Friday 20^th December 2024

It has been a very busy final week of the Autumn term with our Christmas festivities in full swing. We have loved welcoming so many parents into school this week for our Christmas events, including the sing-along and crafts with our reception children, the year 3 and 4 carol concert and the year 5 and 6 Christmas quiz. The children also visited the Telford International Centre for the pantomime ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears.’ There were lots of laughs and surprises along the way and the children really impressed us with their excellent behaviour.

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

Mr McFarland’s class for their excellent behaviour on the pantomime trip and their resilience this week when learning a new skill to sew their own Christmas stockings.

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 97%

KS2 winners are Mrs Churm’s class with 98.9%

A big congratulations to Wenlock house who have gained the most house points for this half term. Children in this house will enjoy a special treat after the Christmas break.

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Finley for always setting the right example and being a fantastic role model to your peers. Fianna for her superb effort in creating her own fabulous Christmas stocking and going on to help others who were finding it tricky.

Year 5 achievers:  Barnaby for real effort and enthusiasm towards his learning this week and for really focusing on his handwriting in his literacy book. Jake for having a brilliant start to year 5 including getting his pen licence and improving his independence this year.

Year 4 achievers: Lealand for impressive food preparation skills when we made and then shared a vegetable curry in the style of a Sikh langar.  Hannah for maintaining such high levels of energy and achievement throughout the term.

Year 3 achievers: Ted for a continuous effort in every lesson in the lead up to Christmas and for having the courage to perform his own musical creation in recorder club. Bryony for always trying her hardest and going above and beyond in her work.

Year 2 achievers: Lolo-Rose for trying so hard in every lesson and being a kind member of our class. Phoebe for being very enthusiastic in maths this week and having a super week following the be smart code. You have really impressed us Phoebe.

Year 1 achievers: Miss Fisher’s achiever for all of her extra hard work at home and therefore getting amazing results in her spelling test. May for being a wonderful role model to all her peers and for always trying her best.

Year R achievers: Miss Hailey’s achiever for a wonderful week in Reception, fantastic behaviour and being so caring on our trip to the Panto. Nikolas for spreading happiness and Christmas cheer through our classroom with his enthusiasm for all our learning this week.

Thursday 12^th December 2024

This week our festive celebrations began with a delicious Christmas dinner in our festive jumpers on Wednesday and even Buddy Bear getting stuck into the celebrations! KS1 children have also been very busy preparing for their nativity; we cannot wait to show it to you on Friday. We are so proud of all the effort and hard work they have put into learning their songs and lines.

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

Mr Banfield’s class for their incredible progress in their Chance to Shines. Mr Banfield is so proud of how the children have emersed themselves into their Narnia text.

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 97.9%

KS2 winners are Mrs King’s class with 97.8%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Grace-Mae for always being an excellent example of our BeSMART code in action. Mrs Stack’s achiever for an amazing Chance to Shine that used fantastic figurative language and an abundance of Year 6 SPaG features.

Year 5 achievers: Oscar for including lots of newspaper features in his plan and draft and for putting exceptional effort into all lessons this week. We are excited to read his upcoming chance to shine. Teddy for contributing excellently to class discussion and trying hard in all subjects all the time.

Year 4 achievers: Brandon for exceptional progress in Literacy. His writing was so full of highlighter that it made the classroom shine. Mason for a fantastic Chance to Shine full of Year 4 SPaG features.

Year 3 achievers: Mrs Churm’s achiever for wowing her with his progress in shape during maths this week. Violet for her increased independence during writing and contributing super ideas in class.

Year 2 achievers: Miss Hill’s achiever for putting 100% into everything that she does and always following the Be SMART code. Stefanie for working very hard to learn all her lines for the nativity. Stefanie is also a super role model, always following the Be Smart code.

Year 1 achievers: Mrs Sturrock and Mrs Evan’s achiever for writing some super similes to describe a scene in the polar express. Erioluwa for working hard and making amazing progress in phonics and maths.

Year R achievers: Mattias for a wonderful week, being caring and for being such a great artist. Cody for blowing the adults away with his wonderful independent writing this week!

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

Year 6 readers: Bella for reading at least 5 times every week and working hard to improve her diary entries. Amelia for support effort with reading at home.

Year 5 readers: Kian for consistently reading every week with great reading comments.  Mrs King’s reader for regular independent reading and taking pride in her Reading Diary.

Year 4 readers: Lila for fantastic descriptions of her reads in her reading diary and brilliant answers to her questions. Theo for reading a wide range of texts at home and updating his diary daily with detailed summaries.

Year 3 readers: Smrithi for reading consistently and challenging herself by writing her own questions and answering them. Zoey for making a great start at Newdale with consistent reading at home.

Year 2 readers: Miss Hill’s reader for reading consistently at home and writing lengthy comments in her reading diary. Daniel for consistent reading at home. Daniel is always keen to change his books and reads a variety of texts.

Year 1 readers: Daria for super reading at home and always writing her own comments. Lunar for reading lots of books at home and sharing her reads in her diary, well done Lunar.

Friday 15^th November 2024

As this week comes to a close, we have been so proud of the children’s effort, resilience and positive attitude towards their assessments, and we look forward to discussing your child’s progress during the upcoming parents evening week (w/c 2^nd December). This week also saw the beginning of our annual trip to the cinema, with reception and year 6 enjoying a visit to Cineworld. We finished the week by celebrating Children in Need with lots of spots seen around school. Thank you for your donations towards this very valuable cause!

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

Reception for really impressing the adults on their first ever school trip, following the BeSMART code and listening brilliantly at the cinema.

 

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 Buckingham’s class with 100%

KS2 winners are Mrs Stack’s class with 99%

 

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Shiah for her amazing contributions to class discussions and superb effort in every single lesson. Owen for always taking part during lessons and having a positive attitude to learning.

Year 5 achievers: Cayden for amazing Maths NFER results being achieved after working so hard in Maths. Amalia for her brilliant attitude to learning! She is always listening carefully to instructions.

Year 4 achievers: Erica-Jean for consistent hard work and making superb progress with presentation. Zara for great progress with her reading and for always working hard in class.

Year 3 achievers: Chimziterem for showing great resilience during tests as well as still giving great effort in all other lessons all while showing beautiful presentation! Freddie for working super hard all week to show me that he is following the BeSmart code and being a role model to his peers.

Year 2 achievers: Linus so for always being such a fantastic role model, hardworking, presenting his work to a high standard and improving his confidence. Avash for always completing work to a high standard and presenting his work neatly.

Year 1 achievers: Theo for having a super attitude to learning and doing some fantastic work in Maths. Aadya for consistently working hard in all areas of learning. In particular, she was a shining star during maths pupil voice this week. So proud of you Aadya.

Year R achievers: Aldo for working so hard in phonics this week; he has written lots of CVC words independently using beautiful letter formation too. Miss Hailey’s achiever for a wonderful week, making everyone smile with her amazing imagination and creativity. She works hard every day!

 

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

Year 6 readers: Isabella for reading further into our science topic and revising key vocabulary.

Year 5 readers: Sophie for combining her stunning artistic skills with super comments in her reading diary, which is now a work of art in itself! Meadow for really impressing me with her amazing facts in her reading diary over the last couple of weeks.

Year 4 readers: Nathan for writing super comments and working hard on handwriting at home. Esmae for consistently reading at home and writing detailed summaries each day.

Year 3 readers: Louie for improving how he responds in his reading diary. Lexi-Mai Richards for her hard work in writing thoughtful and detailed responses in her diary.

Year 2 readers: Eli for having a great attitude to his reading making a real effort to read every day, especially in ASC. Armish for consistent reading at home.

Year 1 readers: Miss Fisher’s star reader is for an increase of reading at home and for trying hard to speedy read and read independently. Ava for making excellent progress in reading and doing some super reading at home.

Friday 8th November 2024

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school after the half term break. On Monday, Year 5 visited Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. Their teachers were very impressed by their behaviour and how proudly they represented our school while taking part in their workshops. This week also saw our first House Celebration, where the pupils from Severn House took part in several exciting games and activities including parachute games, musical statues and a football challenge. The children had a brilliant time and we look forward to seeing which House wins next!

We are also pleased to announce the winner of the ‘Build a Burger’ competition. Congratulations to Iris in year 1 for her fantastic creation. Iris created a McDonald’s style burger along with a very impressive model of her burger. Well-done Iris!

Iris’ burger creation will be the hot meal choice next Tuesday (12^th):

Burger with option of extra cheese, gherkins, tomato ketchup or mustard

• Tomato pasta or rice
• Sweetcorn and peas
• Pudding – Flapjack or ice cream

Due to the menu change for Tuesday, hot dogs will be served on Thursday (14^th) instead:

Hot Dogs

• Potato wedges
• Spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce
• Sweetcorn
• Pudding – selection of cupcakes, including chocolate and beetroot muffins for the children to try

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

Year 5! Their teachers have been so proud of both classes on their trip this week and back at school. Other teachers have also commented on how well-behaved pupils been when they’ve had the pleasure of teaching them. Mrs King and Mr Jackson are also impressed with their overall effort and improved listening skills. 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 Mrs Evan’s/Sturrock’s class with 97%

KS2 winners are Mr McFarland’s class with 99%

 

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Freddie for being a fantastic role model in class in every respect but particularly in relation to his learning, behaviour and attitude. Mr McFarland’s Achiever for his excellent effort and progress in Maths, particularly his problem solving.

Year 5 achievers: Harris for his excellent recall of historical facts and being able to link our new knowledge of the Vikings to their Anglo-Saxon unit from year 4.  Elsa for great contributions on our trip to Shrewsbury Museum and excellent enthusiasm.

Year 4 achievers: April for superb progress with her handwriting and trying her best in all lessons. Iris for super effort and focus during lessons and for being a kind, helpful member of the class.

Year 3 achievers: Gabrielle for a massive improvement in her concentration levels in class and being so proud of all of her work. Alfie for working independently during literacy and writing a super detailed set of instructions.

Year 2 achievers: Miss Hill’s Achiever for consistently working hard and having a positive attitude towards all aspects of learning. Henry for his enthusiasm, confidence and passion in poetry this week.

Year 1 achievers: Mia for working hard in her lessons, completing some fantastic rhyming work in Literacy and trying hard to work more independently. Miss Fisher’s achiever won for her wonderful progress in writing showing good use of phonics, finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. We are very proud of you!

Year R achievers: Lexie for being an all-round superstar! She is a delightful member of our class who makes everybody smile.

‘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. This class is Mr Banfield’s class, who win the trophy for a second time, with an impressive 90% pupils using TTRS! Congratulations Rockstars! Harry received the trophy on behalf of his class as he has spent the most amount of time on TTRS each day.

Friday 27th September 

It has been another busy week at Newdale! This week saw the arrival of Cool Cat, who was very excited to meet and greet the children, as well as a visit from the Mayor to our KS2 assembly. On Thursday, the children took part in a variety of activities including food tasting, art, flag making and music as part of European Languages Day. We have also been celebrating British Values Week and so our assembly this week is themed around our ‘Citizens of the Week.’

Please note that KS1 children had their assembly in their classrooms this week and so are not featured in the photograph. 

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

Cool Cat has awarded his attendance award to Miss Fisher’s class for an amazing 99.5% attendance.

The BeSMART cup also goes to Mrs Churm’s class for displaying great behaviour during play times this week.

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Shanel for having a such positive attitude to learning and demonstrating excellent perseverance with her Chance to Shine. Harry for being such a respectful, kind and caring member of the class.  

Year 5 achievers:  Ein for always following the school’s and Britain’s value of respect. She is a kind-hearted, considerate member of the class who respects adults and peers alike. Naomi for being a polite, respectful member of the class everyday and having a great attitude towards her learning. 

Year 4 achievers: Paisley-Violet for being kind, patient and helpful to adults and other children. Theo for upholding all the British Values especially during school parliament voting.  

Year 3 achievers: Joe for a wonderful moral compass and always following our BeSMART code. Poppy for always following the BeSMART code and having an amazing attitude to learning.  

Year 2 achievers: Zion, for showing great respect and understanding during our British values week. Oscar for his respectful, hardworking and enthusiastic attitude to learning.  

Year 1 achievers: Mrs Evan’s achiever for being a kind and helpful member of the class. Emily for being a kind friend and always comforting those who need it. She is reliable, responsible and super mature and we love having her in the class.  

Year R achievers: Hilda for her enthusiasm to all our learning, trying her best with every activity she completes including our European Languages Day ones. She came to life sharing so much knowledge about her Italian culture and her friends loved hearing all about it.  Ilya for a fantastic week, displaying such a positive attitude to learning. We are so proud 😀  

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

Year 6 readers: Seb for detailed, thoughtful comments in his diary since the start of term. Demi for her commitment and dedication to reading and for writing detailed comments.  

Year 5 readers: Hebe for consistently reading every night with detailed reading comments.  George for showing great enthusiasm with a range of reading and great comments in his reading diary. 

Year 4 readers: Lily-Maw for improving and being enthusiastic about her reading and improvement in her RWI work with Miss Cooper. Tiger-Lily for reading every night this week and sharing some fascinating facts from her book. 

Year 3 readers: Lucas for accepting my reading challenge and writing detailed comments in his reading diary. Well done Lucas. Alex for a general enthusiasm for reading, wanting to always have a book in his hands.  

Year 2 readers: Mayra for high quality comments every evening. She also applies what she’s been learning in literacy in her written diary comments. Addison for her independent writing in her reading diary.  

Year 1 readers: Caitlyn for reading every night, completing all homework tasks and answering her weekly question in brilliant detail. Albie for reading every night at home and recording it! Well done Albie! 

Friday 13th September 2024

As another week draws to a close, we continue to be so impressed by how well the children are settling back into school life. We have been particularly impressed with their behaviour during play times (when it has not been raining!) and how popular the after-school clubs have been. Teachers have been busy planning lots of exciting trips and opportunities for the children which we look forward to sharing with you in due course.

 

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

Year 1 for having a brilliant start to the academic year: working very hard, behaving well and making their teachers very proud! 

Nominations here:  

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 Hill’s class with 97% 

KS2 winners are Mrs King’s class with 99% 

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Kayson for consistently demonstrating fantastic focus/effort in all lessons and a superb attitude to his learning. Isabella for continuing to be a great role model to her peers and always willing to help in whatever way she can. 

Year 5 achievers:  Kalyan for excellent work produced in all subjects to a high quality. Tiana for showing a super attitude towards her work and already achieving her pen licence. 

Year 4 achievers: Archie for excellent work on the importance of the River Nile to the Ancient Egyptians. Clark for enthusiastic participation in class discussions and always doing his best work.  

Year 3 achievers: Seb for his enthusiasm and recall of key facts in History lessons. Kira for always showing great focus in our lessons and having a superb attitude to learning. 

Year 2 achievers: Ted for trying his best to be independent and his enthusiasm when working, achieving and following the Be Smart code. Elizabeth, for trying hard in all subjects and presenting her work neatly   

Year 1 achievers: Natalie for working extremely hard in literacy and maths, always listening in lessons and having a positive attitude to learning. Mrs Evan’s and Mrs Sturrock’s star of the week is Farida for always having a positive attitude to learning and coming into school every day with a beautiful, big smile on her face. 

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

Year 6 readers: Toby for making great use of ASC to ensure he read 5 times. Eshaal for listening to the advice to read over the weekend to easily get more than 5 weekly reads in – well done. 

Year 5 readers: Grace for consistently reading at home this week with fantastic questions and detailed answers. Maddy for showing amazing enthusiasm for her reading since starting year 5. 

Year 4 readers: Hannah for excellent use of evidence from the text during Guided Reading sessions. Basit for showing a real love for reading with detailed comments in his diary.  

Year 3 readers: Gracie for reading lots at home this week and being a speedy reader! Well done Gracie. Joe for continuous reading at home and using the text to support his answers in lessons.  

Year 2 readers: Billy for reading daily, answering questions and writing independently in his diary. Muna, for the most detailed summary of what she is reading and often adding a question too! 

Year 1 readers: Harry for completing many reads over the week and writing his own answers to the questions with fantastic extended sentences. Iris for reading every day at home and working so hard to become a fluent reader but to also understand what she is reading!