Safeguarding, Health and Safety Committee Update

The Health and Safety Governors carried out their half termly meeting on the 3rd October. They spent time looking at the safeguarding curriculum offer and ensured the Government guidelines around Relationships and Sex Education were now in place. Governors carried out a random ‘spot check’ of staff to ensure that the staff were confident in policy and procedure around the many aspects of safeguarding within a school.

 

TikTok

Ofcom recently reported that British children spend 127 minutes a day on TikTok each day. With this in mind, please be aware of the TikTok Parental Control settings. These settings can restrict who can contact and comment on your child’s posts and profile. It also features a Digital Wellbeing feature to restrict inappropriate content (such as viral trends that may negatively impact your child) and help children manage how long they spend on the app.

 

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Get Online Week

This week is  ‘Get Online Week’.

What is Get Online Week?

It is the UK’s largest and longest-running digital inclusion campaign, run every year by the Good Things Foundation. This year it is taking place from Monday 14 to Sunday 20 October, 2024.

Whether people want to start managing their money online, learn about online safety or gain basic digital skills for employment, free community events are held across the UK for people to get connected.

The events will be run in collaboration with Telford College, Wrekin Housing Group, Barclays, West Mercia Police and Cap Gemini.

The dates and times are:

  • Thursday 17th October 12.00 – 16.00 Wellington Library
  • Tuesday 22nd October 10.00 – 14.00 Madeley Library
  • Thursday 24th October 09.30 – 13.30 Brookside Central CIO
  • Friday 25th October 10.00 – 14.00 Newport Library
  • Tuesday 29th October 11.00 – 14.00 Silver Threads, Donnington

Get Online events

🌟🌟 Achievers of the Week 🌟🌟

Friday 11th October 2024

This week, Year 2 had a wonderful time on their trip to WILD! Despite the down pours of rain, the children loved the animal show and the jaw dropping dinosaur show with an incredibly, huge dinosaur that walked around and came up close to the audience. Year 5 had a lovely time yesterday afternoon on their Nature Walk where they observed many attributes of our local area. They looked at many aspects including: the seasonal changes we could identify, Earth bound features and systems and the variety of settlements in our changing area.

This week, we also want to say a huge thank you to all of our families who have been able to donate to our Harvest collection. The photo below shows a few of our Fundraising Committee members with just some of the donations we have received. Our Harvest collection is going to a local food bank next week and we know will be so important in supporting many families in our local area.  Thank you. 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday! 😊

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

Miss Watson’s class for following the BeSMART code and working hard to make the classroom an enjoyable place for everyone to learn.

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 99%

KS2 winners are Mr Banfield’s class with 98%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Frankie for demonstrating excellent resilience and effort when writing his Chance to Shine this week. Guransh for being such a fantastic role model, who always follows the BeSMART code.

Year 5 achievers:  Emilia for a fantastic attitude towards her learning, being helpful in the classroom and being a good friend to others. Malachi for participating more in lessons during class discussions and for being a good role model to others.

Year 4 achievers: Isabelle for putting in extra effort in Literacy and improved resilience and perseverance in Maths this week. Amat for amazing dedication to Maths and constantly pushing himself to improve.

Year 3 achievers: Jack for always working hard and writing a brilliant description using conjunctions to improve his work and Jake for improved concentration in class leading to some lovely descriptive writing.

Year 2 achievers: Miss Lowe’s achiever was chosen for being an incredible helper to her peers and her smiley, positive attitude on the trip and in school. Lennon for having a positive attitude and being a good role model to his peers.

Year 1 achievers: Arthur for showing a positive attitude to work and making clear progress in maths, writing and reading.  Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s achiever was chosen for super number bond work and always having a positive attitude to learning and being a kind and caring friend.

Year R achievers: Scarlett for always listening well, working hard and following the BeSmart code. 😊 Frankie-Leigh for always being ready on the carpet with his magnet eyes and trying his best with all of his work.

 

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

Year 6 readers: Shiah for reading every day and writing the most exciting comments and Reyhan for great comments and sporting insights from his reading this week.

Year 5 readers: Teddy, who won our KS2 reading raffle, for reading consistently every week and his fantastic facts about the Romans and Jazmin for regularly writing super book reviews in her Reading Diary.

Year 4 readers: Iris for being a fantastic home reader each week and for using a variety of interesting words in her glossary and Cerys for listening carefully to stories in class to pick out fantastic vocabulary.

Year 3 readers: Elva, who won a book in the Y1 – Y3 reading raffle, for consistently reading at home and Jomi for having the courage to read to the whole class.

Year 2 readers: Sebastian for daily reading and detailed thoughtful comments. Rumana for consistently reading and writing her own comments.

Year 1 readers: Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s reader was chosen for amazing reading at home and answering her book related questions independently with beautiful handwriting. Natalie for excellent reading every day and for writing a wonderful sentence in her diary each day too.

Stranger Danger

Dear Parents/Carers,

We have had a report that has prompted us to remind our children about the importance of stranger danger awareness when not on our site.

If your child walks home alone, please can you remind them of the importance of going straight home and not talking to unfamiliar adults or youths.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

 

Lost property

Dear Parents/Carers,

Despite many reminders, some of our children are struggling to take responsibility for their own belongings. This image below shows what was left on our Astro only after one day.

As you know, it is near impossible for us to get belongings returned to their owners if they do not have a name in them.

Please can you support us by talking to your children about being responsible for their things and placing their name in all items.

Many thanks

Newdale Team

School lunches on trips

Over the past year, we have had lots of school packed lunches made as parents have requested one via Parent Pay but then have provided their own on the day of the trip. This has meant that we have had school packed lunches which have not been needed but have been made up by our kitchen. To avoid food waste, please only select on Parent Pay if you would like a packed lunch for your child if you are not going to be providing one for them on the day.

Thank you

Newdale Team