🌟🌟 Friday 24th January 2025 – Achievement Assembly 🌟🌟

Friday 24th January 2025

This week, Year 6 had a fantastic trip to Shrewsbury Prison where they learned how crime and punishment has changed over the years. They even experienced what it was like to be shut in the cells! We have also had lots of fantastic sporting achievements over the past in basketball, football and hockey! The behaviour of our Newdale pupils when representing our school at sports events makes us all incredibly proud!

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

After being nominated for two weeks in a row, Year 5 have been awarded the BeSMART cup for outstanding behaviour on their trip to Harry Potter world and for the quality and presentation of their Harry Potter leaflets. They are showing growing accuracy in using relative clauses and language for effect. Their recent Harry Potter trip must have been the inspiration they needed!

 

House Points

At this half-way point in the term, Wrekin continue to be in the lead with 1,213 points. Severn are only just behind with 1,112 points. It is all still to play for!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Holly for a superb Chance to Shine based on The Highwayman. It showed fantastic Year 6 writing Holly – well done! Emma for carefully considering the success criteria to produce a wonderful Chance to Shine. I really enjoyed reading it!

Year 5 achievers:  Ava for writing a fantastic Harry Potter leaflet and excellent answers in Guided Reading. Henry for showing perseverance and determination in all lessons but particularly maths, where he is becoming more accurate with written methods.

Year 4 achievers: Parker for making excellent progress in Literacy and Maths. Mrs Everall’s achiever was chosen for outstanding effort in Literacy to include Year 4 SPaG features and wow words.

Year 3 achievers: Pixie- Belle for always giving 110% in every lesson. Corban for persevering in his maths and having a great attitude to learning.

Year 2 achievers: Sofia for consistently working hard in all lessons and having a positive attitude to all aspects of learning and Astrid for a wonderful chance to shine this week and her positive attitude towards her learning.

Year 1 achievers: Lucia for working hard both at school and home. Lucia has really impressed us with the extra homework she has chosen to do. Theodore for always having his hand up to contribute to lessons and showing off all of his knowledge. He’s working SO hard and making amazing progress because of it.

Year R achievers: Noah for his improved independence this week, growing in confidence each day to express his needs to an adult. Junior for an amazing week; being in school everyday with a positive attitude to learning 😊.

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week: we have had a mighty battle of the houses this week on TTRS. Severn claimed first place, earning 100 points for their house. Close behind in second place were Wenlock earning 75 points, followed by Ironbridge (50 points) and Wrekin (25 points).  Kayson accepted the trophy on behalf of Severn team as he was the highest point scorer in the school! Great job super Severn!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday 😊

 

NSPCC Number Day – Friday 7th February 2025

On Friday 7th February, Newdale will be celebrating NSPCC Number Day again. Over the past few years, our pupils have loved being involved in our maths-themed activities, listening to maths-related stories and participating in TTRS battles during the day. Pupils from Nursery to Year 6 and invited to ‘Dress up for Digits’ on this day. This means having a maths or number themed outfit – it could be a sports top that features a number or something more creative such as decorating your own t-shirt or even dressing up as a domino, dice or calculator!

As this day is organised by the NSPCC, part of the day is about celebrating and supporting all of the amazing work the NSPCC do to keep our children safe. The children will spend some of the day learning about this charity. As we won’t be collecting cash donations for this dress up day, we ask all families to consider making a donation to the NSPCC so that they are able to continue doing their amazing work!  Donations can be made at this link: Donate | NSPCC

Further information can be found here:

Newdale Number Day 2025

If you have any questions about the day, please get in touch with your child’s class teacher or teaching assistant. 😊

🌟🌟 Friday 17th January – Achievers Assembly 🌟🌟

Friday 17th January 2025

This week has been a very busy and tiring week for many as we had two very exciting trips. Year 5 really impressed us with their outstanding behaviour on Tuesday when we visited Harry Potter World. Although the drive was long, the children said the studio tour was definitely worth it – especially as we all got to have a go on a broomstick! We hope you enjoyed their magical photos. On Wednesday, we were equally impressed with all the pupils who attended the Young Voices concert. They had a fantastic time and represented our school incredibly well. We are sure there is lots of sleep to catch up on this weekend!

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

Mrs Churm’s class for listening well in class to our new rhymes for being ready and showing super BeSMART behaviours around school.

House Points

So far, Wrekin are taking the lead with 705 house points!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Bella for her fantastic efforts in maths this week, particularly with her presentation and positive attitude and Rhys for his impeccable manners and helpful attitude.

Year 5 achievers:  Alexey for excellent effort in both his Guided Reading and Literacy work. Louise for going above and beyond in her literacy and guided reading work; always trying to include ambitious vocabulary and grammar and Harris for displaying thoughtfulness and great kindness to another classmate.

Year 4 achievers: Rosie-Anne for producing an outstandingly detailed Chance To Shine about Victorian Mining and Bella for fantastic concentration and focus. Amat for being such a wonderful Newdaler and making school so enjoyable. We will miss him greatly!

Year 3 achievers: Kaiden for fantastic behaviour in every aspect of school this week. He has made Mrs Churm and Mrs Horler incredibly proud. Leo for always having an amazing attitude to learning and being a positive and kind member of the class.

Year 2 achievers: Armish for showing such resilience and always trying her best and Lola-Rose for always having a positive attitude to learning and following the Be SMART Code. Muhammed for being a brilliant pupil at Newdale- we wish you the best of luck at your new school.

Year 1 achievers: Riley for his excellent independent work across the curriculum (especially in history) and also for working hard in Numbots to complete lots of games. Amazing work Riley 😊. Harley- Rai for great progress when working independently and always trying her best. She has been very focussed and passionate in her Literacy lessons too which is great to see.

Year R achievers: Rowan for her thoughtful comments during Share Aware, beautiful manners throughout the week and her hard work in phonics. Xander for a wonderful week; working hard in maths and phonics! 😊

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week:

This week, both Year 1 classes received the trophy for a fantastic start to using Numbots this week. They have persevered with learning how to log onto the programme and have spent lots of time practising their maths facts! Keep up the super work Year 1!

Next week, Years 2 – 6 will be competing in an inter-house TTRS competition! Wenlock vs. Severn vs. Wrekin vs. Ironbridge… who will claim first place and earn 100 house points? Results will be revealed in next week’s Friday assembly.

 

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday 😊

Lost property – passport

We have had a passport handed into the office that as been found on school premises.

Please contact the school office if you think this is yours or please inform anyone you think it may belong too.

 

Thank you

Achievement Assembly

Friday 10th January 2025 

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school this week. We have lots of exciting trips, activities and learning planned for this term which we are looking forward to sharing with you.

On Thursday, children from Wenlock house enjoyed their House Celebration, where they took part in lots of activities including football challenges, parachute games and musical statues. We look forward to seeing which house will win next! 

 

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

Miss Lowe’s class who have wowed her this week with their efforts in every lesson. They have given her infectious smiles every day and followed the BeSMART code beautifully. She’s so impressed with Team Awesome.  

 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Katie for demonstrating excellent resilience and effort during our maths lessons this week. Eshaal for her superb attitude and enthusiasm for learning in all lessons. 

Year 5 achievers:  CJ for great effort in lessons and enthusiastically contributing to class discussion. Jazmin for her outstanding effort in all lessons; she even did extra homework about our science topic. 

Year 4 achievers: Boden for incredibly detailed note taking whilst preparing for a chance to shine.  Jacob for a fantastic start to 2025. He has really impressed the adults in his class with his positive attitude, perseverance, behaviour and homework.  

Year 3 achievers: Lucas for coming back to school with an amazing attitude to learning, trying his best and always being ready. Harry for making wonderful contributions to class discussions, always following the BeSMART code and finding the positives in every situation.  

Year 2 achievers: Zorawar for his efforts in all his lessons, a great attitude to learning and his blossoming confidence. Miss Hill’s achiever for consistent hard work, both in lessons and learning at home.   

Year 1 achievers: Caden for showing a real interest in The Great Fire of London and having completed extra research at home in preparation for the new unit. His vocabulary and articulation have impressed me so much! Mariyam for making excellent progress in Literacy and producing some lovely pieces of work.  

Year R achievers: Eesha for her wonderful work all week, impressing the adults with her fantastic phonics and independent learning activities!  Milo for a wonderful first week back after the holidays, working hard and especially impressing me with his counting in Maths.  

 

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

Year 6 readers: Mr McFarland’s reader for trying a different style of book, reading over Christmas and every day this week. Mrs Stack’s reader for an amazing character letter for this week’s reading task. 

Year 5 readers: Mrs King’s achiever for achieving her first Platinum Award before Christmas and continuing to impress me with her reading during the holidays. Mr Jackson’s reader for reading consistently every week and for drawing little pictures to go with his reading comments.  

Year 4 readers: Noah for improving his number of home reads and writing a summary of his read each night.  Vlad for detailed descriptions of his reading at home and earning a platinum award each week! Great job 

Year 3 readers: Primrose for continuous efforts with reading at home. Marie for writing detailed comments in her reading diary.  

Year 2 readers: Emilia, for showing consistency in reading at home and writing her own diary comments. Isabel for consistent reading at home, writing her own comments and answering questions. 

Year 1 readers: Macey Grace is our super star reader for this week for amazing reading at home and always answering her questions to a high standard. Well done Macey. Molly for impressing us with writing her own comments in and reading lots at home- well done!