Achievement Assembly

Friday 12th June 2026 

It has been another very busy week at Newdale! On Monday, children from Ironbridge enjoyed their house celebration after gaining the most house points during the first half of the summer term. On Wednesday, our nursery children had a wonderful trip to Attingham Farm and in the afternoon, we held our annual Summer Fair, raising over £1200 to support our trips and visits – thank you to everyone for your generosity. 

Year 4 also completed their Multiplication Table Check. They impressed Miss Macfarlane and their teachers with their effort, focus, and excellent recall of times-table facts, earning themselves an extra playtime! 

Year 5 enjoyed an exciting and immersive Maya Workshop, where they explored the fascinating world of the ancient Maya civilisation through a range of hands-on activities and interactive experiences. A particular highlight of the day was the opportunity to use virtual reality headsets. Through this immersive experience, the children were able to explore Maya cities, climb impressive temples, and journey through tropical rainforests, bringing their learning to life in a memorable and engaging way. 

House Points 

The children have been working hard to collect as many house points as possible during Weeks 1 and 2. Leading the way are Wrekin with an impressive 541 points! In second place is Wenlock with 454, followed by Ironbridge with 438 points. In fourth place are Severn with 427 points. Well done, everyone!

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Georgie for always trying her best and contributing to class discussions. Zac for concerted effort in lessons and some impressive maths.  

Year 5 achievers: Theo for amazing participation and contribution to discussions in our Maya day.  Vlad for always trying to develop his writing using higher level grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.  

Year 4 achievers: Robyn for fantastic attitude to learning and being a superstar at team stop. Toby for excellent work with possessive apostrophes and including a wide variety of Year 4 SPaG features in his sentences.  

Year 3 achievers: Sohaib for a wonderful Roman chant poem following our rules of poetry.  Miss Watson’s achiever Maraya for writing a creative Roman chant poem and for always being ready to learn.  

Year 2 achievers: Harlee-Grace for being a super role model to all of her friends, she is an all-round superstar! She is kind, caring and always tries her best. We’re so proud! Hayden for always trying hard and persevering in his lessons this week.  

Year 1 achievers: Merryn for being an excellent role model and always being ready to learn. Ruby-Skye for always being an amazing role model in the class and putting 100% into everything she does.  

Year R achievers: Mr Banfield’s achiever for spectacular progress with his writing and listening well to adults. Everly for super writing this week and effort in all her work! Well done 😊  

In assembly this week, we also announced our colouring competition winners and the lucky winners of the vouchers from completing our parent survey. Thank you to everyone for your contributions.

Attendance Winners  8th – 12th June 2026

Winner of Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3

Miss Hailey = 99.32%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Haymour = 98.67%

Bikeability Year 6

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

Next week, Monday 15th – Thursday 18th June, Mrs Arthurs’ class will have Bikeability.

Children will not need to bring their own bikes or helmets as road-worthy bicycles are provided from Telford and Wrekin. The children do not need to be confident cyclists as this will be developed over the week. The sessions are one hour long and will run throughout the school day on Monday. From the second day, children who are able to ride a bike, will be allowed to complete level 2 – riding on roads. There will be trained instructors monitoring the children and their safety and pupils will learn about road safety, signalling and how to ride confidently outside. The children do not need to wear PE kit (apart from Tuesday) which is our usual PE day.

Mrs Stack’s class will complete this in two weeks.

Kind regards,
The Year 6 Team

Art Day 2026

This year’s Art Day will be held on Wednesday 24th June. Children are invited to come to school in non-uniform for a suggested donation of £1 (via Parentpay). The theme of this year’s Art Day is Landscapes and Portraits. We are very lucky to welcome back Ironbridge Fine Arts who will be bringing in their printing presses and running workshops with children in Year 1 – 4.  Children in these classes will need to bring in Tetrapak or Pure-Pak cartons to make their printing plates before Art Day. Please could you open up the cartons and ensure that they are clean and dry before sending them into school with your child. If you have any spares, we would gladly take a few extras too! Thank you for your support.

Leavers’ Hoodies

Good afternoon,

Year 6 will be able to wear their leavers’ hoodies rather than their school jumper of fleece from Monday 29th June. They will still need to wear the rest of their usual school uniform.

Kind regards,
Year 6 Team

Yr2 message

Dear Parents/Carers,

As we come to the end of Key Stage 1, we sometimes need to mix classes to help ensure we can continue to meet the needs of all children as they move into Year 3.

Over the next few weeks, we will be trialling some class mixes to see whether this is the best way to support everyone. If it is decided that any permanent class changes will be made for Year 3, your child’s current Year 2 teacher will let you know.
Thank you for your patience and support as we begin this process. Please be assured that any decisions are made carefully, with the best interests of all our pupils in mind.
Many thanks,
The Year 2 Team

Arbor notifications

We have had some parents inform us that they are not receiving messages through the Arbor app or know that they have been sent a message.

Please can you ensure that you have ‘push notifications or allow notifications’ enabled on the Arbor app. You will then receive a notification similar to a SMS message on your home screen to alert you to a message in Arbor.

This setting can usually be made on your phone via settings>apps>then select the Arbor app.

Summer Fair – today

The Summer Fair will start around 3:30pm today and will be held indoors. Please can parent/carers wait outside the main reception doors.

The event is cash only, please bring coins where possible. 

Reminder – as well as our usual summer raffle, tickets can still be purchased at the fair for our Healthy Lifestyles week raffle.

We look forward to welcoming you all