World Book Day

Dear Parents and Carers,

This year’s World Book Day will take place on Thursday 5th March.

As usual, we are all looking forward to seeing your child dressed up in costume as one of their favourite book characters. Teachers cannot wait to get involved too!

The World Book Day website has lots of ideas on how to do this with as much or as little effort as you would like. There are some excellent ideas to get you started: https://www.worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas-2019/ and https://www.worldbookday.com/ideas/dressing-up-gallery/

However, children are equally welcome to come to school in their pyjamas all ready for a bedtime story if they prefer – just remember to bring their favourite book too!

As always, your child will receive a £1 book token to spend on a FREE book, or to save £1 on another full price book of their choice.

Full details are available at www.worldbookday.com where you can see the fabulous books that are on offer this year.

Many thanks to those of you who have already sent in photographs of your children reading in all sorts of strange and wonderful places!

Happy reading,

Mrs Thomas

Literacy Coordinator

Sports after school clubs

All sports clubs are now live on Parentpay for after half term. The clubs are as follows;

Monday- KS1 Football

Tuesday- KS2 Football, Gymnastics

Wednesday- Streetdance, Cross country and Year 2-6 Multi sports

Thursday- Year 2-6 Girls Football

Friday- Year 2-6 Dodgeball

  • Please note that cross country training is only running for 4 weeks.

Achievement Awards

Miss Clay’s class- Raimonds for always working hard and for making super progress in reading, writing and maths.

Mrs Thomas’ class- Leah for enthusiasm towards her learning in year 6- a great attitude, keep it up.

Mr Banfield’s class- Erin deserves the achievement award for demonstrating a great attitude to independent work.

Miss Myler’s class- Harvey for brilliant explanations.

Mr Jackson’s class- Charna-Mai for excellent following of the SMART code and a continued enthusiastic attitude to her learning.

Miss Macfarlane’s class- Noah for having a positive attitude towards our dance lesson this week.

Mrs McLaughlin/ Mrs Pablos’s class- Lily for a massive effort with home reading this week.

Mrs Trevor’s class- Harry for determined to improve his handwriting and presentation and quantity of work in all lessons. His love and enthusiasm for reading at home is shining through, super proud.

Miss Newport’s class- Emeli-may for fantastic effort and enthusiasm in all subjects.

Miss Jones’ class- Kieran for increased speed and a fantastic approach to all areas of his learning.

Miss Hailey’s class- Lilly for working hard all week, especially problem solving in maths.

Miss McCullagh’s class- for being so brave and for showing great determinations.

Mrs Plimmer’s class- Tobias for an excellent chance to shine, using adjectives and paragraphs.

Year 1,2,3 Star Reader– Poppy for lots of home reading, well done!

Year 4,5,6 Star Reader– Olly for reading and making a comment in his diary every night.

 

Safer Internet Day

Each year at Newdale, we take part in Safer Internet Day (SID). This year it will take place on Tuesday 11th February. Your child will engage in a series of activities throughout the day with the aim of learning key ways to keep themselves and others safe online.

Please click on the link below to view the full letter.

Safer Internet Day 2020

School Sandwiches

As of today children in KS2 (Years 3 to Year 6) who order a school sandwich will be making their own sandwich.

Year 6 have been making their own sandwich for a while and it has proved very successful which is why it was decided to roll out to KS2 (Years 3 to Year 6) children.

We hope the children enjoy preparing and eating their lunch.