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5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION: BALLOT PAPER

Dear Parent,

PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION: BALLOT PAPER

The parents standing for election are listed on the ballot paper enclosed. Personal statements of the candidates are reproduced on the reverse of the ballot paper.

The number of parent governors to be elected is one. You should cast your vote by marking X in the box provided against the candidate(s) of your choice. Each parent has one vote for each vacancy irrespective of the number of children s/he has at the school. This means that in this election, you may vote for only one candidate. You may not cast more than one vote for the same candidate. Should you do so your ballot paper will have to be declared ‘spoiled’ and discounted.

The ballot paper (Form 5) should be returned to me via your child or by any other means you may prefer not later than 12 noon 12th January 2021. Any ballot papers received after this time cannot be counted.

A “Parent”, in relation to this election, includes anyone who is not a parent but who has parental responsibility for, or who has the care of, a registered pupil at the school.

Please find all information in the link below.

Parent Governor election letter Jan 2021

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Reading in Year 2!

Oxford Owl is a free to use, online bank of resources. The website address is www.oxfordowl.co.uk  Parents can make their own accounts on this website to access e-books, phonics, reading and maths activities. There is also lots of advice on this website regarding how to support your child’s learning at home. You may still have access to the same account that you used in Year 1.

On the ‘Free e-book library’, you can select books that match the coloured book banded books that your child brings home each day.  You can also organise the books according to the phonics level that your child is reading at.

Many of the books have an audio feature, so that your child can listen to the story whilst also reading it themselves. Most of the e-books within this section of the website also have comprehension activities that your child can complete after reading the book.

And don’t forget there are also some useful websites where you can practise your phonics to then apply in your reading books. See the links below.

Please try to read once a day.  Reading is such an important skill and developing your skills at a young age is vital.  You can still record reading in your reading diaries and we look forward to seeing them when we get back to school.

📘 📕 📗Happy reading everyone,📗 📕 📘

The Year 2 Team

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5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

PE days in school

Good morning,

 

Children attending school will need to come in wearing regular school uniform except on PE days which are Tuesdays and Fridays. On those days, please send our child in with full kit, however please be mindful that they may need extra warm clothing at this time of the year.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Mr Banfield

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Year 3 Home Learning Wednesday 6th January

Hello Year 3,

It was great to see that lots of you managed to tune into the first live video this morning.

Live learning will continue tomorrow and there will be two live lessons each day on Google Meet as follows:

9:40am Literacy

We will be looking at chapter 3 of The Butterfly Lion. Please ensure you have listened to Chapters 1 & 2 prior to the live session available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHr9tiOxLs

10:50am Maths

To tune into the live lessons, you just need to log into Google Classroom (a user guide was shared yesterday) and click the meet link on the Year 3 cohort classroom page at both of the above times (always log into Classroom first and follow the link, do not go directly to Meet as it wont allow you to join). Children will need paper and a pen handy for live sessions. Please ensure that your child’s microphone is muted when they join the lesson.

Following the lessons, there will be questions and sheets available on Google Classroom for you to complete online or on paper depending on your access and the nature of the tasks set.

If you are unable to attend the live sessions, a recording of the lesson will always be available afterwards in Google Classroom.  Worksheets and any further instructions are also shared via the Classroom. We understand that this is tricky for some of you working from home, especially those with siblings so we understand that it is not always possible to join live. We hope the recordings help to support this. 

During the afternoon we suggest you spend some time going over the spellings in neat handwriting and then completing the geography work which has been set in Google Classroom (you will not have to see a live lesson to complete this).

If you have any questions, please email us on newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk

We understand that this is a very difficult time for parents and we are extremely grateful for all of your support.

Many thanks

Year 3 Team

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5 years ago
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Extra Information for Reception Parents and Carers

Hi everyone. It was really lovely to see some of you today on our first Google Meet . I really enjoyed hearing about your lovely new toys.

Spellings will now be issued on a Monday and tested the following Monday. Your children will be issued with their new spellings on Monday 11th January.

For those of you who are reading at home you are very welcome to share your reading with us on the Evidence Me app. We would love to see how you are getting on. As you may have already read your school book, I will attach information on where you can access a range of Oxford Owl EBooks that are relevant to your child’s reading ability.

Oxford owl slip Year R

For those children who are in school :

Forest School will continue on a Monday afternoon. However children are now able to come in wearing their Forest School clothes.

Reading diaries have been collected in today and will not be handed out again until Monday. From then on reading diaries will be collected in every Friday and handed out again every Monday until further notice. This is to reduce risk of transmitting the virus. Therefore children will not require their book bags on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Many thanks for all you cooperation and support. We love seeing all of your hard work at home and really appreciate that you are sharing it with us.

Many thanks. The Reception Team

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 05.01.2021

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are delighted that our efforts to open today paid off with key worker children back in school loving learning. Staff also worked tremendously hard in making sure the online learning offer is as good as it can possibly be.

It is really important that both staff and parents do all they can to keep children engaged and learning. Staff are aware of the fact that many parents will be ‘home working’ and hence not have as much time as they would like or need to support children. Teachers are trying to make the learning as clear as they can to children in the hope they can manage to get on without the need for too much adult help whilst ensuring a quality provision.

We are keeping our Breakfast and After School Club open to support critical workers but have decided to postpone some clubs until a later date e.g. Crossbar clubs.

We have been inundated with requests for school places and this is becoming a real challenge to us due to teacher capacity and space. Ultimately, schools have closed to limit the potential to spread the virus. We are already close to our maximum capacity to operate safely. We do ask that you only request places if you are a Critical Key worker and that you have no other option in keeping your children at home. We are going to look at whether there are ways we can increase any capacity but in the end we will need to cap numbers and move forward in a safe way for everyone. We really hope you can support us in this.

The new booking form will be coming out soon please keep an eye out for it.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

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5 years ago
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Year 1 Phonics – Wednesday 6th January

Hi Year 1,

Please see the attached phonics activity for children in Red, Orange and Yellow group. Please remember, if you are not sure which group your child is in, just email the Year 1 email address.

au Lesson 2

Please also see attached the spelling list for children in Red, Orange and Yellow group. We will be asking you to have a little spelling quiz on Monday, just like you would normally do in school.

Year 1 Spellings Spring 1 week 1 au ey

 

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5 years ago
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Year 1 PE and Forest School Days (for pupils who are in school)

Hello,

If your child is still attending school, they will have PE on Wednesday and Thursday and should come to school wearing their PE kits on these days.

On Tuesday, we will have Forest School and so children should bring the appropriate kit in a bag.

Many thanks,

Year 1 team

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5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Y4 Times Table Club

Due to the current circumstances, we will be cancelling the Y4 Times Table Club.

Apologies

The Y4 Team

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5 years ago
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Y4 Important Information about Home Learning

On Wednesday, we will be delivering two live Teams lessons for you to access at home. The first will be Maths at 9:30am. This will be a session about statistics. The next lesson will be at 11am, which will be Literacy. (Please note that these timings will be the same each day).

Your child will receive an invite later on for these sessions; however if your child does not, you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app. The invite is sent via email, so your child will need to log into Outlook if they haven’t done so already.

Children will need paper and a pen handy for the session.

Following the lesson, please visit Google Classrooms to access the task for each lesson.

If your child is unable to attend these two live lessons, we will post a recording of it shortly afterwards. Please ensure you check the website and Google Classrooms for regular updates.

Additional work will be posted on Google Classrooms such as spellings, Guided Reading etc.

Please ensure that your child’s microphone is muted when they join the lesson.

Any questions, please email newdale.year4team@taw.org.uk

Many thanks

The Year 4 Team