Friday 1st March – Achievement Assembly ⭐

This week, Year 1 had a fantastic visit from an accredited therapy dog called Ernie. They learnt how to look after a dog and loved giving him lots of fuss! Year 3 went off on their nature walks and spent some time sketching elements of nature they had collected. We have been very lucky to have Cool Cat visiting us in school this week to check we are all arriving at school on time. Cool Cat has headed off to another school now but has promised to be back soon!

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

Mrs Everall’s class for super focus and effort during their Chance to Shine when retelling the story of Masha and the Firebird this week.

Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:

KS1 winners are Mrs King class with an amazing 100%

KS2 winners are Mr Banfield’s class with 98%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Zachary for excellent ideas in descriptive writing and Kieran for great effort with his writing around Skellig 😊   

Year 5 achievers:  Jasper for always displaying the BeSMART code at all times. Miss Clay’s achiever was chosen for his amazing story writing in his chance to shine.

Year 4 achievers: Meadow for always following the BeSMART code and being an excellent partner and Toby for incredible focus, concentration and effort in all lessons and for always being helpful, kind and polite.

Year 3 achievers: Le’Shane for working hard at home and school! Ieesa for confidently sharing his knowledge about Islam in RE and Life Learning lessons.

Year 2 achievers: Bryony for her impeccable attitude towards all her learning. We are so impressed with her everyday and we are so happy to see her head stuck in a book any moment she gets. Her confidence to talk in front of others this week has made us proud too. Carter for working more independently! He has loved our traditional tale and is working hard to retell it using punctuation and past tense accurately.

Year 1 achievers: Noah for great independent maths and trying hard with his handwriting this week. Phoebe for having a fantastic week and working hard to follow the Be SMART code.

Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle:

Year 6 readers: David for an extra effort to complete five reads and Oliver for his interesting diary comments

Year 5 readers: Reyhan for excelling even his usual high standard of diary entries! Harlan for his extra effort with his reading and reading question this week. Keep it up!

Year 4 readers: Grace for working so hard with her reading at home and achieving a Platinum! Antoni for always impressing with his number of reads and detailed comments.

Year 3 readers: Ben for always reading whenever he can! Isabelle for reading consistently and drawing lovely pictures of her favourite characters.

Year 2 readers: Chimzy for her enthusiasm when reading at home. She always leaves Ms Marshall a tricky question or interesting information! Corban’s consistent reading at home and his enthusiasm towards reading.

Year 1 readers: Ted for starting to read more independently at home. Arla for all her fantastic work at home, wanting to read everything she comes across!

Year 4 Times Tables

In Year 4, we are all working really hard to learn all of the times tables up to 12 x 12. Today, the children have received their latest heat map from Times Tables Rockstars. Eight of the children in Miss McCullagh’s class have managed to turn their whole heat map green! We are so proud of the hard work they have been putting in to learning their multiplication facts!

Who will be next to ‘Go Green’?

Year 4 – Making Torches

To link with our History unit, Year 4 have been using their Science and Design and Technology skills to design and create a torch to help a miner see in an underground mine. We had three criteria to meet in our design:

– our torches needed to light up,

– they needed a switch to be able to turn on and off,

– they needed to be portable

The children built an electrical circuit using a bulb and a switch. They made their own homemade switches using their knowledge of conductors and insulators. They then designed and built their torch. We were very impressed with their functional and creative designs.

Black Country Living Museum

Year 4 had such a wonderful day out at the Black Country Living Museum last week. We all went for a walk through an underground mine. It was quite scary but we really enjoyed experiencing what it would have been like to work in a coal mine.  We also visited an Industrial Revolution street and popped into some of the shops, attended a Victorian school lesson (on our best behaviour!) and played some traditional games.

NSPCC Number Day – Friday 2nd February

NSPCC Number Day 2024 Information

Don’t forget, Newdale are taking part in this year’s NSPCC Number Day!  All of our pupils, from Nursery up to Year 6, will enjoy a variety of Maths activities, maths stories and competitions on Friday. Years 2 – 6 will be involved in a Times Tables Rockstars Battle too.

To raise money for the NSPCC and support all of the important work that they do, we are inviting all children  to dress down in number-themed outfits on Friday. The donation for this can be made on ParentPay. Thank you in advance for your support.

Friday 19th January – Achievement Assembly

Proudly Presenting… Newdale’s Presentation Achievers of the week!

This week, Year 3 had a wonderful day at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre learning all about Britain during the Iron Age. They particularly enjoyed visiting the model round house and decorating themselves with blue war paints! Some of our Year 5 mathematicians were lucky enough to participate in a mathematics challenge workshop too. All of our classes have had a presentation focus this week and have been working very hard to improve their handwriting and presentation in all of their work.

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

All of Year 3 for their outstanding behaviour at Shropshire Hills, they made us very proud. Well done Year 3!

Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:

KS1 winners are Mrs King’s class with 99.6%

KS2 winners are Mrs Everall’s class with 99.3%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Yasmin for excellent presentation in all areas. She has developed a beautiful cursive font! 😊 and Chloe for beautiful presentation in all books.

Year 5 achievers:  Harry for excellent presentation in his Maths book this week and  Maddison for fantastic presentation particularly in maths.

Year 4 achievers: Elliott for putting in a huge amount of effort with his presentation and trying exceptionally hard in ALL subjects and Georgia for focusing on beautiful presentation in every subject.

Year 3 achievers: Lily-Mae for massively improving her written presentation since the beginning of Year 3 and Esmae for asking adults about how to improve presentation and acting upon their feedback.

Year 2 achievers: Poppy her improved presentation in all books but also for coming to school with a smiley, enthusiastic attitude. We are proud!  Louie for trying incredibly hard to use new joins in his handwriting and for accurately sticking in his worksheets.

Year 1 achievers:  Miss Buckingham’s achiever was chosen for her excellent independent effort with her writing this week using beautiful handwriting and Gianpiero for working hard on his presentation and letter formation in Literacy.

Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle:

Year 6 readers: Daisy for a confident 5 reads this week with great comments and Olivia for regularly reading 5 times and persevering with the Read Theory program.

Year 5 readers: Mr McFarland’s reader was chosen for always completing 5 reads and working hard to answer questions independently and Fianna for reading and commenting on her five reads this week.

Year 4 readers: Miss McCullagh’s reader was chosen for consistently reading at home and writing detailed comments in your diary and Zac for improving his number of home reads this week.

Year 3 readers: Harry for his commitment to reading at home and Tiger-Lily for her amazing effort at home and her fabulous expression when she read to me aloud this week.

Year 2 readers: Hok Hei for writing his own comments in his diary and using newly learned vocabulary.

Year 1 readers: Avash for reading lots throughout the week at home and Mia for reading more frequently at home.

⭐ Friday 17th November – Achievement Assembly ⭐

This week, Year 5 were lucky enough to visit the Shrewsbury museum to develop their sketching skills and learn more about the Vikings. Year 2 had wonderful adventures in nature, as part of their Science lesson. They collected the materials they needed to build their very own wormeries back in class. We can’t wait to see what they look like after the weekend.  

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

Miss McCullagh’s class (Year 4) for a huge improvement in independence and behaviour over the past 2 weeks! Well done! 

Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:  

KS1 winners are Miss Lowe’s Year 2 class with 97% 

KS2 winners are Mr Jackson’s Year 5 class with an amazing 99%  

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Jamie for fantastic watercolour work in Art 😊 and James for having a brilliant week 😊  

Year 5 achievers: Reyhan for settling in so well to life at Newdale and Mr Jackson’s star was chosen for always contributing in Maths and challenging himself to learn new Maths methods. 

Year 4 achievers: Grace for fantastic effort and creativity in making our art sculptures this week. Mrs Everall’s class had to choose two achievers for brilliant team-work in Maths! 

Year 3 achievers: Lila for always working hard and following the BeSMART code every day and Niall for making a huge improvement in independent writing and  an excellent set of instructions. 

Year 2 achievers: Alice for her progress in multiplication. She is working hard at home to remember her multiplication facts and it is showing in her problem solving! Robyn for her progress with writing, presentation  and handwriting. She is very proud of her work.  

Year 1 achievers: Muna for her incredible effort with her handwriting and presentation this week and Miss Hill’s achiever was chosen for working hard and trying hard with her writing.  

Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle: 

Year 6 readers: Miss Jones’ reader was chosen for the effort put into Monday’s reading task and Alfie for working hard to ensure he has five reads every week. 

Year 5 readers: Oisin for impressing us with his reading comments and the facts he has learnt this week. And Clara for always challenging herself with her reading. 

Year 4 readers: William for achieving Platinum by writing his own comments every day this week! Mrs Everall’s reader was chosen for improving her number of home reads with detailed summaries and drawings.  

Year 3 readers: April for the extra effort she puts into reading at home and her own time at school. Mason for great comments and drawings in his reading diary. 

Year 2 readers: Chimzy for her exceptional effort in reading and for writing her own lengthy comments about what she has read and Smrithi, who won our reading raffle,  for answering all the questions and going above and beyond. 

Year 1 readers: Harry for completing lots of work at home, putting in extra effort with his reading and presentation. 

Well done to everyone! ⭐ Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

England Rocks – TTRS Competition

Classes in Years 3 – 6 have been entered into a nationwide Times Tables Rock Star competition this week; England Rocks. The competition runs from tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 7:30am until 7:30pm on Thursday. Each pupil has 1 hour a day to score as many correct answers for our teams as possible. There are prizes and certificates for the top schools, classes and pupils! Get rocking Newdalers!

England Rocks 2023

Year 4 – Autumn Nature Walk

Hi Year 4,

We will be going on our Autumn Nature Walk this Thursday (19th November). As it is a Thursday, you will be wearing PE kit but you will also need to bring a waterproof coat and a change of footwear in a bag (old trainers or wellies) please.

Many thanks,

Year 4 Team 😊

Year 4’s Swiss Afternoon

As part of our European Day of Languages, Year 4 learnt all about Switzerland yesterday. The children really enjoyed exploring some of the main languages spoken in Switzerland; French, Germany and Italian. They also had fun making some art work inspired by the Edelweiss Flower – and listening to some of the best songs from The Sound of Music.

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