I will’ and they certainly did! Miss Lowe, Miss Hill, Mrs Stevens and Ms Marshall are super proud of every single pupil in year 2! Well done!

House Points

After lots of hard work from everyone in the team and two interhouse competitions to earn some bonus points, Ironbridge have won the house point battle for this half-term. They will be rewarded with their second house celebration shortly after half-term.

Times Tables

Miss Watson’s class have been awarded the trophy this week for having so many of their class (90%) active on TTRS over the past fortnight! They have been working so hard to beat other classes in their battles. Keep up the super work rockstars! Leo has accepted the award on behalf of his class for being such a star player!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Jasper for working really hard this week across all lessons, but especially in Literacy lessons despite having an arm in a sling! Holly for being such a kind and caring study buddy and for her fabulous effort in her Chance to Shine.

Year 5 achievers:  Lacey-Mae for always sharing interesting, creative pieces of work from home and an excellent effort with her Literacy work. Mr Jackson’s second achiever was chosen for being a kind and caring member of the class and creating a fantastic mask out of clay today. Skye for working really hard on increasing her pace in all subjects and Layla for always being kind to everyone.

Year 4 achievers: Harry for perseverance and progress throughout the year. Eliza and Tiger-Lily– they both have different strengths and have been excellent role-models in sharing their skills and learning from each other this week.

Year 3 achievers: Chimzy for always giving 110% effort in all lessons, not giving up when she finds things difficult and being a great role model at all times. Gracie for being a fabulous Newdaler. She is such a hard worker and never fails to brighten our day. Good luck at your new school Gracie!

Year 2 achievers: Ted for working hard this week but mostly for his kindness and gratefulness towards his teachers, school and his learning. Miss Hill’s achiever for consistently working hard in all subjects with a positive, enthusiastic attitude.

Year 1 achievers: Alisha for increasingly showing enthusiasm to learning, especially on Geography day where she spoke confidently about a country that is special to her. Jesse for working hard on his handwriting and always trying his best.

Year R achievers: Junior for amazing progress this term. He has been working hard, especially in his fantastic phonics. Noah for his increased confidence in communicating with his peers and his teachers – keep it up Noah!

Friday 9^th May

This week, members of Year 5 and 6 played a football final at the Buck’s Head Stadium and won 4-1. The trophy they have brought home is very impressive! Year 5 had their interhouse competition and it was an incredible morning! Severn won an impressive 200 points, with Ironbridge, Wenlock and Wrekin all scoring 100 points. We wish you all a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine and look forward to seeing everyone back in school on Monday!

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:

Year 5 – for outstanding behaviour and teamwork during their interhouse competition this week. The whole year 5 team (including the adults) had a wonderful morning. We have also be super impressed with their efforts and determination during Literacy lessons this week. We can’t wait to read their Chance to Shine writing next week!

House Point

After coming first place in Year 5’s interhouse competition, Severn have taken a whole school lead!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Emilia for her superb creative writing in literacy lessons and Robert for working so hard this week through all of our SATs revision.

Year 5 achievers:  Charlie for great creative and imaginative writing based on our story ‘The Explorer’ and Maddy for coming into school so well this week and working hard in our Maths lessons.

Year 4 achievers: Zoey for incredible hard work in all subjects and always following our Be SMART code and Noah for always working hard in every subject and following the BeSMART code.

Year 3 achievers: Maya for her positive attitude in all lessons, perseverance and always following the Be SMART code. She is a delight to teach and have in our class! Beauty for her fabulous chance to shine write on Pompeii and for always being a kind and helpful member of the class. She is always ready to learn!

Year 2 achievers: Udayveer for producing high-quality pieces of work and really focussing during lesson input. Well done, Udayveer! Astrid has blown us away this week. She has put 100% into everything she has done with a huge, infectious and proud smile.

Year 1 achievers: Katie for her effort with her chance to shine, helping the adults with classroom jobs and trying hard to follow the BeSmart Code. Harlee- Grace for putting lots of effort into her maths and Chance to Shine work this week and trying her best even if she finds the work a bit tricky.

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week:

Winning the trophy this week are both Year 4 classes so their incredible efforts in learning and recalling the times table facts ready for their multiplication check next month. Keep up the super work rockstars!

Thursday 10th April 2025

This week, we have continued to make the most of the sunshine. We have enjoyed the first two of our inter-house football competitions in Years 3 and 4 but lots of other year groups enjoyed spectating and cheering the teams along too. Year 5 had a wonderful D&T day; using all of their new knowledge to design and build their own bridges. The children are so excited for their Easter break; we wish all of our families a relaxing and happy holiday. We look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 28^th April.

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:

Mr Banfield’s Class, they have shown resilience and determination in all aspects of their work. They have been amazing, completing tasks as asked and following the BeSMART code. They have definitely made this week enjoyable. The adults that teach this class have been incredibly impressed with their determination and effort this week.

House Points

After 7 weeks of working hard to win the house point battle, Ironbridge have successfully taken first place! Their hard work both in and out of class has paid off and Year 3 and 4’s contributions in the inter-house competitions this week have helped them to secure the winning place. They will be rewarded with their ‘house celebration’ in the first week back after Easter.

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Archi for his improved focus and effort in all areas of his learning this week. Well done – keep up the great work. Jonathan for writing a fantastic Chance to Shine this week, including an impressive array of grammatical features.

Year 5 achievers:  Isla for always contributing well in class and always having a happy and enthusiastic attitude. Charlie for working excellently in a team through our Design and Technology Bridges task and working hard in all lessons.  Aidan and Amalia for excellent teamwork and thoughtful designing in our Design and Technology project this week!

Year 4 achievers: Isla for giving 100% in Maths and persevering in her work, no matter how hard! Noah for always working hard, making super progress in all areas of his learning and making school enjoyable for everyone!

Year 3 achievers: David for his creative chance to shine write and really focusing on his presentation and punctuation. Alice for her improved handwriting! She is focusing very hard on her joins and presentation in order to get a pen licence and if she carries on, she definitely will!

Year 2 achievers: Bella for her resilience, confidence and determination in her writing to create a twisted tale.  Robbie for following the BeSMART code and showing kindness towards his friends.

Year 1 achievers: Rowan for persevering and becoming speedy in his word reading and also independently competing his handwriting and spelling practice each day. Oscar for having a positive attitude to learning and always trying his best. We are super impressed with the progress you are making Oscar. Well done!

Year R achievers: Everly for consistent hard work everyday and for being a kind friend. Merryn for being an amazing friend and role model, always following the BeSMART Code, growing in confidence lots and for recalling number bonds to 5 speedily!