Friday 11th October 2024

This week, Year 2 had a wonderful time on their trip to WILD! Despite the down pours of rain, the children loved the animal show and the jaw dropping dinosaur show with an incredibly, huge dinosaur that walked around and came up close to the audience. Year 5 had a lovely time yesterday afternoon on their Nature Walk where they observed many attributes of our local area. They looked at many aspects including: the seasonal changes we could identify, Earth bound features and systems and the variety of settlements in our changing area.

This week, we also want to say a huge thank you to all of our families who have been able to donate to our Harvest collection. The photo below shows a few of our Fundraising Committee members with just some of the donations we have received. Our Harvest collection is going to a local food bank next week and we know will be so important in supporting many families in our local area.  Thank you. 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday! 😊

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

Miss Watson’s class for following the BeSMART code and working hard to make the classroom an enjoyable place for everyone to learn.

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 class with 99%

KS2 winners are Mr Banfield’s class with 98%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Frankie for demonstrating excellent resilience and effort when writing his Chance to Shine this week. Guransh for being such a fantastic role model, who always follows the BeSMART code.

Year 5 achievers:  Emilia for a fantastic attitude towards her learning, being helpful in the classroom and being a good friend to others. Malachi for participating more in lessons during class discussions and for being a good role model to others.

Year 4 achievers: Isabelle for putting in extra effort in Literacy and improved resilience and perseverance in Maths this week. Amat for amazing dedication to Maths and constantly pushing himself to improve.

Year 3 achievers: Jack for always working hard and writing a brilliant description using conjunctions to improve his work and Jake for improved concentration in class leading to some lovely descriptive writing.

Year 2 achievers: Miss Lowe’s achiever was chosen for being an incredible helper to her peers and her smiley, positive attitude on the trip and in school. Lennon for having a positive attitude and being a good role model to his peers.

Year 1 achievers: Arthur for showing a positive attitude to work and making clear progress in maths, writing and reading.  Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s achiever was chosen for super number bond work and always having a positive attitude to learning and being a kind and caring friend.

Year R achievers: Scarlett for always listening well, working hard and following the BeSmart code. 😊 Frankie-Leigh for always being ready on the carpet with his magnet eyes and trying his best with all of his work.

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

Year 6 readers: Shiah for reading every day and writing the most exciting comments and Reyhan for great comments and sporting insights from his reading this week.

Year 5 readers: Teddy, who won our KS2 reading raffle, for reading consistently every week and his fantastic facts about the Romans and Jazmin for regularly writing super book reviews in her Reading Diary.

Year 4 readers: Iris for being a fantastic home reader each week and for using a variety of interesting words in her glossary and Cerys for listening carefully to stories in class to pick out fantastic vocabulary.

Year 3 readers: Elva, who won a book in the Y1 – Y3 reading raffle, for consistently reading at home and Jomi for having the courage to read to the whole class.

Year 2 readers: Sebastian for daily reading and detailed thoughtful comments. Rumana for consistently reading and writing her own comments.

Year 1 readers: Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s reader was chosen for amazing reading at home and answering her book related questions independently with beautiful handwriting. Natalie for excellent reading every day and for writing a wonderful sentence in her diary each day too.

Our achievement assembly was held a day early this week due to a special assembly taking place tomorrow. This week, Year 4 had a particularly exciting day at their Ancient Egyptian workshop. They learnt all about the process of mummification and the purpose of canopic jars. They were even able to explore some of the Egyptian pyramid using VR. On Thursday afternoon, we school was filled with many princes and princesses as our Reception classes enjoyed their Royal Banquet. We hope they all had a splendid time! 

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

Mr Banfield’s class for being incredibly mature and trying their best while Mr Banfield has been away. Miss Marshall and Miss Cooper are so proud of you all! 

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 Fisher’s class with a fantastic 100% and Miss Lowe’s class for increasing their attendance to 98% 

KS2 winners are Mrs Stack and Miss Clay’s class with 98.7% 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Amelia for her dedication, determination and perseverance in every single lesson. Mr McFarland’s achiever of the week was chosen for great effort and creative ideas in her writing this week.  

Year 5 achievers:  William for making a big effort with his handwriting this week and putting in super effort in the classroom. Sophie for her incredible effort in geography, where she used key terms to explain why population and settlements differ across North America.   

Year 4 achievers: Ieesa for always following the BeSMART code and striving to do his best work in every lesson and Rochae for focusing in class, always moving on to the extension and making a huge effort in her homework and reading at home. 

Year 3 achievers: Lillie for her outstanding independent use of resources and hard work during Maths. Miss Watson’s achiever was chosen for her creative description using adventurous vocabulary. 

Year 2 achievers: Kyresse for impressing us with his resilience and efforts in writing this week. Harry for trying hard with his presentation and making a big effort with his handwriting.  

Year 1 achievers: Jaxon for always trying his best and having an amazing attitude to learning. He is a super helper whenever needed! CJ for having a positive attitude and a big smile on his face each morning. CJ has also worked super hard on his number bonds to 10 this week too!  

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week: 

This week, our ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ trophy went to the class with the highest percentage of pupils using TTRS over the last two weeks. The pupils in this class have spent an average of 8 minutes per day practising their times tables recall.  This class is Mrs King’s class with an outstanding 100% pupils using TTRS! Congratulations Rockstars! Aidan received the trophy on behalf of his class as he had the highest number of days active on TTRS.  

At Newdale, one of the ways our pupils are rewarded for their efforts, in work and behaviour, is house points. Each pupil belongs to 1 of 4 houses; Wenlock, Wrekin, Severn and Ironbridge. This year, the house team with the highest number of house points at the end of each half-term, will earn a special house celebration (full of lots of fun games and activities). Each week, we share the running totals in assembly but as we are now half way through the half-term, we thought we would share them with our wider community too. 3 more weeks to go and there’s only 10 house points between first and fourth… it is still all to play for!

Will you earn a house point for your team next week?

Friday 20^th September

Our pupils appear to be completely settled into their new classrooms and routines now. Across the school, children have been enthusiastic and engaged in their learning. Miss McCullagh has been particularly impressed with the quality of the Maths work she has seen in books! Can you show off any of your new Maths learning at home? Rumour has it that Cool Cat may be visiting Newdale next week – be sure to get to school on-time everyday for your chance to see him! 🐾

This week, we have held onto the BeSMART Cup because we want to choose two winners next week! One our of winners will be chosen by Cool Cat and the second winner will be chosen for impeccable behaviour and manners at playtime and lunchtime. 

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 Fisher’s class with a super 99%

KS2 winners are Mrs King’s class, for this third week in row, with and unbeatable 100%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Freddie for showing such a positive attitude in class and an eagerness and enthusiasm to learn in all subjects and Reyhan for always being a supportive peer and producing excellent pieces of work.

Year 5 achievers: Toby for his positive, kind-hearted nature and for being a brilliant team member who always speaks politely and Hebe for an amazing chance to shine which was well presented and well written.

Year 4 achievers: Lila for being a fantastic listener and always working to the highest of standards. Mrs Everall’s achiever of the week was chosen for working independently in Maths, Art and Guided Reading this week.

Year 3 achievers: Maya for being an excellent role model and completing every task with the best attitude and focus. Ezra for showing a positive attitude, contributing well in class and for producing some super literacy homework this week. Well done Ezra!

Year 2 achievers: Aarush for always having a positive attitude and being a good role model. Isabel for working hard independently, setting a good example and always trying to improve her work.

Year 1 achievers: Harry for being a kind and helpful friend to everyone and for completing a fantastic independent write in Literacy this week. He worked super hard to use important things like capital letters, full stops and even adjectives! 😊 Willow for being a super hard worker in all areas and having a lovely positive attitude and smile at all times.

Year R achievers: Jayden for being a wonderful helper all week, keeping our classroom safe and tidy and making all the grownups and his friends smile with his lovely, kind nature 😊 Well done Jayden! Sophie for settling so well into Reception, and especially for being such a kind and supportive friend.

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week:

This year, we will be alternating our ‘Star Reader’ raffle with a brand new ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ trophy which will be issued to a class who have excelled in their efforts to learn and practise their number facts and times tables recall. This week, the trophy went to the class with the highest percentage of pupils using TTRS over the two weeks. This class is Mrs Stack’s class with 83%. Congratulations Rockstars!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 😊

Friday 6^th September 2024

How excited and proud we were to see all those smiley faces returning to school on Tuesday! It has been so lovely to see our pupils looking so smart wearing their uniform in their new classes. The classrooms have been filled with enthusiasm as the pupils completed lots of ‘getting to know you’ activities and launched their new topics! We hope you have heard all about it at home! Have a lovely weekend and we can’t wait to see you all back at school on Monday! 😊

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

Mr McFarland’s class who were nominated for their mature behaviour and an amazing start back to school in Year 6. Their adults have been super impressed with their following of the BeSMART code.

Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar, who are also refreshed and looking very smart for the new year, will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:

KS1 winners are Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s class with 98%

KS2 have three winners this week; Miss Watson’s, Mrs Everall’s and Mrs King’s class with a very impressive 100%!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Emilio for having a fantastic attitude to learning this week and setting a great example to his peers and James for showing such resilience and perseverance with his SAT’s practise this week, having such a positive attitude to his learning and for always showing the BeSMART code in class.

Year 5 achievers:  Grace for beautifully presented work at the start of the new school year in books and fantastic detailed writing in her reading diary too. Toni for making a super start to year 5. He has already got his work on our presentation board and received a teacher award for effort in literacy. Keep up the hard work!

Year 4 achievers: Esmae for a positive attitude to learning in all subjects and for being a fantastic friend and role model and Maisie for making a bright return to school and making it really enjoyable for all in class.

Year 3 achievers: Jessica for bringing an infectious smile and wonderful work ethic into year 3. Lewis for settling into year 3 beautifully and being independent.

Year 2 achievers: Libby for settling well into year 2, following the BeSMART code and making us smile with her positive attitude to her learning. McCauley for having a wonderful first week and setting into Year 2 well.

Year 1 achievers: Marley for showing the adults in Year 1 that he is a responsible, kind and caring pupil. A great start to Year 1, following the BeSMART code!  Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s Achiever of the Week was chosen for following our Be Smart code and having a fantastic start to Year 1. He has listened carefully and put 100% effort into all of his work.

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

Year 6 readers: Mr McFarland’s reader, who won the KS2 raffle, was chosen for great reading and voluntarily practising spellings before even receiving homework and Guransh for his amazingly, interesting reading comments all week :-)

Year 5 readers: Elsa for great reading comments this week filled with amazing information. Lawrencia for brilliant effort in her reading diary and during guided reading lessons.

Year 4 readers: Matilda for reading each night and writing detailed comments in her diary and Ben for excellent enthusiasm and commitment to reading.

Year 3 readers: Elva, who won the KS1 and Year 3 raffle,  for amazing, detailed comments in her reading diary. Keep up the super work Elva! Chimzi for showing super commitment and enthusiasm for reading this week.

Year 2 readers: Stefanie for her effort in reading on week one and extra activities in her reading diary. Alfie for writing his own answers to the questions in his reading diary.

Year 1 readers: Aadya for writing her own comment in the reading diary! Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s reader was chosen for reading really well at home and reading a good variety of books. Well done!

Friday 17^th May 2024

This week Year 6 have been working incredibly hard to complete their SATs. We are so proud of each and every one of them. Year 4 had a marvellous time during their Anglo-Saxon workshop; they blew us away with their knowledge and loved learning about archaeological discoveries. They even had a go at using writing their names in clay, using Anglo-Saxon runes. Year 3 were lucky enough to visit Wroxeter today. They explored what a Roman town in Britain might have looked like – even dressing up as Romans and doing some exercise in the gymnasium.

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week: all of Year 6 for their fantastic resilience and effort shown in SATS this week. We are incredibly proud of each and every one of them 🌟

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 98%

KS2 winners are Miss Jones’ class with a very impressive 100%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: All of Year 6 for their fantastic effort in SATS this week 😊

Year 5 achievers:  Jonathan for writing a brilliant Chance to Shine this week and Egbert for his fantastic Chance to Shine this week.

Year 4 achievers: Charlie for always being such a kind and considerate friend. He makes us smile everyday – he is a true Newdaler! Henry for his enthusiastic approach to learning in Science and History.

Year 3 achievers: Ollie for great independent reading of our book, Queen of Darkness and Maisie for independently writing a wonderfully creative Roman Chant poem.

Year 2 achievers: Smrithi for her fabulous efforts in literacy this week. It is lovely to see the improvements she is making. We are proud of how confident she is becoming. Rocio for super effort in her writing! She is trying really hard to proof-read her writing to check for spellings. We loved her letter about playtimes.

Year 1 achievers: Libby for working hard in mathematics and showing good halving knowledge. Eli for using his phonics to complete his letter in the role of the Jolly Postman.

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

Year 6 readers: The Year 6 team would like to nominate all of our children as they have shone this week in our SAT’s reading paper!

Year 5 readers: Freddie for his enthusiastic reading at home this week.  Alejandro for regular reading and writing increasingly independent comments.

Year 4 readers: Meadow for reading at after-school club and achieving a Silver this week! Sophie achieving a platinum reading award for great comments, quizzes and illustrations from her book.

Year 3 readers: Theo for showing excellent confidence when reading his Roman chant poem to the class and Erica for being a great reading partner to her friends.

Year 2 readers: Jessica for her amazing effort at home! We love seeing her confidence and fluency improve.

Marie for consistently reading at home and great comments in her diary.

Year 1 readers: Gianpiero for excellent reading at home and writing lengthy comments in his diary. Miss Buckingham’s reader, who won the reading raffle this week, was chosen for working hard and reading lots at home.

This week we have been so lucky to enjoy the lovely weather! Many of the children have enjoying having their picnic lunches on the grass and we have even been able to have some outdoor lessons to make the most of the sunshine! We hope you all manage to play outside and have lots of fun in the sun over the weekend! Please remember to drink lots of water and wear sun cream and sun hats to keep yourselves safe!

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week: Both of our Reception classes this week were chosen for their first BeSMART Cup treat! They have been working so hard to impress all the adults around school with their efforts in lessons and walking smartly in the corridors. Keep it up Reception!

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

KS1/YR winners are Miss Lowe’s class with 98%.

KS2 winners are Mr McFarland’s class with an amazing 100%. Well done to you all!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Bella for the hard work and effort that she has put into her maths learning 😊 Mrs Arthurs’ achiever of the week was chosen for demonstrating great progress in PE lessons.

Year 5 achievers:  Oisin for continuously working hard in all subjects and for always following the BeSMART code and Toby for really impressing with his effort to do his best in all lessons this week.

Year 4 achievers: Zac for fantastic commitment to learning his times table facts and Teddy for an outstanding independent write and pushing himself to improve in every lesson.

Year 3 achievers: Harry for slowing down and taking the time to edit and rewrite his draft to really make it shine! Ashton for making amazing progress this year in reading and writing. We are so proud!

Year 2 achievers:  Arya for her super effort and growing independence. We are so proud of her hard work. Her positive, cheerful attitude to learning is help her overcome challenges. Shivangi for always working hard, improving her writing and being a wonderful, kind friend.

Year 1 achievers: Miss Buckingham’s achiever of the week was chosen for being a kind and caring member of the class, always looking out for her friends and making her teachers smile. Astrid for always trying hard during lessons and showing good resilience when faced with a challenge.

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

Year 6 readers: Zachary for keeping up with his reading even when ill. Lucas for his amazing reading at home.

Year 5 readers: Oliver for his increased effort with reading at home. Erin for challenging herself with her wide range of reading this week.

Year 4 readers: Harris for fantastic entries and detailed descriptions in his reading diary. Emilia for consistently reading at home and showing great enthusiasm in our poetry Guided Reading this week.

Year 3 readers: Nathan because he has started writing his own comments about his writing and Olivia for wonderful comments about her reading at home.

Year 2 readers: Coby for writing his own comments and putting in lots of effort to read at home. Keep it up!

Year 1 readers: Ollie, who won this week’s raffle and chose a new book, was chosen for working hard on his speedy reading and Omish for reading more frequently at home and writing in his diary.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!