Our achievement assembly was held a day early this week due to a special assembly taking place tomorrow. This week, Year 4 had a particularly exciting day at their Ancient Egyptian workshop. They learnt all about the process of mummification and the purpose of canopic jars. They were even able to explore some of the Egyptian pyramid using VR. On Thursday afternoon, we school was filled with many princes and princesses as our Reception classes enjoyed their Royal Banquet. We hope they all had a splendid time! 

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

Mr Banfield’s class for being incredibly mature and trying their best while Mr Banfield has been away. Miss Marshall and Miss Cooper are so proud of you all! 

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 Miss Fisher’s class with a fantastic 100% and Miss Lowe’s class for increasing their attendance to 98% 

KS2 winners are Mrs Stack and Miss Clay’s class with 98.7% 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Amelia for her dedication, determination and perseverance in every single lesson. Mr McFarland’s achiever of the week was chosen for great effort and creative ideas in her writing this week.  

Year 5 achievers:  William for making a big effort with his handwriting this week and putting in super effort in the classroom. Sophie for her incredible effort in geography, where she used key terms to explain why population and settlements differ across North America.   

Year 4 achievers: Ieesa for always following the BeSMART code and striving to do his best work in every lesson and Rochae for focusing in class, always moving on to the extension and making a huge effort in her homework and reading at home. 

Year 3 achievers: Lillie for her outstanding independent use of resources and hard work during Maths. Miss Watson’s achiever was chosen for her creative description using adventurous vocabulary. 

Year 2 achievers: Kyresse for impressing us with his resilience and efforts in writing this week. Harry for trying hard with his presentation and making a big effort with his handwriting.  

Year 1 achievers: Jaxon for always trying his best and having an amazing attitude to learning. He is a super helper whenever needed! CJ for having a positive attitude and a big smile on his face each morning. CJ has also worked super hard on his number bonds to 10 this week too!  

‘Times Tables Rockstars’ of the week: 

This week, our ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ trophy went to the class with the highest percentage of pupils using TTRS over the last two weeks. The pupils in this class have spent an average of 8 minutes per day practising their times tables recall.  This class is Mrs King’s class with an outstanding 100% pupils using TTRS! Congratulations Rockstars! Aidan received the trophy on behalf of his class as he had the highest number of days active on TTRS.  

At Newdale, one of the ways our pupils are rewarded for their efforts, in work and behaviour, is house points. Each pupil belongs to 1 of 4 houses; Wenlock, Wrekin, Severn and Ironbridge. This year, the house team with the highest number of house points at the end of each half-term, will earn a special house celebration (full of lots of fun games and activities). Each week, we share the running totals in assembly but as we are now half way through the half-term, we thought we would share them with our wider community too. 3 more weeks to go and there’s only 10 house points between first and fourth… it is still all to play for!

Will you earn a house point for your team next week?