Friday 3rd July 2026 

This week, our Sports Days were a huge success and a wonderful celebration of teamwork, determination and school spirit! Every child took part with enthusiasm, resilience and a positive attitude, cheering on their teammates and giving every event their very best effort. It was fantastic to see so many parents and families joining in, creating a brilliant atmosphere and making lasting memories. A huge thank you goes to all our staff, volunteers and helpers whose hard work and organisation ensured the events ran so smoothly. We are incredibly proud of everyone who took part and helped make the week so special.  

This year’s overall House Winners were…WENLOCK 🏆 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Ava for her superb research in DT and amazing Chance to Shine draft. Amalia for amazing C2S writing and demonstrating a solid understanding of year 6 grammar.  

Year 5 achievers:  Zoey for always trying her best, challenging herself and wanting to do well in every lesson. Ollie for a fantastic, mature attitude towards his learning, and making great progress in all subjects.  

Year 4 achievers: Kira for her fantastic work with fractions this week and being helpful to others. Gabi for working hard to sketch and paint the shape of waves in her seascape with super results!  

Year 3 achievers: Mayra for creating publisher worthy writing and always pushing herself to improve her work in every lesson. Libby for impressing Miss Watson with her Chance to Shine. Well done! 

Year 2 achievers: Jaxon for making a huge effort in his writing – he is now forming most letters correctly and taking care with his presentation. Sulayman for persevering with writing in Literacy and including imperative verbs, adverbs and time conjunctions in his writing. 

Year 1 achievers: Junior for his fantastic maths, writing and resilience this week. He is always showing us he is ready to learn. Very proud. Jayden for always giving 100% effort in everything he does. Jayden has made fantastic progress this year and we are so proud of him!  

Year R achievers: Asher for an excellent year in reception. He works hard every day and is such a kind friend.  

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

Year 6 readers: Maddy for working hard to improve her home reading and consistently reading more than 5 times over the last few weeks. Angelo with his interesting Celtic facts. 

Year 5 readers: Basit for reading a variety of genres this week and recording detailed reads. Vlad for his daily jokes based on the book he is reading.  

Year 4 readers: William for super summaries about his book every day. Bryony Evans for a fantastic week of reading well done. 

Year 3 readers: Alfie for writing the most magnificent reading diary comments and answering his VIPERS questions at home. Sebastian for continuously reading regularly at home, keep it up! 

Year 2 readers: Pranathi for her frequent reading at home and for fantastic explanations and summaries in guided reading lessons. Jasper for always reading at home all year and answering the questions in his diary. 

Year 1 readers: Junior for his super reading at home. Declan for always reading every night, every week.   

Attendance Winners  29th – 3rd July 2026

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

Mrs Evans & Mrs Sturrock = 98.62%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Stubbs = 99.67%

Friday 26th June 2026 

This week, we have been so proud of the children’s resilience and adapting to change – especially in the sweltering temperatures! Not only have there been lots of water fights and time in the shade, on Tuesday, Year 3 and 4 children represented Newdale amazingly during the Telford Maths Championships. They showed great teamwork throughout and loved every single second of solving such tricky problems! Well done everyone. On Wednesday, classes across the school spent the whole day creating brilliant landscapes and portraits using a wide variety of skills including painting, sketching, collage and sculpture. A huge thanks to Ironbridge Fine Arts (Archie and Oscar’s parents) who worked with years 1-4 to print self-portraits using drinks cartons and to Mrs Everall for organising another brilliant Art Day!

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Everyone in Y6 for their resilience during this week in school.  

Year 5 achievers:  Bella for always trying her best in everything she does and for producing some fantastic artwork on art day. Le’Shane for always being a hardworking, caring and thoughtful member of the class 

Year 4 achievers: Mr Stubb’s achiever for producing some fantastic artwork this week in our art lessons and for art day! Pixie-Belle for working incredibly hard on her Lowry-inspired landscape.  

Year 3 achievers: Avash for showing great Newdale behaviours and resilience at the Maths competition as well as fully embracing Art Day. Elizabeth for always having a positive attitude and for producing some beautiful art on Art Day.  

Year 2 achievers: River and Miss Squire’s achiever for always following our Newdale school rules and being a role models their classes. 

Year 1 achievers: Everly for always being a superstar, kind friend and amazing role model. Nikolas for making excellent progress in writing this year and completing a fantastic ‘Chance to Shine’ write this week. 

Year R achievers: Miss Hailey’s achiever – what an amazing week as always. We loved your artwork this week. You are always a superstar! 😊 Isabella for working so hard to memorise her number bonds to 10. 

Newdale Cup

This week, Mr Jackson’s class have won the Newdale Cup after really impressing Miss White and Miss Harrison. They have worked really hard and have been kind and caring towards each other throughout the heat wave this week. 

House Points 

As we reach the end of week 4, Wrekin lead the way with an impressive 1166 points. They are closely followed by Wenlock with 1050, Ironbridge with 1019 and Severn with 934. With 3 weeks to go, it could be any house! 

Attendance Winners  22nd – 26th June 2026

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

Mrs Evans & Mrs Sturrock = 96.21%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Jackson = 96%

Friday 19th June 2026 

It has been a week filled with exciting trips and activities at Newdale. On Monday, our Year 3 children visited Attingham Farm, while on Wednesday our Reception children enjoyed a trip to Wrekin Forest School. The excitement continued on Friday when our Year 4 children headed to Go Ape for an adventurous day out. Throughout the week, our Year 6 children also took part in Bikeability workshops, developing their cycling skills and confidence. It has been wonderful to see so many children enjoying these fantastic learning experiences and there are many more still to come! 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Leo for being so helpful to the office staff during his breaktimes all through the year. Erin for fantastic participation in bikeability and always listening carefully.  

Year 5 achievers:  Hannah for always being a role model following our school rules and being a keen learner. Damian for excellent Maths NFER results after pushing himself in Maths all year. 

Year 4 achievers: Lucas for a fantastic week, attaining an outstanding score in his maths tests. Zoey for a superb score in her Maths assessments this week. Amazing arithmetic!  

Year 3 achievers: Oscar for fantastic contributions and listening on our trip and amazing resilience throughout test week. Udayveer for being a fabulous role model on our trip and for remembering lots of facts that we learnt.  

Year 2 achievers: Jeremy for settling into Newdale brilliantly. You’re an excellent new member to our team. Natalie for trying exceptionally hard in all areas and being an amazing role model. We are so proud of you! 

Year 1 achievers: Lucas for always for a superstar learner, kind friend and a wonderful member of the class. Declan for making excellent progress this year and always working hard and trying his best! 

Year R achievers: Julian for offering to help friends and adults in school. Tallulah for ALWAYS working so hard every single day. She is a role model! What a superstar 😊  

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

Year 6 readers: Emelia for her fun Greek facts that have made us laugh. Amalia for her insightful and humorous comments about the poetry she has been reading this week. 

Year 5 readers: Tylor for a week of consistent, detailed reads and showing a good effort to aim for platinum. Noah for well detailed comments in his reading diary.  

Year 4 readers: Poppy for fantastic reading this week showing a great understanding of her story. Arya for reading everyday this week and writing amazing comments about her book! 

Year 3 readers: Stefanie for reading everyday this week! Sebastian for always engaging with questions in his diary.  

Year 2 readers: Macey-Grace for reading everyday! Eve for consistently putting in exceptional effort reading in school and at home. 

Year 1 readers: Freddie for his consistent reading at home! James for consistent reading at home and always trying to complete his phonics speedy reading challenge.  

Newdale Cup Winners

This week, Mrs Churm’s class have won the Newdale Cup for how well they came into assembly, showing respect for the adults and sitting quietly. They are all great role models for their peers!

Attendance Winners  15th – 19th June 2026

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

Mrs Evans & Mrs Sturrock = 98.28%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Arthurs = 99.35%

Friday 12th June 2026 

It has been another very busy week at Newdale! On Monday, children from Ironbridge enjoyed their house celebration after gaining the most house points during the first half of the summer term. On Wednesday, our nursery children had a wonderful trip to Attingham Farm and in the afternoon, we held our annual Summer Fair, raising over £1200 to support our trips and visits – thank you to everyone for your generosity. 

Year 4 also completed their Multiplication Table Check. They impressed Miss Macfarlane and their teachers with their effort, focus, and excellent recall of times-table facts, earning themselves an extra playtime! 

Year 5 enjoyed an exciting and immersive Maya Workshop, where they explored the fascinating world of the ancient Maya civilisation through a range of hands-on activities and interactive experiences. A particular highlight of the day was the opportunity to use virtual reality headsets. Through this immersive experience, the children were able to explore Maya cities, climb impressive temples, and journey through tropical rainforests, bringing their learning to life in a memorable and engaging way. 

House Points 

The children have been working hard to collect as many house points as possible during Weeks 1 and 2. Leading the way are Wrekin with an impressive 541 points! In second place is Wenlock with 454, followed by Ironbridge with 438 points. In fourth place are Severn with 427 points. Well done, everyone!

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Georgie for always trying her best and contributing to class discussions. Zac for concerted effort in lessons and some impressive maths.  

Year 5 achievers: Theo for amazing participation and contribution to discussions in our Maya day.  Vlad for always trying to develop his writing using higher level grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.  

Year 4 achievers: Robyn for fantastic attitude to learning and being a superstar at team stop. Toby for excellent work with possessive apostrophes and including a wide variety of Year 4 SPaG features in his sentences.  

Year 3 achievers: Sohaib for a wonderful Roman chant poem following our rules of poetry.  Miss Watson’s achiever Maraya for writing a creative Roman chant poem and for always being ready to learn.  

Year 2 achievers: Harlee-Grace for being a super role model to all of her friends, she is an all-round superstar! She is kind, caring and always tries her best. We’re so proud! Hayden for always trying hard and persevering in his lessons this week.  

Year 1 achievers: Merryn for being an excellent role model and always being ready to learn. Ruby-Skye for always being an amazing role model in the class and putting 100% into everything she does.  

Year R achievers: Mr Banfield’s achiever for spectacular progress with his writing and listening well to adults. Everly for super writing this week and effort in all her work! Well done 😊  

In assembly this week, we also announced our colouring competition winners and the lucky winners of the vouchers from completing our parent survey. Thank you to everyone for your contributions.

Attendance Winners  8th – 12th June 2026

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

Miss Hailey = 99.32%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Haymour = 98.67%

Friday 5th June 2026 

Healthy Lifestyles Week has been a great success, and we have been so proud of the children for engaging so well with every activity. They’ve taken part in Box fit, Zumba, kickboxing, Crossbar inflatables, a ninja warrior course, wheelie days, Bhangra dancing, hockey and so much more. The week finished on a high with a whole school Colour Run, which every child absolutely loved. Weeks like this are so important because they help our children discover new ways to stay active and develop healthy habits that support both their physical and mental wellbeing.  

A massive thank you to Miss Lowe for organising such a fantastic week for everyone! 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Lacey-Mae for her super enthusiasm for every single activity and getting straight back onto scooter after a fall. Aidan for amazing participation this week and many activities completed at home. 

Year 5 achievers:  Christian for excellent participation in all activities and fitting in so well as a new starter here at Newdale. Cerys for great enthusiasm in all our activities this week including completing lots of exciting activities at home too.  

Year 4 achievers: Ted for his super energy and for trying a variety of activities at home and at school. Leo for completing lots of activities at home and putting loads of effort into all the activities this week. 

Year 3 achievers: Lennon for joining in with every activity this week and being a great sportsman, bigging up other children. Harry for engaging in every activity this week and completing lots of activities at home too! 

Year 2 achievers: Ava for going above and beyond in every activity both at home and at school during Healthy Lifestyles Week. Pranathi for working hard in all the activities this week at school and at home. We are so proud! 

Year 1 achievers: Milo for being AMAZING at HLW and in his home activities. David for excellent participation during healthy lifestyles week both at home and at school. It is fantastic to see all the additional activities you have been doing at home too David. Well done.   

Year R achievers: Maddie-Mae for listening carefully to all adults and encouraging others to enjoy Healthy Lifestyles Week. Mateo – what a wonderful HLW contribution! He has been so active and enthusiastic all week long. 

Attendance Winners  1st – 5th June 2026

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

Mrs Evans / Mrs Sturrock = 100%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Everall = 99%

Friday 22nd May 2026 

This week Year 2 have impressed their teachers this week by showing determination and resilience in their SATS and Year 5 had a fantastic time visiting Shrewsbury this week. The children enjoyed an informative boat tour on the Sabrina, worked on mapping the Dingle and also explored and enjoyed the Quarry park. 

We hope you all have a lovely half term and we look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Monday 1st June.  

Times Tables  

Miss Squire’s class have won the trophy this week with an impressive 90% accuracy on Times Table Rockstars – well done! 

House Points 

We have been really impressed by how well the children have followed our Behaviour Code this half term and gained lots of points for their houses. With an impressive 1995 points, Ironbridge are the winners for summer 1 – well done, Ironbridge! 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Elsa for her contagious passion and enthusiasm for learning across the whole curriculum Skylar for her excellent contributions to class discussions 

Year 5 achievers:  Eliza for a big effort in her writing and Maths this week, pushing herself and working well with others. Rosie, for always trying her best in all lessons, always wanting to join in and having a great work ethic. 

Year 4 achievers: Mr Stubb’s achiever for excellent work with his times tables this week. Jake for focusing on listening carefully. 

Year 3 achievers: Emilia for consistently being ready, respectful, kind and safe. You are a true Newdaler! Kyresse for being a fabulous helper and for persevering with his maths work. 

Year 2 achievers: May for showing resilience, positivity and kindness this week. Lunar for being a confident, independent learner this week showing that she can and she will!  

Year 1 achievers: Rheya for always being ‘ready, respectful, safe and kind.’ Mason for his great progress in maths especially recalling his doubles. Keep it up!  

Attendance Winners  18th – 22nd May 2026

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

Mrs King = 98.62%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Stubbs = 99%

Friday 15th May 2026 

This week KS1 children enjoyed their school disco after school – thank you to the staff for running this fabulous event and we can’t wait for the KS2 disco next week on Thursday 21st May. A big well done to the year 6 children for working incredibly hard in their SATs this week – we are all very proud of them!  

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Kian for his superb efforts in his collage of an Ancient Greek landscape. Mrs Arthur’s achiever for his excellent attitude to learning.  

Year 5 achievers:  Maisie for a real boost of confidence recently which has led to great progress in her learning and some fabulous work. Hilal for amazing work and achievement with his phonics moving up to Grey books. 

Year 4 achievers: David for an excellent science investigation and asking fantastic questions related to the digestive system. Retal for using her super sewing skills to join fabric and help others in our DT lessons this week.  

Year 3 achievers: Daniel for taking time to think about his word choices and using wonderful manners, we love your kindness! Libby for always being kind and respectful and trying her hardest with her writing.  

Year 2 achievers: Mia for trying so hard to write independent sentences in Literacy and Chance to Shine. We’re so proud of you! Willow for her incredible effort and progress in reading and writing. Willow is joining guided reading groups after half term and has made outstanding progress in her latest chance to shine. We are incredibly proud of her! 

Year 1 achievers: Miss Lowe’s achiever for her incredible enthusiasm in our dance lessons during PE. Lexie for being an ‘always’ child. Always working hard, always being kind, respectful and polite and always ready to learn. Well done, Lexie.  

Year R achievers: Kaja for being an excellent role model in class and challenging herself continually to improve. Adrian for a smiley, happy week coming into school and working hard as always!  

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

Year 6 readers: All of our wonderful year 6 team and their amazing effort with the reading paper in SAT’s this week. Very well done! 

Year 5 readers: Isabelle for hitting her reading target this week with interesting reads. Mrs Haymour’s star reader for always putting effort into his answers and summaries by including using grammar skills taught. 

Year 4 readers: Ezra – for regular reading at home and always writing a detailed comment in his reading diary. Gabi for reading every day this week and doing a brilliant VIPERS. 

Year 3 readers: Bella for writing her own story based on her reading! McCauley for putting in lots of effort in writing in his reading diary.  

Year 2 readers: Alisha for her brilliant answers to the question stickers in the reading diary. We are so impressed with your reading at home! The star reader form Miss Squires class for reading every day and always answering the questions every week, we love your drawings. 

Year 1 readers: Noah because he is reading at home every night. Hilda for reading consistently every night and writing her own comments in her diary.  

Newdale Cup winners nominated by adults in school –  

The whole of year 6 for their fantastic efforts in their SATs this week. They all worked so hard in preparation and during the assessments themselves; they have made us so proud. 

Attendance Winners 11^th – 15^th May 2026

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

Mrs Evan’s & Mrs Sturrock = 100%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Jackson = 98.28%

Friday 8th May 2026 

This week Year 2 took part in a Florence Nightingale workshop where they learnt about artefacts related to her, learnt how to make herbal medicines and even how to bandage each other! The children represented Newdale brilliantly. 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Alexey for his hard work in SATs revision sessions. Riley for excellent attitude to learning.  

Year 5 achievers:  Matilda for beautiful presentation and paying close attention to detail in her literacy and geography work.  

Year 4 achievers: Hansini for accurate speech punctuation and using a variety of interesting speech verbs in her writing. Mr Stubb’s achiever for fantastic effort in her literacy this week, working really hard on her handwriting. 

Year 3 achievers: Mrs Churm’s achiever for showing off amazing ukulele skills and being brave enough to show the whole class! Miss Watson’s achiever for settling into class quickly and showing he is ready to learn.  

Year 2 achievers: Evelyn for being a super role model to her friends during the Florence Nightingale workshop and representing Newdale amazingly. Caden for his incredible knowledge for our Florence Nightingale workshop yesterday.  

Year 1 achievers: Mattias for being polite and caring to others.  Lucas for working hard on his ‘Chance to Shine’ and remembering the important things needed in a sentence.  

Year R achievers: Safa for excellent progress in phonics and handwriting. Freya for a wonderful week, working so hard in phonics and in her writing. Well done 😊  

Times Tables  

Mrs Everall’s class win the TTRS trophy this week for the most daily minutes per active player. Well done! 

House Points 

Ironbridge are now in the lead with an impressive 647 house points gained in weeks 3 and 4. They are followed by Wenlock with 574 points, Wrekin with 545 and Severn with 397. Well done, everyone! 

Attendance Winners 5^th – 8^th May 2026

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

Mrs Churm = 100%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Stubbs = 99.17%