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Dear Parents/Carers of Year 5 children,

Mrs King is very pleased to announce that she is expecting her first bundle of joy.

We all hope that Mrs King will be teaching her class until close to February half term, at which point she will begin her maternity leave.

We will inform you of our plans to cover this maternity leave closer to the time. Rest assured we will be looking very carefully at the cohort and staffing we have, in order to ensure the continued high quality provision over the rest of the year.

We all wish Mrs King and her family the very best of luck.

Kind regards,

 

Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party – Friday 27th September 2024

We are pleased to share more details about our final fundraising event linked to our hugely successful ‘Climb against Cancer’ last term. We are inviting all of our wonderful grandparents whose children attend the nursery on a Friday afternoon to our Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party ☺. All profits from our Grandparents’ Tea Party will be added to the money already raised for Macmillan.  The week after our Tea Party we will be able to reveal the total amount we have raised with the support of our wider school community; we know the children are going to feel so proud to have been a part of such a big event!

The attached leaflet contains key information about this special event.

Newdale Coffee Morning – 27.09.24

Further details

All details for how to purchase tickets will be on Parent Pay from Thursday 12th September 2024. Access to the event will be via the school office. Grandparents can take their grandchild/children home afterwards; however, parents will need to give their permission via Parent Pay to do so. Teachers will have a class list to tick off children going home early and grandparents will then be asked to sign them out as they walk out of the office at the end of the event.

To try and reduce overcrowding, there will be two sittings.

As it states on the leaflet, the Nursery for children who attend on a Friday afternoon only, Reception, Y1 and Y2 grandparents’ slot is 1:15-2:15pm.

Y3-Y6 grandparents is 2:15-3pm. If a grandparent is visiting a Y3-6 child as well as one from Nursery, Reception or Y1/2, please can they attend the second slot. e.g. a grandparent with a Y4 and Y1 grandchild would attend at 2:15pm.

All baked goods will be sold for £1. This will be cash only and please note, we will not be able to give change at this event.

During the afternoon, we are excited to announce that BBC Radio Shropshire may be at Newdale speaking to grandparents’ and children as well potentially creating photograph and/or video footage to share via their and our social media platforms.

We are all really looking forward to celebrating this event with you and hopefully reaching our target amount for Macmillan! We will announce the total sum raised the following week where we will present a cheque to Macmillan. The Shropshire Star will be in attendance so that all of our efforts are recognised across the whole of our town.

Many thanks

Miss Cook

 

Message for Year 1 parents

Dear Year 1 parents,

Now your children are in Year 1, they should bring home a share a story book and a Read Write Inc phonics book and the expectation is that children read a minimum of 3 times a week and record this in their reading diary. The teaching assistants will also ask regular questions about the book for the children to answer- it is a great opportunity to practice their writing.

The children will receive house points in accordance to the amount they read.

3 x a week: Bronze award= 3 house points.

4 x a week: Silver award= 4 house points

5 x a week: Bronze award= 5 house points.

Reading at home is so important for the children to develop fluency and we thank you for your continued partnership with this.

The Year 1 team.

 

European Day of Languages – 26th September

On Thursday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery -Spain

Reception -Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2-Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

 

 

KS2 Football after school club

Our KS2 football after school club has once again proved very popular for this half term and was at capacity the following morning after going live.

Due to the popularity of the club we are offering an additional KS2 football club this half term.

This extra club will take place on a Wednesday and will be open for Years 3,4, 5 & 6.

The club will go live on ParentPay today around 7pm.

Next half term (from November 2024) we will be offering two football after school clubs for KS2, one for Year 3 & 4 on Wednesday’s and the second for Year 5 & 6 on Thursday’s.  We will monitor the demand for the second KS2 football club to see if we continue the offer in the new year.

Welcome back

It was so lovely welcoming our children and families back to Newdale. The children have all had a great start to the year already.  Thank you for your patience at drop off as the children entered their new classrooms.

Due to the construction work, any bikes and scooters can be kept in the bike shelters by forest school for the time being.

We have noticed a few children with holiday hair braids in. We kindly ask that these are to be removed by next week.

Many thanks

Miss Cook

Climb Against Cancer update

We just wanted to give you a quick update on our ‘Climb for Cancer’ fundraiser. We are delighted with the donations so far and are excited to see what the final amount will be; we are on track to reach our target. On Friday 27th September, we will be holding a Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party as a final celebratory event. Following this event, we will announce the final amount which we have raised as a school and community. More information on timings and how to purchase tickets will be shared shortly with you all.

Many thanks for your continued support,

Miss Cook

 

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