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1 year ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2025 by

Arriving Ready for School

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thankfully the snow is slowly melting and we hope for a trouble free start to the term tomorrow. Do take care near our site though, as we are unsure as to what the temperatures will do.

We thought it would be useful to share the slide below with you. We will be dedicating some assembly time to this tomorrow.

If you are struggling with getting your children into school or struggling to get uniform, please do talk to us as we might be able to help.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

1 year ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2025 by

Parent View Survey – final call!

Dear Parent/Carers,

 

Happy New Year! I trust you all had a great holiday.

As I hope you all know, we very much take on board the views of all our children and parents. These views are regularly shared with the Newdale teams.

We consult with pupils through every Governor meeting, and phase leaders/subject leaders also carry out additional pupil voice regularly over the year.

We believe that school and home very much need to work in partnership, with children being at the centre. There simply must be a two-way feeling of trust between school and home, along with open, honest lines of communication.

I have always prioritised having a school ‘open door’ policy where we offer many different ways of communication for parents to use, including a class email address, many staff on duty am and pm (including senior managers), office staff and home school communication books to name a few of these. The hope is always that if parents do want to relay any messages, that they can easily and rapidly.

Thank you to the 47 parents that have already filled in our request to complete Parent View this academic year.

We would very much appreciate it if many more parents would complete this survey so we can gain a fuller picture of your opinions of Newdale.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views

We have already begun looking carefully at the small number of responses. A significant majority of our parents continue to be really happy with the Newdale offer – thankyou. I understand that we cannot please everyone, but I can reassure you that all teams certainly try so hard to do just that. I am lucky enough to visit very many other schools, and I know as fact that Newdale goes above and beyond in its offer for the children we have. This is regularly verified by external visitors including our School Improvement Advisor, Local Authority quality assurance visits, safeguarding audits and of course our Ofsted visits. We are incredibly proud of the Outstanding Ofsted result which we gained in May 2023. There are only a very small number of schools across the entire country that manage the ‘double outstanding’ judgement.  I hope this is external reassurance that our school continues to be operating at a very high level.

As stated, I am under no illusion that we cannot please everyone, however, that does not stop us from trying to.  We are all on the same side and should be focussed on working together to support children to be the best they can be.

Thank you for your support in ensuring our school continues to grow in a positive way for all of our children.

Miss Cook

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1 year ago
Posted on 20th Dec 2024 by

Achievement Assembly

Friday 20th 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.

1 year ago
Posted on 20th Dec 2024 by

Merry Christmas!

Dear Parents/Carers,

We have finally made it to the last day of a very long term. It was so lovely to see the children in the hall this morning enjoying a snowball fight as part of our fun, seasonal activities.

We promise you we will hand them back this afternoon all super excited and ready for the big day!

With the Panto and the numerous events we have had this half term, it really has flown by. Thank you for all of the support you have shown the teams at Newdale along the way. It really does make a huge difference. We take our partnership with parents very seriously.

From all of the staff at Newdale, we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

We look forward to welcoming your children back on Tuesday 7th January. Staff are carrying out a training day on Monday 6th January.

 

Miss Cook

1 year ago
Posted on 16th Dec 2024 by

Parent View

Dear Parents/Carers,

I messaged out last week concerning the Parent View survey. Thank you so much to the 36 parents who have found the time to do this 5-minute survey. We really do appreciate it 😊.

As I said last week, we are very proud to deliver the highest quality of education for your child, along with offering them all of the additional experiences that we feel make our school so unique. We never become complacent and are always striving to further improve what we do.

The feedback we get from this survey is invaluable to us in knowing what we continue to do well and what, if anything needs a tweak!

If you are unsure about any of the questions, rather than clicking the ‘don’t know option’, please visit our school website to find out more information or ask a member of the team before completing the survey. Please also find attached a reminder of our feedback from our Parent Survey from the summer term.

Please let us know if you would prefer to complete this survey in school or if not, follow the link below.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views

 Parent Survey Feedback For Parents Summer 2024.pdf

Many thanks for your continued support.

Miss Cook

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1 year ago
Posted on 13th Dec 2024 by

Curriculum Governors Involvement in School

The Curriculum Committee Governors met on the 11th December 2024. The enjoyed listening to the Upper Phase Leader talk about her role and the impact she has across Year 5 & 6.

They viewed the new Pupil Premium Strategy and questioned the lead on expenditure and the impact expected over the year.

As ever, the Governors really enjoyed talking to the children about their learning. This time, the theme was Religious Education. The Governors agreed that the children all enjoy this subject and were able to confidently articulate their learning so far this year and from previous years.

Finally, the Governors spent time looking at parent and pupil voice information linked to our Breakfast and Afterschool club. Governors were reassured that the offer we have is robust and looked on favourably by both parents and children. During the next meeting Governors are going to look at our Science curriculum.

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1 year ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2024 by

Achievement Assembly

Thursday 12th 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.

1 year ago
Posted on 10th Dec 2024 by

Parent View

Dear Parents/Carers,

As a school we are very proud to deliver the highest quality of education for your child, along with offering them all of the additional experiences that we feel make our school so unique. We never become complacent and are always striving to further improve what we do.

One of the many ways that you can support us is through completing the annual Ofsted questionnaire – ‘Parent View’. This would only take you five-minutes and would be invaluable to us in knowing what we continue to do well and what, if anything needs a tweak!

If you are unsure about any of the questions, rather than clicking the ‘don’t know option’, please visit our school website to find out more information or ask a member of the team before completing the survey. Please also find attached a reminder of our feedback from our Parent Survey from the summer term.

Please let us know if you would prefer to complete this survey in school or if not, follow the link below.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views

 Parent Survey Feedback For Parents Summer 2024.pdf

Many thanks for your continued support,