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2 years ago
Posted on 07th Mar 2024 by

Easter Raffle 2024

£1 per ticket. All tickets must be purchased through ParentPay. Please note that only one transaction can be made so all tickets you require must be purchased at the same time. The raffle will close on Tuesday 19th March and will be drawn on the afternoon of Wednesday 20th March. Winners will be contacted directly. All money raised will go into school fund to help subsidise school trips/events. Good luck everyone!

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Mar 2024 by

V-Tech watches

Please can we remind parents of the below, this is also relevant for dress up/non uniform days. Children must not be able to access a device during school hours that can take photos/recordings due to our safeguarding policy and permissions for photos/recordings for some children we must follow.

 

The watch itself has a camera on it which means it can record at any given time. The welfare of our children is paramount and therefore, due to the safeguarding risk, these watches will be banned in school. If a child comes into school wearing a VTech watch, it will be taken off them and returned at the end of the day.

VTech KidiZoom Smart Watch DX2 Blue | Smyths Toys UK

 

If you need more support or guidance with online safety, please contact a staff member or send us an email. Email: newdale.primary@taw.org.uk

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Mar 2024 by

World Book Day off to a great start!!!

The children are having a fabulous day with their book-based learning!

Photos below show Year 6 artwork based on Skellig, Y4 maths based on the book How Many Jelly Beans?, Y3 creating their own Super Villains, Y2 drawing their own Paper Dolls, Y1 science based on the book Tiddler.

All children who brought in a ticket have swapped their book for another that is new to them. They loved having such a wider choice of books. Thank you for your kind donations.

 

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Mar 2024 by

Big Walk & Wheel

Newdale will be taking part in the Big Walk & Wheel, the UK’s biggest inter-school walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling to school competition between Monday 11th March – Friday 22nd March.

As part of the competition we will be collating each day the total of children who have travelled to school either walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling

Where possible, please encourage children to travel to school either by, walk, wheel, scoot or cycle between the above dates. The higher our scores the better, schools will be entered into a daily prize draw for rewards including equipment and accessories if over 15% of pupils walk, use a wheelchair, scoot or cycle on that day of the challenge.

Link attached with details about the competition.

Good luck everyone!

Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2024

 

2 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2024 by

World Book Day – Book Swap

Due to the success of our last Book Swap Day, we will once more run a second-hand book swap shop on World Book Day, this Thursday 7th March. Children who bring in a book that they no longer want can swap it for another second-hand book on the day (books in good condition only please).

2 years ago
Posted on 04th Mar 2024 by

World Book Day Swap Shop

Thank you for all your kind donations for our world book day swap shop.

We have still got some costumes left over and we would like to open this up to children who haven’t donated and would like to come and take a costume.

We will be in the Big Den again at 8:35 and 3:10 on the following days:

Tuesday 5th March

Wednesday 6th March

We look forward to seeing all your wonderful costume choices!

Thank you

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2 years ago
Posted on 04th Mar 2024 by

Health & Safety governors update

The Health & Safety Governors met last week and focussed on many important agenda items including the quality of our wraparound care offer, site security and staff training. It was lovely to talk to children who often attend Breakfast club and Afterschool club. They enjoy attending these clubs and could talk confidently about what they get to eat and the range of activities on offer.

Governors were reassured that the site is continually monitored for safety. Governors enjoyed reading comments from parents following the recent site security survey.

Very often, during this committee Governors spot check staff to check levels of understanding linked to safeguarding. They questioned a teaching assistant this time and were impressed with the confidence of the staff member when it came to answering a range of questions.

2 years ago
Posted on 04th Mar 2024 by

Mr Jackson

Dear Parents/Carers of children in Mr Jackson’s class,

Mr Jackson has given me permission to share more details with you so that you can better understand the situation with this class.

Mr Jackson had to undergo a very long and complex operation last half term in order to remove cancer cells. The surgeons are confident that they have removed all visible cancerous cells, but as we all know, it is not wise to gamble with cancer and therefore he will also be undergoing specialist radioactive therapy as soon as he is well enough.

He is feeling positive and looks forward to returning to his teaching position just as soon as he is able. We do not yet have a time frame for this as no one is sure as to how quickly he will recover from the next stage of his treatment.

I want to reassure you that we are doing all we can to ensure that the quality of education for your children remains high. The Newdale teams are working so hard to ensure this happens. Mr McFarland is doing a tremendous job leading on all of the planning and it makes me so proud to see how the teams rally around whenever we have challenging situations like this to deal with.

I know you will all join me in wishing Mr Jackson the best of luck as he continues his treatment and recovery.

We will of course update you of any changes as they arise.

Thank you for your understanding and patience at this difficult time.

 

Miss Cook

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2 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2024 by

Friday 1st March – Achievement Assembly ⭐

This week, Year 1 had a fantastic visit from an accredited therapy dog called Ernie. They learnt how to look after a dog and loved giving him lots of fuss! Year 3 went off on their nature walks and spent some time sketching elements of nature they had collected. We have been very lucky to have Cool Cat visiting us in school this week to check we are all arriving at school on time. Cool Cat has headed off to another school now but has promised to be back soon!

BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:

Mrs Everall’s class for super focus and effort during their Chance to Shine when retelling the story of Masha and the Firebird this week.

Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:

KS1 winners are Mrs King class with an amazing 100%

KS2 winners are Mr Banfield’s class with 98%

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Zachary for excellent ideas in descriptive writing and Kieran for great effort with his writing around Skellig 😊   

Year 5 achievers:  Jasper for always displaying the BeSMART code at all times. Miss Clay’s achiever was chosen for his amazing story writing in his chance to shine.

Year 4 achievers: Meadow for always following the BeSMART code and being an excellent partner and Toby for incredible focus, concentration and effort in all lessons and for always being helpful, kind and polite.

Year 3 achievers: Le’Shane for working hard at home and school! Ieesa for confidently sharing his knowledge about Islam in RE and Life Learning lessons.

Year 2 achievers: Bryony for her impeccable attitude towards all her learning. We are so impressed with her everyday and we are so happy to see her head stuck in a book any moment she gets. Her confidence to talk in front of others this week has made us proud too. Carter for working more independently! He has loved our traditional tale and is working hard to retell it using punctuation and past tense accurately.

Year 1 achievers: Noah for great independent maths and trying hard with his handwriting this week. Phoebe for having a fantastic week and working hard to follow the Be SMART code.

Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle:

Year 6 readers: David for an extra effort to complete five reads and Oliver for his interesting diary comments

Year 5 readers: Reyhan for excelling even his usual high standard of diary entries! Harlan for his extra effort with his reading and reading question this week. Keep it up!

Year 4 readers: Grace for working so hard with her reading at home and achieving a Platinum! Antoni for always impressing with his number of reads and detailed comments.

Year 3 readers: Ben for always reading whenever he can! Isabelle for reading consistently and drawing lovely pictures of her favourite characters.

Year 2 readers: Chimzy for her enthusiasm when reading at home. She always leaves Ms Marshall a tricky question or interesting information! Corban’s consistent reading at home and his enthusiasm towards reading.

Year 1 readers: Ted for starting to read more independently at home. Arla for all her fantastic work at home, wanting to read everything she comes across!

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2 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2024 by

Geography in Miss Buckingham’s Class

The children were amazing at learning the compass points this week. We discussed that we always have to find North on our compass, and learnt rhymes to help us remember the four points.

We went outside with our own compasses and drew what we could see under each direction! We were brilliant geographers!

The children loved making their compasses and asked me if they could make another at home – those who wanted to have bought home a template today!

(Write the compass points on – N,E,S,W. Orientate the compass to face North. Open the flaps and draw what you can see in each direction)

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Buckingham and Mrs Goodwin