Friday 23^rd May 2025

This week, Year 2 have been working incredibly hard on their end of KS1 assessments. We are all so proud of their effort and determination. Year 5 enjoyed their ‘Maya day’ on Tuesday; they completed lots of fun activities to learn all about the ancient Maya civilisation – including exploring Mayan cities and rainforests using VR headsets and weaving baskets using Mayan techniques. On Friday, the whole school enjoyed a ‘fieldwork afternoon’ – getting outside to put some of their practical Geography skills to the test! We wish all of our Newdale families a happy and relaxing half-term and look forward to welcoming you all back into the classrooms on Monday 2^nd June.

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

Year 2 for absolutely smashing their SATS quizzes. They’ve all worked so hard with such a positive attitude and mindset with their Team Awesome and Team Supreme mantra of ‘I can and I will’ and they certainly did! Miss Lowe, Miss Hill, Mrs Stevens and Ms Marshall are super proud of every single pupil in year 2! Well done!

House Points

After lots of hard work from everyone in the team and two interhouse competitions to earn some bonus points, Ironbridge have won the house point battle for this half-term. They will be rewarded with their second house celebration shortly after half-term.

Times Tables

Miss Watson’s class have been awarded the trophy this week for having so many of their class (90%) active on TTRS over the past fortnight! They have been working so hard to beat other classes in their battles. Keep up the super work rockstars! Leo has accepted the award on behalf of his class for being such a star player!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Jasper for working really hard this week across all lessons, but especially in Literacy lessons despite having an arm in a sling! Holly for being such a kind and caring study buddy and for her fabulous effort in her Chance to Shine.

Year 5 achievers:  Lacey-Mae for always sharing interesting, creative pieces of work from home and an excellent effort with her Literacy work. Mr Jackson’s second achiever was chosen for being a kind and caring member of the class and creating a fantastic mask out of clay today. Skye for working really hard on increasing her pace in all subjects and Layla for always being kind to everyone.

Year 4 achievers: Harry for perseverance and progress throughout the year. Eliza and Tiger-Lily– they both have different strengths and have been excellent role-models in sharing their skills and learning from each other this week.

Year 3 achievers: Chimzy for always giving 110% effort in all lessons, not giving up when she finds things difficult and being a great role model at all times. Gracie for being a fabulous Newdaler. She is such a hard worker and never fails to brighten our day. Good luck at your new school Gracie!

Year 2 achievers: Ted for working hard this week but mostly for his kindness and gratefulness towards his teachers, school and his learning. Miss Hill’s achiever for consistently working hard in all subjects with a positive, enthusiastic attitude.

Year 1 achievers: Alisha for increasingly showing enthusiasm to learning, especially on Geography day where she spoke confidently about a country that is special to her. Jesse for working hard on his handwriting and always trying his best.

Year R achievers: Junior for amazing progress this term. He has been working hard, especially in his fantastic phonics. Noah for his increased confidence in communicating with his peers and his teachers – keep it up Noah!

We are so lucky to have had Matt from Telford and Wrekin Hockey Club come in this half term to deliver specialist hockey coaching sessions to our Year 4 Children. We know the children have loved their sessions and lots of them have been inspired to play more hockey.

Please remember children are to have only water in their bottles and only fruit/vegetables for their morning snack.

Friday 16th May  

The sunshine continued this week as our year 6 children completed their SATs and finished the week with an interhouse competition. Year 3 visited the Wroxeter Roman ruins on a beautiful, sunny day. They explored a replica of an Ancient Roman villa, make their own mosaics and discovered that Boudica herself once walked through Wroxeter before fighting the Romans! Year 4 took part in Shrewbury Museum’s fantastic Anglo-Saxon workshop on Thursday. They found out how archaeology helps us learn about the past, wrote messages in runes, made clay pots, sketched artefacts and learnt about the incredible Anglo-Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo.
 

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

Year 6 – for all their fantastic effort and hard work this week while completing their SATs. 

House Points 

This week, Severn continue their lead with a huge 1076 points. Well done Severn! 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Mrs Stack’s whole class for their collective effort, determination and maturity in their undertaking of the SATs papers. Mrs Stack and Miss Brown are extremely proud of every single of them. Well done! Mr McFarland’s whole class for their fantastic effort completing their SATs this week. We were so proud of their resilience and how they took all of the papers in their stride.  

Year 5 achievers:  Year 5 will be celebrating double the amount of achievers next week.  

Year 4 achievers: Tylor for his enthusiasm and recollection of historical facts during our Anglo-Saxon workshop. Ryan for incredible progress in spellings and a fantastic Chance to Shine about Beowulf. 

Year 3 achievers: Jessica for being a fantastic role model and representative of our school whilst on our trip to Wroxeter earlier this week. She showed she can follow the Be SMART code outside of school as well as always showing it in school! Leo for his fabulous behaviour on our school trip this week and for his hard work on TTRS, scoring over 6,000 points this week! 

Year 2 achievers: Elizabeth for being an exceptional role model to her peers and always following the Be SMART Code. Gianpiero for trying his best to improve in all areas of his learning.  

Year 1 achievers: Ella for amazing effort in her number formation and making all the teachers in year 1 and The Hub very proud. Eve for her consistent and valuable contributions in class all week. Your hand had shot into the air at every question asked showing excellent focus, engagement and growing in confidence. So proud of you! 

Year R achievers: Scarlett for her amazing phonics and wonderful progress with her writing. Finley working so hard with his phonics and writing fantastic sentences this week. 

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

Year 6 readers: Freddie E – for continued commitment to his reading throughout our SAT’s. Jean for regularly reading 5 times a week. 

Year 5 readers: Skylar for massively improving her reading comments this week, for eg creating a quiz about her reading book, which she tried out on her dad. 

Year 4 readers: Theo for amazing efforts in his reading diary and his comments! Amazing work!  Iris for entertaining me all week with interesting facts from her book. 

Year 3 readers: Lexi has been really impressing me with her amount of reading comments in her reading diary this week.  

Year 2 readers: Rumana for a fantastic amount of reading at home and detailed comments in her diary. Ollie –Leighton for making a big effort to read at home and really enjoying it. 

Year 1 readers: Evelyn for reading a great range of books at home, answering her story book questions and giving me her amazing opinions on the books she has read. Miss Fishers achiever for consistently reading at home lots, including reading at home the same books we’re doing at school for literacy.