Email – Year 2

Messages emailed to Year 2 parents

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4 years ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2022 by

13.9.22 Welcome back!

Dear Parents & Carers,

Welcome back to the Autumn term 2022. As predicted, we have had a super start to the term. Children have settled in very well to their new classes and the routines of the day.

Assemblies

We are running daily short assemblies for all children (except the new Reception children) with the highlight being the Friday Achievement assembly where we talk about the fabulous successes of the week and recognise children for their efforts, including in reading, where teachers will nominate their Star Reader every week to go into a prize draw for a brand new book.

BeSMART Code

We are a school where we understand the power of praise and everyone who works here is always on the lookout to make children feel good by telling them they are following the BeSMART code so well. Please do feel free to use the BeSMART code at home too. It really does work!

Remembering our Queen

All classes will have had time today to recognise the sad loss of our Queen, Elizabeth II. This will be continued next week as we celebrate her lifetime and investigate what happens next, now that we have a new King, Charles III.

Uniform

Thank you for the efforts made in getting your children ready as far as uniform is concerned. We want all children in uniform as we believe that it makes everyone feel part of the Newdale team. Please remember, you do not have to purchase the more expensive uniform with the Newdale logo. We are happy if the colour is correct – navy blue. Please also remember that we require hair to be tied up for PE and earrings (studs) to be taped up (children can do this themselves on the day). Nail varnish is for the weekends only please and shaved patterns in hair and ‘tramlines’ are not permitted in our school.

Contacting school

Communication between school and home is so important. Please make sure you are signed up for email communications. There are several ways for you to pass information on to staff:

  • Staff are on duty each morning and afternoon
  • The Home School Communication books are the best way to send daily messages to your child’s teachers as they are looked at every day

Email contacts are as follows:

Diary Dates

We will be soon sending out dates for your diary. We love to have lots of exciting events going on during the term and where possible we like parents and the wider community to be involved. Keep an eye out for this information.

We look forward to working closely with you this year. Together we can make a huge difference to the well-being, progress, and attainment of your children.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2022 by

Clubs this half term

Please find below the clubs that will be running this half term for year 1-6. If your child is interested in taking part, please find more information on Parentpay.

Monday- KS2 Football and Dance club with Mrs Trevor

Tuesday- KS1 Football, Gymnastics and Young Voices for year 5&6

Wednesday- Basketball

Thursday- Girls Football and Top Hat Performing Arts club

Friday- Dodgeball

 

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4 years ago
Posted on 22nd Jul 2022 by

Uniform for next year

Dear Parents / Carers,

Uniform is incredibly important to us at Newdale: it underpins our ethos, values, and emphasis about how children should approach life at school.  We understand there are differing opinions on the need for school uniform, but through my personal experience in many different educational settings, uniform does set a positive tone for expectations around conduct, behaviour, and attitudes; this in turn has an impact on the smooth running of lessons and the atmosphere within the school.  We will continue to place a high emphasis on children wearing it correctly and well and your continued support in this respect is very much appreciated.

We request children wear a navy jumper or cardigan and grey or black skirts / pinafores or trousers along with a light blue collared shirt. If you would like to order uniform with our school logo on, please do so via Baker and Sons Schoolwear in New Street, Wellington 01952 641897.  Please note that this is not compulsory: uniform without a logo is acceptable if it matches our chosen colours. In warmer months, blue gingham dresses / black or grey smart shorts can be worn.

All children need to wear sensible black shoes (no heels or trainers please). In the colder weather, girls are permitted to wear black, navy or grey tights.

We have decided that we will continue to allow children to come to school in their School PE kit on PE days.

Our reasoning behind this is that some children take a long time to get changed which can impact the length of a PE session; in addition, there is a lack of private space for children to get changed, and we do not want to resort to the unhygienic option of children changing in the toilets.

It is important to us that children do come in proper school PE kit: we do not want children coming in with other sport clothes please. All uniform should be clearly named. Any lost unnamed uniform will be taken to lost property. Lost property still unclaimed after a realistic period will be sold or donated.

The school PE kit is as follows:

White t-shirt

Black shorts

Black pumps / trainers

And for winter or when it is colder:

White t-shirt

Blue / black sweatshirt

Black shorts

Black jogging bottoms

Black pumps/ trainers

If children forget to wear kit or have incorrect kit on PE days, we will ask them to get changed into one of our clean spare kits. The expectation will be that they bring this spare kit home to be washed before returning the clean kit to school as soon as possible.

Please note we only allow plain stud earrings and ask that all other jewellery is left at home. Earrings will be taped up just before PE, to always ensure safety.

Nail varnish is not permitted in school and the school does not permit children to have extreme haircuts that could serve as a distraction to other children and are not in keeping with the ethos of the school. This includes patterns shaved into the hair, excessive use of hair products and false hair. The definition of an extreme hairstyle is at the discretion of the Headteacher.

School kit

We do not have cloakrooms outside of the classrooms and therefore the space available for children to store coats and bags is limited. Please refrain from buying them huge school bags. School supplies everything they need in lessons, so there is no need for pencil cases, notebooks or other stationery and they certainly will not have time for toys please.

Thank you for your support in this area. We are a ‘BeSMART’ school, and we want all children to feel part of our team whilst wearing our ‘BeSMART’ uniforms.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 19th Jul 2022 by

School Books

Dear parent / carer,

At this time of year, we send home the books containing the work that your child has completed over this year.

Please note that some subject books will now follow your child through school so these books may not have come home yet: art, geography, history, French and Chance to Shine.

Kind regards…

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4 years ago
Posted on 14th Jul 2022 by

ASC Update

14.7.22

Dear Parents/Carers of children who use After School Club (ASC),

We are very proud to be able to offer our wrap-around care to support working parents. Our ASC team take their role very seriously and work hard to make sure the provision is the best it can be for our children.

Recently, Mrs Thomas (Assistant Headteacher) and I monitored the provision to quality assure the offer. As part of this monitoring, we spent a lot of time talking to the children about the activities and of course the food!

They came up with some good ideas but did appreciate that not everyone likes the same things. We invest money back into ASC to regularly resource the activities that are on offer.

Thank you to the parents who responded to the parent survey. We read each and every comment and where possible, adjust our provision.

We have attached our Autumn 1 ‘snack’ menu to see. It is important to remember that we only offer a ‘snack’ for the children, with the presumption being they will be given their tea when they get home.

It is tricky to generate the time needed to prepare food for so many children, hence we need to keep it as simple as we can.

We have incorporated snacks that we know children love, but also added some new items based on the feedback we have been given.

We are always open to suggestions and thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 13th Jul 2022 by

Family Lunch

13.7.22

Family Lunch

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our termly Family lunch is finally returning after three years. The closing date for booking a hot school lunch has gone, however you can still join in and bring your own sandwiches.  We politely ask that you do not bring in Macdonald’s, Burger King, fizzy pop etc.

School Menu (We have to plan a menu that is easily transportable!)

Burger, wedges beans and peas

Vegetarian option Quorn burger

Vegan option Vegan Burger

Biscuit selection or cupcakes

Nursery Family lunch will start at 11.20am, please make your way to the main office where the Nursery staff will take you to collect your lunch and then join your child in the Nursery.  This event is for our children who attend Nursery on a Tuesday lunchtime.

School Family lunch will start at 11.45. Please make your way to the main office.

Parents who have booked a lunch will be asked to queue outside on the left-hand side (staff will issue you with your pre booked ticket which you will have booked via ParentPay).

Those parents who are bringing their own lunch, please queue on the right.

Parent’s will be asked to make their way to their child’s classroom to collect their child first (don’t worry we will have Year 6 children to guide you if you are unsure of where to go).  Parents and children will then be asked to make their way down the corridor into the hall to collect lunches, please then exit out of the school hall by the stairs (don’t worry your child will know which way to go!).  You are then free to return to your child’s classroom or to make your way outside and enjoy the sunshine (fingers crossed). Perhaps bring a picnic blanket to sit on the grass.

We apologise in advance for any queues that may occur. They usually go down very quickly as we have additional staff working in the kitchen to support this event.

Unfortunately, there will be no parking on site for this event unless you are a blue badge holder.  Please remember that we have a no mobile phone policy on site, they will need to be turned off and kept in pockets or handbags for the duration of the event.

The event will run up until 1.00pm.  We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all back into Newdale. Needless to say, if you are feeling under the weather with possible symptoms of the new variant, then please cancel and stay away.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Newdale Primary School and Nursery

 

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4 years ago
Posted on 11th Jul 2022 by

Fun in the sun

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are so lucky to have a continuation of the lovely, sunny weather this week.

Please ensure you apply sun lotion to your child before they come into school (School staff are not allowed to apply sun lotion) and make sure they have a named water bottle to keep hydrated.

It is also a good idea to send them in with a hat (again please put a name label in it!).

We have opened up some classrooms to allow children the option to come into school at lunchtime should they get too hot.

We never complain about the sun but do understand that rising temperatures can come with warnings that we have to abide by.

Please help us, to help your children feel comfortable in school this week.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 07th Jul 2022 by

ASC Homework offer

Dear Parents/Carers of children who attend After School Club,

We are delighted to be able to offer wrap-a-round care at our school, so that working parents can have the flexibility they need.

We want to let you know that during every slot for After School Club, there will be opportunity for the children to complete homework including spellings, reading and topic linked activities.

It maybe that you would rather that homework was completed at home with you and of course that is fine. We will not be forcing children to do their homework but will be asking them each day if they would like to have time to get it done.

Clearly the team will not be able to carry out larger pieces of homework with them e.g. making a castle, but they will be able to support with daily homework.

Please talk to your children about this option, as it will be up to them and we will not force them.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher