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3 years ago
Posted on 28th Sep 2023 by

Reminder – Safeguarding Workshop for Parents

Dear Parents/Carers,

In October, we have organised a free workshop to update and inform parents/carers on safeguarding issues within our local and wider community. These sessions are informative and will provide parents and carers with information and an awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and County Lines. The sessions will be led by Vicki Ridgewell, who is the Exploitation and Vulnerability Trainer for West Mercia Police. There will be two, identical workshops: one face-to-face and the other online.

 

Child Sexual Exploitation – A Guide for parents and carers – 2022 leaflet

Wednesday 11th October 2023

Time: 9-10am                  Location: School hall

Wednesday 18th October 2023

Time: 4-5pm                    Location: Teams (please see link below)

We have robust safeguarding systems in place at Newdale and do our upmost to prevent our children coming into harm. All members of staff receive regular training on this particular aspect as well as other safeguarding issues. Our Curriculum, especially our Life Learning curriculum, addresses these areas in an age-appropriate way to support children in making good choices when in their community.

 

If you are unable to attend but would like to find out more information on this topic. Please read the parents’ guide attached which has been produced by the Telford and Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership.

Yours sincerely,

Miss R Cook

 

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3 years ago
Posted on 25th Sep 2023 by

European Day of Languages

On Tuesday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery – Spain

Reception – Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2- Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

More information will be posted by each year group individually.

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3 years ago
Posted on 25th Sep 2023 by

Safeguarding, Health & Safety Governors Committee

Governors from the Health and Safety committee met last week. They were delighted to hear that the children from Year 3, 4 and 5 talked so confidently about E Safety and what do if they felt uncomfortable about something online.

They were reassured that the Health and Safety policy and procedure across Early Years is robust.

Governors again put a spotlight over the induction procedures and were happy that a newly appointed member of the Newdale team spoke confidently about the process and the impact it has had on her first few weeks at our school.

Governors look forward to talking to more children and staff next half term.

3 years ago
Posted on 22nd Sep 2023 by

Reminder – Health Strategy Survey

Dear Parents/Carers,

The Telford Health Improvement team and I would be really grateful to parents if they could spend just a few minutes filling in the attached survey.

As an incentive, we are offering a £25 Love2Shop voucher to one lucky person who does!

All you have to do is fill in the survey, then let the office staff know you have. They will collect names and then one lucky person will be pulled out of a hat!

It is really important that we gather community thoughts on health matters in our borough, as your opinions really do drive change and the offer we have across Telford.

The survey is live until 2nd October.  Link to survey attached below.

www.telford.gov.uk/healthyweightsurvey

 

Many thanks

Miss Cook

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3 years ago
Posted on 21st Sep 2023 by

Curriculum Governors Committee Update

The Curriculum Governors met yesterday and were super impressed with the amount of work carried out by staff and pupils in such a short space of time since the start of the term.

A selection of KS 2 SEND mathematicians came to share their books and views on how they have started the year. They all love maths and their books looked amazing!

Governors were very impressed with the amount of work completed by the new music lead since she took up this role in September. They were excited to see the impact on the children’s enjoyment linked to music.

Governors approved the equality targets for 2023-2024 and encourage parents/carers to look at this on the website.

Governors had a detailed update from the SENDco and were impressed with the action plan and future plans around parental communication linked to SEND.

3 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2023 by

School site parking

Dear Parents/Carers,

 Similarly, to most other schools, we have parking issues at the beginning and end of each day. Many schools do not even allow access to Blue Badge holders at any point during the day.

We want to be able to continue offering Blue Badge holders access, but do ask that you do not move your vehicles whilst we are at our busiest time with very many young children and pushchairs moving around the site. Please wait until it has quietened down before moving.

Please note that disabled parking spaces on school site, are for blue badge holders only.

Recently it has been noted that some parents without a disabled badge are parking in the disabled bays, even though there are normal spaces available. 

Please can we stress how important it is to leave these spaces clear, even if you think it is only for a few minutes.

We continually monitor our school site and of course safety is of paramount importance. If we believe our site is becoming in anyway dangerous, we would have to reconsider all access arrangements moving forward.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

 

3 years ago
Posted on 19th Sep 2023 by

School day timings

Please can we remind parents that the school day timing is 8:40am – 3:10pm.

Gates open each morning at 8:35am and will close promptly at 8:40 for morning registration.

Thank you

 

3 years ago
Posted on 19th Sep 2023 by

European Day of Languages

On Tuesday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery – Spain

Reception – Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2- Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

More information will be posted by each year group individually.

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3 years ago
Posted on 15th Sep 2023 by

Achievers of the Week ⭐

This week we missed year 6 while they spent a wonderful week in Arthog; they all look like they have been having lots of fun and will need a well-earned rest when they get home! Our other year groups have been busy in school, getting stuck into their new topics and becoming more confident with their new year group’s routines! 😊

BeSMART Cup: Winning a special treat organised in class are Mr McFarland’s class for making a real improvement in their independent work and trying their best to present their work neatly, in all books.

Attendance winners this week:

KS1 winners are Mrs King’s class with 99.66%

KS2 winners are Mr McFarland’s class with 100%

Achievers of the week – these children stood out in their first week back:

Year 5 achievers: James for settling really well into Year 5, showing super effort and enthusiasm and Tayla for showing kindness and patience as a great study buddy.

Year 4 achievers: Leo for excellent partner work and for always challenging himself to do a little bit more and Malachi for presenting his work with care in every lesson.

Year 3 achievers: Rosie for working hard on her presentation throughout every lesson and Olivia for impressing adults across the school with exceptional standards of presentation.

Year 2 achievers: Toby for incredible effort during writing today. He wrote brilliant sentences with expanded noun phrases and Gracie Hughes – her fantastic, enthusiastic and extremely smiley attitude and mindset to all her learning.

Year 1 achievers: Finley for always trying his best with his learning and being a role model to his peers.

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

Year 5 readers: Whitney for writing detailed comments and answers to questions and Tyler, who won this week’s raffle draw, for  super effort, reading every day and writing his own comments.

Year 4 readers: Riley for reading every night and for detailed entries and Elsa for detailed comments with great description.

Year 3 readers: Iris for writing fantastic comments about her reading and answering her questions and Ryan for his enthusiasm towards reading at home.

Year 2 readers: Daniel for applying his phonics in his reading at home and Marie for fantastic reading this week.

Year 1 readers: Rumana for reading every day with enthusiasm at home and Eli for reading every day and being a star even when mummy has been feeling poorly.

Well done to all of our super stars! ⭐ We hope you all have a lovely weekend. See you on Monday! 😊