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1 year ago
Posted on 13th Feb 2025 by

Curriculum Committee Governors Involvement

The Curriculum Governors met this week. They wanted to check that the girls at Newdale have as much opportunity in sport than the boys. Thankfully this was proved to be the case, and they look forward to talking to a cross section of girls about sport next time. They also put a lens over Geography and Science. Children spoke with enthusiasm and knowledge about both subjects. The Governors also spoke to two key workers and their attached children. It was fabulous to see such positive relationships and the impact of this project on children’s well-being.

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1 year ago
Posted on 13th Feb 2025 by

Safeguarding, Health & Safety Governors Involvement

The Health & Safety Governors met this week and enjoyed a comprehensive update from the E safety lead in school. They also enjoyed asking questions of the SENDco and talking to one of the pupils who receives additional support. The governors randomly selected a child to check that record keeping is robust across the school and also randomly selected a staff personal file to ensure that all checks are robust for our teams. They ended by scrutinising the termly playground inspection report and were reassured that continuous monitoring is happening and that any actions are followed up.

 

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1 year ago
Posted on 10th Feb 2025 by

Finance & Personnel Committee Governors Involvement

The Finance & Personal Governors met last week in school. They spent some time considering the end of year budget and projections for the following year. Staffing for next year is already being considered with the biggest pressure being on funding around SEND. Governors are pleased that SEND support is taken so seriously across the school. They are keen to see how future development in this area develops over time.

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1 year ago
Posted on 07th Feb 2025 by

🌟🌟 Friday 7th February – Achievement Assembly 🌟🌟

Friday 7th February 2025

This week, many of our year groups enjoyed a wonderful E-Safety theatre performance called ‘Blast Off’. The show reminded us all about the rules to staying safe online – including being kind to one another and telling a trusted adult if we ever have worries. Today, the whole school have being enjoying celebrating NSPCC Number Day with lots of exciting Maths activities and story books. We hope you hear all about it this weekend 😊 Our Achievement Assembly had a special ‘Number Day’ theme today. 

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

Both Reception classes – for having a wonderful week following the BeSMART Code, being role models to the older children in assembly showing them how to sit smartly, making school enjoyable for all their friends by sharing toys, giving their friends compliments when they spot that their friend has done something brilliantly and including others in their games.

House Points

It looks like Wrekin could be on their way to earning the next House Celebration! The final results will be revealed next Friday!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Joey for a brilliant contribution to Number Day and a fantastic improvement to his presentation in his Maths book and Harlan for his fantastic work on TTRS – what a Rockstar!!

Year 5 achievers:  Georgia for thinking outside of the box and showing great determination with our Maths challenges today. Charlie for amazing work in Maths day, being the first to solve our perimeter challenge today.

Year 4 achievers: Ezra for amazing progress in her times tables and building independence in Maths lessons and Ashton for fantastic work on fractions and decimal equivalents.

Year 3 achievers: Raeya for outstanding accurate use of column methods and amazing enthusiasm for maths and Lexi-Mae for her fabulous fractions work and enthusiasm on Number Day.

Year 2 achievers: Noah for always showing great resilience in Maths and creating a wonderful collage using only 100 pieces on Number Day. Conor for his daily enthusiasm in maths but especially today creating a wonderful collage using only 100 pieces on Number Day.

Year 1 achievers: Archie for fantastic measuring during number day. He worked accurately and ensured he always started on the 0 when measuring using a ruler. Miss Fisher has chosen Shranav and Hayden for being top mathematicians, completing lots of challenges and helping their peers to compete them too! We are so proud of them!

Year R achievers: Arthur for his amazing addition this week – he has proudly recalled lots of addition number facts using different manipulatives to help him if he needs and has worked hard playing his number games in his intervention. Manreet for excellent number work – Manreet always tried her best! 😊

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week: with an impressive 94% of the class engaging with TTRS every day for the past 2 weeks, the TTRS trophy has been awarded to Miss McCullagh’s (Mrs King’s) class! As one of the most dedicated players in the class, Aidan accepted the trophy on behalf of his team. Well done rockstars – keep up the super work!

1 year ago
Posted on 05th Feb 2025 by

Reminder – NSPCC Number Day – this Friday

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.

1 year ago
Posted on 04th Feb 2025 by

Stay and Share session – tomorrow

We are really looking forward to our ‘Stay and Share’ session this Wednesday at 2:30pm. Please enter your child’s classroom from their usual drop off/pick up location (Years R, 2, 3, 5 and 6 parents should enter from the playground classroom doors, Year 1 and Mrs Everall’s classes’ can be accessed from the decking and Mr Banfield’s class from the stairs by the Visitor Car Park). Playground gates will open at 2:30pm.  For this event, the children will remain in their classrooms so if you are visiting more than one child you will be able to move between the classrooms and spend some time with them individually. We look forward to seeing you all and the children can’t wait to share their learning with you.