Dear Parent/Carers,

We are looking to add more resources to our play and lunchtime boxes. We are  hoping that we can save some school pennies by asking for donations from parents. We are hoping that you may have some items that your children perhaps have grown out of and therefore do not use anymore. Maybe you have some items tucked away in the garage that you always planned to pass on or sell.

We are particularly keen to receive good quality dolls, babies, pushchairs, wheel barrows, cars, dinosaurs and dressing up clothes but would also welcome things like milk crates, plastic drainpipes and car tyres.

If you have some of the larger items that would be willing to donate, please call the office beforehand.

Thank you for your support in making playtimes at Newdale as much fun for your children as possible.

Miss Cook

The Local Authority are piloting a free open access workshop – A Special Approach to Making it REAL for parents and carers of children with SEND on Thursday 21st November 2024.

This will be held online via Zoom and can be booked via Eventbrite using the link below.

A Special Approach to Making it REAL to support parents and carers Tickets, Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 13:00 | Eventbrite

This workshop is funded by the DfE, and will give an overview of how families with a child with SEND can support the early home learning environment, with a particular focus on early language and literacy.

On Thursday the 26^th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery -Spain

Reception -Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2-Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

As part of our harvest celebration this year, we will be collecting food for local food banks. If you’re able to, please bring in tinned or dried goods, which have at least a month left on their date, on Thursday 10^th October. We will be showing the children all the kind donations during our Achievement Assembly on Friday 11^th October.

Many thanks in advance

Miss Cook

We are pleased to share more details about our final fundraising event linked to our hugely successful ‘Climb against Cancer’ last term. We are inviting all of our wonderful grandparents whose children attend the nursery on a Friday afternoon to our Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party ☺. All profits from our Grandparents’ Tea Party will be added to the money already raised for Macmillan.  The week after our Tea Party we will be able to reveal the total amount we have raised with the support of our wider school community; we know the children are going to feel so proud to have been a part of such a big event!

The attached leaflet contains key information about this special event.

Newdale Coffee Morning – 27.09.24

Further details

All details for how to purchase tickets will be on Parent Pay from Thursday 12^th September 2024. Access to the event will be via the school office. Grandparents can take their grandchild/children home afterwards; however, parents will need to give their permission via Parent Pay to do so. Teachers will have a class list to tick off children going home early and grandparents will then be asked to sign them out as they walk out of the office at the end of the event.

To try and reduce overcrowding, there will be two sittings.

As it states on the leaflet, the Nursery for children who attend on a Friday afternoon only, Reception, Y1 and Y2 grandparents’ slot is 1:15-2:15pm.

Y3-Y6 grandparents is 2:15-3pm. If a grandparent is visiting a Y3-6 child as well as one from Nursery, Reception or Y1/2, please can they attend the second slot. e.g. a grandparent with a Y4 and Y1 grandchild would attend at 2:15pm.

All baked goods will be sold for £1. This will be cash only and please note, we will not be able to give change at this event.

During the afternoon, we are excited to announce that BBC Radio Shropshire may be at Newdale speaking to grandparents’ and children as well potentially creating photograph and/or video footage to share via their and our social media platforms.

We are all really looking forward to celebrating this event with you and hopefully reaching our target amount for Macmillan! We will announce the total sum raised the following week where we will present a cheque to Macmillan. The Shropshire Star will be in attendance so that all of our efforts are recognised across the whole of our town.

Many thanks

Miss Cook

If you have a dog with you on drop off/pick up, please can we ask that you stand away from the main school gates. Thank you