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11 months ago
Posted on 20th Jun 2025 by

🌟🌟Friday 20th June – Achievement Assembly 🌟🌟

Friday 20th June 2025

This week, every year group has enjoyed their sports days! We have been so impressed with the sportsmanship and support every year group has shown to their peers. Congratulations to Wenlock who were the overall winners!

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

We have two BeSMART winners this week – Nominated by members of staff around school, Miss Watson’s class have been awarded the BeSMART cup this week for their outstanding behaviour in assemblies. They have been setting a superb example to the rest of school – keep up the super work! Mr Jackson’s class were also nominated by another member of staff who was super impressed with their behaviour and attitudes towards their learning! We wish both of these classes a lovely ‘treat’ next week.

House Points

Severn has jumped into first place this week with an impressive 910 house points!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Jasper for always following the BeSMART code and being a great role model for his peers. Oliver for a fantastic effort with his art work during our Year 6 art day this week.

Year 5 achievers:  Mr Jackson’s achiever was chosen for always being so polite and helpful all day, everyday. Skye for believing in herself and challenging herself in every lesson this week!

Year 4 achievers: Zara for outstanding effort on sports day. Ezra for outstanding progress in NFER tests across the year.

Year 3 achievers: Jack for his amazing effort in his Maths NFERs this week. Keep up the hard work! Miss Watson’s achiever was chosen for his beautifully creative poster on the golden rules in our RE lesson.

Year 2 achievers: Eleonora for her fantastic efforts, resilience, kindness and support for her house team on sports day. Miss Hill’s achiever was chosen for working hard during Literacy lessons, focussing on his handwriting and presentation.

Year 1 achievers: Dominik for trying new foods in DT and for showing, on so many occasions, how he can follow the BeSmart code, we are VERY proud! Lucia for a positive attitude to learning and working extremely hard in phonics and maths sessions, always volunteering her ideas, answering questions and listening carefully. Rowan for putting so much effort into his learning especially phonics and maths. He has also helped friends in his phonics group with their work, showing extra kindness. Mrs Stevens and I are very proud of Rowan.

Year R achievers: Mason for having such a positive attitude and for great contributions in class. Sam for his fantastic progress in phonics and brilliant sporting performance during Sports Day.

Times Tables- Mrs Stack’s class gained first place again in our times tables competition; their hard work certainly has paid off! Mr Banfield’s class came a close second and Miss McCullagh’s class in third. Congratulations to Ben, Freddie and Lawrencia who were our highest scoring players across the school.

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11 months ago
Posted on 18th Jun 2025 by

Mrs Poole is leaving Newdale

Dear Parents/Carers,

As much as I would like to retain all members of the fabulous Newdale team, unfortunately I cannot!

It is with huge sadness, but also huge congratulations, that I have to inform you that Mrs Poole will be leaving us at the end of the year.

Mrs Poole has been successful in gaining a new post in a different school in Telford and I know you will join me in wishing her the very best of luck.

Mrs Poole joined Newdale in September 2008 as a class teacher and has more recently worked intensively as our school SENDco. She has made a very significant contribution to so many areas of our school development and her experience in education will be gratefully received in her new role.

We have already put plans in place to ensure continued stability when she leaves. Mr McFarland is also SENDco qualified and he will take up this role from September.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Newdale Primary School and Nursery

11 months ago
Posted on 17th Jun 2025 by

Car parking

Dear Parents/Carers,

We completely understand that the location of our school is not ideal when considering access and parking for parents when dropping off and picking up. We are located in the middle of an ever-growing residential area and are already hard pushed to fit all staff cars on site.

Unfortunately, we receive regular complaints from residents about parking and access issues. Recently, a resident from Charlecote Park, called to say that they were regularly returning home from work and unable to park within their designated spot due to school parent cars parking in their spaces.  Another resident, this time from Maxfield Crescent has also had issues with gaining access to their property due to cars blocking their drive. They reported to us that they have also had damage to their fence due to our parents parking so close and banging the fence when taking their children out of the car.  I believe that residents understand that there is a school near by and therefore there will be two key points in the day where it is likely to be busy. What they do not understand is the sometimes high levels of aggression and lack of respect they are receiving from some of our parents when they ask them to move so they can park on their own spaces/drives.

As mentioned before, we do know that location of the school is not ideal, and we know the solution is not easy to find. We are keen to remain friends with our neighbours and want to support them as much as we can. We have advised that they call the police if they are continually verbally abused or find continuous illegal parking.

Please can you help us by respecting our neighbours and thinking about where you park. It maybe that parking further away, car sharing or allowing children to cycle could go some way to helping with the solution.

Thank you for your support in this ongoing tricky issue.

Miss Cook

11 months ago
Posted on 17th Jun 2025 by

Reminder – Parent Survey

At Newdale, we very much value feedback from our parents and carers. We kindly ask for all parents and carers to complete our online annual parent survey by Friday 27th June 2025.

 

https://forms.gle/y2bNQA4bbZCdVvdj6

 

If you would like your child to be in with the chance of winning one of our fun summer prizes, please record their name in this survey.

 

Thank you for your support

Miss Cook

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12 months ago
Posted on 16th Jun 2025 by

Mrs Poole is leaving Newdale

16.6.25

Dear Parents/Carers,

As much as I would like to retain all members of the fabulous Newdale team, unfortunately I cannot!

It is with huge sadness, but also huge congratulations, that I have to inform you that Mrs Poole will be leaving us at the end of the year.

Mrs Poole has been successful in gaining a new post in a different school in Telford and I know you will join me in wishing her the very best of luck.

Mrs Poole joined Newdale in September 2008 as a class teacher and has more recently worked intensively as our school SENDco. She has made a very significant contribution to so many areas of our school development and her experience in education will be gratefully received in her new role.

We have already put plans in place to ensure continued stability when she leaves. Mr McFarland is also SENDco qualified and he will take up this role from September.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Newdale Primary School and Nursery

12 months ago
Posted on 16th Jun 2025 by

Reminder – Sports Days this week

16th – Y5/Y6 Sports Day (1:15pm)

17th – Reception Sports Day (9:15am)

17th – Y3/Y4 Sports Day (1:15pm)

18th – Y1/Y2 Sports Day (1:15pm)

19th – Nursery Sports Day – timings on Nursery noticeboard

20th – Back up date for Sports Day (in the event of bad weather)

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12 months ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by

Achievement Assembly

Friday 13th June 2025 

For Art Day on Wednesday, children spent the day taking part in a wide range of creative activities inspired by the poems, songs and stories that they are learning off by heart in school. We were also lucky enough to welcome author and illustrator Steve Smallman into school to lead some illustration masterclasses for KS2 and assemblies for Reception and KS1.  Also on Wednesday, Year 6 children took part in workshops linked to Charles Darwin and Ancient Greece and they look forward to celebrating their Art Day next week.

 

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

Mrs Evan’s/Mrs Sturrocks class for behaving brilliantly when walking through school this week and for following the BeSMART code when in assembly.  

 

House Points 

As week 2 comes to an end, Wrekin have gained the most points this week, with an impressive 587! 

 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Arush for producing some amazing depictions of arachnids in our Charles Darwin workshop, using a quill and ink. Shanel for showing fantastic enthusiasm and for producing a brilliant piece of art during the workshop with the illustrator. 

Year 5 achievers:  Lacey-Mae for excellent effort in our water colour lesson this week. Going above and beyond in producing work for our display. Well Done! Layla for taking her time with her watercolour pieces and thinking creatively in her group. Well done Layla! 

Year 4 achievers: Rosie-Anne for producing an excellent dragon’s eye sketch and carefully printing using polystyrene tiles. Isabelle for fantastic effort in all subjects this week and for her beautiful, detailed drawings of a dragon eye.  

Year 3 achievers: Gabi for her brilliant artwork throughout the day! She took her time to carefully create a mosaic heart, and she produced a realistic sketch of a Roman soldier! Nyla for experimenting with different mediums to create a beautiful and realistic Roman villa and for her infectious enthusiasm throughout art day.  

Year 2 achievers: Udayveer for his detail, precision, and creativity whilst sketching.  He took his time and produced a wonderful self- portrait. Isabel for always taking her time and care during art to create a variety of art pieces.  

Year 1 achievers: Mia for phenomenal artwork this week and for blowing all of the adults away with her concentration and dedication to each task. Caden for showing his creativity and skill on Art day. He is a wonderful artist and I am super proud of all he has produced.  

Year R achievers: Noah for a super week, trying hard everyday, especially in his wonderful chance to shine writing this week. David for his fantastic contributions to our class collage of the Gruffalo and resilience with cutting around different heart shapes.  

 

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

Year 6 readers:  Clara for continued great effort with her reading and diary comments. Arush for outstanding reading diary comments, I’m learning so much! 

Year 5 readers: Oscar for making a huge effort to get Yr6 ready with more regular reading and super comments. Mr Jackson’s reader for consistently reading at home every week.  

Year 4 readers: Erica-Jean  for amazing improvement on her reads at home over the last few weeks and comments she has made! Super effort.  Eliza for continued effort with her home reading and weekly diary question. Keep up the brilliant work. 

Year 3 readers: Joshua for a fantastic improvement-reading 5 times this week and writing super comments in his reading diary. Keep it up Joshua. Joe for regular reading at home and in ASC. Super Star!! 

Year 2 readers: Miss Hill’s reader for consistent in reading and homework every single night of every single week. Well done! Astrid for amazing phonics and fabulous reading! What great progress! 

Year 1 readers: Archie for doing fantastic reading in after school club and then additional reading at home. Great work Archie, keep it up. 😊 Pranathi for consistent reading at home and writing in her diary. Very proud of you Pranathi and all the work you do!

 

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12 months ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by

Safeguarding, Health & Safety Governors Involvement

The Health & Safeguarding committee met in school on Tuesday of this week. They spent a lot of time looking carefully at the policy and advice around Martyn’s Law linked to site security and terrorism. Governors observed a whole school and nursery drill that loosely replicated what a lock down would be. Governors look forward to hearing feedback from a professional who is going to assess the Newdale site and feedback any points for development linked to security. Governors carried out their regular ‘spot check’ of staff to reassure themselves that the staff at Newdale are well trained and confident in knowing what to do should any safeguarding issues arise.