A huge thank you to parents who donated to our Harvest collection this year.

Donations have been passed on to help support families in need.

Thank you again for your support!

Newdale Team

Dear Parents and Carers,

In school this week we will be once again reminding all children of the importance of keeping safe. We do such a lot of work in this area, especially when keeping children safe online, but we must also remember the need for our children to be careful when outside. We know that lots of your children go out to play or meet friends but can they remember what to do if a stranger approached them? Online, they can report it, close the game and seek advice which eliminates the threat immediately, but this is not the same in the real world. A local school recently had the need to remind children of the following rules.

STRANGER DANGER PREVENTION ADVICE

Here are some simple steps you can take to make sure you stay safe on the street.

• Make sure you tell your parents where you are at all times.
• Always play where your parents can see you.
• Do not answer the front door at home unless your mum or dad are there with you.
• If you have permission to walk home alone, go straight home.
• Be alert to your surroundings.
• Do not make friends online with people you have never met and who you are not friends with in real life (IRL) – they are strangers too.
• If someone scares you, or makes you feel uncomfortable, go somewhere safe, which could be your home, your school or a police station.
• Never tell a stranger your name or address.
• Never approach a stranger sitting in a car.
• Never go off on your own with a stranger, take things from them or get in a car with them.
• Don’t believe what strangers tell you – sometimes they could say things to make you go with them.
• If someone did try to grab you it is ok to break all the rules of politeness to others e.g. shout loudly, scream, kick, punch, bite etc to draw attention and alert others to the fact that you are in danger.
• Please also remember that sometimes a stranger can be the only person who can help us and is a far safer option than not talking to anyone; if you feel uncomfortable in any situation go to the nearest public building, for example a shop, or a public place. Whilst
  it is important we remain vigilant it is equally important to remember that not ALL strangers are “bad”.

Obviously, this needs to be appropriate to the age of the child that you have. We will be doing more work on this through the week in school. The idea is not to scare the children but make sure they know what to do in this event. It’s a difficult one, as not all strangers have bad intentions; however, we must prepare our children.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Take part in some fabulous free activities to celebrate Libraries Week:

Children’s Activities Including Planting, Stories and Crafts

Newport Library 3.15pm Wednesday 4th October 2023.
Wellington Library 3.30pm Thursday 5th October 2023.

Green Libraries Week Celebration- Pop along for crafts and more

Southwater Library 10am-2pm Saturday 7th October 2023.

For more information and bookings visit : Ticketsource: Telford & Wrekin Libraries or email Libraryenquiries@telford.gov.uk

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 2^nd October.  Link to survey attached below.

www.telford.gov.uk/healthyweightsurvey

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 11^th October 2023

Time: 9-10am                  Location: School hall

Wednesday 18^th 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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On Tuesday the 26^th 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.