Friday 18^th July 2025

This week, Year 5 had a wonderful day at Carding Mill Valley. They went river dipping, completed a guided walk around the hills and even investigated some of their collections in the laboratory. Year 6 had a wonderful final week of celebrations; including a water fight and a spectacular final day festival! Severn house enjoyed their house celebration on Thursday; playing parachute games, building dens, showing off incredible dance moves at their disco and much more! Well done to all of Severn house! We are so proud of all our pupils; they have had another wonderful year at Newdale and made school enjoyable for everyone that works here. We wish all of our families a fun and enjoyable summer holidays and look forward to welcoming you all back in September!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Harry for making us all so proud this year with your hard work, positive attitude to work and making us all smile! Kayson for being a great friend to everyone and for always thinking of others.

Year 5 achievers:  Skylar for being kind, caring and considerate to those around her. Georgie for being a kind, considerate member of the class who has shown consistent fantastic behaviour for the whole year.

Year 4 achievers: Rosie-Anne for outstanding application all year and finishing off with a spectacular Chance to Shine about owning a dog. Niall for bringing a smile to Mrs Everall and Mrs Austin’s faces every day and for his brilliant achievements in Reading, Maths and Science.

Year 3 achievers: William for being an amazing member of the class. He always follows the BeSMART code and is super helpful! Nyla for being a fabulous Newdaler and ending her time here on such a high with a brilliant Chance to Shine write! Good Luck at your new school Nyla!

Year 2 achievers: Isabel for always being an incredibly kind, helpful, caring, smiley, wonderful and hardworking pupil. Thank you for making us smile everyday. You are the true definition of a Newdaler!  Zion for always being kind, caring, helpful, hardworking and polite. A real credit to Newdale.

Year 1 achievers: Theodore has shown amazing maturity and made great choices especially this week. He’s made exceptional progress this year and Miss Hill will be lucky to have him on Year 2.

Mrs Sturrrock and Mrs Evans’ whole class have been chosen this week. Every single child has had a fantastic final week in Year One. Mrs Sturrock, Mrs Evans and Mrs Wilmot are all so proud of how hard everyone has worked and how much each child has grown throughout the year. We’ve truly loved working with everyone in this class this year and we are going to miss each and every one of you.

Parent Survey Raffle

In assembly today, we also drew the raffle for all the families that had completed the parent survey. We had 4 lucky winners who will be bringing home prizes to enjoy over the summer holiday.

Friday 11th July 

This week, years 3 and 4 held an art exhibition in the school hall. It was lovely to see their fantastic pieces of art and we hope you did too! Year 6 enjoyed a trip to Telford Town Park where they went bowling, enjoyed a three-course meal at Pizza Express and finished the day with time in the park. With the warm weather set to continue into next week, please ensure your child comes to school with sun cream on and suitable outdoor clothing.  

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

Year 1 both classes for their impeccable behaviour at Dudley Zoo. They made all the grown ups proud and represented Newdale so well.  

House Points 

This week was the final chance for the children to gather their house points before the last house celebration of the year. It was very close, but Severn House have won with an impressive 1990 points. Well done Severn and enjoy your treat next week! 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Owen for his fantastic effort when performing our leavers song. Mrs Stack’s achiever for being such a responsible and sensible line leader on our trip to the Town Park; he represented Newdale brilliantly. 

Year 5 achievers:  Mrs Arthur’s achiever for amazing creativity and perseverance. Charlie for an excellently designed and created moving toy including independent work at home prior to the lesson in preparation. 

Year 4 achievers: Benjamin for superbly expressive and engaging writing in his dog care leaflet. Paisley-Violet for outstanding effort in all subjects all the time, but especially her Chance to Shine and Music composition this week.   

Year 3 achievers: Rocio for always trying her hardest and persevering when she finds task a little tricky. Kira for always setting a great example for others, by working hard and behaving exceptionally.  

Year 2 achievers: Miss Lowe’s achiever for just being absolutely amazing in every way. You are a true Newdaler! Mayra for always working exceptionally hard and challenging herself in all aspects of learning.  

Year 1 achievers: Caden for being a brilliant helper to the grown ups and for incredible writing with lots of amazing adjectives and even using commas and exclamation marks- in Year 1! Mariyam for being a fantastic role model, a kind and helpful friend to both pupils and adults in the class and for always giving 100% in everything she does.  

Year R achievers: Oscar for always trying his best everyday. He has produced excellent work in phonics and made massive improvements. Kobie for a fantastic week; lots of different adults around school have been super impressed with Kobie’s sensible nature and have seen him following the BeSMART Code. 

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

Year 6 readers: Eshaal – super reading over the weekend and this week. Jasper for continuing to read 5 times despite coming to the end of the year. 

Year 5 readers: Mr Jackson’s reader for achieving the most Platinum awards during her time in Year 5. Reading every week with her detailed comments. Well done 😊 Layla for showing that she is Yr6 ready as she is beginning to read more regularly and complete her reading diary. 

Year 4 readers: Rosie-Anne for outstanding reading throughout Year 4! Super comments every week and fantastic questions in response to what she has read. Hilal for reading fluently and moving onto pink books.  

Year 3 readers: Ezra for super reading 5 times this week! Jessica for achieving a gold reading reward for 5 weeks in a row.  

Year 2 readers: Kyresse for reading every single day and even writing amazing sentences in his book!  

Year 1 readers: May for amazing reading over the last two weeks and reading a fantastic range of books at home. Hayden for getting a platinum award for reading and writing loads in his diary every single day.