Big Walk & Wheel

Newdale will be taking part in the Big Walk & Wheel, the UK’s biggest inter-school walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling to school competition between Monday 11th March – Friday 22nd March.

As part of the competition we will be collating each day the total of children who have travelled to school either walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling

Where possible, please encourage children to travel to school either by, walk, wheel, scoot or cycle between the above dates. The higher our scores the better, schools will be entered into a daily prize draw for rewards including equipment and accessories if over 15% of pupils walk, use a wheelchair, scoot or cycle on that day of the challenge.

Link attached with details about the competition.

Good luck everyone!

Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2024

 

World Book Day – Book Swap

Due to the success of our last Book Swap Day, we will once more run a second-hand book swap shop on World Book Day, this Thursday 7th March. Children who bring in a book that they no longer want can swap it for another second-hand book on the day (books in good condition only please).

World Book Day Swap Shop

Thank you for all your kind donations for our world book day swap shop.

We have still got some costumes left over and we would like to open this up to children who haven’t donated and would like to come and take a costume.

We will be in the Big Den again at 8:35 and 3:10 on the following days:

Tuesday 5th March

Wednesday 6th March

We look forward to seeing all your wonderful costume choices!

Thank you

Health & Safety governors update

The Health & Safety Governors met last week and focussed on many important agenda items including the quality of our wraparound care offer, site security and staff training. It was lovely to talk to children who often attend Breakfast club and Afterschool club. They enjoy attending these clubs and could talk confidently about what they get to eat and the range of activities on offer.

Governors were reassured that the site is continually monitored for safety. Governors enjoyed reading comments from parents following the recent site security survey.

Very often, during this committee Governors spot check staff to check levels of understanding linked to safeguarding. They questioned a teaching assistant this time and were impressed with the confidence of the staff member when it came to answering a range of questions.

Friday 1st March – Achievement Assembly ⭐

This week, Year 1 had a fantastic visit from an accredited therapy dog called Ernie. They learnt how to look after a dog and loved giving him lots of fuss! Year 3 went off on their nature walks and spent some time sketching elements of nature they had collected. We have been very lucky to have Cool Cat visiting us in school this week to check we are all arriving at school on time. Cool Cat has headed off to another school now but has promised to be back soon!

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

Mrs Everall’s class for super focus and effort during their Chance to Shine when retelling the story of Masha and the Firebird this week.

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 Mrs King class with an amazing 100%

KS2 winners are Mr Banfield’s class with 98%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Zachary for excellent ideas in descriptive writing and Kieran for great effort with his writing around Skellig 😊   

Year 5 achievers:  Jasper for always displaying the BeSMART code at all times. Miss Clay’s achiever was chosen for his amazing story writing in his chance to shine.

Year 4 achievers: Meadow for always following the BeSMART code and being an excellent partner and Toby for incredible focus, concentration and effort in all lessons and for always being helpful, kind and polite.

Year 3 achievers: Le’Shane for working hard at home and school! Ieesa for confidently sharing his knowledge about Islam in RE and Life Learning lessons.

Year 2 achievers: Bryony for her impeccable attitude towards all her learning. We are so impressed with her everyday and we are so happy to see her head stuck in a book any moment she gets. Her confidence to talk in front of others this week has made us proud too. Carter for working more independently! He has loved our traditional tale and is working hard to retell it using punctuation and past tense accurately.

Year 1 achievers: Noah for great independent maths and trying hard with his handwriting this week. Phoebe for having a fantastic week and working hard to follow the Be SMART code.

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

Year 6 readers: David for an extra effort to complete five reads and Oliver for his interesting diary comments

Year 5 readers: Reyhan for excelling even his usual high standard of diary entries! Harlan for his extra effort with his reading and reading question this week. Keep it up!

Year 4 readers: Grace for working so hard with her reading at home and achieving a Platinum! Antoni for always impressing with his number of reads and detailed comments.

Year 3 readers: Ben for always reading whenever he can! Isabelle for reading consistently and drawing lovely pictures of her favourite characters.

Year 2 readers: Chimzy for her enthusiasm when reading at home. She always leaves Ms Marshall a tricky question or interesting information! Corban’s consistent reading at home and his enthusiasm towards reading.

Year 1 readers: Ted for starting to read more independently at home. Arla for all her fantastic work at home, wanting to read everything she comes across!

Site Security

Dear Parents/Carers,

We have noticed some issues around attempted access to our site after school via the top gate leading to the Wrekin Way. We even had to stop a lady with a shopping trolley yesterday who wanted to use it as a cut through.

There have also been issues with teenagers, who keep coming back and attempting to ride bikes etc on our site.

As a result of this we are going to lock this gate at 3.30pm to unsure continued safety for our Afterschool Club children.

Thank you for your understanding.

Miss Cook

 

Curriculum Governors Involvement Update

During the Curriculum committee this week, Governors reviewed the art curriculum offer across the school and enjoyed listening to the children share their artistic ideas and sketch books. Governors were impressed with their enthusiasm for this subject and the clear enjoyment they link to art trips out of school. Governors recognised that the subject leader had a robust knowledge of his subject and was instrumental in supporting staff in the delivery of this curriculum area.

Governors also focused on the curriculum offer for pupil premium and SEND children across year 1 and 2. It was reassuring for Governors to hear and see that teachers are skilfully adapting the learning to meet the children’s specific needs.

Cool Cat!

Dear Parents/Carers,

Cool Cat thoroughly enjoyed his visit to Newdale and will be sending a message to the younger classes today congratulating them on coming to school every day and on time. He will be back during the summer Cool Cat week.

We always have a focus on attendance as our learning is planned in continuous sequences and therefore if a child misses a part of this sequence, it is tricky for them to catch up.

We understand that there are occasions where absence is unavoidable, but please remember that we are allowed to administer Calpol in school (with your permission) should you be unsure as to whether to send your child in or not.

Thankyou for your continued support.

Miss Cook

 

 

Treetops Wraparound Care

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are excited to announce a relaunch of our Treetops Wraparound Care website!

We have been very busy creating a new online space where parents/carers can look at information about our Wraparound Care provision and all the wonderful things that happen in Breakfast and After School Club.

This new webpage can be found on our Newdale website. Follow these steps to locate this page:

  1. Simply click the tab ‘Discover our School’
  2. Next, click on the ‘About’ tab
  3. Finally, you will see the tab called ‘Wraparound Care- Treetops’.

The new sections at the bottom of the page will appear as below:

  • Here, you will have access to the relevant forms / documents should you wish to book a space at either Breakfast or After School club.
  • You will also be able to view some of the exciting activities and trips the children take part in.
  • We have now also created a separate area where our healthy Breakfast and After School Club snack menus can be found.
  • Finally, should you wish to know who your children are working with during their time in Treetops wraparound care, we have added a ‘Meet the Team’ page where you can put a face to the name for all of our Treetops staff.

Please take a look. We hope you enjoy looking at the photo updates of your child/children during their time in wraparound care.

Many Thanks

Mrs Sturrock

Wraparound Care Co-ordinator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Here, you will have access to the relevant forms / documents should you wish to book a space at either Breakfast or After School club.
  • You will also be able to view some of the exciting activities and trips the children take part in.
  • We have now also created a separate area where our healthy Breakfast and After School Club snack menus can be found.
  • Finally, should you wish to know who your children are working with during their time in Treetops wraparound care, we have added a ‘Meet the Team’ page where you can put a face to the name for all of our Treetops staff.

Please take a look. We hope you enjoy looking at the photo updates of your child/children during their time in wraparound care.

 

Many Thanks

 

Mrs Sturrock

Wraparound Care Co-ordinator