Nursery

6 days ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2025 by

Treeific Tuesdays mighty Oaks

Treeific Tuesday for Mighty Oaks

Will be these groups below

Green, orange and red am

Yellow and blue pm

Reminder of older coats and wellies please.

2 weeks ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2025 by

Parent View Survey – final call!

Dear Parent/Carers,

 

Happy New Year! I trust you all had a great holiday.

As I hope you all know, we very much take on board the views of all our children and parents. These views are regularly shared with the Newdale teams.

We consult with pupils through every Governor meeting, and phase leaders/subject leaders also carry out additional pupil voice regularly over the year.

We believe that school and home very much need to work in partnership, with children being at the centre. There simply must be a two-way feeling of trust between school and home, along with open, honest lines of communication.

I have always prioritised having a school ‘open door’ policy where we offer many different ways of communication for parents to use, including a class email address, many staff on duty am and pm (including senior managers), office staff and home school communication books to name a few of these. The hope is always that if parents do want to relay any messages, that they can easily and rapidly.

Thank you to the 47 parents that have already filled in our request to complete Parent View this academic year.

We would very much appreciate it if many more parents would complete this survey so we can gain a fuller picture of your opinions of Newdale.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views

We have already begun looking carefully at the small number of responses. A significant majority of our parents continue to be really happy with the Newdale offer – thankyou. I understand that we cannot please everyone, but I can reassure you that all teams certainly try so hard to do just that. I am lucky enough to visit very many other schools, and I know as fact that Newdale goes above and beyond in its offer for the children we have. This is regularly verified by external visitors including our School Improvement Advisor, Local Authority quality assurance visits, safeguarding audits and of course our Ofsted visits. We are incredibly proud of the Outstanding Ofsted result which we gained in May 2023. There are only a very small number of schools across the entire country that manage the ‘double outstanding’ judgement.  I hope this is external reassurance that our school continues to be operating at a very high level.

As stated, I am under no illusion that we cannot please everyone, however, that does not stop us from trying to.  We are all on the same side and should be focussed on working together to support children to be the best they can be.

Thank you for your support in ensuring our school continues to grow in a positive way for all of our children.

Miss Cook

1 month ago
Posted on 20th Dec 2024 by

Merry Christmas!

Dear Parents/Carers,

We have finally made it to the last day of a very long term. It was so lovely to see the children in the hall this morning enjoying a snowball fight as part of our fun, seasonal activities.

We promise you we will hand them back this afternoon all super excited and ready for the big day!

With the Panto and the numerous events we have had this half term, it really has flown by. Thank you for all of the support you have shown the teams at Newdale along the way. It really does make a huge difference. We take our partnership with parents very seriously.

From all of the staff at Newdale, we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

We look forward to welcoming your children back on Tuesday 7th January. Staff are carrying out a training day on Monday 6th January.

 

Miss Cook

1 month ago
Posted on 16th Dec 2024 by

Parent View

Dear Parents/Carers,

I messaged out last week concerning the Parent View survey. Thank you so much to the 36 parents who have found the time to do this 5-minute survey. We really do appreciate it 😊.

As I said last week, we are very proud to deliver the highest quality of education for your child, along with offering them all of the additional experiences that we feel make our school so unique. We never become complacent and are always striving to further improve what we do.

The feedback we get from this survey is invaluable to us in knowing what we continue to do well and what, if anything needs a tweak!

If you are unsure about any of the questions, rather than clicking the ‘don’t know option’, please visit our school website to find out more information or ask a member of the team before completing the survey. Please also find attached a reminder of our feedback from our Parent Survey from the summer term.

Please let us know if you would prefer to complete this survey in school or if not, follow the link below.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views

 Parent Survey Feedback For Parents Summer 2024.pdf

Many thanks for your continued support.

Miss Cook

1 month ago
Posted on 15th Dec 2024 by

Farewell Mrs Ferriday

Here at Newdale Nursery we would like to all say goodbye and good luck to Mrs Ferriday, who has been a valuable member of our team for 7 years now looking after many in her Purple group.
We wish her well on her new adventure and the extra time she will have with her loved ones. Her new placement will be very lucky to have her as she is incredible at teaching! One to be admired and I’ve took many notes over the years.

Starting on Monday purple group will be with myself Mrs Giordano for their last week before they break up. Then in the new year the children that have been in this group have been placed with new key workers, this has been throughly thought out to make their transition easier.
This Monday information will go out to those parents regarding who their child’s new key workers will be.
Thank you all and I hope you join me in congratulating Mrs Ferriday on her new job and wish her well.

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1 month ago
Posted on 13th Dec 2024 by

Curriculum Governors Involvement in School

The Curriculum Committee Governors met on the 11th December 2024. The enjoyed listening to the Upper Phase Leader talk about her role and the impact she has across Year 5 & 6.

They viewed the new Pupil Premium Strategy and questioned the lead on expenditure and the impact expected over the year.

As ever, the Governors really enjoyed talking to the children about their learning. This time, the theme was Religious Education. The Governors agreed that the children all enjoy this subject and were able to confidently articulate their learning so far this year and from previous years.

Finally, the Governors spent time looking at parent and pupil voice information linked to our Breakfast and Afterschool club. Governors were reassured that the offer we have is robust and looked on favourably by both parents and children. During the next meeting Governors are going to look at our Science curriculum.