Email – Year 3

Messages emailed to Year 3 parents

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4 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2022 by

Attendance Letter from Miss Cook

Dear Parents/Carers

Attendance

As you know, being in school on time and every day is extremely important for all children in order that they receive the best possible start to their learning. We have recently sent out a one-page information sheet with lots of useful facts about attendance and what we do in our school.

We all know that good attendance is vital to a successful education, as this is the foundation for lifelong learning. We very much appreciate that sometimes children must miss school for a medical appointment that cannot be made out of school time. We also appreciate that sickness cannot be helped.

Please ensure that you make all reasonable efforts to send your child into school. Sometimes you might suspect that your child is slightly under the weather, but well enough to come to school. That is fine, as staff will monitor very carefully and if necessary, can administer medication and a call later on in the day. Sometimes a magic dose of Calpol is all that is needed. Clearly, there are some illnesses that mean there is no choice other than keeping them off for the day. The office staff are more than happy to discuss any queries you have.

Did you know that a child having 90% attendance is the same as having one day off every two weeks? If their attendance drops to 80%, that is the same as having a day off every week. Lessons are planned in sequences and if a child misses a part of this sequence, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to committing that learning to long term memory.

Mrs Powell, Mrs Millington and I, monitor the attendance figures every three weeks along with our Education Welfare Officer.  We discuss all attendance below 95% and put actions in place to support children and families where we notice patterns in absence.

Not only do we monitor individual children’s attendance, but we also look at the attendance of each class in our school. We are going to bring back more recognition for good attendance during our achievement assemblies now that we can be together in the hall again. The classes with the highest attendance will be announced in assembly every week.

Attendance Incentives

Cool Cat visits Newdale and greets the children arriving at school. He will visit again this year:

26th – 30th September 2022

23rd – 27th January 2023

24th – 28th April 2023

Children with 100% attendance will receive a treat.

 

The class with the best attendance each week will also receive a treat.

It is important to remind you the law states that: “The parent of every child of statutory school age is compelled by law to ensure such a child attends school unless there is a reasonable excuse for non-attendance.  Failure to do so may result in legal action being taken against you”.

Thank you in advance for your continued support in helping us do the best we can for your children.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2022 by

Forest School Reminder

Dear Parents/Carers,

We will continue to have Forest School on Friday afternoons for the duration of this term. Please send your child in with spare footwear and a waterproof coat.

 

Thanks,

 

The Year 3 Team

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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 21st Jul 2022 by

Year 3 Green Screening

As finale to all of their recent hard work in Literacy, Year 3 turned their persuasive adverts into videos. We used green screening technology to make estate agent videos selling our Roman Villas! What a way to end the year!

Thank you for all of your continued hard work Year 3! You are all fantastic and have earned a well-deserved break this summer! Have fun, stay safe and we will see you in September 😊

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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