Email – Reception

Messages emailed to Reception

5 years ago
Posted on 21st Sep 2021 by

Update 21.9.21

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

I hope you are enjoying this late in the season sunshine. I know the children are loving being outside and many are making great use of our new sports facilities!

 

In comparison to many schools we are coping well, by way of the number of positive cases we have. That said, we are definitely seeing an increase.

 

It is so important that you do not send your children into school if they are displaying any symptoms, including any of the precautionary symptoms listed by Telford and Wrekin Council. (Please see the following link Do you have main COVID-19 symptoms or other symptoms? – Do you have main COVID-19 symptoms or other symptoms? – Telford & Wrekin Council ) You need to keep them at home and get them PCR tested before risking a spread of the infection in school please.

 

If your child tests positive you need to make sure you inform the school as we also have to inform the health hub.  This is so that we can plan what actions to take in school.

 

We really do need to work together on this to prevent us having to reintroduce some of the more rigid procedures again.

 

Kind regards and fingers crossed,

 

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2021 by

Reception Forest School 🍁

Today was our first session out in the forest area. We had a lovely time in the beautiful weather, exploring the area and playing with friends.

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5 years ago
Posted on 17th Sep 2021 by

Reception Baseline Assessments

We are really pleased with how well everyone has settled in at school! Everyone is working so hard already.

At the beginning of Reception, as we get to know your child, we will be carrying out an assessment with them, to ensure we recognise their strengths and areas we can help them develop over the year. These assessments are informal and carried out 1:1 with us. We look at a range of activities, including Speaking and Listening, Literacy and Maths skills using lovely resources such as toy bears, pictures, cards and shapes.

We wanted to ensure you are aware of these assessments that are expected to be carried out in the first six weeks of term (which happen in every school) and may also like to read the information booklet attached from the Standards and Testing agency.

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5 years ago
Posted on 17th Sep 2021 by

Star of the week 💫

A huge well done to all children in Reception for a wonderful first full week in school. You are all settling in so well. A certificate has been awarded to each of you because we are so proud. 🌟

Each week we pick a star of the week for something special. This weeks star in our class is Harry. He has been our star for working so hard, following our smart code and doing his best as we learn how everything works in big school. We are really proud.

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5 years ago
Posted on 17th Sep 2021 by

New house names

Now we are all back to school, we have decided to have a look at the house system that we have in place. Mrs Clarke and Mrs Everall do a fantastic job of assigning the children into each of the houses and making sure that all the house points that are awarded are counted up.

We are delighted to share with you that we have decided to help our children to know more about where we live and so, our houses have new names. The colours will remain the same but the new names are –

Severn (This was the Phoenix and will remain red)

Ironbridge (This was Dragon and will remain green)

Wenlock (This was Griffin and will remain yellow)

Wrekin (This was Unicorn and will remain blue)

We know it will take a little while to get used to the names, but we are hoping that by sports day, we will all have had enough practice to cheer on the correct team names!

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2021 by

Consultation on the teaching of consent

At Newdale, we are committed to making sure that we teach our children how to stay safe. We want our children to be able to be confident in their understanding of what consent is, in a variety of situations. We have created a set of lessons which we would like your feedback on. Please have a look at the lessons on  https://www.newdaleschool.org.uk/home/curriculum/subjects/sex-education/ ​

and leave feedback using the link on the page.

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5 years ago
Posted on 10th Sep 2021 by

Photos for our sports board…

Following on from the Olympics this year, if your child takes part in a sport outside of school, we would love to have some photos showing what they do to go on our sports board.

Please send photos to Mrs Goodwin with your child’s name and year group on the back. Photo’s can also be sent in via email, please use the school email address which is newdale.primary@taw.org.uk

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5 years ago
Posted on 10th Sep 2021 by

Well done Reception!

A huge well done to all children in Reception for completing their first week in school. We are so proud of how well you have come in each day, settled down, followed the new routines and played so well together with your new friends. Thank you also to parents and carers, who have been very supportive with the system of dropping your child at the door. This has worked really well! Please do bear with us next week when we have all 30 children to pair up to the right person at hometime. It may take us a little longer to begin with, but we need to make sure every one goes home safely.

We will begin to send home photos soon either on the website or via the EvidenceMe app. We are just waiting for some final consent slips to ensure we only send out photos of those who have permission.

Please could we thank those who have already sent in their beautifully decorated Learning Journey covers and EvidenceMe consent slips. If you have not done this yet, please could we ask for those as soon as possible so we can stick the covers to your child’s brand new book.

Have a wonderful, well deserved break over the weekend and we look forward to seeing all of you on Monday morning.

The Reception Team :)