House Points 🏆

At Newdale, one of the ways our pupils are rewarded for their efforts, in work and behaviour, is house points. Each pupil belongs to 1 of 4 houses; Wenlock, Wrekin, Severn and Ironbridge. This year, the house team with the highest number of house points at the end of each half-term, will earn a special house celebration (full of lots of fun games and activities). Each week, we share the running totals in assembly but as we are now half way through the half-term, we thought we would share them with our wider community too. 3 more weeks to go and there’s only 10 house points between first and fourth… it is still all to play for!

Will you earn a house point for your team next week?

Macmillan Charity

Dear Parents/Carers,

We will soon be announcing the final figure raised for Macmillan following the Wrekin ‘Climb Against Cancer’ event and more recently the Grandparents’ tea party.

Our ‘Go fund me’ page will stay open until Thursday evening should anyone like to contribute that has not had a chance to do so. Newdale Primary School and Nursery is fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support (justgiving.com)

We will be presenting the money to Macmillan during a special assembly on Friday and will then send out information to all parents.

Thank you so much for supporting our events. We know that the money raised will go towards supporting so many people that are affected by cancer in our town.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

 

Finance & Personnel Committee Governors Involvement

Finance and Personnel Governors met last week. They looked carefully at the costs associated with the high levels of special educational needs within the school and were pleased with the provision on offer. They studied in detail the Summer term parent survey and were again pleased in reading so many positive responses. They focused on development points and were reassured that telephone calls had been made and actions taken where appropriate. Next time the Governors will continue looking at SEND provision across the school.

Achievement Assembly

Friday 27th September 

It has been another busy week at Newdale! This week saw the arrival of Cool Cat, who was very excited to meet and greet the children, as well as a visit from the Mayor to our KS2 assembly. On Thursday, the children took part in a variety of activities including food tasting, art, flag making and music as part of European Languages Day. We have also been celebrating British Values Week and so our assembly this week is themed around our ‘Citizens of the Week.’

Please note that KS1 children had their assembly in their classrooms this week and so are not featured in the photograph. 

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

Cool Cat has awarded his attendance award to Miss Fisher’s class for an amazing 99.5% attendance.

The BeSMART cup also goes to Mrs Churm’s class for displaying great behaviour during play times this week.

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Shanel for having a such positive attitude to learning and demonstrating excellent perseverance with her Chance to Shine. Harry for being such a respectful, kind and caring member of the class.  

Year 5 achievers:  Ein for always following the school’s and Britain’s value of respect. She is a kind-hearted, considerate member of the class who respects adults and peers alike. Naomi for being a polite, respectful member of the class everyday and having a great attitude towards her learning. 

Year 4 achievers: Paisley-Violet for being kind, patient and helpful to adults and other children. Theo for upholding all the British Values especially during school parliament voting.  

Year 3 achievers: Joe for a wonderful moral compass and always following our BeSMART code. Poppy for always following the BeSMART code and having an amazing attitude to learning.  

Year 2 achievers: Zion, for showing great respect and understanding during our British values week. Oscar for his respectful, hardworking and enthusiastic attitude to learning.  

Year 1 achievers: Mrs Evan’s achiever for being a kind and helpful member of the class. Emily for being a kind friend and always comforting those who need it. She is reliable, responsible and super mature and we love having her in the class.  

Year R achievers: Hilda for her enthusiasm to all our learning, trying her best with every activity she completes including our European Languages Day ones. She came to life sharing so much knowledge about her Italian culture and her friends loved hearing all about it.  Ilya for a fantastic week, displaying such a positive attitude to learning. We are so proud 😀  

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

Year 6 readers: Seb for detailed, thoughtful comments in his diary since the start of term. Demi for her commitment and dedication to reading and for writing detailed comments.  

Year 5 readers: Hebe for consistently reading every night with detailed reading comments.  George for showing great enthusiasm with a range of reading and great comments in his reading diary. 

Year 4 readers: Lily-Maw for improving and being enthusiastic about her reading and improvement in her RWI work with Miss Cooper. Tiger-Lily for reading every night this week and sharing some fascinating facts from her book. 

Year 3 readers: Lucas for accepting my reading challenge and writing detailed comments in his reading diary. Well done Lucas. Alex for a general enthusiasm for reading, wanting to always have a book in his hands.  

Year 2 readers: Mayra for high quality comments every evening. She also applies what she’s been learning in literacy in her written diary comments. Addison for her independent writing in her reading diary.  

Year 1 readers: Caitlyn for reading every night, completing all homework tasks and answering her weekly question in brilliant detail. Albie for reading every night at home and recording it! Well done Albie! 

Grandparent’s Tea Party – tomorrow

We are looking forward to welcoming Grandparents tomorrow for our tea party in aid of Macmillan. We are excited to announce our grand total next week following on from our walking events and tea party.

Please see below a few reminders for the event:

  • Grandparents to bring their tickets along to the event. Tickets give entry to the tea party and one hot drink
  • All cakes/treats are £1 each, please bring cash only, we are unable to provide change
  • Mobile phones are not to be used on site at anytime
  • We may have Shropshire Radio joining us who may ask to interview some grandparents during the event.
  • Grandparents who are taking children home early will need to inform the class teacher and sign children out at the main office

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Thank you for your support

Newdale Team

 

 

 

Playground Donations

Dear Parent/Carers,

We are looking to add more resources to our play and lunchtime boxes. We are  hoping that we can save some school pennies by asking for donations from parents. We are hoping that you may have some items that your children perhaps have grown out of and therefore do not use anymore. Maybe you have some items tucked away in the garage that you always planned to pass on or sell.

We are particularly keen to receive good quality dolls, babies, pushchairs, wheel barrows, cars, dinosaurs and dressing up clothes but would also welcome things like milk crates, plastic drainpipes and car tyres.

If you have some of the larger items that would be willing to donate, please call the office beforehand.

Thank you for your support in making playtimes at Newdale as much fun for your children as possible.

Miss Cook

Parent/Carer Online Safety Session -Knowsley City Learning Centres

You are invited to join a parent/carer session on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 – 4pm – 4.45pm, to support your child with staying safe on the internet. The session will be run by an external provider, Knowsley City Learning Centre. If you would like to attend, please click the link below.

 

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You do not need to register- you can click on the link at the above time to access the session.  Cameras and voice/audio will be switched off for all attendees.  Attendees can ask questions by typing in the Q&A box, but this will be explained during the session.

The event will be streamed using Teams.  Attendees can watch the live event in:

  • Teams app—desktop (Windows or Mac) or mobile. (The Teams app is free to download if attendees would like to do that beforehand).
  • If you don’t have Teams you can access it via one of the following browsers – Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox.

 

Behaviour at Newdale

At Newdale, we pride ourselves on our calm and orderly environment which enables our pupils to learn effectively. Our ‘BeSMART code’ is the backbone to our behaviour system and we believe that a positive approach is the key to good behaviour. We want to support our pupils in developing a sense of pride in their efforts; both with their learning and with their behaviour.  We reward positive behaviour, for example with stickers, house points and gold cards. Please ask your children about this at home so that you can further celebrate this together. Please see the attached document for more information about Newdale’s behaviour system and how you can use our systems to support behaviour at home too!

Behaviour at Newdale (2024)